| Show A UNITED NATION it would have been very difficult to find a lingering remnant of our civil conflict possessed of sufficient distinctness to be observed even before the war notes of the present struggle re sounded throughout the land when these the se began to wake the echoes and banish from the people any condition of lethargy which may previously have existed there was no remnant however faint or tenuous left of the fratricidal strife As when the tide of ocean makes its majestic swell out upon the beach then up against the heights and of the mainland sweeping along all movable things and obscuring all others that it passes over so did the quiet but lm im uprising of this powerful re publican empire overcome and obliterate all trace of the sectional lines which once were so prominent aft A if by the manumitting manu wand of some mighty conjurer the issues and divisions out of which arose domestic discord were swept aside and harmony union determination took their place the state lines remain and separate governments are maintained just as in a large but united family individuality in all ail respects is preserved but there is no longer any pulling apart any dissension or other reminder ot of what is past than what is found in libraries there is now no north be cause it embraces the south no fast east because it reaches out to and contains the west it to Is all one and the same thing the integers constituting a harmonious magnificent whole whom does the reader suppose was the first major general to be sworn in to service by reason of the uon tion of the army none other than he whose sobriquet of fighting joe ham had made as well known sue as though the family faintly name of wheeler were added to it the te political establishment which once had bad temporary existence on this soil goll under the name of the southern Coni confederacy had done precisely the thing henr which the government of the united states did yesterday in the former capacity he was one of the most moot dashing during daring and adroit of all the men inen on horseback of a region which produced and produces such men in great multitudes and under the stars and stripes it is not to be expected that his bis bravery will abate one jot or his energy one tittle although more than thirty three years have passed since gince he occupied a saddle as a hostile factor in a belligerent cause some men never do become old but wear the outward expression of a soul supernal and changeless until the mech aniam runs down and the long night succeeds the cloudless day so it Is with wheeler and it is a fair pre gumption that in all the broad land none Is in more gratified than he that time and circumstance have brought to him the opportunity to be enrolled as a champion of union at home and honorable peace abroad it may safely be predicted that the man will be found abreast of the occasion atall at all times that he will well and truly magnify his calling all that is herein said of wheeler is equally true of the one who was next worn sworn in as a major general fitzhugh lee he Is so well known throughout the ithe land Is so thoroughly respected and so altogether popular that it is useless to enlarge upon his merits he is one of the modern chevaliers chev che aliers valters without fear and without reproach equally at home in the drawing room or on the field of battle the southern people will be 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 unstinted fealty to the flag and the nation major general lee IT S A has a sound and an n appearance that are significantly rhythmic before the present outbreak it was the prediction of some of the spanish newspapers backed no doubt by hope on the part of those who made it as well as a great number of the people of that country that the southern states would now find the opportunity to accomplish what they could not during the four years ending in 1865 and that finding such an opportunity would embrace it that hope had but a poor foundation to begin with it was made of the stuff that dreams axe are made of and has been dissipated in the same way that dreams depart by physical awakening all the southern quotas are filled with ten times as many more men ready and willing to go to the front at their count rys command the brig brigadiers adlers are again in the saddle but it bodes no good for spain that they are the confederacy Is about to arise yes it has already arisen but not in its fullness the men who live in that part of our land which lies south of an imaginary line bearing the name of mason dixon are in armb or prepared to be to a man and ready and willing to keep as precise and advancing step to the grand glorious music of war 11 as any people in ancient or modern times that ever took up arms in defense of their own kind and under the flag of freedom of the united states joined with the flag of liberty in cuba they will drive the despoilers desp and oppressors of that land into the sea |
