Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-06-10


the future need To defend itself in bat
tie. We shall never have another war
between north and SOUTH. The old de-
cayed bone of contention, American
slavery, has been cast out, altho lph
here and there a depraved politician
takes II up to see IL he can't guaw
something off it, We are floating Off
farther and farther from the possible
ity of sectional strife.
No possibility of civil war. But
about foreign invasion am not So GER
tain. When spoke against war said
nothing against self-defense. An in
ventor told me that he had invented =
style OF weapon which could be used
In self-defense, but not in aggressive
warfare. l said, When you get tho
nations to adopt that weapon you have
introduced the millennium" [ have no
right 10 go on my neighbours premises
and assault him, but IL some ruiIian
break into my house for the assassina.
ton of my family and / can borrow a
gun and load it in time and aim i.
straight enough, / will shoot him.
lhere is no room on this continent
Tor any other nation, excep. Canada,
and better neigh Dor no one ever had.
III you don't think so, go To Montreal
and Toronto and see how well they
Will treat you. Other than that there
Is absolutely no room for any other ma
ton. have been across the continent
again and again, and know that we
nave not half inch of ground for the
equity foot OF foreign despotism to
stand on. But | am not so sure that
some OF the arrogant nations of Europe
may not some day challenge us | do
not know that those forts around New
York bay are TO sleep all through the
next century, L do not know that
Barnegat light house will not vet look
off upon hostile navy. do not know
but that half dozen nations, envious
OF our prosperity, may want to give us
wreStle. During our civil war there
were two or three nations that could
hardly keep their hands off MS. 1t is
very easy to pick national quarrels,
and If our nation escapes much longer
IL will be the exception.
If foreign foe should come, we want
men like those of 1912 and like those OF
1862 to meet them. We want them all
up and down the coast, Pulaski and TT.
Sumter in the same chorus of thunder
as TT Lafayette and TT. Hamilton
Men who will not only know how to
night, but how to die. When such a
time comes, if il ever does come. tho
generation on the stage of action will
say: MY country will care for my
family as they did in the soldiers asv-
lum for the orphans in the civil war.
and my ntr-,,
it honored those who preceded me in
patriotic sacrifice, and once year at
any rate, on Decoration day, / shall be
resurrected into the remembrance of
those for whom | died. Here | 90 for
God and my country! Huzzah!
If foreign foe should come, the old
sectional animosities would have mo
power. Here go our regiments into
the battlefield: Fifteenth New York
volunteers, Tenth Alabama cavalry.
Fourteenth Pennsylvania riflemcn.
Tenth Massachusetts artillery, Seventh
South Carolina sharpshooters. | do
not know but it may require the at
tack OF some foreign foe to make us
forget our absurd sectional wrai~glinp.
l have no faith i'll the cry, mo ,.crth.
no south, no east, no west" Let all
four sections keep their peculiar;ties
and their preferences, each doing its
own work and not interfering with
each other, each of the four CARRYING
its part in the great harmony-the bass.
the alto the tenor, the soprano-rn /, :.
grand march of union.
Once more this great national ccre-
mony means the Identification ,of tho
tombs, whether of those who fell in
battle or accident, or who have eX.
pired in their beds or in our arms or on
our laps. | suppose You have noticed
that many of the families take this
season as the time for the adornmcnt
OF their family plots. This national
observance has secured the arboricul.
ture and Horticulture of the GENE.
teries, the strengthening up of many 4.
slab planted 30 or 40 years ago, and
has swung the scythe through the long
grass and has brought the stonecutter
to call out the half-obliterated cpl.
taph. This day is the benediction of
the resting-place of father, mother,
son, daughter, brother. Jster.
IL is all that we can 10 for them now
Make their resting Ils:es attractive.
not absurd with costly outlay, but in
quiet remembrance. lou know how.
IL you can afford only one flower. that
will do. II shows what you would do
If you could. One blossom from Won
may mean more than the duke of well
lington's catafalque. Oh, we can not
afford to forget them. They were
so lovely to us. We miss then, so
much. We will never get over H.
Blessed Lord Jesus. comfort our broken
hearts. From every bank of flowers
breathes promise of resurrection.
In olden times the Hebrews, return.
ing from their burial place, used To
pluck the grass from the field three or
four times, then throwing it over their
heads, suggestive of the resurrection.
We pick not the grass, but the flowers.
and instead OF throwing them over our
heads we place them before our eyes.
right down over the silent heart that
once beat with warmest love toward
us, or over the still feet that ran 10
service, or over the lips from ,vh:4o "a
took the kiss at the anguish OF the iast
parting.
But stop! We are not infdels. ON,
bodies will soon join the bodies OF our
departed in the tomb. and our spirit,
shall join their spirits in the land Of
the rising sun We can not long b,
separated. Instead Of crying with
Jacob for Joseph: II will go down into
the grave unto my son. mourning let
us cry with David. Of eH,rT &c., -