. The South : a tour of its battlefields and ruined cities, a journey through the desolated states, and talks with the people: being a decription of the present state of the country - its agriculture - railroads -business and . ike. Nodoubt this is true; if not, then life is a mockery, and hope alie. But the future, Avith all our faith, is vague and uncer-tain. It lies before us like one of those unidentified heroes,hidden from sight, deep-buried, mysterious, its headstone let-tered UnknoAvn. Will it ever rise? Through trouble,toils, and privations, — not insensible to danger, but b
. The South : a tour of its battlefields and ruined cities, a journey through the desolated states, and talks with the people: being a decription of the present state of the country - its agriculture - railroads -business and . ike. Nodoubt this is true; if not, then life is a mockery, and hope alie. But the future, Avith all our faith, is vague and uncer-tain. It lies before us like one of those unidentified heroes,hidden from sight, deep-buried, mysterious, its headstone let-tered UnknoAvn. Will it ever rise? Through trouble,toils, and privations, — not insensible to danger, but braAing it, — these men — and not these only, but the uncounted thou-sands represented by these — confronted, for their countryssake, that awful uncertainty. Did they believe in your betterworld ? ^Whether they did or not, this world was a reality,and dear to them. I looked into one of the trenches, in which workmen werelaying foundations for the headstones, and saw the ends of thecoflfins protruding. It was silent and dark down there. Sideby side the soldiers slept, as side by side they fought. Ichose out one coffin from among the rest, and thought of himwhose dust it contained, — your brother and mine, although ■•vv.
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