Year: 1868

jury, or propose to try by jury of ne
groes one who had been the Chief Mag
istrate of nation that set three hundred
thousand men in the field and was con-
quered when exhausted, by an army Of
more than million.


/ Yonng men, it is for you to bring back
TO the country these golden days. The
South is our land the North is foreign
and hostile realm. Stand at the altar
of your country. Swear eternal hatred
of its oppressors. Swear that the day
shall come, if these expressions continue,
when the Susquehanna and Ohio shall
be like rivers of fire, as they are now
rivers of blood, between your native land
and that of the Northern Huns, which
no man shall attempt to cross, and live,
For us, the sunset of life has come, and
the days that remain to Us are few and
full of trouble. For you the golden
giories of life's sunrise light up the
splendors of the dawn. Yours are the
bright hopes of early manhood; ours the
doubts and fears that cloud the closing
days of life,. To your banda we COM
NIT the destinies of your States. We
make you the guardians of her honor.
Among you there will be no purchaser
bic renegades. Receive the sacred trust;
and remember that the duties of life are
more -tAaa Life and that it is not all of
life to live.


Mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, Of
the men of Tennessee and Mississippi,
cannot speak to YOU. No angel has
touched my lips with the burning Goals
from the altar of the sacrifices. l leave
to others the fine phrases and the
empty compliments that you would
not value What you have done in the
past is sufficient guarantee Of your hero
ism and devotion in the future. You
have more than rivalled, you have ex
celled, the women Of ZaragOza and Gero
ma, and the Hebrew matrons and maidens
who helped defend the Holy City of
Jerusalem against the legions of Nespa
sian. You will also do your duty in the
days, dark or bright, that are to come.
You will teach those that love you, tdei
ity to principle among all temptations,
to prefer honor to prosperity and the
dangerous truth to the safe and profit
able falsehood eonstancy and courage
and the manly and hopeful endurance
that befit man.


lou are the conquerOrs who take all
men captive, and whose silken fetters,
stronger than tempered steel, we are
glad and proud to wear. Into our souls
your eyes shine like stars. and we bow
down and worship, and in love find new
strength to undertake great enterprises
or endure great calamities. o flowers
brought to us by the Angels from the
gardens of Paradise, you bloom here to
bless, to encourage and to console. We
are all your willing slaves. Age gives
no exemption from that service for in
the sad and sober autumn Of our days
we still covet the loving smile and the /
loving look that can be ours no more.


The sober autumn of our days For |
you, dear girls, the violets and roses;
for US the leaves redeemed by the frost (
and soon to fall. For you the bright /
and glad anticipation of the Future, the
dreams that make youths happiness
for US the memories of the Past, of Joys /
and SORROWS intermingled, of the hopes
and loves and bitter disappointments
and cruel losses, of the days that are no
more.


Our country also, our own dear South
land that you love so well, has Its men,
Ories of the Past, of glad, bright Dawn
and a morning full of promise, that
darkened into day full of gloom and
terror and diaster Out of that dark
ness the faces Of our dead look sadly
and pityingly and lovingly upon US
They have not died in vain The land
they died for shall yet reap the fruit of
the great sacrifee. Our country also
has its hopes that are not delusive, for
the Future. To it the sober autumn
days have not come, nor even those of
lfe's summer. For it the rosy days of
spring have not departed, though the
iinnlorteiles planted by angels bloom on
many graves.


Every dark night hath its morning.


Long, though, Oft, delayed its dawning:


Waitl be patient Pray for Dixie.