Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-07-08
IETTER TO Holm ROBINSON.

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DEAR JoHS:-When this letter may ind you'
isn't for me to say but wherever you are, 1t VIII no
doubt find you upon bed of laureIs; though 'or
NV own part, do think bed of good honest goose
feathers the more comfortable lying. Mind, dor,
for a moment want to think light of what you've
done. and what you've suffered. Not bit OF IT.
Terrible work it must be; and bold heart a man
must needs have to GO through it: you've earned
your share of glory-(though what may be your
share as a full private, can't say and snouid
think have got your belyful of it for lie. It's my
hope. however, that you'll never get any MORE NO
having cleaned the blood from your bayonet and
once more polished up your freIock, it's my hope
that they'll never know service again. l do nope
whatever you may think, that you've had enough Oh
the sport; now sticking cold iron into the bowels
of screecbinc man, and now knocking in his skull
as though it was no more than pumpkins. When
the guns are firing, and the bloods up of course
YOU think nothing of the work,going at 1t as though
Won were an engine of brass made to shoot and stao
But, should say, it can't be pleasant to think OF
when it's over. That field of glory, as it's called,
mist 90 nigh to make man heart-sick must make a
man little out of sorts with himself tits SO different
a
would much sooner cultivate turnips than laurcls
turnips nice thing for men and cattle, and SO ca
silv grown. Now, laurels, even sprg OF 1t, must
he raised in ne devils hot house, and be manuret
with human blood Still, according to some folks
tbere's some human blood that Providence thinks nj
more of than ditchwater. Of course, there's been
pretty hurrah here in England about your putting
down the Sikhs. One quiet gentleman with COOS
quill is very pous indeed upon the matter;and thlnk
that the war was expressly ordered to destroy 9TH
scum of .4sia.," Providence having employed tn
British army for other purpose than to sweep ror
tho earth so much of its own offal It's dro to thin
of your pous christian in his easy chair with his foo
on soft STOOL his rent and taxes paid, and his pe'
at the parish church newly cusioned-Its somethin
more than dro isn't it, to think OF him lifting nl
pious eyes to his ceiling, and talking OF some TWEEN
~ thousand slaughtered men as the ''scum, the re
fuse of creatures; animals just little above ape
of NO account at all to the God who made EN-.
rood John thinks of 'em more than tn
vermin that once or twice year is cleaned out {
his bedsteads, that decent respectable people ma
take their rest all the cosier for the cleaning LAS
christianity, isn't it,
And then the demand there's been for religion !
this matter. A score of pious people-all hot iro
their BibIes-day after day write to the papers
know when they were to be comforted, by being al
tsorized by Her Majesty to return thanks for tt
slaughter. care we to shut up in our own breasts
.-wrtes one very much afraid of burstlng-"tf
grateful emotionr' Was there to be no safety-val'
% believe they call t-ordered by the government
.Are we even to content ourselves with talking
one another, as individuals, of this our great dell
france p This christian writes from Brlghton' al
nth no doubt, tears as big marbles in his eye
,,.rts To know when he is-according to govern
mont order, as if he couldn't offer up a prayer
his own account, when be is to be allowed 70 re.u
,h.nk. to ssHps, who is the God of Battles re
baps am very wicked, butt for my part l never ca
bring myself to think Of HIM as the God OF Battle
The God of Love-the God of Mercy-she God
eoodness-but cannot say the God Of Flre-tl
Cod Of Blood-the God of every Horror eomm't'