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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.3 (search)
Mr. Dunlop was called on to respond to a toast to the cavalry, and spoke as follows: To horse, to horse; the sabres gleam, High sounds our bugle call; Combined by honor's sacred tie, Our watchword, laws and liberty! Forward! to do or die. Mr. Chairman and Fellow Comrades--The simple melody of our bugles when, in days of yore, they called us to mount, or sounded the advance, is heard anew in the sentiment just proposed and in our ears again ring their commands — set to the notes of Scotland's chief minstrel — breathed from the magic touch of the Wizard of the North. And so the events of those times, that tried men's souls, the homely detail of the soldier's daily life — no less than the splendid achievement of peril's darkest hour --shall furnish material for the solemn, stately muse of history and thrilling theme for story and for song. The sentiment, sir, is an epitome of our struggle, and by a single happy touch delineates the instinct of the citizen soldiery of the S<
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Confederate flag. (search)
t was used by the Roman Emperors upon their coins and seals; and constituted the sole image upon the great seals of the sovereigns of England, with the single exception of Henry VI, from the time of William the Conquerer down to the sway of the House of Hanover. William and Mary appeared together on the seal, a cheval, thus introducing two horses. Cromwell discarded the horsemen from the seal of the commonwealth, but placed a representation of himself mounted on a charger upon the seal of Scotland. The Southern people are eminently an equestrian people. The horseman, therefore, is the best of all symbols to be placed upon their seal of state. But if by cavalier is meant any political character, anything more than a Southern gentleman on horseback, the device is objectionable as false to history, and as conveying ideas of caste. We were not all cavaliers and we have no patrician order. Far better were it to let the horseman be the well-known and revered image of George Washington