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Show THE MAN BEHIND THE WALL. B Thoro has boon a groat deal of Gettysburg jl talk in tho papers recently, and our frionds, the lato enemy, haven't got any tho worst of it in tho H printed colunjn. I fancy those old fellows bo- H low tho Mason and Dixon lino are filling their H scrap books with clippings complimentary to the H heroes of the Lost Cause. Northern writers have ' H made northern readers thrill at the story .of H Pickett's charge, and wo know moro of the fact- H ors that wont to tho making up of Leo's plan of ,1 campaign than Jeff Davis ever dreamed of. H And that is all right. But thoro is another H side of that story that should not be lost sight H of. The big thing thoso throo days tho big H American quality was born and bred and it cer- H tainly lived in the men behind tho stono wall H against which tho confederates chargod so gal- J lantly. And bocauso t. "o big qualities inspired H them, bocauso by their nature thoy couldn't do M anything else than hold their ground and win tho M battle bocauso of that all of us this day are fl lrionus. we are unuer ono nag, in ono nation. m And above tho common graves of tho Blue and M the Gray rides triumphant tho Spirit of Peace. H Because tho men behind the wall were of that H sort, ovory man, woman and child, .north and M south, is better off today. Bocauso thoso soldiers M fought so woll that thoy boat tho best attack M that ovor was made, tho everlasting truth still m livos that a government of tho people, by tho M peoplo and for tho poople shall not perish from M the earth. M It was bono of thoir bono and flosh of thoir M flesh, that God had planted in this nation, and H that ho wantod to stay. IIo had looked upon it, M and had called it good and tho ovoning and tho H morning wore an ovorlasting day. M Tho charge was heroic, but tho checking of M it was sublime. Tho men in gray woro honost, M but tho boys in blue were right. And it is bo- ! cause of tho character of tho mon behind tho M wall that all froomon ovorywhoro can open their H hoarts to tho brotherhood of American citizen- Hf ship in ovnry section of this land. M Tho week at Gettysburg was moro than a M reunion. It was creation's crown of approval jH on tho army that won. H |