Show UNITY OF NATION PROVED great southerner long ago pointed out how complete has seen been its restoration ri from aront an address delivered by kenry watterson Watt ergon at the Wati national orial cemetery nashville tenn decoration day 1877 we are assembled my countrymen to commemorate tho the patriotism and valor of the bravo brave men who died to save the union tile tha season brings its to tribute to tho the scene pays its homage to th jo dead inspires tho the living there aro arc images of 0 tranquillity all about us in tho the calm sunshine upon the ridges in the tender shadows that creep alone along the streams in the waving grass and grain that mark gods lovo and bounty in the flowers that bloom over the many graves there la Is peace everywhere in this land to day peace on the ilia open in all our fitere si aheU tere ered d abaya bays and ample streams peace where er our starry banner gl gleams earns and h rid peace in every breeze the war Is over it Is for us to bury its passions with its dead to bury them beneath a monument raised by the american people to american manhood and tho the american system in order that the nation shall under god have a now birth of freedom and that govern government men of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth I 1 the union Is indeed restored when the hands that pulled down that flag come and lovingly to put it up again I 1 come with a full heart and a steady hand band to salute the flag that floats above me ray my flag and your flah flag the flag of the free hearts hope hopa and home the star ap angled banner of our fa fathera theris the be flag that uplifted triumphantly over a few brave roen men has never been obscured destined by the led god of the universe to watt on its ita ample folds the eternal song of freedom to all mankind emblem of the power on earth ear th which la Is destined to exceed that on which it was said that tile the sun never went down |