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Carmack’s Pledge to the South

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 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 me 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 Ward Carmack, former
Congressman from Tennessee