The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-01

and meeting with two terrible repulses,
then settling down for fifty days, min.
ing and fortifying. exposed to an inces.
SAINT CALLING fire during all that timer
Who will stand by the side of the
Rock of Chicamauga and witness two
great armies grapple for the mastery
for two long days, and then cease their
work of slaughter from sheer exhaus-
tions Who will follow the devious track
of that army on its march from Missis-
sippi To Lookout Mountain, and watch
it as it takes its way up the steep de-
clivities aud fights the memorable bat
tie in the cloudsg Who will look upon
the long blue lines as they move up the
rugged sides of Missionary Ridge, push
ing naughty and defiant foe from line
to line until it reaches the last stand
made, where il breaks sorth with that
laundering, tumultuous shout which is
born of victory in holy cause? With
fixed bayonets the blue lines bound for
ward and give the enemy the "cold
steel and drive him in confusion from
the field, thus adding another refulgent
page to the already refulgent history of
brave and valorous people.
Who will go along To Knoxville, and
gaze upon the raising of the seige there,
and follow i'm the wake of Longstreet's
famous corps as it drags itself, beaten,
broken and cowed into the Businesses
of Southwestern VirginiaY Who will
join General Sherman's army at Dalton
and Rocky Face and march with it to
Atlanta, and "from Atlanta to the sea"
and from the sea to the battlefields of
the Carolinas, and engage with it in its
almost innumerable famous battles all
along its route?
Who will fall in with Thomas as he
retraces his steps to Alatoona, Frank
lin, Nashville and Duck River, and see
the utter rout and decentralization of
Hoods army? Who will go To Bulls
Run, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Gaines
Mill, Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill, Cedar
Mountain, Chantilly, South Mountain,
Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancelors-
vile and The w Wilderness, and look up
on the ghastly carnage on each of those
ensanguined fieldsg Who will stand
upon Round Top, and look upon the
awful shock of that three days struggle
where fifty thousand brave men went
down and where the destiny of the Re
public was forever settled?
Who will follow Grant to the Wilder
ness, TO Spottsylvania, to the North
Anna, To Cold Harbor, to Petersburg,
to Fort Fisher and on to Appomattox?
Who will go to Winchester and ride
with Sheridan on his famous campaign
up the Shenandoah Valley where he
snatched most brilliant victory from
the jaws of disaster and defeat on the
banks of Cedar Greek?
Who will pass in review the many
other engagements of that war, on land
and on sea, and then say that the bless
ings enjoyed all over this broad land
cost nothing?
Who is presumptious enough TO UNI
dertake TO estimate the cost of the res
toration of that peace which flows and
which we trust will continue to flow,
unveXed and unperturbed, like mighty
river forever? To-day there is but one
flag Tapping its folds over the vast area
of our national domain and that is the
flag of the Union-the glorious stars
and stripes. The sight of that flag is as
the elixir of life to every true Ameri
can. The sight of that flag strikes
terror to every traitor and to every
enemy of liberty and the free institu-
tions il embemizes. AS it rides and
ilutters at the mast of every American
ship out on the great highways of the