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ot have be
by McCandless
E brick-mason builds, but staggers up the ladder with a heavier load
than bricks,--the soldier upon his back. The symbols of nations are
still the lion, the eagle and the wolf. Some political leaders even yet
talk about the necessity of an occasional war to put boys upon their
mettle, as if invention, the building of railways, the founding of
cities, the fighting of economic and social wrongs would not put a man
upon his mettle! To put a German on one side of a fence and a Frenchman
on the other, and have one peasant empty his shotgun into the bowels of
the other is about as noble as going out into a yard and shooting a
Jersey cow. The best way to protect a nation is to build boys into men,
through the processes of productive industry. Machine gun and
dreadnought will soon be as obsolete in the presence of arbitration and
the court at the Hague as an ox-cart is obsolete in the presence of a
Pullman palace car. Wendell Phillips once said that Lord Bacon had a
right to lay his hand on the steam engine and say to Watt: "This engine
is mine; I gave you the method." So Charles Sumner, after sixty-five
years, has a right to stand yonder at the entrance of the Parliament
House of Peace, now being completed in the capital of Holland, and say:
"I laid the foundation stones of this structure and started a war
against war." This oration of Sumner's on "The True Grandeur of Nations"
made him a most unpopular figure at home, but Europe soon called for his
speech. It was translated into many languages, two hundred and
fifty-thousand copies were published and sold, and for the time Sumner
was the most talked of man of the year. Now the one man who was not on
the defensive, who was not content to merely stay the forward progress
of slavery, but insisted on driving it back into the Gulf and ultimately
into the sea, to be drowned forever, was Charles Sumner, with
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re in t
by Marta
Inn were built we used to think it was a long way even up here to the
old mine." "Did I ever tell you about the old Negro that owned this
mine? Well, he came herein the early days and found a strange yellow
outcropping here. He built himself a funny little shanty on the
hillside, which he thatched with spruce boughs. Here he spent a good
many years of his life, digging. His tunnel caved in soon after he left
it, but he did find a little gold for his work. When his provisions gave
out, he would take his old mule, which was his only companion, tramp
into the city, sell his little bag of gold dust, and buy
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Nooga, and there had met a Confederate soldier w
by Holler Gregerson
Ard found--and bade me enter. My reflections could not have been more
gloomy if the celebrated inscription, _Dante_, placed over the gates of
hell, had been written above the massive iron door. "All hope abandon,
ye who enter here." My feelings were terrible when the jailor turned the
key in the lock, secured the heavy iron bar that crossed the door, and
left me. Never before had I been locked up as a prisoner, and now it was
no trivial matter--a few days or weeks. There was absolutely no hope
ahead. I was there as a criminal, and too well did I realize the
character of the Southern people, to believe that they would be
fastidious about proof. Life is held too cheap in that country to cause
them a long delay in its disposal. In that hour, my most distressing
thought was of my friends at home, and particularly of my
mother--thinking what would be their sorrow when they heard of my
ignominious fate--if indeed they ever heard, for I had given an assumed
name. That all my young hopes and ambitions, my fond dreams of being
useful, should perish, as I then had no doubt they would, on a Southern
scaffold, seemed unbearable in the extreme. But only one moment did
these thoughts sweep over me; the next they were rejected as not
calculated to profit in the least. My first action was to borrow from my
Union companion his blankets, of which he had a plentiful
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