The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-10-22
THE NEW SOUTH

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and love; Good and evil; all nea
me;
Come, will make the continent in
dissoluble;
sI will make the most splendid rae,
the sun ever yet shone upon;
will make divine magnetic lands.
With the love Of comrades,
With the life long love of comrades
will plant companionship thick as
trees along the rivers of America
and along the shores of the great
lakes, and all over the prairies;
will make inseparable cities, with
their arms about each others necks
BY the love of comrades,
BY the manly love of comrades"
Q, bounteous South, the grandeur
OF the mountain peaks, the enchant-
n1ent of thy hills and valleys, the
majesty OF thy rivers flowing to the
sea, land of promise, with glorious
climate, wonderful productiveness of
soil, to-day, dwelling within your
borders in sweet content, a happy,
prosperous people! What picture,
what a blessed transformation from
those days when this fair land was
soldier ridden, when it felt the aw-
full import OF desolating war-sound
OF the hoofbeat Of cavalry, rumble Of
the artillery, the roar of death deal
ing cannon. the tramp, tramp of the
opposing armies. Let us brothers of
the gray and Of the blue, we few,
who have lived to bless the victories
OF peace. go back in retrospect to
those dreadful days, those years Of
speechless horror, when you of the
gray and we of the blue were in bat
tie array.
There, where the foemen were
fiercest in meeting;
There, where the cannon gave
deadliest greeting;
There, where the marches were
toughest and longest;
There, where the hardships were
weakening the strongest
Z All, little did we know each others
mettle. When wars wild alarm
came DER the land, we started on the
path that leads to glory; to the mer-
y music of "The Girl / Left Behind
We" We of the North had been
made to believe your wild talk Of
of your warlike prepara-
ion, was only buster, while you
we're equally deceived by your fiery
eaders, that there could be no armed
esistance to secession from the :
nion of States, that there was no ;.
ght in the northern mud-sell, and
0 matters drifted until that fatal
ay in April, 1851. The echo of :
he boom of that cannon whose she'll
truck Fort Sumter, re-echoed all =
yer the land. We of the North
,ood appalled,; you of the South :
ated; but in an instant the gods y
war let loose, all party differences :,
ere swept away. We of the blue :
lllied to a man in defense of flag
Id country, both sections became
med camps and bitter, relentless,
actricidal war was on. Still we =
eld each other in contempt; we -
ere OF the same thought-there -
as no fight in each other Recall -
e flippant remark of Secretary of -
ate Seward -"75, 900 men, Mr.. :"
and it's all over in 90 -
US! Soon the scales fell. You and =
: found this was not a fight of ~
gmies, there was no cravens among -
Too soon, we realized that we -
re engaged in a war, unparalleled N.
Ifts fierceness, magnificent, appall- - -
5 war of modern times, led by the .ei
lest of leaders, fought with the ~
daunted, intrepid courage of real CO. ce.
'egicans. Death lay along the om'i m
dd& paths we travelled down in s.l
the VALLEY Of the shadows, aye, s sar
0 the eNvery valley of death, you - -
| we have fought. All, the pity w
it, sons OF common ancestry,
III. - Ind
inst each other in horrid frac- 81
'idal strife, one to preserve, one -, -
destroy that nations life. Did -
think of those that waited while
were on the weary march, as we - -
ed the lonely beat on the picket, 20
b death lurking in the shadows
n the rife pits with hells furies
war surrounding us, or in the
oh, misery, suffering, 80 80
agony of doubt to your dear ones 90
'ounded by wars wild havoc. 1p
clouds of war lifted We saw
:. a. ' D-eoSe fede
ry. It brought the happy thought 80
lone to us, but oh what did it qini
n to our tender, true-hearted wo- trep
:. Man, in the excitement of ed t