Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-23
THE coNrEDERACY.
"On fame's eternal camping ground,
Their silent tents are spread;
While glory guards with solemn round,
The biYouac of the dead"

Their silent tents are spread;
While glory guards with solemn round,
The bivouAc of the dead"
In this time when we are all happily
united as one country, We sometimes
look back upon the period when there
were two republics. composed OF the
GUS union. When the colonies. due to
unbearable conditions. were forced to
leave their Fathcrland, they formed
Revolutionary War, and this was con-
tinued after the war. There was
nothing In this union to prevent any.
from this union. This was first done
by. the New England States when they
refused to support the government in
the war Of 1872. At other times states
only In the long agitation against
the North had sold her slaves and the
majority were owned in the South, she
tried to force her will on the Southern
States, and to make 1t unlawful for
these to own slaves as property in the
to claim their slaves as property in
the Northern States. There was a
long trial. known as the ."Drcd Scott"
case, In which the, Southern slave
allowed TO-. south Carolina led eleven
States, and they seceeded from the
known t as the sconf MED gossrn Tsey
elected president. the first one,
JEFFERSON Senss rr, Davis. for term of six
have lived peaceably. II Abraham Lin
coin. with certain others had not tried
TO force these States back into the
union: an ID in the case of Virginia. de-
soldiers to do this. Our State. being
the most influential of the thirteen
colonies. and the, mother" OF States.
did not want to leave this federation,
but could not fight against her South
ern sister States
John Brown. a wild fanatic. inlamed
murders in his blind anti-slavery agi-
tation. The entire South supported
the new government against its strong
adversary. There came out some Of
the greatest soldiers and statesmen
In Its cause.
It is truly said:
clean No nj mat fsn e ere Err rose so pure and
Falor and intellect could not with
stand the assaults of such ovcrwhei-
ming odds. and after four years OF
suffering of thousands at home. this
bright star in the constellation Of ma
tons was forced to yield. They were
Justice. Although they lost the physi e
cal battle, they joyously won the
moral victory. in refusing either to
s Bsind their hSnor' or be bought from a
many excellent characters and among,
them were Robert E. Lee, "StoneWaii'"
Jackson. General ]. T. b. Stuart and
others. General Lees fame has stead
lily grown until now hc is generally
regarded over the world. as being the
most divine character in it's history.
After the defeat he constantly en-
dcayered to wipe out all bitterness on
both sides. it is the good fortune of
us all to enjoy, the thorough success
OF this work. Now. crest quotation
is, UNITED we stand; divided we fall
Old Glory flows over forty-eight
United States: Our greatest president,
Woodrow Wilson, united heA"Yankecs'i
and the "Rebels" in a big reunion In
Washington, last June
We're in the cause together, to carry
liberty and democracy to all the op-
pressed of the world. The foreigners
who speak English. re apt to call us
all, "Yanks." but there have boen too
many years OF happiness in unison
for us TO dislike this term.
(OriSinal)
POCAHONTAS WIGHT