The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-07-27

brink Of the Suwanee River. They
sleep beneath the shadow Of the feet.
Ing clouds, careless alike Of the gol.
den sunshine or the wrecklng storm
each in the windowless palace OF eter
nal rest. Earth may run red with
blood of other ware; they are at
peace. In the midst of the rush and
roar Of battle, and in the pursuits
of less conflicts OF this life they found
serenity in death.
And those of you old Confederate
soldiers who yet remain with us
honor and admire you. love to take
OF my hat to your marching columns.
| love to salute your passing banners
You are now art OF our common
country. and each and all {. you have
contributed to her past glory and her
present greatness As a recompense
for your former trials and misfor-
tunes, had the power / would trans
port you to land as brilliant as
child's fairy dream. where bloom for
ever in wild profusion the lotus and
the lily, roses and carnations; a land
where bright waters ripple In eternal
melody, and the mocking- bird and the
nightingale, in tones more enhancing
than the music of an Aeolian harp,
carol all the day long in sweet-scent-
ed orange and magnolia groves laden
with perennial blossoms; land
where the golden sunshine is as ten.
der as a maiden's touch and the fra
grant breezes are as light as thistle
down; a land where in everlasting
estacy, you could watch the cool mists
creep around the purple hills. and
see Gods banners. like a cloth OF
gold, thrown across the sunset sky,
land where the sun and the south
wind make enticing pictures on the
playful eddies of human thought!
And during those heart-rending
scenes of war, the Southern woman
! had many shadows to III across her
= pathway. For her there were no
zephyrs laden with the delusive per-
= fume of flowers; the cruel pangs Of
'' war darkened the angelic sweetness
q Of her brow, and tore the roses of
y maiden beauty from her cheeks. But
? in it all through it all you seemed
= heavens chosen messengers on earth!
You consoled, you wept, you prayed,
you gave your time, your health, and
oftentimes your life itself, as a will
> ing sacrifice in that cause which
: moved a nations soul Shakespeare
Il has "Frailty. thy name is wo-
J. man But let me change il, in token
II of you Southern mothers, who rocked
Il your children in the cradle OF in
e nocent childhood, singing the while
n the songs that the angels sing all the
P way up to the very throne OF God
II Let me change 1t in token of my re
q gard for the exalted character Of you
y Southern women. "Frailty, thy name
III is no longer woman, but Love and Fl
deity and Truth Ii | could wall
Il through all the magnificent fora
u gardens of the world, and pluck the
H. rarest flowers of unstinted beauty ant
&c sweetness perfume, and select from
y the crowns of kings and queens. ant
Il all the great ones OF earth the cost
u liest and the greatest jewels that gilt
ter there. | would fashion them into
T. one dazzling, gorgeous disdem, ant
u with the hand of love / would crown
10 the Southern mother
"a heard great French diplomat
Al say, while standing among the
IL graves of Arlington cemetery III
u takes a great country TO have a great
q civil war" And add. II takes a great
III country TO have a great reconoil
" iation.
We are now a reunited country
IL Bitterness has departed, and eotiona
"a hate is no more. Good fellowship
u has been waited on the wings OF com
10 merce and development from thos,
d. who wore the blue to those who wore
u the gray There Is room In oul
&c hearts for every acre Of its sunny soil
IS its every hill upon which the morn
ID ing breaks its every vale that cradles
'e the evening shadows. its every
d stream that laughs back the imag,
n of the sun! Out OF that melancholy
Is but splendid chaos OF the civil wal
II there has risen new nation, mighty
~ in the vastness OF its limitless re
oi sources, the realities within its reach
u surprising the fascinating stories OF
= fiction, and eclipsing the ideal dreams
n OF Utopian philosophers; a new ma
ID tion, opalescent in the flesh, and hay