The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-07-25

title Importance what was the mans
riysu them In baptism OF water. N
The holier and mighter baptism =.
Mood we know them, and yesterosy
The nation put both arms around inc"
VA hrgced them to her heart, crying.
milne forever!"
Again. by this national ceremony
yva mean the future defense OF TINS
nation. By every wreath Oh nU~ea
on the soldiers graves we say; lno
who die for the country shall no. %
forgotten" and that will give entnu-
siasm to our voting men In case ouf
nation should in the future neeo 90
fend itself in battle. We shall never
have another war between the NORTH
and south. The old decaycd pone %
contention: American slavery, has oeeh
cast out; although here and there de.
nrayed politician takes it up to see II
he can't gnaw something OIL u. VIZ
are farther and farther from the pos,
sibility of sectional strife.
No possibility Of civil war. bu'
about foreign invasion ! am NOT SO
certain. When spoke against war
said nothing against self-defense. AN
inventor told me thas he had invented
a style of weapon which could pe useu
in self.deiense, but not in aggressive
| warfare. i said; "WheE you get the
nations to adopt that weapon you have
introduced the millennium" have
no right to go off my neighbours
nremises and assault him, but IL some
rufiian break into my house for the as
sassination of my family, and can
borrow a gun and load it in time and
aim it straight enough, l will shool
him.
If foreign foe should come, We want
men like those of 1862 to meet them.
We want them all Zip and down tho
coast. Pulaski and Fort Sumter IN the
same chorus of thunder as Fort La
favette and Fort Hamilton. Men who
will not only know how to fight, but
how to die. When such a time
comes, If it ever does come, inc
generation on the stage OF action
will say, my country will care for my
, family as they did in the soldiers asy'
lun Tor the orphans of the civil war,
: and nv country will honor my dust as
It honored those who preceded me In
> patriotie sacrifice, and once year al
( any rate, on Decoration day, shall be
. resrrrected into the remembrance OF
{ those for whom / died. Here l go FOL
e God and my country! Huzzah!"
4 IF foreign foe should come, the ole
t sectional animosities would have M
1 power. Here go our regiments into tn'
), battlefield; Fifteenth New York vol
n unteers, Tenth Alabama cavalry, Four
Y teenth Pennsylvania rifiemen, Tent
/, Massachusetts artillery, Seventh Soutl
G Carolina sharpshooters. l do no
: know but it may require TN
e attack of some foreign foe t
make us forget our absurd sectiona
d wrangling. have no faith in the cry
lie s.No North, no South, no East, n
le West" Let all four sections kee
y their peculiaritles and their preferer
y ces, with each doing its own work an
lie not interfering with each other, eac
y. of the four carrying its part into tn
he great har mony-.he bass, the alto, tn
s. tenor. the soprano-the grand marc
in of the Union.
es Once more, this great national GER
ir mony means the identification OF u
tn tombs, whether of those who fell
IS, battle or accident, or who have e
hit pired in there beds or in our arms
on our laps. / suppose You have n
an ticed that many of our families tai
k this season as the time for the ador
re ment of their family plots This natio
es al observance has secured the arpo
gs ;culture and Horticulture of the CEN
lr- teries, the Strengthening up OF many
slab planted 80 or 40 years ago. a.
has swung the scythe through the lol
grass and has brought the stone-c'
ter to call out the half-obliterated e
tanh. This day is the benedictlon
Do the resting-place of father, moth'
Tn son, daughter, brother, sister.
me It is all that we can do for thu
me now. Make their resting-places
ow tractive, not absurd with costly o
lld lay, but in quiet remembrance.
ng know how. If you can afford only
INST flower, that will do. 1t shows wi
emit Won would do if you could I
'ut blossom from you may mean m
ad than the duke of Wellington's ca
ave faloue. Oh, we can not afford to
mo get them. They were SO lovely to
'ou We miss them SO much. We Will ne
use get over it. Blessed Lord Jesus, CO
WI fort our broken hearts. From ev
I'm, hank of flowers breaths promises
aSio resurrection
gre In olden times the Hebrews, retr
'ro' mo from their burial place, usee
ere pluck the grass from the field three
four times. then throw it over Il
ao heads, suggestive of the resurrect
IVY We pick not the grass, but the how
ior and instead of throwing them over
" heads we place them before cur e
.se right down over the silent heart
'eep once beat with warmest love tow
lof ms. or over the still feet that RAJ
Ike; service. or over the lips from which
anu took the kiss at the anguish OF the
md parting.
80 But stop! We are not infidels.
.slfo bodies will soon join the bodies OF
VT departed in the tomb, and our sp
\ ~ shall join their spirits in the Ian
the the rising sun. We can not Ion
4 us separated. Instead OF crying
4, Of Jacob for Joseph, II will go dowr
col to the grave unto my son, mourni
;ous, let us cry with David: Il shall g
,ers. him."
for On one of the gates OF Greenwo
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