The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-06-12

the holier and mighter baptism o
blood we know them, and yesterda,
the nation put both arms around then
and Rugged them to her heart, crying
Mine foreverr
Again. by this national ceremony
we mean the future defense Of thi.
nation. BY every wreath of flower.
on the soldiers graves we sayi "Thoss
Who die for tie country shall not be
forgotten" and that viii give enthu'
siasm to our young men in case oul
nation should in the future need de.
fend itself in BATHS. We shall never
have another war between the north
and south. The old decayed bone OF
contention. American slavery, has been
cast out, although here and there de-
PRAYED politician takes it up to see ii
he Can't gnaw something off it. We
are farther and farther from the pos
sibility of sectional strife.
No possibility of civil war: But
aboiit foreign invasion [ am not sd
certain. When l spoke against war
said nothing against self-defense. An
inventor told me that he had invented
a style of weapon which could be used
in self-defense; bit not in aggressive
warfare. | said; when you get the
nations to adopt that weapon you have
introduced the millennium. 1 have
no right to go off my neighbours
premises and assault him; but if some
rufiian break into my house for the as
sassination of my family, and can
borrow gun and load it in time and
aim it straight enough, | will shoot
him.
IL foreign foe should come; we want
men like those of 1ses to meet them.
We Want them all up and down the
coast. Pulaski and Fort Sumter in the
same chorus Of thunder lis Fort Ia
fayette and Fort Hamilton. Men who
will not only know how to fight, but
how to die. when such i time
comes II 1t ever does come, the
generation on the stage Of action
will say: my country will care for my
faAlly DIS thGy did in The soldiers asys
lum for the orphans of the civil war,
and my country will honor my dust as
it honored those who preceded me in
patriotic sacrifice; and once a year at
any rate on Decoration day; ] shall be
Fesirrected into the femem brance OF
those for WHOM died. Here / go for
God and my country! Huzzah!'
If fereigh foe should come, this old
sectional animosities would have no
power Here go our regiments into the
battlefield: Fifteenth New York vol
1nteers, Tenth Alabama cavalry, Four
zenith Pennsylvania rifemeii, Tsfth |
artillery, Seventh South |
carolina sharpshooters. l do not |
Know but it may require the |
lttaek ef sdiie forsiqn foe to |
make us forget our absurd sectional |
vrangling. l have no faith in the cry; |
No North, 10 South; no East; no /
Vest" Let ali four hsctions keep
heir peculiarites and their preferen-
es, with each doing its own work and
lot interfering with each other, each
# the four carrying its part into the
'reat harmony-the bass, the alto, the
enof; the soprahO- the grand march
f the Union.
Once more; this great national eere.
1ony means the identification of the
OmbS, whether of those who fell in
attic or accident, or who have ex-
ired in there beds or in our arms or
n our laps. l suppose you have no.
ICED that many OF our families take
his season as the time for the adorn-
lent of their family plots. This ma ton.
observance has secured the arboF-
culture and Horticulture of the ceme-
cries, the Strengthening up of many
alb planted 80 or 40 years ago, and
as swung the scythe through the long
rass and has brought the stone-cut.
n to call out the half-ob1iterated cpl
Lph. This day is the benediction of
lie resting-place of father, mother,
'ni daughter, brother, sister
1t is all that we can do for them
DIV. Make their resting-places at
active, not absurd with costly out
y, but in quiet remembrance. You
1ow how. If you can afford only one
over, that will do. 1t shows what
III would do if you could One
ossom from You may mean more
an the duke of Wellington's cata-
lque. oh, we can not afford to for
It them. They were so lovely to us.
e miss them so much. We will never
t over it. Blessed Lord Jesus, COM
rt our broken hearts. From every
nix of flowers breaths promises OF
surrection
In olden times the Hebrews, return {
g from their burial place, used to
uek the grass from the field three or
ur times, then throw it over their
ads, suggestive of the resurrection.
e pick not the grass, but the flowers, {
d instead of throwing them over our !
ads we place them before cur eyes,
sht down over the silent heart that {
ce beat with warmest love toward {
or over the still feet that ran to
rvice. or over the lips from which we
DIX the kiss at the anguish of the last :
rting.
But stopl We are not infidels. Our
dies will soon join the bodies of our
parted in the tomb, and our spirits [
all join their spirits in the land of
: rising sun. We can not long be
,arated. Instead of crying with '
cob for Joseph, II will go down I'M
the grave unto my son, mourning"
us cry with David: II shall go to
A."
IN one of the gates of Greenwood is
, quaint inscription: "a nights
lying on the way to the city of New
Comfort one another
tn these words: May the hand of
m who shall wipe away all tears
m all eyes wipe your cheek with 4
softest tenderness. The Christ of \
Try, Martha, and Lazarus will en- Z
d you in His arms. The white
nod urrrn11 81 he -
JUS Will yet roll the stone from the fc
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