The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-10-14
WASHINGTON, D, G, THURSDAY, OCTOBER H. 1883

pose you an by fame, and of being a favor
lite with rtain class of ladies wherever you
go, on &C MT of your blue coat. / did not
mean to ghten you. think you are re.
covering !. Bot if you stay in the army
here and s,you may certainly be shot after
shooting, obedience to such orders as you
may any :. receive, one of these honest set.
tiers, who, k only to be let alone, and would
rather nc oyou any harm if they had their
choice; y then, in the grand court martial
over the ouds, if your captain asks you
why you Is ed his servant, your fellow.soldier
In the chuf hmilitant, shall you dare to speak
OF this sort honor and duty to him ?"
Why, den, this eeems to me the most ex
trsordinarJ way of looking at the subject.
see it so ep rely on the other side, that"--
On the upper side ? or on the lower side
As We hop both of US, l suspect, to spend our
eternity in heaven above rather than in hell
beneath ppears to me wise plan to ascend
in thought IS often as We may to the footstool
OF the thr 7 of God, and take thence esr views
OF earth = earthly things, that they may look
to us nov our mortal three-score and ten, as
they will reafter from our desth.beds. and
through . countless ages of our immortal.
ity."
Well en-; II you insist upon putting it on
that groeD l don't see how l am to know that
the strange shoot in crowd is Christian"
How o you to know that he is not? A
Mahometa it is said, will not destroy stray
piece of p per without examination, because
the nance Allah may be written on it, Would
you like to- shoot into crowd where you knew
that Christ might be? Did he not say, mas
much as " have done it unto the least of these
my brethrt ye have done it unto me2'"
"But dc you think that all his words are to
be taken 8 hterally?"
"No, nc all; nor yet do think that any of
them are be explained away so as practically
to mean nt hing, which is the more common
error. link that, whenever he spoke, he
meant son .thing. What do you suppose he
meant whe he said thst?"
"Why- don't know. In the way of ones
duty"
cit is y duty to kill or crush, if hidden,
these Feef state settlers, precisely as it the
duty of Al and his men to kill and crush the
Netherlan srs, of Judge Jeffrey to butcher his
countryme on the Bloody Assizes, and of the
Roman sol ers to cruelty our Saviour. Would
you like, f the sake of present glory and hon.
or, to hav your name stand before posterity
beside the 3? Would you like to cast in your
lot with tb ;rs in the other world? 2"
"Why, course not but, as to the Saviour,
and those ,rds of his, you must excuse my say.
ing again, hat think you are very literal and
very extra sgant"
SWELL it pass then for the present and
make up, mr. mind at your leisure as to what
he did me- l."
"JoshD and David fought"
"But must remember that they firmly
and fully lieved that God was on their side,
and they His. In the light which Christian.
ity has tb wn on the character of the Father,
l find it d 'scult to assure myself that He ever
takes pl sed part in the domestic brawls of
His sons at if he does-He, the giver of free
will kr and am sure that it is on the side
of Freedo and not of Slavery"
"Thert gain, nowhere again, you see,
there is /. cry important difference between
as in the y grounds we stand upon. l do
not know bat Slavery ID wrong. How do
you ?"f
Pooh ,ooh, Charley Fie for shame,
Boston i You must have been keeping
bad comp -, and they have stolen your wits.
How do know that twice two is four? Is
there any 'uch anomaly or miscalculation in
the creati as that the Creator should send
some hue souls into the world with several
hundred nan bodies belonging to each, and
some tho, inds of other human souls into the
world wiz 40 bodies belonging to them at all
When on oul can wear hundred bodies at q
time, let llaim them as its own, and not till
then. IL on seriously want an argument,
though, shall have it. do not think ex-
aggerste len assert that a very large ma
jority of sons in civilized countries say that
Slavery is rong. The minority, who say that
it is right re Cor the most part persons whose
interests, ,al or fancied, bid them say it is
right. N }, the presumption is very strong
that thi which almost all uninterested per.
sons demo. zee, and few except interested per-
soma uph |, is an offence, which deserves no
defence. hen, to go back to Joshua and Da-
vid, we It further remember that they were
not Chris ns, and had not Christians to fight
aga nat. think we may get little side.light
upon the iospsl doctrine of social duty from,
81. Paul. condemnation at finding that some of
his bretb were going to law against one
another / IRE the unbelievers. How little he
probably canned that the name of fellow.
Christian before unbelievers and believers,
too, both minal and real, would soon OF ever
get to be title to the goodwill and good
Offices of rs sharers in il, than Odd Fellow is
new. " doy not rather take wrong p he
says. " 2 do ye not rather be defrauded ."
"Wou you be NONRESIDENT, then 2"
can i say yes. / will not say no, until
1 have liz and thought longer, and sifted the
matter tn ,ugh and through. Thus far 1 have
gone, ans no farther as yet: The whole spirit
of the G; pei, so far as understand it. is the
spirit Of ! Al and brotherIy love. Can man,
full of II spirit, kill his brother, his Fathers
son? P asps, yes perhaps, no. But can he
kill him ! the sake of fsttery, or pay, or pro-
motion, { even to enrich any of his favorite
brothers r., his countrymen) by the portion
OF that OF No; q thousand times mol But
may he kill him because he sees him lifting
his hand ,ainst his mother, or his sister, or
their hell ,s little ones2 Yes, if there be no
other wa but if he can find any other way,
he will th God, and take it."
"Ah, I l. Now you are beginning to look
at the OF side of the question, and your own
good sen and candor show you at once that
there's cat deal in it. Any soldier, who de.
serves tn lame, is glad and proud when he
sees the tty girls smiling around him." said
the lieut. ant, sentimentally, "to think how
quickly sword would leap out Of the hand
some scs ard, that they admire 30 much, to
defend Il l. We think of that, can assure
YOU, on oy hard march,"
MAR. sto defend them against home keep
ing Mex as-against squaws and papooses
Al, Lieu Nant, there's q good deal of romance,
fear call things by their true nsmes-a
good des falsehood in our notions of var. If
it we're .ys or usually in defence of mothers,
sisters, wives, or even of our affairs and
hearths, build find it in me to covet that sword
of yours nd to wish, too, perhaps-Heaven
forgive r.. that might soon have . chance
| to draw But for one woman who is really
protecte. , war, are not hundreds made or.
phans, widows, and worse? Let MS be
frank wi ourselves now, as our Judge will be
hereafte Thus much is to me as clear as
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