Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-08-28

Mrs. Lide MeIriwether, State Presi-
dent of the Tennessee w. G. T. u, was
chosen to deliver the response to the
address of welcome at the worlds con-
vention. She responded as follows:
l thank the program committee heart.
lily for comforting upon me the honor
of responding to such a royal welcome.
Nevertheless l have somewhat against
them" their hearts are always in the
right place, but if their heads had been
more level, they would have chosen
from out this great gathering of the
clans one who could have thanked our
entertainers for their generous hospi-
tally in words fifty spoken" But
since they have seen fit to choose as the
representative of this broad continent
a spokeswoman from that small and
rural corner of creation called Way
down South in Dizzy" l can only offer
them, in rural and agricultural phrase,
the hearty thanks of all of Dixy's
White Ribboners; and with it, a word
of cheer and counsel, that embodies
the daily wealth and conversation,
of every soldier in the Land of Cotton,
who marches under the white flag, and
keeps step to the music of the union"
In days of old, when England and her rebels.
And revolutions thunder shook the sky,
Old Cromwell's war cry in those little trou-
Was "Trust in God and keep 20 ur powder
dry"
In latter days, when through the Land of
Cotton,
A wall of desolatiOn filled the air;
While woes were fresh, and wrongs yet I'M
forgotten,
A chord of reconstruction sounded clear,
From a Granger, horny hand ed, shrewd and
knowing
"Just trust in God and keep the pillow
%agoing."
Our night is dark, you say; full we'll we
know it.
But darker knights our pioneers have
know;
''After the dark the dawn" says seer and
poet,
"The morning cometh," 10! the night has
The morning breaks, let each be up and do
ing;
The field is vast, the promised harvest great,
No idle dream nor gentle slumber wooing.
Ipnrn ma lilo than agtn 1oho, o,l - ,,,oit
There comes no ~reaping, save the patient
sowing,
So "Trust in God and keep the plows ago ing
Often you will find your pillow points bent
and broken,
BY tough old roots of prejudice, that hide,
In soil conservative-tEe sign and token,
That old King Custom did the sowing guide.
Sharpen your point and let your pillow sink
deeper,
Lay bare the fiber, let Truths sunlight
strong,
Shine in, then wait and Times slow, steady
sweeper
Shall right all error and retrieve all wrong;
His c~easeless scythe the ranks of wrong are
moving,
"Trust in God and keep your pillow agoing.',
Anon, your pillow is halted, beaten, battered,
By stones of Apathy in woman's heart,
Her cold indifference your hopes have scat
tered,
Like sudden frost where springs first bios
ssoms start.
Let not your spirit yield to ~fruitless sorrow
Strong hands, and heart of oak, this work
demands
Plow on in faith today, and, 10! tomorrow.
Where one stands idle and with folded
hands,
Armed and equipped come two to do the
hoeing,
"Trust in God, and keep the pillow agoing.'
Do briars sharp and thorns Ecclesiastic,
In b~rlstling phalanx hedge you round about
With text unique, and arguments phantas,,
tic.
"Each sister let in keeps a brother out"
Brace up your courage, keep your pulses
steady,
No need to rutile up your spirit sweet;
For that forts stormed the sisters in al
ready,
That gun was but the signal of defeat;
While toilers slept hat plant was up and
growing,
So "Trust in God and keep the plows
agoing."
Do burrowers under ground your labors
trouble?
Who, blind of purpose, won't the truth con-
fess,
Whose only argument is sneer and bubble.
That purblind mole, the great omniscient
Press;
stand to your plows! Turn up the vast
areas
f darkness-then turn on them shot and
shell,
From those strong forts whose "bullets are
IDEAS"
The Union Signal, journal, Chronicle
No place for moles when they their bombs
are throwing,
So "Trust in God, and keep the plows ago
ing"
There's no dry path by which to reach an
island,
Unless you make my the hand OF toll.
"Ever the right comes uppermost" where
hearts are faithful,
Where souls are patient, sever justice done
Fall into ranks, for labor, t~lreless, peaceful,
In Gods good time the guerdon shall be won;
In storm or sunshine, rain, hail or showing.
FIRST, last and always, "keeP the plows ago.
ing"