Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1892 — CHILI’S BATTLE FLAG. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CHILI’S BATTLE FLAG.

Its Striking; Resemblance to That of the Late Confederacy. Should the armies of the Unifed States Anally engage the Chilians, the veterans of ’6O-’6l will be startled at seeing the stars and bars once more opposing them in a desperate struggle. The resemblance between the old standard of the Confederacy and the present banner of Chili is both apparent and real. The Southerners at Arst Aoated in deAance a Aaj. described heraldically as “gules, a jesse argent, on a canton azure fourteen stare of the second.” The Chilian emblem is “per jesse argent and gules, on a canton azure a Ave-pointed star of the Arst.” In every-day English the difference is this: The South bore three bars, red and white, with fourteen stars of white on a blue ground in the corner;

the South Americans have two bars, white and red, with a single white star on a blue ground in the corner. Both were evidently framed from our own stars and stripes. The identity of the field of the two divided, as is ours, into white and red; the star or stars of white on the blue background in the upper corner, like the great North American constellation, now containing so proudly fortyfour points of brightness and Union; the colors dear in song and story of red, white and blue, all point to an evident desire to pattern after the Great Republic.