"Welcome the new Brother of the Southern Crescent!"
And the band respond as before.
Then comes the third and final oath, as follows:
"By all that is sacred, I swear to remember Jackson, and Johnston, and the thousands dead; the humiliation of Davis, and Lee, and Bragg, and Beauregard; the noble deeds of Southrons on many a gory field; and by the memory of all these, I swear to be true to the Lone Star of the South, till these and all our woes are a thousand times avenged!"
The Captain again declares:
"Welcome the new Brother of the Lone Star of the South!"
And the band respond as before.
The Captain then spoke the following adjuration:
"Let the heavens be lit with the lurid flames of worse than fratricidal war! Let the dagger, the bullet, the flames and the pestilence, smite every vulnerable point! Let the desolation of death reign in the Northern homes enriched by plunder of the South! Let the audacious minions of the tyrants in our country be met in silence and darkness, struck down by a power they see not! Remember the oath! The Crescent is broad enough to include all the enemies of the South! The Lone Star shines brightest in the darkness! The Dagger is the emblem of the silent work! Remember the oath! Bring the consecrating bowl."
The last sentence was responded to by one of the band, and something like a bowl was put into my hands.