Evening star., 1901-07-13
BORDER STATE PATRIOTS
EXTRACT FROM EULOGY OF LATE
MEDICAL DIRECTOR HORD.
Before Burnside Post, No. 8,

8, g. A. R., of this city, Colonel F. A.
Reeve delivered address in eulogy Of the
late William Ta1iaferro Hord, medical d.
rector, retired, U. S. A, and a member of
the Grand Army. In the course Of his re-
marks Colonel Reeve paid a glowing trib-
ute to the valOr and patriotism Of the men
of Kentucky and Tennessee, who stood by
the Union and upheld the national flag at
the beginning and during the progress Of
the war of the rebellion. He said:
"As native Of the section of the coun-
try where the stars and stripes seem to
grow wild in the woods, can respond in
the souls deepest sympathy with our loyal
brethren of Kentucky, the compatriots of
our comrade, whose faith stood firm as
rocky mountains when the life of the
Union was saved from political suicide.
The world will never forget, for history
will never fail to record the patriotism
and courage and sef-sacrifice of the Union
men of Kentucky and Tennessee, and the
great aid given by them to the Union cause
By reason of the strategic position main
taned by them, their gallant service in
the army, and the example and encourage
ment they gave to the loyal people of other
sections of the United States. 1t is estt-
mated that eastern Tennessee alone fur
niShed over 2o,o00 volunteer soldiers for the
national army! If the Union element of
the free states was disturbed by the un-
seemly presence Of 'copperheads in their
midst who. after all were of as little use
to the south as they were harmless at the
north, meriting everywhere only the con-
tempt of brave men, the friends of the
national cause were encouraged and sus-
tanned by the loyal men of the south, who,
like our lamented comrade, followed the
flag Of their country on land and sea, until
they restored our inseparable Union Of In
destructible states
Il believe If all the people of Kentucky
and sll the people Of Tennessee had been
united in the cause Of the confederacy, the
great President, and the greatest Ameri-
can. would not have had occasion to ex-
claim in his immortal address on the Get
tysburg battle field in November, 1868:
That this nation. under God, shall have
a new birth of freedom, and the govern
ment Of the people. by the people, for the
people, shall not perish from the EARTH
I'm those days the people Of that coun-
try were divided into two parties. There
were no populists, socialists, anarchists or
other political 'cranks' among them. They
were either wings or democrats. And while
party feeling was intense and bitter, yet,
in the presence of common danger, all
party differences were forgotten, and wings
and democrats fraterniZed under the inspir-
alton of the stars and stripes. and were
only known as Union men. So may 1t ever
be that in all great national emergencies
our people will have the wisdom and cour-
age and patriotism to rise above mere
partyism and uphold the honor and integ-
rity and unity Of the nation 1t is my con-
viction that the most serious menace to the
perpetuity Of our republican institutions Is
the cowardice, the dishonesty and the in
sincerity of partisan politics.
Soldiers of the Union.
"Then, as we ascribe all due praise to the
soldiers Of the Union. let us not forget the
loyal men of Kentucky and Tennessee. who
SO nobly performed their duty, under the
providence Of God. in helping to save from
dissolution and death our great federal
Iy,io oP ototo M nd
1t possible to extend our dominions as we
have recently done, over the multitudnous
isles of the orient seas.
Like our worthy cOmrade, many OF
those brave and loyal people have been
summoned to the vast and far-extending
encampment beyond the river! All Of their
great leaders are dead Andrew Johnson,
William G. Brownlow, Horace Maynard
John ]. Crittenden and others. who deserve
conspicuous mention, survive only in his
tory and in the grateful memory Of those
undaunted example in the frightful dark
ness and danger Of those bloody years Of
civil war.
who left home and loved ones for the dan
ger and hardships of camp and campaign
life what must be said for the faithful
devoted and heroic women who remained
at home to do the work of the absent and
suffer unspeakable anxiety for their fate?
Verify we may say that during those lone
ly years their feet stumbled on the dark
mountains Wnlle tney looked 1Or light ana
there was no light 1t seems to me now,
as look back upon that awful epoch. that
there was no plying angel In the midst of
our people; and those unhappy years sur
vive in my memory as "reminiscences Of hell!
The sad exodus of the Union men Of east
ern Tennessee from home to escape the
conscript law OF the confederacy will sur
vive in history until history shall fade into
the romance Of distant ages. Under the
merciful cover of darkness those brave and
devoted patriots wended their way across
the Cumberland mountains. on whose lonely
submits the pines. low tuned by the mid
night wind and spectral as troops of
ghosts on the walls Of Hades, seemed to
whisper and wave to them a long fare
welll
LAS one by one we are mustered out
and 1t shall be said of each Of us, as we
now sorrowfully say of our departed COM
rade, He is gone, and forever may we,
too, be conducted through the land Of
darkness and the shadow Of death by
white handed hope the dear angel guar
dian 'girt with golden wings to assemble
at last in the glorious, peaceful and eternal
world!'
Committed to Jail.
William Snowden, indicted yesterday for
the murder recently Of Florence Marshall,
was today committed to jail to await trial