The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-05-25

host enlisted under the Northern
flag. There were III, 1000 Germans
in the Northern army, IA, 900 Irish.
$1,000 British Americans, 45,OGO
English, $4,000 soldiers of other
nationalities and $4,000 Negroes,
making total of foreigners and
Negroes of over 680,O0O. If the
United States had not enlisted a
single American citizen, its army
would have outnumbered the total
enlistment of the Confederate army
by over $4,000 men, a larger number
than Lee ever had perhaps at any
one time. Add to this the 325. 600
men of Southern birth whose cause
should have been that of the South
but whose arms were added to those
Of the North, and we find that if not
a single white American citizen from
the North, the Eastern or Western
States had ever put his name down
or fired gun there. still would have
been in the Union army 100000
more men than the Southern army.
according to it's total enlistment,
ever had. The historians never
seem to tire Of telling of the giant
coalition Of England and Austria
and Prussia hurled against Napoleon,
yet how much greater the coalition
Of America, of Ireland, of Germany,
of England, of Europe and of Africa,
aggregating in all nearly three mil
lion soldiers, hurled against the six
hundred thousand patriots of the
Southern cause. Surely the men in
gray were Americans Of the purest
blood
Third.-The Confederate soldier
was Southerner, with all that name
implies; soldier Of courage and
bravery, a soldier Of chivalry and
character. The world will never
again see the like Of the Confederate
soldier, for the flower Of the South
was in the ranks, and they were the
product of the oldest and grandest
Southern civilization. History tells
of no braver men, none with greater
powers of endurance, with nerves Of
iron and slnews Of steel, none with
more intelligence, none more tena-
cious of purpose, none more devot-
ed to duty, none with a higher con-
ception of Christian manhood or
Christian character than the Con-
feoerate soldier. No nobler men
ever lived, no braver soldiers ever
answered the bugle call nor marched
under flag or banner. They were
untainted by selfishness and the
frosts Of ccmmsrcialism never
touched their lofty souls. They
fought not for conquest, not for ag-
grandizement, but from high and
holy sense of duty, and the perform
ance Of that duty with whatever
dangers it was attended, with what
ever difficulties it was accompanied
was to him the only true heroism.
No sacrifice was too costly, no march
too long, no odds too great, no
breastworks too high, no death too
awful for them to make and meet,
dare and defy. On one of the noun
tain sides in Switzerland, Nature in
her mood of majestic playfulness
had so thrown together some of the
immense rocks as, when viewed at
the proper distance, to precisely re-
semble the features of the human
countenance. It was a happy lot fol
children to grow up to manhood
with the Great Stone Face before
their eyes, for all the features were
noble, and the expression was al
once grand and sweet, as if it were
the glow of a vast warm heart that
embraced all mankind in its affec-
tons and had room for more. The
fertility of the valley was owing tx
this benign aspect that was continu
ally beaming over it, illuminating
the clouds and infusing its tender
ness into the sunshine. And ira
dition had it that at some future day
child would be born within its shad
ow who was destined to become the
greatest and noblest parsonage OF
his time, and whose countenance, ii
manhood, would bear an exact re
!. semblance to the Great Stone Face
And Ernest, a child Of the valley,
: heard this prophesy from the lips O.
his mother, and prayed that HI
might live to see him who reseinblet
, the Great Stone Face. He spent hi
childhood in the log cabin where b.
; was born, serving his mother will
his dutiful hands and his loving
, heart, and after the days tasks wer'
done he sat down in the doorwa.
; and for hours gazed out towards TIN
) mountain where the Great Ston
: Face smiled down upon him. A sol
Of the valley who had gone fort
into the world and in the teemin.
marts of trade had become fabulous
ly rich had returned to the SHADOW
of the mountain, and the peopl
: is the very image of the Great Ston
Face" But Ernest turned sadl
r from the wrinkled shrewdness o
, that sordid visage and gazed up tn
valley, where, amid a gathering
mist, gilded by the last sunbeams
! he could still distinguish those glorI
. Gus features which had so impresse
: themselves into his soul, and h
$ knew that the man had not yet CONS
And still Ernest grew in strength 0
o character, in devotion to duty, i
! nobleness of heart and mind, an
: still when the days work was don
q he held his silent communion wit
q the marvellous features beamin
+ adown the valley, and wondere
that the man was SO long in coming
i And a general, successful in n