The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-11-04

this proverb fails utterly when ap-
piled to Dixie. AS have said before
on another occasion, the name of
Dixie stirs the harpstrings of historic
memory and awakens into life and
action an epic more thrilling than
the Illiad of Homer-an epic of men
as knightly as Henry of Navarro; of
women as beautiful as Helen of an
cient Troy and as heroic as Joan of
Arc; new epic OF battle as celebrated
as Marathon or Thermopylae; of SOL
diers as illustrious as Militiades or
Leonidas; of Statesmen as renowned
as Poricles; of orators as brilliant
and as powerful as Demosthenes; of
poets as sweet, as melodious and as
passionate as Sappho or Alcaeus-as
weird and as tragic as Euripides. The
name of Dixie calls into being a new
epic of success and failure; of hope
and despair; of victory and defeat;
of prosperity and adversely; of love
and hate; of poetry, song and ro-
nance; of valor and patience, and of
dauntless courage in the face of over
whelming cataclysm!
II repeat again that through such
vicissitudes, no people in all the
history of the race has ever passed
and risen so quickly from such depths
of disaster to such a restoration Of
blighted and ruined fortunes. l
yield to no one in my love of Dixie,
because l yield to none in my love
for this great republic! Once di-
yided and therefore weak, it is now
united and therefore powerful. The
foundation for this unity of the sec
tions was laid in the Spanish-Ameri-
can War, when the first blood shed
in the cause of humanity was the
blood of son Of Dixie. The recon
ciliation became universal and COM
plete when Mckinley ordered head
stones, at the expense of the Federal
Government, to be placed at the
graves of the Confederate dead, and
assigned as reason, that men who
were willing to die for what they
believed to be right were American
heroes. So when in the course of
time the Armageddon of revelation |
was at hand and the Christian civihrl
zation was undergoing it's final test |
in the great battle between good and |
evil-when the backs of the allied |
armies were against the wall-then |
1t was, at the critical moment, that |
the sons of the gray and the sons of |
the blue united in sentiment and |
purpose after most hazardous jour
ney across 5000 miles of ocean in
tested with submarines and floating |
mines, marched shoulder to shoulder
in solid phalanx to the front, broke
thru the Hindenburg line, turned the
Tide of battle and thus contributed
10 a victory which sounded the death
xnell of Imperialism and autocracy
and secured to mankind forever the
nestimable blessing of liberty to be
only by constitutional
self-prescribed and self
imposed!
:" l now take special delight, re-
,arding it as the greatest honor of
ny life, to welcome you with open
rms to the home State of the boys
Who constituted fifty-two per cent
f the Thirtieth Divisicn-a division
# the American army which will go
Iown in history as the first to break
through the Hindenburg line at its
trongest point--a point which the
ierman5 heralded ae absolutely im-
regnable.
with all my heart and with all
he earnestness Of my soul, / extend
0 you most cordial welcome to the
ome State of Andrew Jackson,
ames K. Polk and Andrew Johnson,
nth the same warmth end the same
/ greet you and bid You
hrice welcome to the native State
f Nathan Bedford Forrest"