Presidents, soldiers, a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence . shriek of the burst-ing she I 1 he broken fetters fall. These heroes died. We look. In-stead of slaves we see men and women and children. The wand ofprogress touches the auction block,the slave pen, the whipping post, andwe see bouses and firesides, school houses and books, and where all waswant and crime and cruelty and fetters, we see the faces of the heroes are dead. They died for libertv ; thev died for are at rest. The
Presidents, soldiers, a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence . shriek of the burst-ing she I 1 he broken fetters fall. These heroes died. We look. In-stead of slaves we see men and women and children. The wand ofprogress touches the auction block,the slave pen, the whipping post, andwe see bouses and firesides, school houses and books, and where all waswant and crime and cruelty and fetters, we see the faces of the heroes are dead. They died for libertv ; thev died for are at rest. They sleep in the land thev made free, under thelag they rendered stainless, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks,the tearful willows and the embracing vines. Thev sleep beneath theshadows of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine or of storms, each inthe window less palace tor rest. Earth may run red with wars—theyare at peace, in the midst of batttle, in the roar of conflict theyouml the .serenity of death. I have one sentiment for the soldiersliving and dead—cheers for the living and tears for the dead. PRESIDENTS, SOLDlEliS, sf: fmW^ ;V:^¥V ??? ••*, THE CANINE SOLDIER JACK. The above is a very life-like illustration of Jack. At tlthe rebellion he was the property of a Pittsburgh butcher,who c the outbreak of property or a JfittsDurgU Dutetier,wJiO on the firs! callfor troops enlisted in the 13th Pa. V. I., in April, 1SC1. At the espirati<tin; term the regiment re-enlisted for three years, and was designated the . was with the rt giment continuous; v Pa., Army of the Potomac. Ja< and was wounded four times. At the second battle of Fredericksl awounded and captured, hut was exchanged the same evening, a rel el elbeing released in lieu: of hirn. When the regiment vcteraned idid not re-enlist and endeavored to keep the dog at home, but when ;! •left for the front Jack was found at the head of tl e regiment. The 1 2d wasassigned to the 1st Br
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