Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-06-08
A Grecian sailor out on the

you a save mo If you Will, you
can destroy me if you will, but
I'll keep the rudder true
Comrades in the darkness and
gloom of those four years, lily
clad. often hungry, lnsuficiently
equipped, with faces upturned to
onr God, we can tell him, "He
kept the rudder true"
In tho language of our gifted
Kentucky Confederate, we can say
of our dead:
"On flames eternal camping
ground
Their silent tents are spread
And glory guards with solemn
sound
The bivouac of our dead.
"Nor shall your glory be forgot
While fame her record keeps.
Or honor points the hallowed spot
Where valor pronely sleeps"
One word more and I am done.
In the Japanese-R Russian war, the
seige of Port Arthur stands out
with signal brilliance and power.
We unconsciously yield homage
to courage wherever found. The
color of the skin cannot dominate
reverence for heroism, and be a
man black, white, red or yellow,
if in his BOSOM shine out noble
deeds and chivalrous achieve
ments, we instinctlvely honor the
man.
The contest at Port Arthur has
taken rank as one of the great
masterpieces of courage and en-
durance, and as the little men day
by day and night battled for the
important strategic centre and
had inflicted upon their legions
almost incalculable loss the world
lifted its hat and cheered them as
they at last won its almost i'm.
pregnable heights and humbled
the Russian %despotism as it had
never been humbled before.
No sooner had Port Arthur fall
len than the victorious Japanese
army which had made it's capture
a. such awful sacrifice was hast
ened northwa,d to meet the foe at
Fort Mugden. Conscious of the
noble and splendid work they had
done and with their hearts all
aglow at tho magnificent triumphs
of their country, they with glad
quickstep rushed to meet their
hated foe on other fields of blood.
They carried with the pride of
victory and the consciousness of a
power that only courage could
bring. They lad won renown and
from their hearts dubbed the joy
that fills patriotic souls in the
discharge of duty.
GLORY FOR ALL.
With pardonable pride as they
swung into the battle line at Mug.
den as they passed divisions and
corps which had not received the
baptism of blood, quickened in
their manliness by the memory
of their splendid gallantry they
shouted the japanese battle cry.
''Banzai, banzai, clear the way.
we be from Port Arthur" This
was glory for any army that ever
aligned under the Japanese flag
and so Confederate men of North
Carolina you need not fear to hold
up your heads in the company of
any heroes and soldiers who ever
gathered in any age. or CLINE as
the world passes you in review.
You need only shout:
"Clear ths way, we be the men
of North Carolina who fought at
Bethel Sharpesburg, Manassas,
Seven Pines, Chancellorville, Nal
vern Hill Bull Run, Petersburg,
Ctickamauga," and the world
will gladly and willingly salute
you as those who take front rank
amongst the greatest volunteer
soldiers who were over eligned I'M
der any flag in the worlds wars
And now I again salute this
memorial and repeat the last verse
of your Kentucky Confederate
comrades superb poem:
You marble mlnstrel's voiceful