. Sponsor souvenir album : history & reunion (1895) . he South, but northof the Potomac and the Ohio. They were the men who denounced the constitu-tion of our fathers as a league with death and a covenant with hell, and who vSPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 43- fought to overthrow the great principles of constitutional freedom, for whichJefferson Davis and Robert Lee drew their stainless swords. And since we furled our glorious battle flags, parked our blackened guns(nearly all of them wrested from the enemy in battle), stacked our brightmuskets and gave our paroles, there have been no more law-abiding
. Sponsor souvenir album : history & reunion (1895) . he South, but northof the Potomac and the Ohio. They were the men who denounced the constitu-tion of our fathers as a league with death and a covenant with hell, and who vSPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 43- fought to overthrow the great principles of constitutional freedom, for whichJefferson Davis and Robert Lee drew their stainless swords. And since we furled our glorious battle flags, parked our blackened guns(nearly all of them wrested from the enemy in battle), stacked our brightmuskets and gave our paroles, there have been no more law-abiding, peacable,better citizens of the states and of the United States on this continent thanthese old Confederate soldiers. Our honored commander—the gallant, chivalric Gordon, one of Leestrusted Paladins—but voiced the sentiment of the people of our Southland whenhe stood up on the floor of the senate and pledged us to stand by the govern-ment in suppressing rebellion at Chicago. And when our lame lion, the peerless orator. Senator John W. Daniel,.. j. wjxuam JONKS. of Virginia, offered his resolutions endorsing the president in enforcing thelaw, he but echoed the sentiments of his Confederate comrades. Yes, we are all loyal citizens of these United States, ready to unite with ourbrethren of every section to make our common country the grandest, the freest,the most prosperous that the sun shines upon. Old Glory! Why should wenot march under its folds and glory in its lustre? It was designed from thecoat of arms of our Washington. The Star-Spangled Banner was written bya Southern man, when Southern troops had just won a glorious victory onSouthern soil. Our Taylor, our Scott, our Jefferson Davis, our J. E. Johnston,our Robert Edward Lee, our Magruder, our Albert Sidney Johnston, our Stone-wall Jackson, our Beauregard, and others of that brilliant galaxy of Southernofficers bore it on the most glorious fields of Mexico and planted it on the wallsof the Montezumas. 44 SPONSOR SOU
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