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VOLUME 12, NUMBER 51
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Old Glory
Old Glory! Say who
By tho ships, and tho crew
And tho long, blended mnks of tho
Grey and tho Blue
Who gave you, Old Glory, tho name
that you bear
With such pride everywhere,
As you cast yourself free to the rap
turous air,
And leap out full length, as we'ro
wanting you to?
Who gave you that name, with tho
ring of the same,
And the- honor and fame so becoming
to you
Your stripes stroked in ripples of
White and of Red,
With your stars at their glittering
best overload,
By day or by night
Their delightful light,
Laughing down from their little
square heaven of blue
Who gave you the name of Old
Glory? Say who?
Who gave you the name of Old
Glory?
The old banner lifted, and faltering
then
In vague lisps and whispers fell silent
again.
Old Glory, speak out! We are asking
about
How you happened to ' "favor" a
' name, so to say,
That sounds so familiar and careless
and gay,
As we cheer it and shout in otr wild,
breezy way
We, the crowd, every man of us, call
ing you
We, Tom, Dick and Harry, each
swinging his hat,
And hurrahing "Old Glory!" like
uR-"f- you wero our king,
A When, Lord, we all know, we're as
common as sin;
And yet it seems like you humor
us all,
And waft us your thanks, as we hail
you, and fall
Into line, with you over us, waving
us on
Where our gloried, sanctified betters
have gone..
And this is the reason we're want
. ing to know
(And we're wanting it so!
Where our own fathers went we are
willing to go.)
Who gave you tho
Glory? Oho
Who gave you the
Glory?
name of Old
name of Old
The old flag unfurled with a billowy
thrill
For an instant; then wistfully sighed
and was still.
Old Glory, tho story we're wanting
to hear
Is what tho plain facts of your
christening were;
For your name, just to hear it,
Repeat it, and cheer it, is a tang to
the spirit,
As salt as a tear;
And seeing you fly, and the boys
marching by,
There's a shout in tho throat and a
blur in the eye,
And an aching to live for you always
or die;
If, dying, we still keep you waving
on high,
And so, by our love
For you, floating above,
And the scars of all wars and the
sorrows thereof,
Who gave you the name of Old Glory,
and why
Are we thrilled at the name of Old
Glory?
Then the old banner leaped like a
sail in the blast,
And fluttered an audible answer at
last,
And it spake, with a shake 'of the
voice, and it said:
By the driven snow white and the
living blood red
Of my bars. Lnd their heaven of
stars overhead;
By tho svmbol conjoined of them all,
skyward cast,
As I float from the steeple, or flap at
tho mast,
Or droop o'er the sod where the long
grasses nod;
My name is as old as the glory of
God.
So I came by the name of Old Glory.
James Whitcomb Riley.
were destroyed, so that this latest
shock comes less severely. In Balti
more, where tho negro was anything
but a curiosity, fifteen yeaTs after
the war I was told by more than one
black man that he would be mighty
glad to have his old master back;
he never used to worry about his
food and clothes. But always the
masters were white men.
The fact that negroes were placed
in poverty by the act that made free
all other negroes in the land is a
chapter in American history only re
cently obtained with difficulty by
Calvin Dill Wilson. The facts were
gathered for the Carnegie institu
tion of Washington from documents
in courthouses, historical societies
and libraries, and appear in a recent
issue of the Popular Science Monthly.
Ancient history shows people were
placed in bondage frequently with
out regard to color or previous con
dition; in fact at one period in hu
man progress being made a slave was
evidence of kindness on the part of
your captor, whose natural inclina
tion was to kill and possibly eat
you. Without going into the sub
ject, which might readily lead to
great length, it may be recalled that
in Greece free parents sold their
children into slavery, and that per
sons hopelessly in debt sold them
selves to their creditors. If there
were any justice at any time in the
custom or privilege the negro With
equal rights in America has as much
right as another to hold slaves, par
ticularly negro slaves.
son Jacob was free. Aided by his
mother, young Jacob managed to
purchase his father at a reasonable
price. Later the old man had
occasion to reprove the youth, and
the latter, disgruntled, went to a
negro speculator, who bought the old
man at a high price and shipped him
to a distance. Young Jacob boasted
the old man had been sent to the
corn fields near New Orleans, where
he might learn some manners.
John Carruthers Stanley, a negro
born in 1772 in Craven county, North
Carolina, was emancipated in 1808
by the legislature of the state upon
petition of his mistress, Mrs. Lydia
Stewart, whose husband was dead.
Stanley advanced rapidly in proper
ty, according to his information,
until ho was the owner of sixty-four
slaves and forty-two other negroes
were bound to him by law for ser
vice. - Dilsey Pope owned a house and
lot in Columbus, Ga., was her own
mistress and also enjoyed the luxury
of a husband, whom (thrifty soul)
she hired out. He offended her and
she exercised her right of owner
ship, selling him to a Colonel Sea
born Jones. Dilsey Pope recon
sidered and pleaded with the colonel
to reconsider. She wanted to buy
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Before slavery was abolished in
tho United States 18,000 slaves had
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number compared to a total of 2,-
000,000, but it is startling to. those
of us who were saturated in our
youth with tho idea that all owners
and masters of slaves were of tho
kind pictured in Mrs. Stowe's "Uncle
Tom's Cabin." When the head of
our house returned in a faded blue
uniform after a year spent in a hos
pital in Frederick, Md., ho was
credited wit;h having put down the
rebellion and with having given
liberty to the negro, who must, be
regarded as a brother. In our town
the only negro was John Smith, the
baTber, and he was only about one
quarter negro; but it seemed to me
at that time I should have been
happy to have 'had so much fuss over
me as was being made in the north
over all the black men. Later some
of the romantic conclusions of youth
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With slavery as a part of our
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