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 THE LIBRARY OF THE 
 
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 JOE ANDERSON CUNNINGHAM 
 
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 me for books. Joe A. Cunningham. 
 
 
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 
 
 There is a tradition that far back in the early 
 ages of Scotland one of its many little kings had 
 a special farmer friend whose given name was 
 " Ham." At one time a rebellion was in his realm, 
 and the king was about to be captured by his en- 
 emies ; so he made his way to the farm of his friend, 
 Ham, who at the time was piling his hay into hay- 
 cocks. Upon being told by the king the state of 
 affairs, Ham hid the king under one of his hay- 
 mows ; and when the pursuers came, he told them 
 that the king had. been there, but had disappeared. 
 They continued their pursuit in the direction they 
 had been going; and when they were fully out of 
 sight, Ham had his friend, the king, to come out 
 from under the hay and take his course in safety. 
 This cunning trick of 11 aw, becoming known, 
 caused him to be called "Cunning Ham" and in 
 course of time his family were all called " Cunning- 
 hams." 
 
 Such is the traditional origin of the peculiar 
 name, " Cunningham." It is certainly a name 
 of Scotch origin. Allen Cunningham, of Scotland, 
 was a poet and an author at an early day. It 
 is also certain that a portion of the family settled in 
 Ireland at an early period. My great-grandfather 
 
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4 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 came from Ireland and settled in Virginia during 
 the first settlements of this country. My grand- 
 father, Samuel Cunningham, came west from Vir- 
 ginia, and settled on the Upper Cumberland River, 
 when that country was a wilderness, in what is 
 now Jackson County. He reared a large family, 
 most of whom were sons, and they all (except my 
 father, James G. Cunningham) went farther west, 
 and settled in Arkansas about the time I was born, 
 in 1843. They all prospered, and were iceU fixed 
 when the Civil War began. Uncle Davidson Cun- 
 ningham was a Confederate Congressman, while 
 Uncle Anderson Cunningham and Uncle William 
 Cunningham were Confederate officers under Gen- 
 eral Price. After the close of the war, my father 
 and a young man named " White " stopped and 
 spent the night with a wealthy farmer in one of the 
 best parts of Arkansas. The next morning the old 
 farmer allowed White to pay for staying overnight, 
 but refused to take anything from my father because 
 his name was " Cunningham." Upon inquiry, they 
 learned that Uncle William Cunningham and his 
 men had, during the latter portion of the war, de- 
 stroyed a company of thieving jayhawkers of the 
 Federal Army that had infested the neighborhood 
 of this old farmer. Of course he was delighted to 
 meet a brother of the man who had done the neigh- 
 borhood so much good. 
 
 My father having never left grand old Tennes- 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 5 
 
 see. I was, therefore, reared in the good old 
 county of Jackson, among the hills of the Upper 
 Cumberland country. My father was a successful 
 farmer, merchant, and stock trader; and I was 
 brought up to understand these things. I remem- 
 ber one incident, that happened when I was about 
 twelve or thirteen years old, that is worth relating: 
 My father and my only older brother, P. D. Cunning- 
 ham, both had to attend court. I was the only one 
 that could be left to run the store. My father did a 
 large crediting business, most heads of families at 
 that time having the benefits of credit. There was 
 an unreliable character in the neighborhood, who, 
 seeing my father and brother going to town, con- 
 ceived the idea of coming to our store to see if he 
 could not beat the little boy clerk out of something. 
 Well, he came, and reported that Mr. Philip Speavs 
 (one of my father's regular customers) had sent 
 him to get twenty-five dollars' worth of goods. I 
 asked him for his order to this effect. He said that 
 . Mr. Spears was not where he could write an order 
 at the time, but said for me to let him have the 
 goods, and it would be all right. I hesitated a long 
 time, but finally the man overpersuaded me. I sold 
 him the twenty-five dollars' worth of goods, and 
 
 charged them to Mr. Philip Spears, by Mr. , 
 
 through verbal order. After the man had beef* 
 gone about an hour, I got so uneasy that I went and 
 told my mother what 1 had done, and that I feared 
 
6 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 the man had misrepresented the matter. She 
 thought so, too ; so I at once closed the store, sad- 
 dled a horse, and went first to see Mr. Spears. 
 Finding that he had given no such verbal order, I 
 at once followed the man to his home, which was 
 many miles away, and informed him that he had got 
 the goods under false pretense, and that the debt 
 must be at once paid to me, or secured. He found 
 the little boy clerk so hot after him that he secured 
 the claim ; and I rode home late in the night, feel- 
 ing that my father could not scold me, and he did 
 not. I relate this incident to show a thing that is 
 characteristic of the Cunninghams in general. 
 They are a go-ahead people ; I never knew a lazy 
 Cunningham. There are many character qualities 
 that ?eem universally found among them. All are 
 natural mechanics, fearless, and brimful of energy; 
 hence, I think all are akin, and that there is possibly 
 some truth in the old Scotch tradition regarding 
 the origin of the family name. 
 
 In my father's family there were nine chil- 
 dren. I was the middle one — the hinge, so to 
 speak — of the family, having three sisters and 
 one brother older than myself, and one sister and 
 three brothers younger. When the war came, I 
 was at school at Bloomington, Putnam County, 
 and had finished a good education, except Latin 
 and Greek ; and, as I intended to be a preacher, I 
 expected to master these languages. But my 
 
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 brother P. D. Cunningham, went into the Twenty- 
 eighth Tennessee Confederate Infantry in 1861 ; 
 and although I was over four years younger than 
 he and quite a boy, I followed him into the army. 
 He became adjutant of the regiment, while I be- 
 came assistant commissary and general clerk at 
 headquarters. We were together at Fishing Creek 
 and at Shiloh. He finally became colonel of the 
 regiment, and was killed in the battle of Murfrees- 
 boro, on Friday evening. His remains were 
 brought home — to the old farm, on Jennings' Creek, 
 in Jackson County — by one of his men, Brison 
 Draper, and his burial took place on the old home- 
 stead. He was possibly the youngest colonel in 
 the Confederate Army, and was greatly beloved by 
 his men. My health failing, I was released from 
 the army after the battle of Shiloh. I afterwards 
 attached myself to the command of Colonel Ham- 
 ilton as a scout ; later he gave me authority to form 
 and equip a company of cavalry behind the Federal 
 lines of the Upper Cumberland. I was engaged in 
 this work when captured, in the fall of 1863. At 
 that time my company had been about half com- 
 pleted and officered, and we were in active service, 
 meeting and making raids against jayhawkers and 
 thieves. I made an effort to stop all raiding into 
 Kentucky from the Upper Cumberland counties for 
 purposes of plunder, and came near having a per- 
 sonal encounter with Captain Richardson, who was 
 
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 leading a band of straggling 1 Kentuckians engaged 
 largely in this kind of business. I told him that I 
 abandoned the attempt solely because I had not 
 sufficient force to carry out the design. His squad- 
 ron was afterwards commanded by the famous 
 Magruder. On November 19, 1863, I went home 
 with my brother-in-law, Capt. Nathan Walker, of 
 Colonel Hamilton's command. While there we 
 were surrounded at night by a company of Federal 
 cavalry on a raid in that country, and, after a ter- 
 rific little fight, we were overpowered, captured, 
 and sent to Camp Chase, O., where my brother-in- 
 law died of smallpox. I was sent from Camp 
 Chase, with Morgan's officers, to Fort Delaware, 
 where I was kept until the war closed. 
 
 In the month of June, 1865, I returned to Ten- 
 nessee, where I formed the acquaintance of the 
 sweet poetess, Miss Jennie Jones, of Buffalo, 
 and we were married in January, 1868. We first 
 lived at Gainesboro a short time, when financial 
 conditions caused me to buy my father-in-law's 
 farm, on Buffalo River, in Humphreys County. 
 After living on the farm for two years, I found that 
 my health was likely to break down ; so I went to 
 Nashville and began traveling commercially, and 
 have continued doing so ever since. I moved to 
 Louisville, Ky., where my wife became well and fa- 
 vorably known as " the sweet poetess of the Cou- 
 rier-Journal, Mrs. Jennie Jones Cunningham. " After 
 
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 having been confined to her bed for many years, 
 she died in January, 18QJ, and we laid her to rest 
 in Cave Hill Cemetery.' 1 am still on the road in a 
 commercial capacity, and am also writing and 
 preaching in the cause of truth generally, and es- 
 pecially for original Christianity. 
 I have given this sketch by request. 
 
 JOE A. CUNNINGHAM. 
 
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY. 
 
 Come, all the world, and hear our lay! 
 We'll sing about the Blue and Gray. 
 Xo braver men e'er trod the earth ; 
 No braver can be given birth. 
 Yes, come, old comrades of the Blue ! 
 We have kind words to say to you, 
 Though we were on the other side 
 In our great wrangle and divide. 
 Come, comrades of the warlike Gray, 
 And listen to the truth to-day 
 About our great internal war 
 That spread destruction near and far ! 
 Come, comrades of the North, as true 
 As ever warlike weapon drew ! 
 Come, comrades of the South, as bold 
 As ever drew a sword of old ! 
 We'll fraternize in peace to-day, 
 And give to love its rightful sway, 
 And grieve our mother States " fell out ' 
 And raised the fam'ly war cry, shout — 
 Yes, grieve we ever had a war, 
 With great destruction, near and far, 
 Between ourselves for four long years, 
 That must have caused a billion tears. 
 And 'twas to fix by act of might, 
 
12 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 Regardless of just what was right, 
 
 A thing that should, by legislation, 
 
 Have been adjusted by our nation — 
 
 A thing that Jefferson and Clay 
 
 Desired to settle in their day, 
 
 So that our grand old ship could move 
 
 Her onward course through waters smooth. 
 
 But all their plans, this end to gain, 
 
 Our leading men would not sustain, 
 
 And so they died; and many more 
 
 Like-minded men have gone before, 
 
 All seeing trouble for our nation, 
 
 If not removed by legislation, 
 
 Since traffic in mankind, as brutes, 
 
 Can bring no other kind of fruits 
 
 But evil — evil all the way, 
 
 From earthly time to judgment day. 
 
 O, what regret more men of pow'r 
 
 Did not at such an early hour 
 
 Perceive the breakers in the fore 
 
 And guide our ship more near the shore 
 
 Of safety, justice, peace, and right — 
 
 The shore of righteousness and light — 
 
 So that our war could not have come ! 
 
 Our States could all have been as one 
 
 United band — all bound together 
 
 By love of all, one for another ; 
 
 For we are all Americans, 
 
 Though Qfathered from all other clans 
 
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The Blue and the Gray. 13 
 
 Of white men round the grand old earth. 
 
 We love the land that gave us birth, 
 
 And all are truly loving brothers, 
 
 Though loyal to our grand old mothers, 
 
 The States from which we all came forth — 
 
 Some lying South, some lying North — 
 
 And all regret our States divided 
 
 And leading men on war decided. 
 
 So we were led to choose a side 
 
 In that great wrangle and divide 
 
 Our leading men forced on our nation, 
 
 In spite of all pacification ; 
 
 And we were caused, though good and true, 
 
 To don the Gray or don the Blue. 
 
 It was a thing of local sway 
 
 That made us dress in Blue or Gray 
 
 And march in bands to fight each other, 
 
 Sometimes a brother 'gainst a brother. 
 
 But now our States, all hand in hand, 
 
 Again as States united stand ; 
 
 And when our mother States unite, 
 
 And say, " Dear sons, no longer fight, 
 
 But be at peace with all our kin," 
 
 To not obey would be a sin. 
 
