The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-01-14
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Were seeing and admiring you;
While Jennie, Sallie, Kate and Sue,
Hannah, Molly, Betsey, Prue,
Alice, Nellie, Lizzie, too,
The lovely girls to Croton true,
Who each had lover in our crew,
And watched the marching red and
blue
While DER her face the bushes flew,
And love lights flashed from eyes so
true
To dearest ones in that review,
Mind you, Comrades, that parade
That down to Belle Dock once we
made,
When, hoping to make Kansas free,
We sent a squad to Waubonsee?
We thought twas right to let them go,
TO let the border ruffians" know
That all the, northwest should be free
From the great curse of slavery.
To-day we question, Was it wise
To found a state that now decries
The principles our fathers taught,
The truths for which our heroes
fought? .-
That state of PETER, Mrs. Lease,
And all those cranks who never cease
To denounce those who would uphold
The honest standard coin of gold.
With wise foresight, our volunteers
Left that crank state in few years
To take its chance for veal or woe,
And FASTENED home to l.. S. O.
When Charleston's guns in anger thun-
dered,
And into war the fair south blundered,
Full three score men of l.. S. o. =
Marched meath the flag to fight the foe.
Some lost their lives in the great fight
For Union, Brotherhood and Right"
From the far heights of heaven above
Their radient souls look down in love
On their old comrades, gathered here
To celebrate, another year,
The glories of those early days,
And wreath their memories with
praise.
Our Fiji ti-eth! what is that you say?
"Chief topic" of last years birthday!
Well, well, were growing young again,
When we can hope to here REMAIN
To celebrate, for six years more,
The glories of the days of yore;
And then, on our half century day,
To frisk about as blithe and gay
AS we all were in So
Dear boys-May all be here to see
How young and sprightly all have
grown
In the half century just flown!
And now dear comrades, one and all,
I would not let the curtain fall
Upon these pictures of the past
Without some tender words for last.
God bless you Comrades, every one,
Care for you wheresoe'er you roam,
And when called to His heavenly home,
May our grandest reunion be there;
This my dear comrades is the prayer
of Yours Lovingly,
B. S. PARDEE.
N. Y, N. H. & II. r. r. Co,
Derby Station, Jan. 5, 1897.
Dear Brother Jepson:
T.. S. 0.
Your invitation to attend the annual
banquet was duly received, and when
first received I had no doubt but that I
should be able to attend. As the time
draws near, however l am afraid that
my previous engagements will not al
low ME sufficient strength as well as
time to do so. Those who deeply regret
this ought not to need me to say SO, for
/, like the rest of the Brotherhood, have
come to look upon these annual meet
ings with an uncommon pleasure. For
they bring back to us memories sweet
and forms and faces of those we know
and love in the long ago. And these
memories quicken our life blood and
send it dancing in our veins once more
for time as it did in our younger days
| when life was new and strong within
us. How I shall regret If compelled to
be absent from the festive board; that
I am not present to look into the hon
est, manly faces Of my brothers and