The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-09-21
Pensions and the South.

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Pensions and the South.
My countrymen, believe in the ma
ton and the nations flag, and wheth-
er we be Democrats or Republicans,
whether we come on this or the other
side of an imaginary line, we are all
Americans, and as one to every other
power on earth.
AS a representative in Congress, /
have been the means Of procuring sew
eral pensions by private bills which
became laws for Union soldiers and
their widows, whose claims had been
disalIowed by the pension Office. and
had passed bill to relieve a union
brigadier from large judgment and
accrued interest on forfeited bond
after his property had been seized by
execution. 1 have never complained
of the pensions granted the deserving
old soldiers who wore the blue, nor
has Democrat on any Democratic plat
form.
We have tried out of our slender
means to take care of few INDECENT
IConfederates. but when the Republic
cans come to make their platform In
Tennessee they refuse to indorse our
policy.
This was not an oversight, for our
platform was carefully read its dec
llarations studied, and some literally
appropriated, even to the language
employed. -',-1 FIJI lSii MA I@v.ta
| True, the Republicans commended
IMr. Mckinley for the suggestion that
1.-THE government take care of the graves
lof the Confederate. dead, and it was
kindly. gracious thought, but their at
lection relates only to the dead.
| We will take care Of both the liv-
ling and the dead, and see to it that
1.-THE modest pensions the state pay will
never be cut off by the Republican
party.
We will remember and never forget
THAT the soldier who wore the gray
was the bravest and the truest who
ever marshaled in battle array.
/ Truly did he give of manhood's
strength and vigor for his home and
1.-THE right as he saw it.
II he fell he paid the debt which all
must pay to fate and none can tell
1.-THE day it will be due.
But for every drop of blood he shed
on every field of war. all the way from
first Manassas to the Wilderness, a
J Itear has fallen from Southern eye,
, and prayer has gone from q Southern
) heart to Mercy's throne.
We cannot rear the costly monu-
! ments to his memory which the North
/, has raised to mark the valor OF her
sons who wore the blue--for we are
J ltoo poor to make show Of grief and
reverence. lss Afs@'' a. 80
i But rich in memory, and In honor
} kings of earth, we have builded in our
: hearts a temple of love and fame
} which will outlive marble and endure
-llonger than brass. AS the Ivy clings
Ito the broken column and covers with
r Its evergreen mantle the ruins which
thine and man have wrought, so do
} 1.-THE tendrils of our love reach back in
! 1.-THE mists of the vanished past and EN-
} lbrace the fallen cause of the knight
iliest race of men who ever drew
sword or marched beneath the flag Of
:, war; & re ,sss2-ssa AZ -, g .sss.
: This is the land that we and Others
/. call the South, and in its cloth of hon
! Eoratfle loom. Of destiny has woven and
t strangely intermingled the threads Of
light and shadow.
: Its roses are no fairer than other
, roses, its soil is not richer, its waters
! lare not clearer, but 1t is loved as no
) other land beneath the dome of God
: 1t is our home and we are sharers
To It's SOITUWS anu IiCll5 w ITO AAApSt'
/ ishableglory. Its story is yet untold
/ las we would have it, but one day the
j man will come, high thcughted, loving
D truth, towering like Saul
II Sometimes we are tainted with our
Z poverty, our lack of thrift, and we are
: bid to join the swift and mad pursuit
I Of gain, but the South has trod the
] Iway of unbought honor and shall unto
, the end.
: They do not say our men are not
: brave, our women pure and fair, and
we had rather live and die in a land
! where the men are brave and the wo-
/ lmen pure than have all the wealth of
, all the earth.
}, And one day should the crimson BAN
lner oppose the flag, II the law, nay,
liberty itself, shall need defenders,
. they will be found, strong, ready, val