Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-06-04
TOWER Ct DAVID.
a Tribute to the Boys Who Wore the
Blue and the Gray.
Their Busklers Now Are Laid Away and
III" Brave Warriors Are Taking u Long
Rest, Waiting for the Last bat
tie Cali tn Sound.

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The church is compared to an ar
mory, the walls hung with trophies of
/ lead heroes Walk all about this tower
/ If David and see the dcnted shields and
| the twisted swords and the rusted he'll
NETS of terrible battle. 80 at this
season, n month earlier at the south. Il
month later ut the north, the American
| churches are turned into armoricS
/ adorned with memories of departed
1 braves. blossom and bloom, walls,
with stories of sclf-sacriticc, and patri-
otism and proves,
Ey unanimous decree Of the people
/ of the United States of America, the
/ graves of all the northern and south
crn dead are every year decorated. All
accrhity and bitterness have gone out
! uf the national >u!cmnity, and as the
men and women Of the south one month
ago ilorali2cd the cemeteries and grave
! yards, So yesterday we, the men and
women Of ;hc north, put upon the
! tombs of uur dead Che kiss of patriotic
affection. Bravery always appreciates
bravery. though it fight ON the other
side; aud if soldier of the federal
army had been n month ago at Savan-
nah. he would not have been ashamed
To march in the floral professions to
the cemetery. And if yesterday con
federate soldier was ut Arlington, he
was glad to put sprig of hearts ease
on the silent heart of our dead.
In battle during the last war the
confcdcratcs were driven back by the
federals, who were in swift retreat,
when a federal officer dropped wound
ed. One of his men stopped at the risk
of his life, and put his arms around
the officer Ia carry him from the field.
Fifty confederate musliets were aimed
at the young man who was picking up
the officer. But the confederate cap
tain shouted: "IIold. Don't fire! That
fellow is too brave to be shot" And as
the federal officer. held up by his pri-
waite solder, went limping slowly off
the field, the confederateS gave three
cheers for the brave private; and Just
before the two disappeared behind the
barn both the wounded officer and the
brave private lifted their caps in graft
tude to the confederate captain.
Shall the Gospel tie less generous
than the world? Shall we stack arms,
tho bayonet of our northern gun facing
this way, the bayonet of the southern
gun facing the other way, and as the
gray of the morning melts into the
blue of noon, so the typical gray and
blue of old war times have blended at
last, and they quote in the language OF
King James last translation without
any revision: GLORY to God in the
highest, and on earth, peace, good will
to men, Now what do we mcgn by
this great observance?
First, we mean instruction to one
whole generation. Subtract lS65, when
the war ended, from our 1896. and you
will realize what q vast numher of PEG,
pie S,re born since the War, 5or were
so Young "A, I Have no vivid apprecia,
tion. No one under Al years of age
has any adenuatc memory of that pro
longeG horror h. you remember il:
"Wcll," you say, Il only remember
that mother swoou d away while read
ing the newspaper, land that they
brought my father home wrapped in
the flag, and that good many people
came in the house to pray. and mother
faded away after That III lagain ther,
were many people in tie house and
they told me she was deaid.'
There are others who can not remem
Der the roll of drum or the tramp OF
a regiment, or a sigh ora tssr OF that
tornado of woe that swept the nation
again and again until there was one
dead in each house. Now it is the re
ligious dnty of those who do remember
it TO tell those who do not. My young
friends, there were such parting,
at rail-ear windows and steamboat
wharvcs, and at front doors of com
Portable homes as l pray God you may
never witness. Oh, what time il
was, when fathers and mothers CAV,
up their sons, never expecting to sc,
them again, and never did zee then
again until they came back mutilated
and crushed, and dead.
Four years of hostile experiences
Four years of ghastlincss. Fouryears o.
grave digging. Four years of funerals
collins, shrouds, hearses, dirges
Mourning! mourning! mourning! il
was hell let loose. What time o.
waiting for news. Morning paper ant
evening paper scrutinized for intelli
gence from the boys at the front
First, announcement that the battl,
must occur the next day. Then tn,
: news of the battles going on. On tho
, following day still going on. Their
news of 30, 900 slain, and of the name:
, of the great generals who had fallen
but no news about the private sol
|, liers. Waiting for news. After many
, days load of wounded going through
/ the town or.city. but no news from oul
boy. Then a long list of wounded anC
4 long list of the dead, and a long lis
Of the missing. And among the las
, list, our boy.
j When missing? How missinge VIII,
, saw him last2 Missingt Missiugl Wa,
} he in the woods or by the stream2 How
J was he hurt? Missingl Missing
! What burning prayers that he may ye
be heard from. In that awful waiting
for news many life persisted. TIL,
strain of anxiety was too great. Tha
wife's brain gave way that first weel
/ after the battle, and ever anon sh,
I walks the floor of the asylum or look
out of the window as though she ex
pcctcd some one to come along tn,
| path and up the steps, as she solilo
pulses, missing! missing!"
What made matters worse, all thi
r might have been avoided. There wa
!, no more need of that war than at thi
q moment ] should plunge dagge
I through your heart. There were n few
!, Christian philanthropists in those days
scoffcd at by both north and south, VIII,
! had the right of it. II they had beer
heard on both sides, we should hav,
a had no war and no slavery. 1t wa
| advised by those Christian philanthro
: pists, lot the north pay in money TO
4 the slaves as property and set then
e free" The north said: I'VE can no
I afford to pay" The south said: wv,
will not sell the slaves anyhow" Blu
I, the north did pay in war expense
enough to purchase the slaves, and tn,
5 south was compelled to give up slavery
t anyhow, Might not the north bette
S have paid the money and saved tn,
! lives of 500, 900 brave men, and nigh
I not the south better have sol,
out slavery and saved her 500, 900 brav,
men? ] swear you by the graves o