Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-10-10

! SCHI SHoIkCL IulkHt nave OCSH SoP'SN ~
the sculptor from Rosa Bonheur's
Horse Fair. and that his theme might
have inspired the beautiful lines bay
Billy" which the poet makes even a
greater hero, saying:
Twas the last day at fredericksburg
| Perhaps the day YOU reck.
| Just where Wade Hampton doomed away
| The fight went neck and neck.
Five times the Federals charged, but
each time were repulsed by the battery
on the hill; the sixth time their Colonel
was killed.
| We've no one left to lead us now"
The sullen soldiers said.
| Just then before the laggard line
| The Coonel's horse spied.
Bay Billy with his trappings on,
His nostril's swelling wide
And with neigh that seemed to say.
Above the BATTLES brunt.
How can the Twenty-Second charge
IL am not in front?'
They follow Billy and capture every
gun. After the battle, as the solemn
Sergeant tries in faltering tones to call
the roll, =
Across the teld some missing morse
Toiled up with weary tread;
1t caught the Sergeants eye, and quick
Bay Blly's name he read
Down all the front from end to end
The troops presented arms!
And ever from that famous day
When rang the roll call clear.
Bay Blly's name was read. and then
The whole line answered Here
We pass in rapid s''rcession marker,
erected here bearing e name of some
Confederate hero, AM there one bear.
ing the name of a Federal General, and
l am Illuminating" as Bill Arp used to-
say, thinking how perfectly recon
structed we are; nor did we haye to g0|
abroad to accomplish this, as did Bin
Arp's Florida friend, Mr.. Smith, in ri
communi cation to the Sunny South, as
late as 1895. said that he'd friend
down in Florida who had never been
thoroughly reconstructed till he went
abroad. and there in all the foreign
ports saw the Stars and Stripes floating
W TIC breeze, ami then liz felt as II ne
could stretch forth his arms and hug
the whole Yankee nation. The article
was concluded with these words: 81
wish me and my wife couldgo abroad"
Yes, reconstruction is ended. "The
South is back in the Union" says a
contributor to August Munsey, in "The
Triumph of the South. This article,
after recounting the names of Southern
Representatives proving the South's
supremacy, says, 'The real, final test
however, is the one that cannot be de-
duced from any mathematical analysis.
1t is the spirit and disposition. the pu--
pose and inspiration, the tendency and
direction which we note in the guiding
forces of affairs. All these point uner-
ringly to the South. In Washington
you feel it in the air; you note it in the
changed and changing ways Of business;
you listen to evidences of it in the mel
low accent with which the South makes
our English musical tongue; you hear
strange names of men to whom leader
ship and Importance are attributed, and
if you ask. you almost invariably learn
that they are from the South. 1t is
THE Gentleman from Alabama" who
makes the daily motion to adjourn the
House; the motion being the special
mark and prerogative of leadership.
In the other Chamber it is "The Gentle
man from Virginia"
This sounds good to US who have seen
our dear Southland in the throes of Re-
scarcely generation ago,
and the words of the Poet Laureate
U. C. ", in greeting at Little Rock.
come up:
How the knightly ranks come trooping through
the shadows of the past
Martyrs for their Southands honor with a
frowning fate for odds!
Look about you, ye who loved them for the
aegs fame has cast.
Shines undimmed in ancient splendor through
the twilight of your gnds.
Shines upon the land ye buiIded on the ashes of
your hope;
Shines upon the strength We gave Il, through
your poverty and woe;
Forward, in the land of progress. with all ma
tions ye can cope,
For the eyes that saw you vanquished, now the
Southland's grandeur know.
Let the autumn hoarfrost gather, let the SHOWS
of winter drift,
For there blooms fruit of valor that the world
may not forget.
Fold ynur faded gray coat closer, for II was your
countrys gift.
And it brings her holest message-there is
glory in it yet
IDA H. HIBBLER.