 Hence, soldiers all, we will obey, 
 
 And love and peace shall have full sway 
 
 O'er all old comrades, Gray and Blue; 
 
 And still we'll live to dare and do 
 
 Our best for all things that are right — 
 
14 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 Yes, live to be amidst the fight 
 To banish from our homes and lands, 
 To banish from our hearts and hands, 
 All things that tend to build up strife, 
 All things that mar the sweets of life, 
 All things that tend to draw apart, 
 All things that break a loving heart ; 
 No longer wave the bloody shirt, 
 No longer throw a lump of dirt, 
 No longer show an angry mind, 
 No longer speak a word unkind ; 
 But cast from us — away, away! — 
 All evil things that round us play. 
 Away with hate ! Away with strife ! 
 Away with ev'ry sin of life ! 
 Away with ev'ry lordly brag! 
 Away with ev'ry kind of nag ! 
 Away with all kinds of abuse! 
 Away with ev'ry poor excuse 
 To hold aloof from union true 
 Of Southern Gray and Northern Blue ! 
 And let us be a peaceful band, 
 As pilgrims to the heav'nly land, 
 Forgiving as we'd be forgiven, 
 So all may reach a home in heaven — 
 No longer Blue, no longer Gray, 
 But all in white at judgment day. 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 15 
 
 On Southern fields the Blue and Gray 
 
 Marched out in battle-formed array; 
 
 And host on host of noble forms 
 
 Were there destroyed by raging storms 
 
 Of war's destructive, fiery breath 
 
 Through thousand thousands arms of death. 
 
 For four long years we fought and bled, 
 
 And strewed the ground with blood-stained dead ; 
 
 In mixture lay the Blue and Gray, 
 
 Mementos of our dreadful frav — 
 
 Some killed by ball ; some torn by shell ; 
 
 Some pierced by steel before they fell ; 
 
 Some wounded badly, slowly dying; 
 
 Some wounded less, for water crying. 
 
 But still our cannons thundered louder ; 
 
 And still the cry, " More balls and powder ! ' 
 
 While fiery lines ablaze like hell 
 
 Swayed to and fro and clashed pellmell. 
 
 Sometimes the Blue would give away, 
 
 Sometimes it was the fiery Gray; 
 
 But whether one or whether other. 
 
 They formed again when under cover ; 
 
 And then the fight would start anew 
 
 Between the warlike Gray and Blue. 
 
 Sometimes the Gray would give a yell 
 
 And charge the Blue like fiends of hell ; 
 
 And like a great gun's fiery breath, 
 
 They sowed their pathway well with death. 
 
 But still somewhere the Blue would form 
 
16 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 On vantage ground and breast the storm ; 
 And on and on, with charge and shout, 
 The Blue and Gray were both worn out 
 On many a well-contested field, 
 And neither side was made to yield ; 
 But one or other moved away, 
 To get more ready for the fray. 
 Such was the fighting, comrades true, 
 Of all old soldiers, Gray and Blue. 
 So let the laurel wreaths abide 
 In equal numbers to each side; 
 And if each soldier of the Blue 
 Be crowned and wreathed as good and true } 
 Each soldier of the fiery Gray 
 Will have two wreaths to give away, 
 For Gray had one where Blue had three ; 
 Blue won by numbers, then, you see. 
 So when the Blue are heard to say, 
 " We whipped you, Southern fiery Gray," 
 The Gray may say : " O, no, brave Blue ! 
 We were worn out by whipping you." 
 But, comrades all, both sides were bold 
 As soldiers great in days of old ; 
 And Uncle Sam has learned since then 
 To use his Southern fiery men, 
 In deeds of valor, great and true, 
 As well as heroes of the Blue — 
 All fighters at the sunny South, 
 All fighters at the frozen North, 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 17 
 
 All heroes of a common land ! 
 
 All now at Uncle Sam's command. 
 
 And here to-day we meet again 
 
 And sorrow o'er our brothers slain, 
 
 And here in peace confession make : 
 
 Our war was one immense mistake, 
 
 That might with ease have been prevented, 
 
 Had leaders been with right contented ; 
 
 But when some would resort to might, 
 
 It brought about our bloody fight. 
 
 Thank God ! the Blue and fiery Gray 
 
 Now meet on Decoration Day. 
 
 Yes, mothers South and mothers North, 
 
 Your sons again oft sally forth 
 
 And meet on many a battlefield. 
 
 But not a gun, nor sword, nor shield, 
 
 Is seen among the bands to-day; 
 
 They meet to love, they meet to pray, 
 
 And ev'ry one to greet the other, 
 
 As brother loves to greet a brother. 
 
 Thank God ! such love abounds to-day. 
 
 Thank God ! we're not in war's array. 
 
 Thank God ! we are a band of knights 
 
 That will defend our country's rights 
 
 Against all wrongs that may arise, 
 
 Through human greed or otherwise ; 
 
 But, still, we wish all strife may cease 
 
 And let all nations be at peace. 
 
 And yet we pledge our hearts and hands 
 
18 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 To stand against all foreign lands, 
 
 As well as evil combinations 
 
 Of wicked men and wicked nations, 
 
 Should they attempt to interfere 
 
 With rights our country holds most dear ; 
 
 But nevermore shall wicked strife 
 
 Compel us take each other's life 
 
 And fill our land with desolation, 
 
 And Christian folks with lamentation. 
 
 O, comrades Blue and comrades Gray, 
 
 What caused our awful, bloody fray? 
 
 We all are now so far from youth 
 
 That surely all will own the truth. 
 
 Our Southern men of declamation 
 
 All say, without a reservation, 
 
 The South made all the bloody fights 
 
 To save from wrong State sov'reign rights ; 
 
 But not a State of all our number 
 
 E'er had such rights as sov'reign thunder, 
 
 Except the Lone Star State out West • 
 
 No other State was e'er so blest. 
 
 While speakers of the Northern Blue 
 
 All fought to save the Union true, 
 
 As when our States were first united, 
 
 Our nation born, and wrongs were righted 
 
 By force of arms 'gainst English pow'r, 
 
 That was our sov'reign till that hour. 
 
 Such are- the pleas our speakers make 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 19 
 
 For Civil War, our great mistake. 
 And yet by war Blue took away 
 Full half the wealth of Southern Gray, 
 Without a show of legal right, 
 But simply as an act of might, 
 Most clearly showing, by such act, 
 The great and self-sustaining fact : 
 They cared not for our Constitution 
 Where it might cross a resolution 
 They had made up their minds about 
 And sought the pow'r to carry out ; 
 If not, by law, an act of right, 
 They would resort to act of might 
 To bring about their great design, 
 And slav ry was their countersign. 
 And talk of Gray 'bout sov'reign rights 
 Of States was merely fancy flights 
 Of words, to hide the trouble true 
 That made the Gray secede from Blue, 
 Which was the grand mistake the Gray 
 Made on that great, momentous day, 
 When our great nation got so hot 
 It boiled in anger like a pot. 
 Hence, comrades all, there was a cause, 
 A flaw within our nation's laws, 
 That made the slave States lightly hold 
 The compact made by States of old 
 And made the free States act as one 
 In pushing on that cause begun 
 
20 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 When our Republic was a child, 
 
 And was so innocent and mild 
 
 It legalized the slav'ry trade. 
 
 ' Twas then the great mistake was made 
 
 That brought about our civil strife 
 
 And all heartrending loss of life. 
 
 So, comrades brave and comrades bold, 
 
 There is no use to longer hold 
 
 The negro did not cause our war 
 
 And all destruction near and far ; 
 
 For wicked men, with greed for gold, 
 
 The negro into slav'ry sold, 
 
 And found a market in our land, 
 
 And slaves became in great demand. 
 
 The system pleased the Southern Gray, 
 
 And slav'ry South was given sway ; 
 
 Our fathers made our laws maintain 
 
 The right of such unholy gain. 
 
 Yet Blue, in spite of Constitution, 
 
 Made war upon the institution, 
 
 And claimed : " To sell mankind as brutes 
 
 Can bring no other kind of fruits 
 
 Than evil here and hell at last," 
 
 Where all the South was going fast. 
 
 And churches North, with lame excuse, 
 
 Took up the slander and abuse, 
 
 And caused the people of the South 
 
 To all distrust the people North. 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 21 
 
 Hence, comrades Blue and comrades Gray, 
 
 Our trouble came from far away, 
 
 When our Republic was so new. 
 
 It was not known just what to do. 
 
 And so our fathers put the flaw 
 
 Of slav'ry in our nation's law ; 
 
 And though great statesmen of our nation 
 
 Suggested plans of legislation 
 
 That would have set our nation right 
 
 And cured our laws of slav'ry blight, 
 
 Yet slander and abuse so reigned 
 
 That no right measure was maintained. 
 
 In course of time our fathers Xorth 
 
 Sold all their slaves to people South ; 
 
 And then their sons, like foolish knaves, 
 
 Abused the South for owning slaves. 
 
 Of course such conduct brought no good, 
 
 Yet made the South less understood; 
 
 For slav'ry was an institution 
 
 Supported by our Constitution, 
 
 And not a thing without support 
 
 Outside of petty State resort. 
 
 And then that woman, Mistress Stowe, 
 
 Wrote " Uncle Tom's Log" House," you know. 
 
 A bigger lie was never told 
 
 Than that same book was made to hold. 
 
 Her object seemed to fire the North 
 
 With hatred for the sunny South. 
 
 * "Uncle Tom's Cabin." 
 
22 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 She never seemed to understand 
 
 How much she slandered all our land. 
 
 Yet people North believed it true, 
 
 And in their anger wore the Blue 
 
 To punish all the Southern dogs, 
 
 That treated negroes worse than hogs, 
 
 According to that wicked tale 
 
 That Mistress Stowe got out for sale, 
 
 And Northern people bought and read, 
 
 Believing all the woman said ; 
 
 While if the truth about the South 
 
 Could have been known throughout the North, 
 
 The Civil War would not have come; 
 
 The people would have been as one ; 
 
 And Congress would, in time, have found 
 
 Some plan of good and common ground, 
 
 Whereon the North and South could stand, 
 
 Regarding slav'ry in our land — 
 
 Some kind of change in legislation, 
 
 Perhaps a wise emancipation, 
 
 Our people as a nation bearing 
 
 Such loss of wealth and in it sharing. 
 
 For Southern blacks, instead of hated, 
 
 Were treated much like folks related, 
 
 And wore with pride their owner's name, 
 
 Upbuilding all they could the same. 
 
 Were counted half among the fold, 
 
 That made the Southern home of old ; 
 
 A kind of little fam'ly nation 
 
 Was ev'ry Southern " old plantation " — 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 23 
 
 Some members, black; some members, white; 
 
 But all as one amidst the fight 
 
 For all the comforts home affords, 
 
 For servants true and kindly lords. 
 
 When one was sick, white doctors came ; 
 
 A white or black — 'twas all the same. 
 
 White preachers preached alike to all 
 
 The story of the first man's fall, 
 
 And how a Savior from above 
 
 Came down to show Jehovah's love ; 
 
 And blacks and whites were all enrolled 
 
 Together then as one church fold ; 
 
 And children of both races played 
 
 Together in the woodland shade, 
 
 And had a time as good and fine 
 
 As if there'd been no color line. 
 
 Yes, comrades Blue and comrades Gray, 
 
 There was a kindness at that day 
 
 Between the races in the South 
 
 Not dreamed of by the people North ; 
 
 And hence the negroes all were true 
 
 To Southern homes before the Blue 
 
 Came down with war and desolation, 
 
 Deranging ev'ry old plantation. 
 
 O, comrades Blue and comrades Gray, 
 Let's all be honest here to-day. 
 We all admit a fearful flaw 
 Was placed within our nation's law, 
 
24 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 When our Republic had its birth 
 
 Out of the throes of English earth ; 
 
 But men of wisdom of our nation 
 
 Were seeking, through wise legislation, 
 
 To change our fundamental law 
 
 And rid our nation of this flaw. 
 
 Had wisdom ruled instead of might, 
 
 This change could not have caused a fight. 
 
 All now can see that Henry Clay 
 
 Saw slav'ry's danger in his day, 
 
 And offered wisest legislation, 
 
 A kind of slow emancipation. 
 
