Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-06-01

shock the sensibilities of any true
American citizen.
IN 1861 the war clouds which had
been gathering over our national hori
ION came crashing together, causing
| a political storm which for four years
ragged with undated fury. For four
long, weary years our banner was
borne aloft on many a hard fought
field by men as brave as those who
withstoOd the onslaught OF the Persian
hosts at the historic pass of Their
mOpalae under the leadership Of the
lion-hearted LeOnidas; when its stand
ard bearers fell it was raised again by
the hands of heroes worthy to have
seconded the charge of the Light Brig
ade as it threw itself upon the Rus
sian hosts and advanced into the very
jaws of hell up the blood stained gorge
of Balaklava.
THE Star Spangled Banner was car
ried on TO victory, through many a
CORY contest by the boys in blue, whose
heroic deeds are most brilliantly eu-
logized by simply saying that they
were finally victors in the four years
struggle.
THE Confederate soldiers fought for
a cause which they honestly believed
to be just-they lost: the Union vet
Grams fought for the preservation of
the eternal union of these United
States-they won. The cause was fair
ly submitted to the arbitrament of the
sword, and the decision was given to
the North. The South acquiesced hon
eStly, unreserVedly, eternally and pa
triotically in the verdict rendered.
Their flag has been furled never again
to catch within its battle SCARED folds
the bloody breeze of conflict; the Con-
federate veterans again took their
stand under our old banner-yours and
mine-under which their ancestors and
mine, too, won their independence, and
the Confederates are all eager to
march again together, soldiers in
common cause and under a common
flag wherever our rights are threat
ened and our country's cause is just.
Our flag. and their. 200, which floated
in triumph when CORVALLIS surren-
dered at Yorktown and our independ-
ence was achieved, has since then cast
its protecting folds over nearly every
country on the civilized globe
IOUl 1870 " loOl VIC vert. at pcdIc.
Still the keen ears of thoughtful, lis
tening statesmen could hear the low
mutterings of coming storm. Wise
men of our beloved country hoped that
there might be a Deaceable settlement
of our domestic difficulties: but many
believed we were on the eve of an ir-
repressible conflict, which could only
finally be settled by a resort TO arms.
There were fanatics on both sides
some in the North declared the Decla-
ration of Independence, the handiwork
of jefferson, to be a league with
death and a covenant with hell': and
they were honest in the declaration.
Some of those in the South though that
the citizens of the North were a race
of shOpkeepers and mudsills; and it
took four years of wharf.-the sacrifice
of half a million patriotic American
lives, and the shedding of rivers of
patriotic American blood, to show how
greatly each section had been mis-
taken in the other. In addition to
honest enthusiasts there was another
set of men on both sides who desired
to see the sections at war for selfish
purposes of their own whose opinions
were entertained simply for the greed
of gold and the hope of plumber. These
harpies, human political hyenas. were
melting us against each other that they
might fatten on the remains of dead
republic. Mr.. Lincoln was elected
president in November, 1860. During
the period between that time and
March 4, 1861, the time of his inaugu-
ration. patriotic, conservative citizens
of all sections were using their most
strenuous efforts to avert the threat
ened resort to arms. But violent men
in the orth were urging upon the pres
ident policy which could but result
in an attempt to dissolve the Union;
avowed disunionists of the South as
serted that the mere election of a sec