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200 SIXTY YEARS IN TEXAS.
where men and women may stop and think and call
to God for help, and all of those that call in earnest,
He will come to their rescue and deliver them from
that awful current that seems to be sweeping them
on, they know not where. He will inspire them
with better thoughts, higher motives, nobler desires,
and loftier purposes. He will transform and change
that human heart, and fill it with love, tenderness
and compassion, and they will have an inner knowledge
that needs no other proof that God exists, and
is guiding and leading them onward and upward to
glory and Heaven.
It has been forty-three years ago since the war
closed. The question was so great and the interest
so vast, and the temper of the people so wrought
upon, in my judgment nothing but war could settle
it, and I believe the war was fought at the right
time, and fought by the right people, and now the
blue and the grey meet and mingle together, and
place flowers on the graves of their friends that died
defending the cause they thought to be right. This
is just as it should be, and no Confederate feels
humiliated or disgraced because of losing in the conflict,
but the blue and the grey stand togetherthose
that followed Lee and Jackson, and those that
followed Grant and Logan-citizens of the greatest
country on the globe. It was the valor and courage
and bravery of those that followed Lee and Jackson
that made heroes out of Grant and Logan, and the
brave men that sto6d with them. They met men
worthy of their steel. The unconquerable courage of
the Confederate soldier made the glory of the Federal
generals. Most of the old veterans have passed
over the river, and are now resting in God's eternal
camping ground; but those that are still with us are
citizens of a great country.
We are to-day the superior of the earth, with our
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Jackson, George. Sixty years in Texas, book, 1908; Dallas, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20205/m1/214/: accessed May 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.