 But Congress was then so divided 
 
 That wisest measures were derided. 
 
 The old Missouri Compromise 
 
 Was making law both good and wise ; 
 
 Yet only surface legislation, 
 
 Not reaching danger in our nation. 
 
 The negro was a human being : 
 
 'Twas but a thing of time — his freeing; 
 
 'Twas bound to come through act of right, 
 
 And needed not an act of might ; 
 
 For all the world agree in mind 
 
 'Tis wrong to traffic in mankind. 
 
 And yet the hosts of Northern blood 
 
 Came down in anger like a flood, 
 
 And, trampling on our Constitution, 
 
 Their will put into execution 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 25 
 
 By force, and turned the negro loose, 
 
 And, with a wicked, lame excuse, 
 
 Established carpetbagger's rule, 
 
 Which turned the negro to a fool ; 
 
 And now, instead of being kind 
 
 And guided by the white man's mind, 
 
 He has become a raping beast, 
 
 And only needs to learn to feast 
 
 On human flesh to be as base 
 
 As savage monsters of his race. 
 
 But — thanks to God ! — while this is true 
 
 Of negroes ruined by the Blue, 
 
 The blacks are learning day by day 
 
 The whites that love them wore the Gray, 
 
 And so at last come signs of hope 
 
 Less negroes will look up a rope ; 
 
 For blacks and whites on Southern soil, 
 
 When left alone, together toil 
 
 In peace and love, and neither race 
 
 Usurps the other's proper place. 
 
 Hence, comrades Blue and comrades Gray, 
 
 One problem of the present day 
 
 Is what is best we all can do, 
 
 Both Southern Gray and Northern Blue, 
 
 With negroes, since emancipation, 
 
 That menace still peace of our nation. 
 
 Let Northern Blue not shirk away 
 
 From helping those who wore the Gray 
 
 In dealing with this problem old 
 
 As time, when righteous Noah told 
 
26 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 The race of Ham should serve the other 
 
 (Two races born of common mother) , 
 
 A service not as common chattel — 
 
 All bought and sold, like hogs and cattle — 
 
 But voluntary service rendered, 
 
 For benefits in justice tendered. 
 
 Now, comrades Blue and comrades Gray, 
 
 Do we believe God rules to-dav, 
 
 As well as in those times of old, 
 
 About which we are plainly told 
 
 In Bible records God has given 
 
 To guide us mortals home to heaven? 
 
 If so, we, then, must act aright, 
 
 According to the Bible's light, 
 
 And, by our action as a nation, 
 
 Not seek by foolish legislation 
 
 To set decrees of God aside, 
 
 Ignoring him through human pride. 
 
 The negro, then, must still remain 
 
 The bottom rail, where he has lain 
 
 Since time of old, when God decreed 
 
 That he should 'serve, and not be freed 
 
 From serving all his coming days, 
 
 Since such a state best suits his ways ; 
 
 And 'twas an error when our nation 
 
 Called negroes into legislation. 
 
 Lawmaking is a thing too grand 
 
 For negro minds to understand, 
 
The Blue and the Gua v\ 27 
 
 And 'twas enough to cure the flaw 
 
 Our country had as slav'ry law. 
 
 To place the blacks upon a level 
 
 With whites was work that serves the devil ; 
 
 God no such thing as this intended. 
 
 This act of law should be amended 
 
 So as to let the white man rule, 
 
 And let his wisdom be a school 
 
 To guide the black man day by day 
 
 Along his God-predicted way 
 
 Of service to the other races 
 
 More near to God in moral graces. 
 
 Such change within our legislation 
 
 Would make a great, united nation ; 
 
 The white man ruling at the North, 
 
 The white man ruling al the South, 
 
 And with the flag of light unfurled, 
 
 Would rule to Christianize the world. 
 
 Yes, comrades Blue and comrades Gray, 
 
 Let's hope the time's not far away 
 
 When this wise change in legislation 
 
 Will have been made by our great nation, 
 
 Brought into being as a measure 
 
 All white men North and South can treasure. 
 
 Since God has shown the black man's station 
 
 Is one of service, no white nation 
 
 Should think of placing blacks in pow'r 
 
 To rule o'er whites for e'en an hour; 
 
 And had the people of the North 
 
 Felt well toward the white folks South, 
 
38 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 This act of folly and disgrace 
 
 Would never have been given place. 
 
 And now, since negro voting brings 
 
 No good at all, but evil things, 
 
 The Northern Blue and Southern Gray 
 
 Should act together right away, 
 
 In legislation good and wise, 
 
 And take from blacks our great franchise ; 
 
 And let us have a white man's nation, 
 
 With only white man's legislation. 
 
 If negroes want to have their sway 
 
 And legislate from day to day, 
 
 They have a land across the sea, 
 
 Where negro rule is wholly free. 
 
 Sometimes they kill and eat each other ; 
 
 A father, mother, sister, brother, 
 
 O'er there may make a pot of meat 
 
 A savage black king loves to eat. 
 
 But what is that compared with pow'r 
 
 To legislate each day and hour, 
 
 And show the world the negro mind 
 
 Can lead the wisdom of mankind? 
 
 O, what a chance our blacks behold, 
 
 If able to a nation mold, 
 
 And civilize their own blood kin, 
 
 And turn them from the ways of sin, 
 
 And wisely legislate and rule 
 
 Without the white man's guiding school, 
 
 As many whites among the Blue 
 
 Most clearly thought our blacks could do ! 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 29 
 
 Yet blacks, when left to rule and reign, 
 The savage state' are sure to gain ; 
 And since great God foretells their place, 
 It can't be changed by mortal race. 
 The white folks of the Sunny South 
 Know negroes better than the North, 
 And know it was bad legislation 
 Made negro voters in our nation; 
 And if the Blue will help the Gray, 
 Through legislation of our day, 
 Get rid of this disturbing flaw 
 In our great, fundamental law, 
 The negro problem will be solved, 
 And all the trouble it involved 
 Will be a thing forever past, 
 And peace will settle down to last. 
 Then people of the North will find 
 They did not know the negro mind 
 A.nd passed an Act the most unwise 
 In giving blacks our great franchise. 
 
 O, comrades Blue and comrades Gray, 
 
 Behold the wonders of our day. 
 
 The great advancement of the hour 
 
 In ev'ry kind of thing and pow'r ! 
 
 Our minds have learned to rise and stray 
 
 Along the great, white Milky Way, 
 
 And pass beyond sun after sun 
 
 To realms of systems just begun. 
 
30 The Bluk and the Gray. 
 
 The wisdom of the present age 
 
 Is far beyond the dreams of sage 
 
 That lived when Adam's race was new 
 
 And learned men were verv few. 
 
 God makes his changes surely, slowly ; 
 
 We must be patient, meek, and lowly, 
 
 And wait the time that God has set 
 
 To bind the nations by the net 
 
 That under God we now are weaving 
 
 To hold the nations back from grieving 
 
 O'er wars and troubles caused by might, 
 
 Instead of seeking for the right. 
 
 For God has told in Revelation 
 
 That he will build <6kft*Christian nation, * 
 
 The fifth great empire of the world, 
 
 And, with the flag of truth unfurled, 
 
 Will rule in ev'ry land and clime 
 
 Until the end of earthly time. 
 
 And, comrades brave and comrades bold, 
 
 Our nation is the one foretold 
 
 Through which such grand results shall rise ; 
 
 Our world shall be a paradise. f 
 
 So, comrades Blue and comrades Gray, 
 
 Our nation has come here to stay ; 
 
 While Father Time shall hold his scythe, 
 
 Our nation shall exist and thrive. 
 
 * Daniel prophesying of Christ's kingdom working through 
 human agencies, which, I think, are the United States of Amer- 
 ica and her allies in principle, f The Millennial Age. 
 
The Blue a>:d the Gray. 31 
 
 The Spanish War and Philippines 
 
 Are only foretastes of the means 
 
 That God will put within our hands 
 
 To carrv out his wise commands 
 
 And things foretold in Revelation 
 
 About the one great Christian nation 
 
 Through which our blessed Lord shall reign 
 
 A thousand years in peace,f and gain 
 
 The faith of Jews and all Gentiles 
 
 On cultured lands and lonely isles. 
 
 Now, comrades Blue and comrades Gray, 
 Since all our strife has passed away, 
 And all is peace from shore to shore, 
 Our States united as before, 
 Let love abound from gulf to lake, 
 And nothing more our peace shall break. 
 In future let the Bible's light 
 Completely guide us in the right, 
 And let the fountains of our love 
 Resemble those which flow above ; 
 And when we homeward wend our way, 
 Let mem'ry fair enshrine this day 
 And love and peace go hand in hand 
 From battlefields all o'er the land. 
 And, comrades, let us always tell 
 Our children how both sides fought well 
 
 * The Millennial Age. 
 
32 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 And stood like men to dare and do 
 
 Their best for what they thought was true. 
 
 Some wore the Blue, some wore the Gray, 
 
 Because men differed at that day; 
 
 And leading men resolved to fight 
 
 And settle wrongs by act of might, 
 
 Instead of trusting legislation 
 
 To right the troubles of our nation ; 
 
 And there were bad men on both sides, 
 
 Which is the case in all divides 
 
 Of rjuman beings here below — 
 
 Divide, and Satan has a show. 
 
 John Brown men at the frozen North, 
 
 All filled with hatred for the South, 
 
 And based upon an institution 
 
 Upheld within our Constitution ; 
 
 Aristocrats, with many slaves, 
 
 That treated poor folks much like knaves, 
 
 Not fit to live among the grand 
 
 Slave owners of our sunny land ; 
 
 Aristocrats, with mansions fine, 
 
 Where no poor man could stop to dine; 
 
 Aristocrats that sought to sway 
 
 The Southern people of their day 
 
 Against all kinds of legislation 
 
 To wipe out slav'ry from our nation. 
 
 John Brown men, and aristocrats 
 
 Had much to do with all the acts 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 33 
 
 That brought about our bloody war 
 
 And all destruction near and far. 
 
 O, 'twas a time of toil and trouble ! 
 
 O, 'twas no little moving bubble 
 
 Of storm cloud, like an April show'r — 
 
 All o'er and gone within an hour ! 
 
 It was a great and woeful blunder 
 
 That brought about our cannon's thunder 
 
 And desolation, fire, and sword, 
 
 That must have grieved the blessed Lord 
 
 When looking down from realms of glory 
 
 On scenes of war and battles gory. 
 
 But Blue and Gray stood band to band, 
 
 All heroes of a common land, 
 
 And, with both battle flags unfurled, 
 
 Gained admiration of the world 
 
 For deeds of valor, great and grand. 
 
 So both as monuments shall stand 
 
 In books of future age and glory, 
 
 In scenes of future rhymes and story. 
 
 So, when we end this blessed day, 
 
 Both Blue and Gray shall go their way, 
 
 Without a stain, without a sham, 
 
 A loyal troop of Uncle Sam — 
 
 All bound and drawn one to another, 
 
 As brother loves to join a brother. 
 
 The brave seek always for the right, 
 
 And only need Jehovah's light 
 
 To guide them on the way to glory, 
 
 According to the Bible's story. 
 
34 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 So, comrades Blue and comrades Gray, 
 We here will end this soldier lay : 
 We love you all, and wish you well, 
 More than our words can fairly tell, 
 And wish you ev'ry one may gain 
 A home within great God's domain — 
 No longer Blue, no longer Gray, 
 But all in white at judgment day. 
 
 SUCCESS. 
 
 i. 
 
 Success attends the man who shows 
 His sense by paying as he goes, 
 And sticking closely to his trade 
 Through morning sun and ev'ning shade. 
 
 2. 
 
 For when the time of death appears, 
 He's not o'erwhelmed by business fears- 
 That his estate will squandered be 
 By sheriff's sale and lawyer's fee. 
 
