An Oration Delivered at Fayettville, Arkansas (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from An Oration Delivered at Fayettville, ArkansasAt Springfield, Missouri, three years ago to-day, there were scattered through an audience assembled in one of the beautiful groves that then encompassed that city, a few loyal men from Northwestern Arkansas.Here they could celebrate the anniversary of the natal day of freedom, but here, from whence they went, they could not, and sadly looking southward, they dispersed to their resting places, not their homes. The Earth, however, was not all bare, nor the Heavens empty. There was hope in the present even, and very soon, men, whom I see before me now, were marching hitherward to defend their rights and avenge their wrongs. The work proceeded slowly and wearily, but at last the days of rebellion have been numbered, and here, where earlier hours were passed, property acquired, and families reared, the loyal men of Northwestern Arkansas, are to-day as~ sembled, to hallow the memory of three years of suffering, strife, and victory.In February, 1862, a Texan Ranger, of more notoriety than fame, burned your college, swept otherwise through Fayette ville, as with the besom of destruction, wished you all where the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched, though a word of one syllable answered his purpose, and a month later fell at Pea Ridge, as black with the maledictions of this com munity, as the habit he is reputed to have worn.The war had then been raging nearly a year, and yet your troubles were not so great, your losses so severe, as they were shortly to become. In 1861, the virus of secession worked more mildly, at all events loyal men in Arkansas were not so persecuted, as when rebels of even ordinary forecast saw, that every man in the South, capable of bearing arms, must come to the rescue of the new Confederacy, to save it from a fate as disastrous as sudden.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.