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Show The Rebel Yell. "I thank God that white-winged peace now broods over the land. I came here to preach the peace and not war ; to carry as my standard the stars and stripes, and not the bloody shirt. I thank God that the question of secession has been forever for-ever settled, and that now at last every star in our glorious old flag has a meaning. mean-ing. I thank God that no-' vestige of carpet-baggism or scalawag government remains to vex the people." Fitzhugh Lee, at Winchester, Va. |