The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-21
MEMS OF IYE
NATIONAL GUARD.
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The adjutant general will continue
the inspections of the city troops during
this week. The inspection of d company
takes place this evening, B company to-
morrow evening and the battery Thurs
day evening. The troop was inspected
last Saturday night and A company last
night A company, by the way, made a
splendid turn out. There Were 40 men
in line and three officers. Some of the
boys came in from the outside towns in
order to uphold the honor of the com
pany. The exercises were in the school of
the company, bayonet exercise, etc. There
belong to other organizations. In addition
to these, several ladies and gentlemen
We're in attendance A company is all
right and General Cannon was very much
pleased with the condition of affairs.
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Go where you will, you will always find
some one to sheer at the men who year
the blue as members of the National
Guard. "Oh, those fellows look well in
their uniforms, but wait until trouble
comes, and then you will see them go and
hide" and remarks like that. George A.
Baker, of the New York Seventh, replied
to this kind of talk once and so apt were
his remarks that they are reproduced:
PRO PATRIA EFT GLORIA.
The lights blaze high in our brilliant
Fair are the maidens who throng our
halls,
Soft, through the warm and Derfumed
The languid music swells and falls.
All we are fit for. so they say,
We fopS and Weal1lingS, who masquerade
AS soldiers, sometimes, in black and
grey.
We can manage to make street parade
But in fight, we'd be sure to run.
Defend youi Pshaw, the thoughts alb
Surd,
How about April, sixty-one?
What was it made your dull blood thrill?
Why did you cheer, and weep, and pray?
Why did each pulse of your hearts mark
To the tramp of the boys in black and
You've not forgotten the nations call
When down in the south the war cloud
Troops for the 'front.' Do you ever think
Who answered. and marched, and got
there FIRST?
Whose were the colors that showed the
Who set the step for the marching North?
Some holiday soldiers in black and grey
Pretty boys in their pretty SUITS
TOO pretty by far to take under fire.!
pretty boy in pretty suit
Lay once in Bethel's bloody mire.
The 'fVst' to fall in the wars first
Raise MN terQerly, WASH away
The blood and mire from the pretty suit;
For Winthrop died in the black and
grey.
In the shameful days of sixty-three,
When the city futtered in abject fear,
Meath the mob's rude grasp who ever
God! if the Seventh were only here! Z"
Our drums were heard-the ruffian crew
Grew tired of riot the selfsame day
BY chance of course-you don't suppose
They feared the dandies in black and
grey?
So we dance and firt in our hstless style
While the waltzes dream in the drill
What would we do if the order came.
Sudden and sharp-"Let the Seventh
march,
Why we'd faint, of course; our cheeks
would pale;
Our knees would tremble our fears-but
The order has come, I think, ere this
To those holidays trC Ds in black and
grey.
What would we do? We'd drown our
drums
In storm of cheers, and the drill room
Would ring with rifles. Why. you fools,
| We'd do as we've always done before.
Do our duty, take what comes,
| With laugh and jest be it feast or fray
But we're dandies-ye, for we'd rather
Than sully the pride of our black and
| grey.
The above is respectfully dedicated to
| any person upon whose shoulders the
garment fits.