Show A UNITED NATION I It would have been very difficult to find II lingering remnant Of our civil conflict possessed of sufllctent distinct Argon to be observed even before the war notem of the present struggle reo rounded throughout the land When there begun to wake the echoes and banish from the people any condition of lethargy which may previously have extsted there was no remnant however faint or tenuous In of the fratricidal strife As when the tide of ocean Makes Its majestic swell out upon the beach then up against the < ielfihta and promliwnces of the mainland main-land sweeping along all movable things and obscuring nil others thai It I pastes over so did the qulel but Im pulslve uprising of this powerful re Iubllen empire overcome And obl it orate or-ate all trace of the sectional line hlh one were so prominent AIr A-Ir by the manumitting wand of some mighty conjurer the JFeues and dlvl Ions out of N lhlch arose domestic olls cord were swept aside atilt harmony union determination took their place The state lines remain and separate governments are malnlalne just no tie a large but united family IndividualIty Individual-Ity In1I respects Is I preserved but there Is I no longer any pulling apart any dissension or other reminder at what Is past than what Is found In libraries There Is now no North because be-cause It embraces the South no East because It reaches out to And contains the West It Is all one and the same thing the Integers constituting a harmonious mgnIOnt Allole Whom doe the reader suppose wall the first major general 10 be aworn Into In-to service by reason of the rorogDI tlon of the ormlt None other than 10 whose sobriquet of Fighting Joe ban made as well known as though the fmlly nom of Wheeler were added to It The political establlshmenl which once had temporary existence on this soil under the name of the Southern Confederacy had done precisely 1 the thing hlch the government nf the United States did osterday In the former capacity he was ono of the most dashing daring and adroit of nil the men on horseback of a region which produced and produces such mn In real multitudes and under the Stars and Stripes It Is f not to be expected hat his bravery will abate one jot or his energy one tittle although more lion thlrtthree years have passed since he occupied a saddle as a hostile factor In a belligerent cause Some mn never do Iwcome cold hut wear the outward exprcssioll i 01 a soul aupr n1 and changeless until the mcch salient runs down and ho long night jccoeds the cloudlena day So It la I with Wheeler and It Is I a fair presumption pre-sumption that In all the broad land none > Is I more gratified than he eirct2sta hat time And rcllmltnee have brought to him the opnortunl I y to be enrolled as a champion of union at hom and honorable peace abroad It may safely be predicted thai the man will be found abreast of the ccaslon at all times that he will well and truly magnify his calling All thai Is I herein slid I of Wheeler Is I equally true of the one who was next worn In as a mnjorgeneral ritxliugh 100 II a I a 0 well kno A Ihroughout On t he land Is I to thoroughly respected And no altogether popular that It Is oelesi to enlarge upon his merits He I s one of the modern chevaliers without ear and without reproach equally at home In the drawing room or on thip 11 eld of battle The Southern People will bo none the less but rather If Possible more proud of him because he no longer belongs exclusively to them but like them gives full and un Printed fealty to the nag and the na Ion MajorCieneral Let U B A ties a ound And IIn alIean1l1 < O thaI re a Quit significantly rhythmic Before the present outbreak It was the prediction of Rom > f the Spanish newspapers news-papers backed no doubt by hope on 1M purl of those who made It as welt ns a great number of the people of that Country thai the Southern States woul now find the opportunity to accom pllih what they could not during I the four years ending In Iftu > and that finding such nn oiportunlty would embrace em-brace It That hope had but a poor feiundltlon to begin with It was mad of the stuff that dreams are made of and has been dissipated In the some way that dreams departby Physical awakenIng awak-enIng All the Southern quotas are tilled with ten times as many mot men ready and willing to go to the front at their rountr s command The brigadiers are again In the saddle but It bodes no good for Spain that they are The Confederacy Is about to a nooy It has already arisen but lot In Its fullness The men who live In that part of our land which lies outh of an Imaginary line bearing the time of Moran As Dixon are In arm gr prepared to be to a man and read And willing to Keep 1 as precise find nd venting step to the grand glorious Music of war as any people In ancient or modern times that ever took up Forms In drne of their own kind and I nder the Hag of freedom of the United Unit-ed Mates Joined with the Hag of liberty In Cuba they will drive the despoilers And opleoa of that land Into the sea |