Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-08-29
IN THE NAME OF GOD
WE, WILL SET UP
OUR BANNERS
GRAY Hosts of South Pass in
Grand Review Before the
President. Their Sons An
swer the Call to the Colors.


Wearers of blue and gray march
together in loving proof that the
Potomac no longer marks a dlvld-
ed nation. Washington to-day
staged spectacle for the world.
Soldiers in Gray who fought for a
sacred cause more than fifty years
ago were escorted by veterans In
blue against whom they bad fought
with utmost bitterness through the
heart of the nations capital, which
they had almost succeeded IN captur-
ing by assault. Together they
marched past the president OF the
United States as living proof to the
world that there is no North and
South in the United States today:
but one reunited country, thinking
and acting together; SO. firmly
established by their strife. The Stars
and Bars" Of the Confederacy, and
the "Stars and Stripes of the
Union tenderly carried, fell loving
ly together when dipped in sulute
as they passed the president. The
same spirit that prompted them to
do valiant service in defense OF
their homes aud State rights IN the
cos is still warm in the breast. was
shown by numerous offers of serv-
ice showed to President Wilson as
the veterans passed the review
stand. I'VE will 60 to France or
anywhere you want to send III"
was The favorite cry. And another
said: Call on us, if the boys
can't do it" A sign attracted the
Presidents attention bearing the In
scription, Dam man who amt mt
fer his country, right or wrong.
Here was a hint to the world that
as the veterans of the past fought
with valor unsurpassed, so are their
sons and grandsons to-day prepared
and preparing to repel any atfront
to the nation or its flag. A stirring
call to all sons of Confederate vet
erans to prove themselves worthy
sons of their heroic sires was made
by Ernest Baldwin of Roanoke, Va,
commander-in-chief of the Sons.
Il feel," he said, we should be
unworthy of the heritage of our
fathers did we not. with a single
mind and single voice, answer the
call that comes to us at this period
of our national history, 1t is a call
for renewed spirit of patriotism,
and warm cooperation with those
into whose hands we have commit
mited the welfare of our country.
"We live in a fateful hour In the
history of the world; autocracy and
Mohammedianism are making their
last stand before the triumphant
march of Democracy and Chris
tianity. That for which we now
struggle was the morning star OF
hope in tie breast of Washington;
the shrine at which met Jefferson,
Madison and Monroe; the goal
sought for at this hour by the com.
mander-in-c chief Of our army and
navy, son of the South, now a
citizen of the Kingdom of Man; a
steady and sterling patriot, Wood
row Wilson, the president of the
United States. The South is ready
to give its blood and its treasure;
the sons of the South will be found
deep in the first line of defense on
the battle front with the Stars and
Stripes, by land and by sea. In
pledging allegiance to Old Glory,
they will not be untrue to their
fathers. That flag was baptized
with Southern blood in the show
ers of bullets of battlefield with a
solemn radiance of national glory.
This star-lit flag unfurled, and the
magic of the Declaration of lnde-
pendence has beted the earth.
J. Russell Wright,
Seneca, S. G.
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