Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-07-18

conceive, we have only to be governed
by the past: The future is as a sealed
book, all things of which will be reveal
ed as it opens itself to our view. An
hundred years from now the great hat
ties and heroic deeds of the present war
Will be known only in history. What
JOY and pride will fill the heart of every
southerner as a remembrance of the
valor and bravery of our southern lads
comes before the imagination
Have we not models of greatness and
moral excellence who lived in other CEN
turies, on which we spend many lin
gering thought as we sigh over their
departure?
so 1t will be with future generations.
An hundred years from now, the names
OF Robert Lee, Stonewall, Joseph John
son and many others will be cherished
as the illuminating stars of the present
century. Their spirit will be lnstilled
into every bosom from history as it now
Is from present actions. Such names
will be the precious jewels of after
years; those to be garnered up among
the treasures of our nation, to be kept
sacred from the furnishing breath of
the careless and Indifferent.
An hundred years hence the name of
George B. Mcclellan, now scorned bv
many as traitor, will be held up to the
public as the one who in the hours of
public frenzy, still retained some re-
spect for the constitution, which he as
an honest man, believed he had been
called upon to protect.
The constitution, once the central pill
lar of our liberty, where will it be one
hundred years hence? Alb! where is it
now? Fragment after fragment has been
torn from it, till we no longer recog-
nize it as the proud monument of liber-
ty. Shall it be remodeled and vanished
over by the present age, and stand forth
as an object of the worlds admiration
an hundred years hence, or be trampled
under the foot of tyrannical monarch?
We look back to the Revolutionary
war and love to mediate upon the many
virtues of the brave defenders of our
country, and upon the heroism displayed
by the fair daughters of America. Now
girls, why cannot we initiate the meri-
torious example of our predecessors and
become worthy of having our names re-
corded in the annals of history, as the
patriotic, self-sacrificing heroines of the
present great revolution? Why cannot
we endure privations, undergo hard
ships, make any sacrifice that the brave
and heroic ladies Of old did, that our
names may ever be enrolled on the fair
pages of history?
Now, while we have the cannon roar
and every field is red with the blood of
our fathers and brothers; let us not
waste time in idlensss and follies, such
as dressing in the most elegant cloth
ing, riding for amusement, having So
ciable tea parties, etc, while our SOL
diers are in the field wearing the coar-
sest apparels, living on the plainest fare
and sleeping on the damp ground with
no covering but that which nature has
provided; shall we hesitate to wear
clothing more simple, use the plainest
food, or in word make any sacrifice
that we may win unfading laurels,
which will ever awaken such emotions
of love and gratitude in the hearts of
those who will be filling our places an
hundred years hence.
And now, dear classmates, our Junior
term has drawn to close, and We sep
arate to spend the vacation amid the
pleasures of home; and if through the
interposition of Providence, we shall
meet no more within these college walls,
let us endeavor to spend our lives that
our influence may be felt not only an
hundred years hence, but through all
time, for,
'"The lives of great men all remind US
That we can make our lives sublime,
And departing leave behind US
Footprints on the sands of Time
At the close of the war the author of
this essay married her soldier sweet
heart, Alexander H. Simpson. The
only son of this marriage, John Russell
Simpson, of Seminole, Oklahoma, mar
ried the only child of Oscar Dabney
Strother, the latter a son of French
Strother, of Union Hall, Va, through
whose courtesy we are enabled to give
our readers this essay of half century
ago.-lED.l
The Wicked FIeeth,
If the recent actions of certain prom
inent democrats with regard to tes-