The South

Edward Carmack

"The South is a land that has known sorrows;

it is a land that has broken the ashen crust and

moistened it with tears; a land scarred and riven

by the plowshare of war and billowed with the

graves of her dead; but a land of legend,

a land of song, a land of hallowed and heroic memories."

"To that land every drop of my blood, every

fiber of my being, every pulsation of my heart,

is consecrated forever.  I was born of her womb;

I was nurtured at her breast; and when my last

hour shall come, I pray GOD that I may be

pillowed upon her bosom and rocked to sleep

within her tender and encircling arms."

Edward Carmack, United States House of Representatives

Representative and Senator from Tennessee

"When my bones they lay down In the cold cold ground
          Have someone play Dixie for me."
 

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