Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-11-07


For the God OF all good Jet lives in our
ne nav punish. but WIN not forget!
There Is wealth in our valleys and health
IN our hills;
There Is life in the old land yet!
In the dawn OF secession. January TO
May, 1851. We who were then the young
men OF the south. thought most OF two
dear things. ''The girl left behind me-
the mothers and the wives. and the fiags
that the heroic women OF the States gave
20 us. much as the mother OF Greece gave
the shield TO her son. "Some back with II
Or upon IT." IN Charleston Miss Lottie
Ellis led her sweetheart 20 window
where the colors OF old glory new over
gray old Sumter and said: $50 long as
that flag flies there don't want 70 see
you IN citizens clothes" He went and
rave his life. In Burke and Richmond
and Chatham clubs OF young women took
q ledge not TO speak 10 man with
enough legs and arms who did not Tolun-
teer. The minute men" wrote and sang:
. sshe gave the aowers-'twas springtime
then.
And bright DER land and sea
Flew the fair banners OF our land,
The Young. the strong the. free
And bright as we're our banenrs then
On their first blushing field.
, Stil brighter were the hopes those flowers
and blushing buds revealed
HOPES pure as skies where stars rejoice
And earnest as an angels voice
What should be the fiagg-what TO do
with the fiagsl was almost as great a
question as was the constitution TO be
framed at Montgomery
When William Henry Walker, Henry r.
Jackson. Alfred Cumming, Joseph 4.
Brown and others stood with uncovered
heads at Pulaski and the Augusta Arsenal
as the starry nag OF our fathers came
down amid the national salute and the
music OF The Star Spangled Banner,
there were no dry eyes. Miles Turpin
made the Lone Star sheet that took It's
place. No man then knew wanted 70
give up the Red. White and Blue. Texas.
a uctle empire. asked for the single white
star on field OF blue. fringed with red.
south Carolina the pioneer. asked for her
white palmetto On its sky Of blue. 10
omit he red bar after peace. The editor
Of the old Constituti0nalist made nag OF
the stale arms Of the cotton states and Il
was killed I'm convention BY Barnwell
Rhetf, who said It was a good bed quilt
. design. All volunteer companies started
with the old uniforms. blue and white
fer infantry, blue and red or yellow for
artillery and cavalry. green for rines, Ike
my own Augusta Clinch- also the irish
volunteers. minute men and regulars. red
shirts and the gray.
Every company had a flag. often the
F; white silk Or satin bridal dress OF some
mother OF heroes. painted or Joined with
coIors-
/. Georgia held 20 her historic blue and
( constitutional arch and three pillars, Of
ian with crimson reverse and the COM
pany name and the eagle An eagle nag
3 was much discussed
All OF the secession banners hung across
the streets had the cotton plant with a
rattlesnake cooled at the roots. Nolle me
uangere-don't tread on mel
OF course every company swore with
fffted hands and swords TO carry that
same flag IN every battle front or die with
the folds about the bearer. A dress pa
Fade OF regiment looked Ike a tuilp
bed. and never dio the premium tulips OF
! Holland make such heart aches and con-
tention-
fun brigade would line up with thirty
{ fars To group them as q bouquet at
brigade center required a vast detail OF
bearers and color guard. When at 81.
Louis in 1854 Grover Cleveland made
(: Rome howl BY proposing TO return TO
Us ali captured flags few realized that
the great store OF them In Washington
arose from the vast number that the ear
IL volunteers carried. To get a company
70 send home it's flag was a row scarcely
less than when James VI carried the ia
cob OF COLUMBIA stone from Scotland when
ne became James I OF England.
d We all know that the Stars and Bars.
two red bars and one white and constel-
lation on the blue union. was adopted at
MONTGOMERY and on the favorable result
OF Alex H. Stephens mission to Virginia
Il few at Bethel and Manassas. General
Joseph r. Johnston, then commanding,
saw that in the smoke. friend fired on
friend. as once did South Carolina and
Kentucky. and the southern cross battle
nag was born.
Should there be nine. eleven or thirteen
stars was then the question OF the flag
committee OF the Richmond congress.
Hon Horatlo NJ Bruce. Of Kentucky,
chairman at one time. agreed for our
louisville reunion TO write the congress
si0nai history. especially as to the bar
now at the end OF the flag. Mr.. Davis
told this writer that Mrs. Yarina Davis
proposed the white flag and union cross
as q token OF the peace we prayed for.
The currency was printed with prom
dse to redeem two years after a treaty
OF peace" At Charleston we were as
signed seats IN the order OF secession and
that put Kentucky away back, as she