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JJotlzer. But, why mobilize? I thought they were to be gi\·eu two weeks' notice.
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Pershing calls
Judge. Ah, madam, to gi,·e up one's own is hard, I know-, but to give him up for such a cause is glorious. (lie leans forward sadly.) Don't you remember, 1Iartha, in '61, how eager we all were then ?
Mother. Yes; I can neYcr forget the day the company left. There were you and Jack Pendleton, and Taylor Fitz- · hugh, and--
J11dge. Yes, and all of the boys. There was no holding back then, and I know you too well to think that you will hold back now.
Mother. No, there was no holding hack in '61, nor will there be any now·.
Judge. Yes, madam, in '61 the women of the South sent their sons forth to battle, with hea,·y hearts but bra\·e spirits.
Mother. Womanhood knows no distinctions. Common sacrifice and suffering make all as one. )[others arc sisters, whether they live North or South.
.Judge. I gave my arm for the Southland in '61 (ex- hibiting his empty sleere), but were I youug I would give my all to my country now. ·
Jl!ol!ter. I often think of the mothers of Germany. They, too, h:n-e lh·ed and suffered; and I reckon many a German mother's heart. yearns for her boy on the firing line.
.Judge. They are denied one solace; and that is the quality \\·hich sends men to die willingly, gladly.
J/other. And that is?
JHdgc. The lo\·e of freedom; fighting for a cause and not for a master.