Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-01-31
CT We have received the following
from lady whose husband is member
of Capt. Sawyer's Cavalry Company;


from lady whose husband is member
of Capt Sawyer's Cavalry Company
Pity the Soldiers Wife.
Silently the shades of evening
Gather round my lonely door;
Silently they bring before me
Faces may see no more"
Yes. dear familiar faces Gone, gone,
gone away from all the loved ones OF
home. Again and again listen for the
we'll known footstep, but alas Only the
wall of the dreary winter winds reminds
me of my loneliness.
War, unrelenting and dreadful, has
taken away our loved ones; and all that
remains for us is to hope, watch and pray.
How little we realized the blessing of our
quiet homes, and peaceful institutions.
We loved to read of the victories OF our
fathers, and the fortitude and heroism Of
our mothers, yet in our security we thought
of no national evil. dreaded no national
calamity. As nation we have sought
after pleasure and profit, solacing our
selves the while, with the very comfort
ing reflection, that sce we're the most ta-
vored people of the earth forgetting that
the groaas of four millions of human be-
iDgs, with souls precious as our own might
one day come into remembrance before
God.
The unlocked for, unprepared for hour
has come upon us, and our land is filled
with war and all its destroying attendants.
Slavery has reared its hidcous head, es-
saying to rule us with rod of iron, un-
till every principle of true nobility is
crushed out beneath the heel of despotism.
But shall we, the sons and daughters of
those brave men who marked the frozen
ground over which they trod with the
blood Of their unshod feet" to establish
our institutions,--sit tamely down and
patiently submit? Never! no never d!
Though it cost us many a scalding tear,
many pang of bitterness, yet our be-
loved country must be saved, the result
will be glorious.
Our childrens' children shall read our
history and rejoice that the spirit of rs
is not extinct. True, we miss our loved
ones from our freside, but we know that
it was for our patriotism they have left
us, and we who are left behind by every
womanly attention to their wants, should
encourage them on to certain victory.
Yes, encourage them, not only to be true
to their country, but to wage unceasing
war with vice in all its forms, and help
them by our prayers and words of love-
to conscicuciously discharge every duty
before God, thatif they never more return
to gladden. our hearts, we may hope to
meet them in land where war will no
more separate loving friends forever.
And, wife, mother and sister whose cir
Gle of home is still unbroken,---as you
listen to the wall of the angry elements,
and sigh for the soldiers on the tented
feld,-think to of the soldiers wite !
she who has no manly arm to support her
or strong hand to smooth the rough ways
of life. Give her a tear as in all her
loneliness she tries to be joyous in her now
desolate home. Speak kindly to her, as
she vainly endcavors to stop the tears
when her little prattling children repeat
again the same old question, " When will
father come"
Say not, she is unpatriotic then, though
the quivering lip and fearful cheek betray
a world of anguish, for there are moments
when the heart has only tears to give
Such seasons of bitterness come to hel
when the privations of the camp. the hor.
rors of the battle field and lonely wild
ow-hood rise up before her; and were il
not for tcars,-blessed tears--the poor
bruised heart would surely break.
NJ P. X.
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