ner that waved above them there, with its broad folds unrent, and its bright stars unobscured; and in its defense, if needs be, the swords of those old Confederates, so recently sheathed, would leap forth with equal alacrity with those of the North. No nobler emotion can fill the breast of any man than that which prompts him to utter honest praise of an adversary whose convictions and opinions are at war with his own; and where is there a Confederate soldier in our land who has not felt a thrill of generous admiration and applause for the pre-eminent heroism of the gallant Federal admiral, who lashed himself to the mainmast, while the tattered sails and frayed cordage of his vessel were being shot away by piecemeal, above his head, and slowly but surely picked his way through sunken reefs of torpedoes, whose destructive powers consigned many of his luckless comrades to watery graves? The fame of such men as Farragut, Stanley, Hood, and Lee, and the hundreds of private soldiers who were the true heroes of the war, belongs to no time or section, but is the common property of mankind. They were all cast in the same grand mold of self-sacrificing patriotism, and I intend to teach my children to revere their names as long as the love of country is respected as a noble sentiment in the human breast. It is a remarkable fact that those who bore the brunt of the battle were the first to forget old animosities and consign to oblivion obsolete issues. They saw that nothing but sorrow and shame, and the loss of the respect of the world, was to be gained by perpetuating the bitterness of past strife; and, impelled by a spirit of patriotism, they were willing, by all possible methods, to create and give utterance to a public sentiment which would best conserve our common institutions and restore that fraternal concord in which the war of the Revolution left us, and the Federal Constitution found us. And I emphasize the declaration that, in most instances, those whose hatred has remained implacable, through all these years of peace, are men who held high carnival in the rear, and, after all danger had passed, emerged from their hidingplaces, filled with ferocious zeal and courage, blind to every principle of wise statesmanship, to make amends for lack of deeds of valor by pressing to their lips the sweet cup of revenge, for whose intoxicating contents our country has already paid a price that would have purchased the goblet of the Egyptian queen. ONE BENEATH OLD GLORY ANONYMOUS Don't you hear the tramp of soldiers? Don't you feel the ground all trembling 'Neath the tread of many feet? They are coming, tens of thousands, They are Yankees, they are Johnnies, They're for North and South no more; They are one, and glad to follow When Old Glory goes before. From Atlantic to Pacific, From the Pine Tree to Lone Star, They are gath'ring 'round Old Glory, Don't you see the harbors guarded They are Yankees, they are Johnnies, They're for North and South no more; They are one, and glad to follow When Old Glory goes before. From Atlantic to Pacific, From the Pine Tree to Lone Star, They have gathered 'round Old Glory, And they're sailing to the war. Don't you hear the horses prancing? Don't you smell the smoke of battle? There'll be Yankees, there'll be Johnnies, From the Pine Tree to Lone Star, AMERICA SURVIVES THE ORDEAL OF CONFLICTING SYSTEMS BY HENRY B. CARRINGTON On the fourth of July, 1888, the battlefield of Gettysburg was made memorial of the prediction uttered by President Lincoln at its dedication as a national cemetery in 1864, that "The nation shall, under God, have a new birth of power"; and that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” The contest of 1861-65 removed from the national life that serious element of danger which the fathers left for their posterity to settle. The rights of all sections rested upon one charter. The moral law of abstract right did not harmonize with the possessory rights of a well-accepted legal status, and only a charity and wisdom more than human could bring a full accord without the crucial test of arms. The more powerful North bent its vast energies of numbers and wealth to preserve the Union of the States. The South, inferior in numbers and resources, affirmed with equal spirit its right of withdrawal, unless the legal tolerations of the Constitution should have their fullest effect. The issue joined, satisfied all interests, after marvelous sacrifice; and the Union is clothed with fresh strength and more permanent beauty. Already a sense of relief from the estrangement of brethren which harassed the original colonies, and worried the nation to the verge of ruin, inspires poets and orators with enlarged faith in the national future. Already the republic, purified by fire and by blood, looks backward, to honor with fresh enthusiasm each recurring anniversary of the nation's birth, and then, in the glory of a second birth, turns forward, to concentrate its vision as through the perspective glass of Bunyan, upon the development of an "indestructible Union of indestructible States." The ordeal of arms came to an end! The lingering ordeal of cooling passion has entered upon a fraternal solution. Impartial history softens the hardness of old-time antagonisms, and magnifies the patriotism of a people which can conquer self to bless the many. Mr. Curtis, the orator of Gettysburg, only voiced the sentiment of all "good-willing men on earth" as he said, “If there be joy in heaven this day, it is in the heart of Abraham Lincoln as he looks down upon the |