 3- 
 
 Success is not a thing of ease 
 That lies around loose, as you please ; 
 But 'tis a thing requires your care 
 From day to day, from year to year. 
 
The Blub and the Gray. 35 
 
 4- 
 
 Success is found upon the farm, 
 Where judgment keeps all things from harm, 
 And care from field and woodland brings 
 To shelter all the farming things. 
 
 5- 
 
 The merchant courts it day by day, 
 And may persuade its grace to stay 
 With him as long as modest gain 
 Will satisfy his busy brain. 
 
 6. 
 
 But if pure greed lead him away 
 To deal in futures of our day. 
 Success will pass beyond his pow'r 
 In some unseen, disastrous hour. 
 
 7- 
 Sometimes you see it riding by 
 With Doctor Jones and Lawyer Bly ; 
 But if you go to where they live, 
 Much time to books you'll find they give. 
 
 8. 
 
 A bov that exercises care, 
 And tends to all things ev'rywhere, 
 Will make a good, successful man, 
 One who will do all good he can. 
 
36 The Blub and the Gray. 
 
 9- 
 'Tis when a boy gets through his school, 
 And yet is not a puffed-up fool, 
 But knows he has to work to live, 
 Success to him its fruits will give. 
 
 10. 
 
 But if he linger round the inn 
 And drink with Satan's hounds of sin, 
 Success will never stoop to dwell 
 With one so near the doors of hell. 
 
 II. 
 
 With pretty girls success is found 
 'Most ev'rywhere the world around ; 
 And yet it may be well enough 
 To have these beauties dip less snuff. 
 
 12. 
 
 Since God designed the marriage state, 
 'Tis right that boys and girls should mate ; 
 But let the mating be the kind 
 That love and wisdom make combined. 
 
 13- 
 
 And that there be no cause to grieve, 
 Let not a girl wear on her sleeve 
 Her love for Richard, Tom, or Joe, 
 But when engaged, then let him know. 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 37 
 
 14. 
 
 So -in this earthly time of life 
 Let ev'ry man sustain a wife, 
 And ev'ry wife an angel prove, 
 And then success will onward move. 
 
 15. 
 
 To be successful with the Lord 
 You must attend his guiding word, 
 And not go helter-skelter led 
 By mortal man, alive or dead. 
 
 16. 
 
 God must be first and all in all, 
 And human theories all must fall, 
 From those the pope sustains to-day 
 To all of modern thought and sway. 
 
 17. 
 For no religion 'neath the sun 
 Of human making — no, not one — 
 Can save our souls from hell's abyss ; 
 God's plan to save alone does this. 
 
 18. 
 
 So, when you choose to seek the Lord, 
 You must be guided by his word ; 
 No human church of modern sway 
 Will stand the test of judgment day. 
 
38 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 19. 
 
 But sweet success attends the being 
 That daily is from evil fleeing 
 Along the narrow way to glory, 
 According to the Bible story. 
 
 20. 
 
 But woe unto the human soul 
 That starts to heaven as a goal 
 And takes a byway made by man, 
 Instead of God's own saving plan ! 
 
 21. 
 
 And, hence, success is ev'rywhere 
 You find a man or woman dear 
 Along the pathway of the right, 
 Amidst the thickest of the fight. 
 
 POLITENESS. 
 
 1. 
 
 Politeness is a thing of beauty; 
 To use it is a mortal's duty. 
 'Tis ne'er too soon, 'tis ne'er too late, 
 This plant of grace to cultivate. 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 39 
 
 2. 
 
 Politeness pays a good percentage 
 And shows mankind to great advantage ; 
 There's nothing else so blithe and fair, 
 Of all the pretty things we wear. 
 
 3- 
 
 Politeness helps all human creatures 
 To show our best designs and features, 
 And is a thing so sweet and bright 
 'Tis well to wear it day and night. 
 
 4- 
 
 Politeness is a proof of neatness, 
 A certain sign of love and sweetness; 
 For ev'ry where we find this grace 
 We look upon a kindly face. 
 
 5- 
 Politeness is a means of gaining 
 A thousand friends, and then retaining 
 The love of all that learn to know 
 We're not polite for sake of show. 
 
 6. 
 
 Politeness is always a blessing; 
 'Tis ne'er a thing we find distressing; 
 For 'tis a gem that goes at par 
 In times of peace, in times of war. 
 
40 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 7- 
 Politeness is a sheen of heaven, 
 A glory God to man has given, 
 Though living in a world of sin, 
 To wrap our daily conduct in. 
 
 8. 
 
 To be polite to God above us 
 And make the holy angels love us, 
 We must be guided by the word, 
 The Spirit's double-edged sword. 
 
 9- 
 
 To be a Christian worth attention, 
 One worthy of a handsome mention, 
 Requires politeness to the Lord, 
 Which is observance of his word. 
 
 10. 
 
 And yet we have denominations, 
 Societies, and combinations 
 In church ; church fairs and stagelike songs ; 
 While knowing all these things are wrongs. 
 
 II. 
 
 O, surely all these human actions, 
 Though proving very great attractions, 
 Show impoliteness to the Lord 
 Because not sanctioned by his word. 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 41 
 
 DEATH IS ON OUR TRACK. 
 
 Let these few lines all mortal ones remind 
 That death is on onr track, not far behind ; 
 Nor is there any chance for us to shun 
 Its cold embrace, though fast as time we run ; 
 For Adam lost, by sin, the means to save 
 Our mortal bodies from an earthly grave. 
 The tree of life was wholly free to man 
 • Until transgression placed it under ban. 
 
 But — God be thanked ! — the Lord has gone before. 
 
 In human form, and broken death's grim door; 
 
 The resurrection is a thing assured, 
 
 Since Christ as man our human death endured. 
 
 But being God, as well as of our race, 
 
 Death could not hold him in its cold embrace ; 
 
 Triumphant o'er the unseen state he rose, 
 
 A conqueror of all our mighty foes. 
 
 But still, while thus assured we'll live again, 
 Beyond this murky vale of toil and sin, 
 Our lot within the realms of boundless time, 
 Somewhere amid God's universe sublime, 
 Depends upon the choice we make to-day, 
 While living in this tenement of clay. 
 
 For though our spirits come from God above, 
 Pure as the angels and enshrined with love, 
 
42 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 When grown to know the good, the evil shun, 
 'Tis known we freely into evil rim ; 
 Our innocence becomes a thing of yore, 
 And guilt stands guardsman at our ev'ry door. 
 
 Why is it thus? Why do we, one and all, 
 So soon depart from innocence, and fall 
 Into the ways that have an evil trend, 
 Since God gives spirits with no evil bend? 
 
 Ah, 'tis the wants of this, our house of clay; 
 
 Our fleshly wants — they cry from day to clay, 
 
 And never cease to let us fully know 
 
 We all are animals while here below, 
 
 And that our danger is, the flesh may lead 
 
 Us ever in the ways of human greed. 
 
 So that our spirits, which come from above, 
 
 Are here in flesh to show what things we love, 
 
 Great God, the Father of all life and pow'r 
 
 Existing anywhere, or day, or hour; 
 
 And things of sweetness God has freely given 
 
 To angels flying in the midst of heaven ; 
 
 Sweet things of earth, that God has loaned to stay 
 
 With spirits in the flesh till judgment day; 
 
 Or merely things the flesh delights to use — 
 
 Such evil things as moral minds refuse, 
 
 Such things as make us mean and low and base, 
 
 The things that lead to darkness and disgrace! 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 43 
 
 And yet to please the flesh seems all in view 
 
 Of humankind, except the very few 
 
 That look beyond this wilderness of tears 
 
 For life as angels live, and endless years ; 
 
 But still, while here we start to heav'n or hell, 
 
 And have not long to bid our friends farewell. 
 
 O, then, since all this earthly life must lose, 
 How foolish not the heav'nly life to choose, 
 While yet the time to us is called " to-day; " 
 While yet we can believe, repent, obey ; 
 'While yet our Savior shows his smiling face 
 And through the Bible calls the straying stranger 
 To come to him and save his soul from danger ! 
 
 Christ is the Way by which we climb to bliss ; 
 To do his will can ne'er be called " amiss." 
 Hence, let us cast our lot with God on high 
 And fix to leave this world, where all must die; 
 For Christ came down from heav'n to do God's will, 
 The cup of Heav'n-born love for man to fill. 
 And make a plan whereby we can be saved 
 From all our meanness and our ways depraved. 
 God's justice can be satisfied above, 
 And yet our sins be blotted out in love, 
 By means of Christ, the Way to heav'n and glory, 
 According to the blessed Bible story. 
 Salvation from the shameful course of wrong 
 And restoration to God's heav'nly throng, 
 
44 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 From which our spirits came when we were born, 
 
 Pure as the ether and bright as the morn, 
 
 Is what God's plan of saving souls has done 
 
 For ev'ry loving and obeying one. 
 
 Tis wonderful to men of wisest age — 
 
 Yes, wonderful to earth's sublimest sage ; 
 
 E'en angels wonder at the heav'nly plan 
 
 Of God to save the sinful race of man, 
 
 Brought low by fleshly wants that know no rules, 
 
 But make our spirits be their willing tools ; 
 
 And could we fly throughout the realms above, 
 
 No greater proof we'd find that God is love 
 
 Than this same plan to save our human race 
 
 From sins unending, and, foretold disgrace. 
 
 O, mortals, let us heed the gospel call 
 And get in shape to leave this earthly ball ! 
 God draws us by his blessed plan of grace ; 
 To-day we may behold his smiling face, 
 Through faith, if we will but his words obey 
 That start us forward on the great highway. 
 O, sinners, let us all at once comply! 
 We can if we will now resolve to try ; 
 Adopted children of our God we'll be, 
 Assured of life through all eternity. 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 45 
 
 THE PROBLEM OF ORIGIN. 
 
 O, mortal man of Adam's sinful race, 
 Behold the wond 'rous things before thy face — 
 The earth below, with all its varied show ; 
 The heav'n above, with countless scenes aglow ! 
 
 Materiality is all in motion, 
 And rest within its bound'ry has no portion ; 
 For onward, onward, is the law of spheres, 
 As onward, onward, rolls the tide of years. 
 
 O, mortal man, canst thou presume to trace 
 Whence came these wond'rous things displayed in 
 
 space? 
 Whence came the star suns that bedeck the sky? 
 Whence came the planet worlds that roll on high ? 
 Whence came the mighty hosts of heav'n and earth? 
 Where is the fountain head, their place of birth? 
 DM law of chance, from unseen mystic lore, 
 Produce these wond'rous things from unknown 
 
 store? 
 Or did an ancient, minute protoplasm 
 Evolve them all by lapse of time or spasm, 
 As infidels of modern day and thought, 
 Like fools, themselves have so believed and taught: 
 
 O, mortal man, let not thy judgment stray 
 From Revelation's golden truths away 
 
46 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 To feed upon the husks of foolish doubt 
 And drift as chaff before the winds about, 
 As do the thoughts of infidels so wise 
 They cannot read God's handwrite in the skies ; 
 For reason leads thy soul from earthly sod 
 And solves the problem by revealing God, 
 The author of the starry hosts of heav'n, 
 The source of all the good to man is giv'n. 
 
 PAY AS YOU GO. 
 
 i. 
 
 The Bible teaches not to owe, 
 But pay for all things as you go, 
 And keep in readiness to die, 
 And go to live with God on high. 
 
 2. 
 
 How few this earthly life improve 
 And by their daily conduct move 
 Along the highway of the right 
 That leads to realms of endless light ! 
 
 4- 
 
 The millions of our humankind 
 Seem wholly of a worldly mind, 
 And act as though they had a show 
 To live forever here below. 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 47 
 
 3- 
 
 While death is sure and life is short, 
 And mortal man has no resort 
 To shun the change that Adam's sin 
 Brought on himself and all his kin. 
 
 5- 
 
 So, mortal man, why do you act 
 As though you did not know the fact 
 That you must soon lie down and die 
 And give account to God on high? 
 
