Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-10-11
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garands. Painful and revolving as is the
| thought OF war, in ATTY cause, it would be diff.
icult to look on this beautiful structure, SYM
Dol and pledge of the mutual faith and help
on which rests the safety of these brotherhoods
of the mountains, without heartthrob of
sympathetic emotion War, here in Switzer-
land, has been so often undertaken in behalf
| of rights and principles which people cannot
surrender without deadly moral loss and has
been ennobled by so many instances of indi-
vidual heroism and devotion, that, in spite Of
the most cordial assent to the principles of
nOnresistance, one is sometimes fascinated by
the moral splendor of its accomplishments in
to momentary forgetfulness of the insepara-
ble wrong and horror of the " trial by battle" !"
! Thus also, when in my walks to the city, |
pass the little companies Of. citizAn soldiery
exercising on the Intervening commons, | am
conscious Of a sentiment of respect and sym
pathy which more imposing military displays,
even at home, do not always awaken. We
have, it must be owned, fallen into some bad
habits OF sentiment and expression on the sub
Ject of national misunderstanding we talk
too lightly Of the terrible alterations of peace
and war think it is that we are grown SO
numerous people that each little human life
counts cheapy with us
Tere, where the arm of Tell was as the arm
of thousand and where the one heroic heart
of Arnold of WiHkelried Llunted the spear
points of a phalanx, conquering in death a
path for Liberty" one awakenS to the per-
ception of the worth and dignity of the Indi.
vidual to deeper and more loving recogni-
ton OF the confraternity OF human society,
and of the nobility Of personal use and per
sona sacrifice
1t is the lesson have won from my journey
| ingS among the mountains and mountain streams
of Switzerland, and which the grave and sim
pie severity of Genevese manners, and the no.
| be and enlightened patriotism which diStin,
| guish the teachers Of the people, in the pull
| pit aud the leCturc-room, has enhanced and
deepeued.
In another letter | will tell you something
of Chamouini aud the journey thither, Of the
beauties Of the Lake Leman, and the glory of
the mountains which are round about Ge,
neva, as well as of those soft English fore
grounds, which the cunning crayOus Of our
freud +. c., would SO well love to copy, sleep
ing in their Ycrdure at the feet Of these bare
and Iedgy sleeps,
For this time, goodbye Imagine for your
self the glow Of the thousand lamps, doubled
by the waters Of the lake and river which
closed the Sabbath day festivities ; the stir
ring music the state Of the torch-Ht process
sions, along the noble quays the quiet and
cheerful animation of the cty'S many guests !;
the ancient and picturesque costumes of the
mountain women, the proud and Tranquil con
fdence Of the '' young mea aud madens, old
men and children" met in this sort of indirect
and passive defiance of their traditional ene
mics and tyrautS, of Savoy and Burgundy- -
1t was a truly popular festival it made many
an eXiled heart warm towards the home land
far away many an eye grow dim with tears
of love and longing. But, more than this,
my young and patriotic friend it made a little
group of your couulry-woman, gathered from
our north and south, upon a stately balcony
OF the QIay de Mout Blanc, overlooking the
water the beloved standard Of our common
country floating Protectiugy above them :
it made US feel and own, that dear and pro
phetic as we deem these clustering conSteIIa.
tons of the west, they glow g0t yet, as sung
the most unmpassioned of our native poets,
upon the
. Flag of the free hcaIt's ONLY home'
H. C. II.