. A personal history of Ulysses S. Grant, and sketch of Schuyler Colfax. toward its late foes, who so mis-takenly but so devotedly poured out their blood. Let us have peace ! The Blue and the Gray slumberside by side, under the pines and cypresses, the live oaks andmagnolias. The same flowers mantle their dreamless beds,the same birds twitter above them, the same waters rippleat their feet. Hark to the message, borne by the murmuringwind, from those untroubled sleepers to us—warring Union-ists, and confederates no longer, but Americans all, withone flag, one country, and one destiny! It counse
. A personal history of Ulysses S. Grant, and sketch of Schuyler Colfax. toward its late foes, who so mis-takenly but so devotedly poured out their blood. Let us have peace ! The Blue and the Gray slumberside by side, under the pines and cypresses, the live oaks andmagnolias. The same flowers mantle their dreamless beds,the same birds twitter above them, the same waters rippleat their feet. Hark to the message, borne by the murmuringwind, from those untroubled sleepers to us—warring Union-ists, and confederates no longer, but Americans all, withone flag, one country, and one destiny! It counsels thevictors to the largest forbearance; the vanquished to honestacquiescence in the only finality — equal and impartialjustice to all. So shall the blackened track of war smileagain with the fruitful olive and the cheering vine. Soshall the new America fulfill the hope, Whose dawning day, in every distant age,TIas exercised the sacred prophets rage;The peoples prayer, the glad diviners theme,The young mans vision and the old mans dream. ARY, and ? £nj L-tohie
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