 6. 
 
 'Tis wise, therefore, to live aright, 
 Already fixed, both day and night, 
 To leave this world of sin and woe, 
 So, mortal man, pay as you go. 
 
 ECONOMY. 
 
 A reckless, foolish, careless spending 
 Will bring a woeful, direful ending 
 To all weak mortals 'neath the sun. 
 Just give them time their race to run; 
 The end is bound to be the same, 
 If running like our head lines claim. 
 
48 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 MORALITY. 
 
 i. 
 
 To be a human is a blessing, 
 
 If life of sin be destitute ; 
 But — O ! — how sad, how all distressing, 
 
 To be a human, yet a brute ! 
 
 2. 
 
 There is a life above the level ; 
 
 'Tis not beyond the reach of man ; 
 And yet we mostly serve the devil, 
 
 Instead of doing what we can. 
 
 3- 
 
 The greatest failure and disaster, 
 Of all mistakes while here below, 
 
 Is failure to have served the Master, 
 And in such state to judgment go. 
 
 KEEP OUT OF COURT. 
 
 i. 
 
 Keep out of court, keep out of court ! 
 Let lawing be your last resort. 
 Just arbitrate or compromise ; 
 To do so is both good and wise. 
 
The Blue and ihe Gray. 49 
 
 2. 
 
 Two farmers had a fearful row 
 About a little brindle cow; 
 They lawed by night, they lawed by day, 
 They lawed their substance all away. 
 
 3- 
 One's name was " Bills ;" the other's, " Macks ;" 
 Their lawyers stood behind their backs 
 And urged them on to bite and scratch, 
 While there was money in the match. 
 
 i 
 
 4- 
 
 And then they laughed and said : " What fools 
 These farmers are, to be our tools 
 And go to law and have a row 
 About a little brindle cow ! " 
 
 TO MY DAUGHTER, MAUD. 
 
 Let thoughts untrue from you be driven, 
 And let your love to me be given, 
 Since I have ever truly striven 
 To turn from you all earthly sorrows 
 And bring for you all sweet to-morrows 
 And lead you straight along the narrows 
 
50 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 Of this old earth to find its bowers, 
 
 All kissed with sunshine, washed with showers, 
 
 Bedimmed with tears, bedecked with flowers — 
 
 A resting place, a passing dwelling, 
 
 Wherein our acts are ever telling 
 
 Our Maker what we are, and swelling 
 
 The record sheet of our probation 
 
 That shadows forth our destination, 
 
 Our banishment or sweet salvation. 
 
 LETTER TO MOTHER. 
 
 My aged mother, dear, behold ! 
 To-day I'm two and fifty old. 
 How short the course of mortal breath- 
 To-day, its birth; to-morrow, death! 
 
 While you are going on before 
 To be with Jesus evermore, 
 I day by day come on apace, 
 Rejoicing in the Christian race. 
 
 How fast the time appears to fly 
 To aged folks, like you and I ! 
 To backward look, how short it seems 
 When I, a boy, had golden dreams 
 Of future days and future joys, 
 Beyond the age of little boys — 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 51 
 
 Among the hosts of weak and strong; 
 Amid the surging of the throng 
 Of human souls in mortal forms; 
 Amid the sunshine and the storms 
 Of life upon this earthly ball, 
 Where Satan tries to catch us all ! 
 
 How short the time appears to me 
 When I was dandled on your knee 
 And listened to the tales you told 
 About the mighty men of old — 
 Goliath, with his wond'rous spear ; 
 Young David, bold, who knew no fear, 
 And killed the giant with a sling, 
 And soon became a reigning king; 
 Of Jesus Christ, who, from the skies, 
 Came down to banish from our eyes 
 All tears and grief, and, by and by, 
 To take us home with him on high ! 
 
 And later in my boyish days 
 I well remember father's praise 
 Because I loved to read and store 
 My mind with what had gone before. 
 
 And how I used to kindly plead 
 To teach our colored folks to read, 
 And had my doubts from time to time 
 As whether slav 'ry's not a crime. 
 
52 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 And how Aunt Pol., the preacher's wife, 
 As long as she had earthly life, 
 Said I a preacher, too, would be, 
 And spread the holy gospel free. 
 
 And how I scaled the hills with ease, 
 And shot the game in mountain trees, 
 And with my heavy rifle gun 
 Had lots and lots of boyish fun. 
 
 And when the war came on apace 
 Through strife about the colored race, 
 Just how I, like a little fool, 
 Became a soldier and quit school. 
 
 It may be well to never grieve 
 O'er things not best, we can't relieve ; 
 But those four years in war's array 
 Seem wholly lost, or thrown away. 
 
 But in the course of future years — 
 Sometimes in joy, sometimes in tears — 
 I'll work for Jesus and his cause 
 And keep upholding moral laws. 
 
 So, mother, when your life is o'er 
 
 And you have reached the golden shore, 
 
 Remember, I am in the race, 
 
 With heav'n the goal before my face. 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 53 
 
 That death and Hades can't deter, 
 
 Nor in the least cause me to fear, 
 Since Christ, the Lord, has gone before 
 And opened ev'ry closed door. 
 
 TO MY SPIRIT SELF. 
 
 i. 
 
 O, my immortal spirit, 
 
 That within me lives, and thinks, and loves, and 
 hates, 
 And flies upon the pinions 
 
 Of sweet thought to heaven's own e'erlastiag 
 
 gates, 
 Behold the world of mortals ! 
 
 My companions on the road to heav'n or hell 
 Are careless of their future, 
 
 And for earthly joys their souls to Satan sell. 
 
 2. 
 
 Now, I would save these brethren 
 
 From the endless woes of hell's unseen abyss ; 
 And, with the help of Jesus, 
 
 "What poor mortal can refuse a work like this? 
 I see a way before us 
 
 That no evil being can begin to close; 
 So let us preach the gospel, 
 
 Though old Satan and all hell itself oppose. 
 
54 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 3- 
 
 For angels are beholding 
 
 How we Christians bearourselves while here below 
 And joyfully reporting 
 
 All the Christlike deeds along our paths we sow. 
 Then let us work for Jesus 
 
 And lay up our stores within the bank above ; 
 For there they will not canker, 
 
 But will last forever, shielded by God's love. 
 
 CHURCH SINGING. 
 
 1. 
 
 The Bible shows that we should sing, 
 And that with sense and human zeal, 
 
 Sweet praises to the Lord, our King, 
 And what we sing, fail not to feel. 
 
 2. 
 Some say we must not use an aid 
 
 To guide the pitch, or tone, of song; 
 If use of instruments be made, 
 
 Such use is wrong, most clearly wrong; 
 
 3- 
 
 While others say an instrument 
 
 Is but a means of help to man, 
 And there's no sense in banishment 
 Of using any good we can. 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 55 
 
 4- 
 Now, when the brethren sing a song 
 
 And start it from an organ tone, 
 Am I to say they're doing wrong 
 
 Because such plan is not my own ? 
 
 5- 
 Or can they sing a song too well 
 
 When singing words to God above ? 
 And must they shun the grandest swell 
 
 Of mortal tongues in praise and love? 
 
 6. 
 
 " O, surely not ! " we all exclaim. 
 
 " Give God the best we have in store, 
 The sweetest lays the human frame 
 Can sound aloud the old world o'er." 
 
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 Hence, use of means to sing with ease 
 
 And lift the voice in lovely tone 
 Is no infringement, if you please, 
 
 Of any blessed scripture known. 
 
 8. 
 
 The Lord expected men of minds 
 To use their judgment day by day, 
 
 Since there are means of many kinds 
 To help us forward on our way. 
 
56 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
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 Some walk by light, some blindly feel ; 
 
 Some show great zeal, some hardly try ; 
 Yet Jacob's God has set his seal 
 
 That sinful man must do or die ; 
 
 10. 
 
 Must act according to the light 
 
 The word of God makes known to man, 
 And not as seems to mortals right, 
 
 Because some love a human plan. 
 
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 Now, God has left us pow'r to use 
 An aid when heav'nly songs we sing, 
 
 Or not, as we may freely choose, 
 As did the chosen people's king. 
 
 12. 
 
 What matters it, just so we cry 
 
 With trust within the Master's name? 
 
 If round we move or prostrate lie, 
 Will not the prayer be all the same ? 
 
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 Where God has left us free to choose 
 
 This way or that to do his will, 
 No mortal man should dare refuse 
 
 To leave us in this freedom still. 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 57 
 
 14. 
 
 Some things are fixed, and can't be changed ; 
 
 And some are left to human plan. 
 Since God our lot has so arranged, 
 
 Beware, O you, contentious man ! 
 
 15. 
 
 To make one's views upon this theme 
 
 Of Christian fellowship a test 
 Is selfishness in the extreme, 
 
 Beast-in-the-manger act at best. 
 
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 The only view that common sense 
 
 Can fully hold and recommend, 
 Is either way shall recompense 
 
 All who to God sweet praises send. 
 
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 But if an instrument you use 
 
 To guide the heav'nly tones of praise, 
 
 Do not this liberty abuse 
 
 By singing like theater slaves. 
 
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 For God looks at the heart of all ; 
 
 He knows our thoughts in speech or song. 
 His church is no theatric hall; 
 
 To make it such in wholly wrong. 
 
58 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 MY MOTTO. 
 
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 Pay as you go " is my motto. 
 
 It helps me when I plow and sow, 
 It helps me when 1 reap and mow, 
 
 It helps me ev'rywhere I go. 
 
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 Pay as you go " is my motto. 
 It helps me keep a full supply 
 Of merchandise the people buy ; 
 
 For cash makes orders come, you know 
 
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 " Pay as you go " is my motto ; 
 
 For crops may fail for want of rain, 
 
 And trade may fail to show a gain, 
 
 And debts from hills to mountains grow. 
 
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 " Pay as you go " is my motto. 
 
 It saves the homes, the farms, the stores, 
 
 From blighting, eating, business sores — 
 
 The debts that never cease to grow. 
 
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 " Pay as you go " is my motto. 
 
 It helps me in all things of life, 
 
 And may save rations for my wife, 
 
 Should I be first to God to go. 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 59 
 
 A BIBLE RIDDLE. 
 
 I. 
 
 Great God made Adam out of earth, 
 But ere this time our kind had birth ; 
 Hence, we were made before the man, 
 According to the heav'nly plan. 
 
 2. 
 
 And living creatures we became, 
 But Adam did not give our name ; 
 And yet a great and thinking mind 
 Was once within one of our kind. 
 
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 And when from thence that mind was parted, 
 
 We all remained as when first started ; 
 And though we travel night and day, 
 We always with our mother stay. 
 
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 Now, mortal man, can you declare 
 
 What kind of living things we are? 
 In Holy Writ, this side the middle, 
 You'll find our name that solves this riddle. 
 
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 Go, search the Scriptures day and night, 
 
 And learn from them just what is right; 
 
 For there you'll find a plan is giv'n 
 
 To save you Adamites in heav'n. 
 
60 The Blue and the Gray, 
 
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 Adopt the plan as God intended, 
 And let your actions be amended; 
 If we had such a plan for bliss, 
 We surely would not act amiss. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 Find out what animals we are. 
 
 SOLUTION. 
 
 You are the fish species : 
 
 1. Because fishes were made before dry-land ani- 
 mals. 
 
 2. Because Adam named only dry-land animals. 
 
 3. Because the great mind, Jonah, was once 
 placed within a fish. 
 
 4. Because fishes all remained as formerly, when 
 Jonah became separated from the fish. 
 
 5. Because fishes swim day and night in the wa- 
 ters, yet always stay with their mother, as " the 
 waters brought forth." 
 
 6. Because fishes are mentioned in Holy Writ 
 this side the middle. 
 
 Now, I thank you, dear fishes, for so testing the 
 biblical knowledge of people. If you had spirits to 
 save and intelligence to guide and a plan of sal- 
 vation, I think you would more generally obey it 
 than do human beings. 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 61 
 
 THE WORLD IS FULL OF INFIDELS. 
 
