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Patrick Ronayne Cleburne (1828-1864)
"I am with the South in death, in victory or defeat. I never owned a Negro and care nothing for them, but these people have been my friends and have stood up to me on all occasions.
In addition to this, I believe the North is about to wage a brutal and unholy war on a people who have done them no wrong, in violation of the constitution and the fundamental principles of the government. They no longer acknowledge that all government derives its validity from the consent of the governed."
"If this cause that is so dear to my heart is doomed to fail, then I pray heaven may let me fall with it, while my face is turned toward the enemy and my right arm battling for that which I know to be right."
Charge to the Sons of Confederate Veterans
"To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will commit the vindication of the cause for which we fought. To your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate soldier's good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles which he loved and which you love also, and those ideals which made him glorious and which you also cherish."
Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General,
United Confederate Veterans,
New Orleans, Louisiana, April 25, 1906.
On the history of war...
Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.
~Mark Twain
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By admin | November 25, 2009
Happy Thanksgiving from The Arkansas Toothpick! While searching for a relevant subject to post on this Thanksgiving season, the Toothpick staff ran across an 1826 article from the Arkansas newspaper. Arkansas was still a territory (10 years prior to statehood). This was no regular article, but rather a poem about our patriots. We could not think of a better piece to to share with the world during this time of giving thanks than the following poem, as we should all give thanks to our patriots, our veterans, our heroes that have made America great:
The Patriot’s Grave
The flowerets are fair, where the ash and the oak
Have twisted their roots in the rifts of the rock;
The flowerets are fair where the mountains are high,
And fair, where the valley is far from the sky;
But, birth to no blossom the earth ever gave,
So far as the flower on the patriot’s grave.
If far by the shore, or the wilds or the shade,
The patriot’s relics be silently laid;
The spirits that moan the wild regions of air,
Heaven’s honey shall gather and scatter there;
The primrose shall bloom and the violet wave
Oh no flower, like that on the patriot’s grave.
And there shall the bard wake his anthem sublime,
And sweet as the hymns in the childhood of time,
Shall tell of the coarse all so brilliantly run,
Of the freeman subdued, and the liberty won;
And the fair maids shall say, and the tale of the brave,
Oh, no flower’s like the flower on the patriot’s grave.
It blooms on the breast whick was tender, yet bold,
To freedom aye true, and to love never cold;
It blooms on the bosom, that dauntless the while
Stood forth the warm guardian of the children and isle;
Whose power could repel, and whose influence save;
Oh, no flower’s like the flower on the patriot’s grave.
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