New Century Speaker and Writer: Being a Standard Work on Composition and Oratory

by Henry Davenport Northrop

See its colors floating, fearless

As the eagle soaring high.

And amid the cannon’s rattle

And the bullets’ deadly showers,

Ten million men will battle

For that starry flag of ours.

THE NEGRO SOLDIER.

In reciting this piece give stress and emphasis to the words, “the Tenth at La Quasina.” You are praising the valor of this regiment, and should not do it in a doubtful or hesitating manner.