 The world is full of infidels, to some extent, 
 And yet by saying so, no harm to them is meant ; 
 It is their good that makes us here this truth pro- 
 claim 
 And offer Bible words to clearly prove the same. 
 
 2. 
 
 Paul says things of the flesh are " strivings," 
 
 " lusts," and " sects ; " 
 Hence all denominations are, in some respects, 
 Sins of our fleshly minds, condemned by Holy 
 
 Writ ; 
 If you believe Paul's words, you can't in scctdom 
 
 sit. 
 
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 God, in John's Revelation, has to us foretold 
 
 About one great apostate church God saw from old, 
 With many daughters fair, yet harlots all the same ! 
 If you believe John's words, how can you share 
 their shame? 
 
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 The world is full of infidels, to some extent, 
 And yet, by saying so, no harm to them is meant ; 
 We wish to save these mortals from the endless 
 
 night 
 By taking all the Bible, walking in its light. 
 
62 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 'TIS SWEET. 
 
 i. 
 
 When all my trials of the day 
 • Are gone and night has come, 
 'Tis sweet to prostrate lie and pray 
 To God, the Holy One. 
 
 2. 
 
 And — O ! — how sweet it is to know 
 
 He hears my whispered love, 
 Though I am here so far below 
 
 The highest heav'n above ! 
 
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 'Tis sweet to know, so sweet to know, 
 
 He loves me as his child, 
 And makes his good things round me flow, 
 Like zephyrs, sweet and mild. 
 
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 'Tis sweet to know God loved me so, 
 
 He sent his onlv Son 
 
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 To fix a way that I may go 
 To heav'n when life is done. 
 
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 "Tis sweet to trust God's guiding hands ; 
 
 'Tis sweet for him to live, 
 
 To heed all teachings and commands 
 
 His Holy Scriptures give. 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 63 
 
 6. 
 
 'Tis sweet to love him with a love 
 
 That makes it sweet to pray ; 
 'Tis sweet to know his home above 
 
 Will be my home some day. 
 
 MANKIND. 
 
 O mortals all, bear well in mind 
 The vast importance of mankind; 
 Somewhat beneath angelic bands, 
 Yet, ruling all terrestrial lands, 
 As kings and queens upon the earth, 
 Made so to reign from time of birth 
 In Eden's land, from times of old, 
 As we in God's own book are told : 
 The grandest workmanship that Heaven 
 Has to all earthly regions given. 
 
 Mankind with minds so like the Maker, 
 That nothing lowly can be greater ; 
 With pow'r to range in mental sway 
 Along the great white milky way ; 
 And pass beyond sun after sun, 
 To realms of systems just begun. 
 
 Yes, pass on high to realms of light, 
 
 Where day ne'er ends, where comes no night ; 
 
64 The Blur and the Gray. 
 
 Where angel bands in glory fly 
 Throughout the boundless God-built sky, 
 On tours of mercy, tours of love, 
 Proceeding from God's throne above, 
 And reaching all celestial space, 
 With God's sweet providence and grace. 
 
 Mankind with pow'r to rule and sway 
 A world, until the judgment day; 
 When we must give account to Heaven, 
 Of how we've used this pow'r God given. 
 
 So let us rule the world in love, 
 And imitate great God above, 
 Who sends his sunshine and his show'rs 
 On Just and urj'just, at all hours ; 
 Thus giving all a chance for glory, 
 If we will heed the Bible's story, 
 And turn from Satan's combinations, 
 Of wicked men and wicked nations, 
 And live with God's elected band 
 Of pilgrims, on this earthly land. 
 
 Mankind with minds so great and grand, 
 That all our race should understand, 
 That we are kin to God of heaven, 
 And should therefore our actions leaven 
 With righteousness, and holy love, 
 All imitating deeds above, 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 65 
 
 So God will hold us in his hand, 
 
 And by his pow'r cause us to stand 
 
 Triumphant on that dreadful day, 
 
 When " heaven and earth " shall pass away, 
 
 And all things of an earthly kind, 
 
 Will be by flames of fire refined. 
 
 Mankind with pow'r in mind to roam 
 Throughout God's vast celestial home, 
 Or house of many mansions bright, 
 All shining with the brilliant light 
 Of million millions suns of glory, 
 Made known in astronomic story; 
 Revolving round the great white throne 
 Of heaven's King, to us made known 
 In Bible teachings, 'bout our race, 
 And God's omnipotence and grace. 
 
 Mankind with pow'r some time to reach 
 The joys of heavjn, that good men preach ; 
 Through love of Christ, the Lord of glory, 
 Revealed to us in Bible story. 
 
 For God above loved us so well, 
 He sent his Son to earth to tell 
 Us how to live, and how to die, 
 To fit our souls to live on high, 
 And fly with all the heav'nly bands 
 Of angels, through celestial lands, 
 
66 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 From age to age, from time to time, 
 Forever 'mid that heav'nly clime 
 Of beauty, sweetness, love, and glory, 
 Foretold to us in Bible story. 
 
 O who would not a human be ! 
 With such grand prospects as we see 
 The Bible holds before our face, 
 Through God's unending love and grace ; 
 If we will but his children be, 
 All clothed with God's salvation free. 
 Salvation wrought for all mankind, 
 By God's own Son, of heav'nly mind ; 
 Who came down from the realms above 
 To show our race that God is love, 
 And wants us all to live on high, 
 When these poor mortal bodies die. 
 
 O, then, how precious is mankind, 
 Made by the great and all-wise Mind, 
 A little lower in creation 
 Than that most grand, exalted station 
 Of heav'nly angels round the throne 
 Of King Immanuel, our own ! 
 
 So let us all, without delay, 
 Seek out the one straight narrow way, 
 That leads from earth to lands of glory, 
 According to the Bible story. 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 67 
 
 THE PLAN OF SALVATION. 
 
 All glory to great God in highest heaven, 
 Peace on the earth, good will to men, be given ; 
 For unto man through God-'s great love and favor 
 Is born to-night in Bethlehem a Savior. 
 
 So sung the angels, when the blessed Jesus, 
 The promised seed, Immanuel — God with us — 
 Was born on earth, to be the King of glory, 
 And save us, as made known in Bible story.* 
 
 Long, long! mankind had trusted, hoped, and waited, 
 
 The faith of some may have become abated, 
 
 Yet in the fullness of the time appointed 
 
 God sent his Son, the blessed Lamb anointed 
 
 To be a sacrifice for ev'ry sinner, 
 
 And let the plan of Heaven be a winner 
 
 Of souls to God, and everlasting glory, 
 
 Foretold by prophets in the Bible story.* 
 
 Four thousand years before this blessed singing 
 Was heard above the hills of Canaan ringing, 
 God promised man, the seed of Eve our mother 
 Should bruise the serpent's head, and then recover 
 The lost estate of man, by Adam's falling, 
 And by his sin his race henceforth enthralling 
 With death of body, since the tree left standing 
 'Mid paradise, was drawn from man's commanding. 
 
 * " Bible Story "—the Bible. 
 
68 The Blue and the Gray, 
 
 Sweet tidings of a promise long delayed, 
 When by a puny mortal man surveyed ; 
 P3ut when beheld by God, the King of space, 
 Four thousand years are but a small embrace 
 Of time, to bring about so great a plan 
 As God's salvation for the race of man ; 
 Conceived before this grand old earth was made, 
 If not before our solar worlds were laid. 
 A plan so deep, far reaching, grand, and wise, 
 It called forth wonder 'mid the lofty skies, 
 Among the hosts of great angelic bands 
 Forever dwelling in celestial lands. 
 
 What was the plan, the uninformed inquires, 
 That fills the scales of justice, and desires 
 Of God for righteousness, throughout all space, 
 Mankind the object of this special grace? 
 
 Most wondrous is the answer, when 'tis told 
 Or written in characters bright as gold ; 
 For 'tis no less a thing among the glories 
 Revealed to man in blessed Bible stories, 
 Than that the Father of the realms above, 
 Was for mankind so filled with holy love, 
 He gave his one begotten, only Son 
 To die a sacrifice for sin, as one 
 Of us the guilty, and by this one way, 
 God can forgive, and justice still hold sway. 
 
 Such was the plan, our human souls to save, 
 And bring our bodies from an earthly grave, 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 69 
 
 Since Satan in the earthly paradise 
 Caused Mother Eve to wish to be as wise 
 As gods, thus knowing good and evil too, 
 Perhaps she'd better know just what to do; 
 x\nd hence she ate of that forbidden tree, 
 And took to Adam, that they both might see 
 How wise they would as gods at once become ; 
 And thus the devil's handiwork was done. 
 
 God had foreseen that this would all take place, 
 
 Or could take place, since by his love and grace 
 
 Mankind and angels are all left to take 
 
 The way of righteousness, with heav'n the stake, 
 
 Or way of evil, with its certain ending 
 
 In banishment, from heav'n to hell descending. 
 
 Four thousand years the plan was under way, 
 The place was fixed, and God foretold the day 
 When heaven and earth should blend in one God- 
 man, 
 Man's Savior, in the wondrous God-made plan. 
 
 The uninformed may ask, and want to know 
 If all these things related, are just so ; 
 What, then, became of all who lived and died 
 Before the Lamb of God was crucified? 
 
 The answer is at hand, and tends to show 
 How little scripture such weak mortals know ; 
 For while there is but one great plan to save 
 The soul from hell, the flesh from endless grave, 
 
70 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 Three dispensations of the one great plan 
 Were given to the fallen race of man. 
 
 The first was for the patriarchs of old, 
 And all the world for ages, just one fold 
 Of God's believers, trusting in the seed 
 Of Eve to come and save from human greed 
 To know the things the Lord had not revealed, 
 And had for reasons, kept from man concealed; 
 With sacrifice of lambs, bulls, one by one, 
 All shadows of the Lamb of God to come ; 
 Yet blood of bulls and lambs could not remove 
 The sins of worshipers, but was to prove 
 Their faith and trust in God's appointed Savior 
 To come in later years, through God's favor, 
 And worshipers before the Savior came 
 Were by this plan accepted, all the same. 
 
 The second dispensation was for Jews, 
 And based upon the same delightful news 
 That God had promised man a mighty Savior, 
 Because he chose to grant mankind this favor. 
 
 Why, then, was made this second dispensation, 
 Made only for one special chosen nation ? 
 The uninformed again are apt to ask, 
 To tell them is no Herculean task. 
 
 Know, then, O mortal men of worldly greed, 
 Too full of worldly gains, God's Book to read ; 
 That God chose Abraham, by God's own favor 
 Through whom to trace the great redeeming Savior. 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 71 
 
 Hence all the Jews in time became a nation, 
 Fulfilling this most grand, exalted station. 
 And while salvation was through one great plan, 
 Then resting on God's promise, made to man ; 
 By Jewish worship, God arranged to show 
 In figures, better things of God to flow 
 To man, when God's anointed One has come ; 
 When all appointed worship shall be one. 
 Hence, from the Jewish worship we may learn, 
 Through types and shadows, things that now con- 
 cern 
 All men of God alike ; for ev'ry nation 
 Must now obey the Christian dispensation. 
 No longer Jew, no longer Gentile man, 
 But all are one, according to God's plan, 
 Long, long ! in promise, made both good and true, 
 But now it is a fact, for me, for you, 
 And ev'ry one, in ev'ry distant nation, 
 Past things forecast the Christian dispensation. 
 
 Again the uninformed will want explained 
 The Christian world, as now by sects estranged. 
 One sect says this, another that, is right, 
 And all the sects are in one shameful fight 
 To spread and build their own peculiar bands, 
 In spite of God's well-known revealed commands. 
 Great God foresaw these things from days of old, 
 And hence, this state of things is all foretold. 
 Before Christ comes again, there was to be, 
 As Paul has plainly told, a great apostasy. 
 
