Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1861-09-25
Mans inhumanity to man,
Makes countless millions mourn"

Makes countless millions mourn"
1t is a very easy matter with some persons
to be very kind, very accommodating, very
benevolent or very patriotic, when it does not
require the sacrifice of personal comfort and
enjoyment at their hands. Some persons
there are-many such-who esteem it no
great sacrifice to contribute in wordy sym
pathy, or even Of money itself, to the relief
of suffering humanity but if it be necessary
for them to sit By he couch of suffering,
battle the burning feyered brow, administer
the soothing draft dress the eating sore, bind
up the wounded limb-or even deprive them
selves of personal ease, comfort or convent
ence-they shrink from the sacrifice as too
much for them to make.
Who that has been.an observant in life for
a score or two of years, has not noticed this
thing, andi f she or he had a heart that knew
anything Of the divine commandment that
bids us Hweep With those that weep" how
that heart has bleed over mans inhumanity
J to man" The blessed Saviour tells US that
: in that day it shall be said to the blessed of
my Father" Il was sick, and ye visited me"
! not sent a messenger to me-"I was in
= prison and we ministered unto me"-not sat
, isfed your conscience by paying some one
: else to minister in your stead, because to do
y SO yourself would have caused a personal
humiliation and discomfort.
1t has been time and again said, that man
$ kind assumes all the seLfshness of his nature
IS when be enters the thorougfares of public
le travel. To be civil and coldly courteous to
OF his strange fellow-trayeller, he may condo
III scend to-but to surrender his luxurious
~ ease to the comfort, or convenience, or neces.
. sity of another, he seems to act as though
IS, the laws Of refined civilization, or christian
9y kindness had no such claims upon him. SCI
1T that invalid soldier enter the coach, s~caIcel,
We able to bear the kindly assistance of his BRAY
- comrades in arms who are Accompanying!
him to mis- home to lay him down TO die. H
OF is haggard and emaciated by disease-th
ire deadly ball of the Yankee enemy has perfo
Jus rated his lungs, and though he still fingers
&C. it is too plainly evident that his end is nigf
He stands looking for a place to lay his wear
as emaciated limbs. Each seat in the coach ha
u.s. one occupant-only one-they were intende
III to accommodate two-and yet no one move
to make way for the wounded, dying soldie
Gu An appeal is made to their humanity-to tt
humanity of Southern ladies and no II
"ui spouse is given-no effort made for his a
arm commodation-and he is compelled to
sel' down in the close, confined little saloon
Az the rear of the car, that does not furnish
enough for a strong-lunged man, how mu
less for one whose respiration is painful
guy difficult under the most advantageous circu
''ooo stances. We see the big tears cover his ey
we hear his brave comrades say-"would
God we had taken some other route where
= might have met some little human sympat
and kindness" and we turned away, shocl
at the selfshness of the scene.
:" Such a scene has been witnessed-disgra
~ full and Illuminating as it is to confess 1t
rec And the secret of the u~nfeeling conduct v
just here 1t was a night train, ard ev
one wanted a whole cushion so as to sno
toros as comfortably as possibly and they W
.uo unwilling to submit to a little discomt
even to accommodate a dying soldier who
And received his death wound In their defen
is As no" can Such nie" anu "o"0n pay
o;van 'That mercy l to others show,
That mercy show to me"