, 1862-05-09

birth. I know good deal about the class Of
men who volunteer for common soldiers in !
England. know q good deal Of what has |
been done In that way in the time Of sorest |
1eea, but never knew or heard Of a man in |
the mi9d1e ranks of life leave home and com |
fort and competence to 60 for common sold ]
Ter.
TIE WOMEN OF AMERICA.
Then the women Of our land have dstanced |
all their sisters On the earth, for general stea-
der. We may challenge any people to show |
such perfect devotion manifested in such . |
way. When the history Of this war Is written,
the Sanitary Commission will take large |
place in it, and the Sanitary Commission will
hare to write I'VE shou1d lave been able to
do very little for the comfort Of our men, had |
it not been for the untiring devotion Of our
women and their generous, boundless gifts Of
what WIS most needed" Of the part taken |
BY woman in that which Pales al gifts Of food
quatei5 tell. Mothers gave their sons, wives
their husbands, and then sat down to their
daily life. That is the portrait OF young
T. nan, the only son Of bis mother, and she
was widow" friend said to me one day
q he was educated in the best schools, had
just come back from tour in Europe when
:" the war began he went into the army at
once and was killed at Balls B11f"
4 lady, now the widow ofone from our own
JkALE HuQ dh 4lkk9lAASS HEAt AP ~ L4E
field on one Of the first boats, and when sha
arrived found her husband dead. The novel
fst who processes to give US life as it ought to
be, will say s' then she sat down by his bleed
ing corpse al night long and wept.n The
angel who writes down in book kept in the
Archives Of Heaven life as it is, has written
out in fair golden characters: The wife Of Gen.
Wanace, OF OTTAWA, went to Pittsburg to find
her husband who was represented wounded
and found him dead. Then she looked Oh the
But she saw all round him On the boat the men
who had fought and fallen with him there
yet alive, in pain and thirst, with none to help
them. So she turned away from her dead,
sent back her tears into her heart, and turned
to the living, and all night long she went from
and the holy succor that must come out Of
such an inspiration in such place"
EMANCIPATION.
Then our cause itself becomes ever more
worthy US the weeks move on. We have pu-
rided our most sacred place, the Mount Zion
Of our nation, from the curse Of !human bond
age. The District Of Columbia is free soil,
on that dial to 60 backward, aud when the
| heart is purified there is hope for the mem-
| bers. And cur chief magistrate in sentences
that by their very awkward honesty, tell us
| that they have come right out Of his own hon.
est heart, has said, let Us see whether we can
not still meet ike brothers, and bearing the
| loss between Us as we have borne the sin,
nressad ~ free And we ha1e made G Il .us cr;me
t,a;1st & rn,oetr II +1n .,a4;n-s ~ .,ar~;t
* hand III tho4 Hoi1s sword tn 1ocE =. fettar
- ai1 ts " 80. 1acie ,a;'
has conoa al hefar e na ~ Mead 5 hie I, %
ouiet oraer1 deFotion to Ia1enT whs1erer, ~ -
5ota rer ~, +hn nrivf1pge Il his Whoie cnn-
ncf s;nea ~, w., trnnhI oos, has beeen 81 "a,
40 remen,bar a, autirajr hismeiesa s NJ eord
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