72 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 And John describes a great apostate band, 
 
 That claims to be God's church, throughout our 
 
 land, 
 With many daughter bands, and each lays claim 
 To be the church of God; sects all the same. 
 Of course to uninformed, this is a stumper, 
 And makes for Satan's cause, a mighty bumper ; 
 And yet with ease we all God's church may find, 
 If led by truth, and not by biased mind. 
 
 Know, then, O mortal, who has passed the gates 
 
 Of all the human sects, with silvered plates 
 
 Upon their doors, to publish, claim, and hold 
 
 To be God's churches, from the days of old ; 
 
 That God foretold just where his church should rise, 
 
 And spread among all nations, 'neath the skies. 
 
 Jerusalem, in Canaan's blessed land, 
 
 Was chosen, and by Christ's made-known command, 
 
 God's church could not at all elsewhere begin, 
 
 Because to disobey, would be a sin. 
 
 So, then, if you can find a church beginning 
 
 At old Jerusalem, and henceforth winning 
 
 Men's souls to God by telling them of Jesus, 
 
 The promised One, Immanuel — God with us — 
 
 Just like apostles told the heav'nly news, 
 
 Be seated, mortal, 'mong its- blessed pews. 
 
 So when a preacher says to you, " O, brother, 
 Is not one church of God good as another ? " 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 73 
 
 Say, " Yes," of course ; but ask him to behold 
 
 The prophecy of God, through John of old, 
 
 That one great harlot church will surely rise, 
 
 Before the Lord's return from heav'nlv skies, 
 
 " With many daughters fair, yet harlots all the 
 
 same," 
 And whether he is sharing not their shame? 
 And, brother, you will down him, if he share 
 A man-made part of sectdom, here or there. 
 For Paul, you know, in holy writ declares, 
 Among some other wicked things and snares 
 Are parties ; and he wrote these words to guide 
 Against apostasy, and human pride. 
 
 So when a preacher comes around your way, 
 And claims for God to measure and survey; 
 If he to God be only good and true, 
 He'll measure from Jerusalem for you. 
 But if he set his compass down at Rome, 
 His hearers should at once start out for home. 
 And should he measure from some modern town, 
 His hearers should most kindly ask him down. 
 To measure well is certainly an honor ! 
 Start out, therefore, with God's beginning corner. 
 How can a preacher work for God of heaven, 
 Unless he works the way that God has given? 
 No other way than God's one way, is right, 
 No difference what the preachers say, in spite. 
 Of course denominations love their own, 
 And by denominations seeds are sown, 
 
74 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 That make, sustain, and build and foster sects, 
 And yet, the preachers wear these party specks. 
 They will not preach against the party spirit, 
 But many teach that parties are of merit ; 
 So if one fail to like the Catholics, 
 The English Church may suit his politics. 
 Church membership seems but a thing of station 
 With most of men ; they act as though each nation 
 Could make its own religion, like its laws, 
 As though God had no hand in such a cause. 
 Yet prophecy will be fulfilled in time, 
 And God's own church united and sublime, 
 Through Christian pow'r, the world will rule in 
 
 peace ; 
 And then religious sects will slowly cease. 
 
 According to the preachers of our day, 
 God sent them all to show the narrow way ; 
 And yet, they differ widely in their teaching, 
 Most clearly having human guidance, preaching; 
 While God's Book shows that truly called to save, 
 Preach only what the Holy Spirit gave. 
 So there is no worse slander flying round, 
 Than God approves of all religions found 
 Among denominations of our day, 
 From Popedom down to nasty Mormon way. 
 Old Satan has no doctrine in our land, 
 And being given out from preaching stand, 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 75 
 
 That's worse than these false words of many preach- 
 ers, 
 Not fit to live, and much less fit for teachers, 
 " That God has built the churches of our day, 
 So ev'ry man can have his own sweet way." 
 
 CREATION. 
 
 In ages unrevealed and known to none 
 
 Except the great Elohim, Godhead, one 
 
 In pow'r and action through all empty space, 
 
 Before there ever was a world, or race 
 
 Of beings, other than the great First Cause, 
 
 Elohim — God, the source of nature's laws, 
 
 Revealed to us as three at work as one; 
 
 Creation was conceived, and then begun, 
 
 By God the Father, and by God the Son,* 
 
 And God the Holy Spirit, three as one 
 
 In all creation, great and grand and wise, 
 
 Beginning he'nifj of the heav'nly skies; 
 
 And all things that exist in distant space, 
 
 The worlds, the suns, the bright angelic race ; 
 
 This world of ours with mountains, hills, and plains, 
 
 In fact, all things the universe contains. 
 
 Admit existence of an all-wise Pow'r, 
 
 From all time past to now, our own sweet hour. 
 
 The Son under the Christian dispensation, hnt the Lord 
 Jehovah at the time of creation. 
 
76 The Blue and the Gray. 
 
 And ev'rything existing in all space 
 
 Can be accounted for through pow'r and grace 
 
 Of God, the great and self-existent Cause 
 
 Of all creation, and existing laws. 
 
 All matter could in time have flown away 
 
 From God, as microscopic mite or ray 
 
 Of light flies off from ev'ry flaming sun 
 
 For ages, yet with pow'r as first begun ; 
 
 Or as effusive odor from the trees 
 
 Is wafted sweetly on each passing breeze. 
 
 For ev'ry form of living structure throws 
 
 In space a substance ; and that of the rose 
 
 Will make a nice and delicate perfume, 
 
 And hence, our reason says, we may presume 
 
 That matter is an essence from the Pow'r 
 
 Of all life forms, from ages to this hour. 
 
 Our mighty God the universe created, 
 
 But nowhere in his Book is it related 
 
 He made it out of nothing. Human creatures 
 
 With judgments very much beneath their features 
 
 Have taught this folly of the unbelieving 
 
 Their own misguided minds, themselves deceiving. 
 
 All life requires a form of living structure, 
 And ev'ry life must have a plan of nurture, 
 And ev'ry nurtured thing in God's creation 
 Throws matter out in space, an emanation 
 
The Blue and the Gray. 77 
 
 From out itself, this is the rule prevailing", 
 The bark of God must, then, by it be sailing, 
 And God is no exception to his ruling, 
 All things, then, came from God, must be our 
 schooling. 
 
 THE SPHERES. 
 
 O mortal man of swiftly passing years, 
 
 Lift up your head, behold the heav'nly spheres, 
 
 In motion all, ten thousand thousand moving trains 
 
 Amid the endless cycles of our God's domains. 
 
 All heav'n ablaze! ten thousand thousand orbs of 
 
 light ! 
 That guide all righteous spirits in celestial flight ; 
 While earth beneath this mighty starry work of 
 
 God, 
 Shoots forth ten thousand thousand beauties from 
 
 its sod 
 Which clearly God's sublime existence demonstrate, 
 In spite of atheistic thought, and demon hate ; 
 For ev'ry blade, and ev'ry leaf, we may conceive 
 To be a witness, God exists, as we believe. 
 
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 And to fashion our lives by the orders, 
 
 In the midst of the Bible are found. 
 Let us count on our lives as eternal, 
 
 For 'tis only the body that dies : 
 And the pow'r of the Serpent infernal, 
 
 Holds us not from a home in the skies. 
 
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 Home of the True. 
 
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 Let us look far beyond our surroundings ; 
 
 To the realms of the bright angel race : 
 And in thought fly away through the soundings, 
 
 Of the ocean of God's endless space. 
 Let*us lay up on high all our treasure, 
 
 Where the moth and the rust don't consume ; 
 For 'tis there we may live on forever, 
 
 In the glory of heavenly bloom. 
 
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 All the joys of this earth are as vapor, 
 
 Which the rays of the morning dispel ; 
 But the Lord has extended his favor, 
 
 And invites us to heaven to dwell. 
 Hence, we all should accept God's salvation, 
 
 And should make not a longer delay ; 
 But attend on to-day's invitation, 
 
 And set out on the straight narrow way. 
 
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 Therefore come to the Christ, blessed Jesus, 
 
 Take his yoke, learn of him, be at rest; 
 For his yoke is a gem that should please us, 
 
 'Tis the key to the realms of the blest. 
 Hear ! O hear! heaven's call sinful mortal, 
 
 Do not cast such a jewel away ; 
 For you may enter death's awful portal, 
 
 Ere the dawn of another bright day. 
 
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 Should you live all the days you can hope for, 
 
 Still the time of departure is nigh ; 
 And this life must be counted a failure, 
 
 If you be not prepared when you die. 
 For the Lord has a plan of salvation, 
 
 'Tis the gift of the Father we love ; 
 And this world is a place of probation, 
 
 Since the Home of the True lies above. 
 
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 While flood of the dragon, rolls on in its tide ; 
 The bride of the Saviour, is driven to share, 
 The home of the wild goat, and cave of the bear. 
 
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 Religious confusion, o'ershadows the land, 
 And soul-traps of Satan are baited at hand ; 
 The army of midnight, is fighing for sway, 
 And angels of evil are leading the way. 
 
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 With cunning deception, and wisely laid plan ; 
 To capture the soldier, of even the Lord, 
 On duty unguarded, unarmed with the word. 
 
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 Confusion confounded ! is raging abroad, 
 Confession ! opinion ! and multiplied fraud ; 
 Supplanting the Scriptures, as given to man, 
 And calling attention, to humanized plan. 
 
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 The simple old gospel, as spoken by Paul, 
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 And human inventions, around me abound, 
 And little true worship, remaining is found. 
 
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 Contention and hatred, are running at large, 
 Old Satan has preaching, at Babylon's charge ; 
 While soldiers of Jesus, are lonely and sad, 
 Surrounded and hounded, by all that is bad, 
 
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 And wolves in sheep's clothing, have entered the fold, 
 Mere hirelings of Satan, just working for gold ; 
 Not loving the brethren, not heeding their needs, 
 But causing divisions, and wranglings and creeds. 
 
 And wranglings and creeds 
 
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 While other weak mortals are honestly blind, 
 And working for Satan, with body and mind ; 
 In building inventions, constructed of sand, 
 Just human devices, that never can stand, 
 
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 As touching religion, each clan loves its own, 
 And seeds of divisions, by preachers are sown ; 
 While tares of the Devil, out number the wheat, 
 And strive for a level, with Christians to meet, 
 
 With Christians to meet. 
 
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 The scarlet dressed woman, is riding the beast, 
 Her daughters are having, a mighty love feast; 
 And Satan is laughing, much pleased with himself. 
 For laying true worship, away on the shelf. 
 
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 The blood of the martyrs, from mountain and glen, 
 Is calling for vengeance, on wicked church men ; 
 "Who make it a business, of killing the true, 
 As visions of Patmos, foretold they would do. 
 
 Foretold they would do. 
 
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 And visions of Patmos, predicted the shame ! 
 
 That murders by thousands, would come in the name ; 
 
 Of Christian religion, through going astray, 
 
 From heaven's own teaching, the one narrow way. 
 
 The one narrow way. 
 
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 How long shall the nations, obey him as God? 
 How long shall he trample, the rights of the Lord? 
 
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 By prophets in visions, God gave them of old ; 
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 When rule of the dragon, has had its last day. 
 
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 True soldiers of Jesus, are calling aloud, 
 Away with confusion, come out from the crowd. 
 
 Unite on the Bible, and honor the Lord, 
 By being a soldier, as taught in his Word ; 
 Just simply a Christian, like brethren of old, 
 Opposing division, among the Lord's fold. 
 
 Preach only the gospel, as spoken by Paul, 
 No added amendments, can satisfy all ; 
 And every endeavor, at work of this kind, 
 Is aiding confusion, and blinding (he blind. • 
 
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 Lay of the Church out of the Wilderness. 
 
 Besides the old gospel is good as it's old, 
 And needs no amendments, to make it pure gold, 
 As coined by the Master, it can't be improved, 
 And saves all the mortals, who by it are moved. 
 
