The National tribune., 1899-06-01

tat Jackson once put down rebellion
win his "hv the eternal' and as he Tor
tie most part believed implicitly in Jack
son, even, it is said, to the extent Of still
voting for him in some localities, he as
surhd himself that the name Of Jackson
woi:ld be sufficient TO ''down" any rising
Spectcr of secession OF disuniOn. ] doubt
If one in ten of the boys of 1881 believed,
"ven as late as Dec. /, 1860, that the
Southcrners were crazy enough to at
tempt actual secession and lnaugurate
actual war,
The excitement kept increasing as
Safe after State went out, and when at
last the shot against Sumter, like that at
Concord Bridge, was "heard round the
world" the boy Of 1851 reluctantly came
TO the conclusion that the "arbitrament OF
arms" was ordered, and he was ready.
His first move was to proceed to the
village green, where the Douglas and
Lincoln flag poles had stood since the
last political campaign in silent rivalry,
and hewing them down, he proceeded 10
splice them into one pole, from which the
flag of the Union should alone float
thereafter Not vet did slavery appear to
him to cut much figure in the conflict;
"ADolitiunist," So-called, was as hateful
to him almost as SeceSsiOnist, save tnat
they had not taken arms against the GoV-
er lment But the first thing to be at
tended to was armed rebellion, and so the
To APPRECIATE HIM PROPERLY.
you should have seen him when he put
his name down on the enlistment paper
for the three-months' service, i'll the old
Courthouse. or. the schoohouse, or the
corner store, amid the cheers of his fel-
citizens and the enviOus bushes OF
all the pretty girls in the neighborhood
But not all his fellow citizens cheered
him on his enlistment. Here and there
throughout the North sympathy was mani
Tested with secession, sometimes GOV
erily, sometimes more or less openly,
until the term "Copperhead' came to fifty
designate a class of enemies who, at Ger
tain periods of the war, gave the soldiers
of the Union more anxiety than the armed
foeman in their front; but with the com
ing of victory and the return OF peace the
"Copperhead," like the Tory" OF the Revo-
luton, quickly vanished, and the name
has, happily, become obsolete.
All. little did the boy of 1861 think
when signing that enlistment paper that
each of those three months would
lengthen into year, and to their sum yet
another year would be added before ne
would see the end of the great war!
With what pride he stepped out upon
the village green and was lined up with
his comrades in single-rank formation by
some old fellow who had seen service IN
the Mexican war, and who, our nero sup
posed, as he listened to his commands.
had held at least the rank of General
How his sisters and his cousins and his
aunts gathered around him, and gave
him all sorts of advice as to care OF his
health; how the ladies' gathered into so,
cieties at once and made red flannel
shirts to answer as temporary uniforms
for the new company, whlle the motherS
prepared stores of bandages, lint and
Perry Davis's Pain Killer, and the coun-
try physician gave daily lectures on the
nature and treatment of gunshOt wounds.
The result proved that the mothers were
wiser than the doctors, for more OF the
first enlistment fell before green apples,
green corn. and unripe watermelons than
by the bullets of the foe.
And now