 Away with your wranglings, away with your names, 
 Away with your tanglings, and other like shames ; 
 Unite on the Bible, the creed of all creeds, 
 And show your religion, by doing good deeds. 
 
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 All loving the brethren, because you are kin, 
 And rescued by Jesus, from Satan and sin ; 
 Rejoicing together, a host of the Lord, 
 Sustaining each other, as children of God. 
 
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 All working for Jesus, with motives of love, 
 All guided by wisdom, revealed from above ; 
 While angels beholding, the trend of your way, 
 Before you see coming, the glory of day. 
 
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 children of Jesus, of every known name, 
 Come out of confusion, be brethren the same; 
 No one for Apollos, and no one for Paul, 
 But each one for Jesus, and God be for all. 
 
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 'Tis Satan who's teaching confusion to man, 
 And causing division, and wrangling and clan ; 
 The Master of heaven, one highway has laid, 
 But willy old Satan, the by-ways has made. 
 
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 Lay of the Church out of the "Wilderness. 
 
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 The plan of salvation, you have as a gift, 
 Come ! take its provisions without a makeshift ; 
 The highway to heaven is narrow and straight, 
 And entered by mortals, through only one gate. 
 
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 So children be watchful, and armed with the word, 
 And walk by the gospel, the torch of the Lord; 
 The by-ways of Satan, let others pursue, 
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 The softest breathings of the soul, 
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 And even to this mundane sphere, 
 They come and help us year by year : 
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 They watch us journey to the tomb, 
 And if in Christ our race we end, 
 Their shouts of joy to heav'n ascend. 
 
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 And live with him in glory. — Chorus. 
 
 3 Come sinners come, do not refuse, 
 
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 Christ loves us all and bids us use, 
 His own sweet home in glory. — Chorus. 
 
 4 Come let us walk the narrow way, 
 
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 This way is plain as seen to-day. 
 Laid down in Bible story. — Chorus. 
 
 5 The Bible is the blessed light, 
 
 Tbat guides us home to glory, 
 Then let us read it day and night, 
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 Which ne'er forgot will be ; 
 
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 Her brow is like the snow-drift, 
 Her throat is like the swan ; 
 
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 That e'er the sun shown on : 
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 Andev'ry thing the farmer owned, 
 
 At once began to fall ; 
 And if we do not change this thing, 
 
 The rich will own us all. — Chorus. 
 
 6. 
 
 But God will raise us up a man, 
 
 Most truly good and bold ; 
 And when we make him President, 
 
 We'll get the law of old. — Chorus. 
 
 7. 
 
 We made a fight in Ninety-six, 
 
 And with a mighty hand ; 
 So prick your flints and keep in fix, 
 
 And by our colors stand. — Chorus. 
 
 8. 
 
 To crucify the working man, 
 
 Upon a cross of gold ; 
 The rich have vainly formed a band, 
 
 As it can never hold. — Chorus 
 
 9. 
 
 For ev'ry thing the farmer owns, 
 
 Has fallen down so low ; 
 'Tis hard to make a living now, 
 
 Behind the plow r and hoe. — Chorus. 
 
 10. 
 
 And debts are hard again to pay, 
 
 In corn, or wheat, or rye ; 
 Old England gets two bushels now, 
 
 For what one used to buy. 
 
104 
 
 Sixteen to One 
 11. 
 
 The farming man is slow to learn, 
 That he's the gold man's slave ; 
 
 But when he shall the truth discern, 
 He'll dig the gold man's grave. — Chorus. 
 
 12. 
 
 This fight is on, and on to stay, 
 
 Until the masses rule ; 
 
 Our mighty States can legislate, 
 Without a foreign tool. — Chorus. 
 
 13. 
 
 The burden of protective tax, 
 
 That benefits a class ; 
 Can never bring conditions back. 
 
 That help us as a mass. — Chorus 
 
 14. 
 
 The cause of all depression now, 
 And change from times of old ; 
 
 Is rating all commodities, 
 Alone by precious gold. — Chorus. 
 
 15. 
 
 Corruption reigns throughout our land, 
 
 Our ballot seems for -]ale ; 
 But Democrats will take a stand, 
 
 And right will yet prevail. — Chorus. 
 
 16. 
 
 For Trusts can't run this government, 
 
 While working men can vote ; 
 Just now they have their gold bug hands, 
 
 On Uncle Sammy's throat. — Chorus. 
 
 17. 
 
 But by and by you'll hear the cry, 
 From mountain, hill and plain : 
 
 Vote down the gold bug Octopus, 
 And let the people reign. — Chorus. 
 
BIMETALISM. 
 
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 Note. — Words to abore music same ;in "Sixteen to One," only add on sir, to end 
 of every (second and fourth line, and use the above chorus. Both Bongs are so long 
 that it is sufficient to uno the chorus with every two or three stanzas. 
 
106 
 
 THE GOLD BUG. 
 
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107 
 
 The Gold Bug. 
 2. 
 
 My apple trees were all in bloom, 
 
 And lovely to my sight ; 
 But some mean bugs soon came along, 
 
 And now they have the blight. — Chorus. 
 
 My cotton fields were very fine, 
 ' Until that fatal day ; 
 The boll worms came along to dine, 
 And settled down to stay, — Chorus. 
 
 Tobacco plants were very good, 
 
 Their leaves were broad and green ; 
 
 But by and by there came the fly, 
 And now the stems are seen. — Chorus. 
 
 I plow and sow, and reap, and mow, 
 
 Do all the good I can ; 
 If bugs would let my farm truck grow, 
 
 I'd be a useful man. — Chorus. 
 
 6. 
 
 A gold-bug man came 'round one day, 
 And said he'd lend me gold ; 
 
 If I would give a Deed Of Trust, 
 Upon my land to hold.— Chorus. 
 
 7. 
 
 Now while I am somewhat behind, 
 I'll skimp and try to save ; 
 
 For I am not at all inclined, 
 To be a gold-bug's slave.— Chorus. 
 
108 
 
 A FEW GOOD THINGS. 
 Cunningham's Ear Ache Cure. 
 
 Take warm water, half gallon, blood warm; and gently 
 throw it into the aching ear, holding the head so the water 
 can run out. The cure is certain in about one minute. You 
 do this with a soft rubber syringe. 
 
 Cunningham's Pile Cure. 
 
 Take blood warm water, half a gallon, and with a rubber 
 syringe, throw the water into the lower bowel, and discharge 
 it a few times ; and the patient becomes easy. Then take an 
 ounce of vasaline and mix with it one fourth ounce of calo- 
 mel, and anoint lightly the inflamed parts. Keep up this 
 treatment until well. 
 
 Cunningham's Great Health Tonic. 
 
 Take one-eighth of an ounce of Fowler's Solution of Arsenic; 
 one fourth of an ounce of powdered Peruvian bark, one-fourth 
 of an ounce of Carbonate of iron; put these into a one pound 
 bottle, and fill it with pure, undiluted, medical alcohol. Shake 
 before using. Dose before meals — two tea-spoonfuls in five 
 times as much sweetened water. 
 
 Cunningham's Rheumatism Cure. 
 
 Take half gallon good ripe Polk berries, cook them about 
 twenty minutes, strain and sweeten the juice, and mix it with 
 pure alcohol equal parts. Dose one to two table spoonfuls 
 before meals. 
 
109 
 
 Cunningham's Catarrh Cure. 
 
 Take blood warm water, mildly salt, wash your face in it, 
 and snuff it up your nostrils. Also use a rubber syringe and 
 wash the nasal passages with warm, salt water at least once 
 every twenty-four hours. Keep up this treatment until cured. 
 
 Cunningham's Indigestion Cure. 
 
 First, use regularly my great Health Tonic ; then keep the 
 liver and bowels normal by using at night one or two Lapaetic 
 Pillules. And if you have Heart-burn, use Soda Mint Tab- 
 lets. This treatment well followed will cure any cureable 
 case. 
 
 To the Reader.— These Prescriptions are worth more than the 
 price of this book. They are gems of value. Do not hesitate to use 
 them. 
 
 Yours, 
 
 Joe A. Cunningham. 
 
 Do you want "The Blue and The Gray?" If so send your 
 order to the author, Joe A. Cunningham, Nashville, Term., 
 care of The McQuiddy Printing Co. The price is 50 cents sin- 
 gle copy, postage prepaid. By the dozen £4.50, the purchaser 
 pays the express. By lots of 1,000, $300 purchaser pays the 
 freight. If you want a traveling agency mention what states 
 you want to travel. Agents will be permitted to make contract 
 for 1,000 books, and have 100 shipped out at a time. Cash or 
 check must accompany all orders. Make the checks payable 
 to my Printers, The McQuiddy Printing Co. 
 
 Yours Truly, 
 
 Joe A. Cunningham. 
 
110 
 
 Are you a merchant? If so I want you to send me orders. 
 I have been traveling commercially for 30 years, I represent: 
 
 1st. The W. S. Riddle Notion House of Nashville, Tenn. 
 One of the cheapest and best Notion Houses in the United States. 
 Our prices are net and cut down from regular prices about 
 15%. Address your orders to me, and the envelope to the 
 firm. 
 
 2nd. The Rankin & Snyder Hard-Ware Co., of Louisville, 
 Ky. One of the very best Hard-Ware Houses in the country. 
 Address your orders to me, and the envelope to the firm. 
 
 3rd. The 0. K. Stove and Range Co. , of Louisville, Ky. 
 One of the very best establishments of this kind to be found. 
 Address your orders to me, and the envelope to the firm. 
 
 4th. The Cincinnati Glass and Crockery Co., of Cincinnati, 
 Ohio. Of all places in the United States to buy Queens- Ware 
 and Glass- Ware in open stock, this firm ranks as one of the 
 very best. Address your orders to me, and the envelope to the 
 firm. 
 
 5th. The Herkert & Meisel Trunk Co., of St. Louis, Mo. 
 One of the best Trunk and Valise Factories in the United 
 States. The White Trunk and Bag Co., of Nashville, Tenn. 
 One of the cheapest Trunk Factories it is possible to find. 
 Address your orders to me, and the envelope to the firm. Do 
 you ask how I can keep up with so many lines? The answer 
 is, I have been in business all my life except the time spent in 
 the great war, and have learned to sell anything and every 
 thing. 
 
 Joe A. Cunningham. 
 
 Note.— 1 have two or three books of " Lectures on Biblical Sub- 
 jects" to follow the publication of the "Blue and Gray: " the first 
 
 volume is ready for ray printers. 
 
 J. A. C. 
 
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112 
 
 De Cotton Fields Ar' Ready Now. 
 
 2 
 
 Our Sarah Jane must hab a dress, 
 
 And Mary Ann a sacque ; 
 And shoes must come for little Bess, 
 
 And coat and pants for Jack. — Chorus. 
 
 3 
 
 Our rmppa Ben must hab a hat, 
 
 And mamma needs some hoe*^- 
 And dar's no end to dis and dat, 
 To keep us all in clothes.— Chorus. 
 
 4 
 
 Our meat and bread supply is low, 
 
 Our coffee-can is light; 
 So darkies do not work so slow, 
 
 When hunger is in sight. — Chorus. 
 
 5 
 If we will work from year to year, 
 
 And buy a little farm; 
 We would not hab so great a fear, 
 
 Dat we may come to harm. — Chorus. 
 
 6 
 
 How sweet 'twould be a home to own, 
 
 In Dixie's sunny land; 
 Dis joy to us may soon be known, 
 
 If we'll togeder stand.— Chorus. 
 
 7 
 
 Our pappa Ben and little Jack, 
 
 Would stay less time in town; 
 To such a home dey'd hurry back 
 
 And pile de bought things down.— Chorus. 
 
 8 
 O let us work togeder den, 
 
 And build a paradise; 
 Widin some bright and flow'ry glen, 
 
 Beneaf our Southern skies.— Chorus.