Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-04-22
From the Metropolitan Record.
HNObOdy's Hurt.O

Two years ago the United States we're ut
the summit Of earthly prosperity. Kingdoms
gray with centuries sought its alliance, nations
whose record was ths history Of civilization
gazed with wonder on the new star that ap
pesred in the political armament, the oppres-
sor looked 20 it with wondering dread, and
the oppressed with yesrniug ioya and reter-
ence, In every tongue it was synonyme
for freedom, and its example fred the heart
and nerved the arm OF struggling patriots in
every land. ......
Americs'--thevery name suggested images
of smiling peace and plenty, land flowing
with milk and honey, people prosperous
and ontented-honored abroad and happy
at home. No citizen of Rome, in Rome's
palmiest days, bore prouder title than he
who hailed from the Republic Of the West.
Then an American citizen meant freeman
-one who owned no lord, Saving the Lord
on high" who held his rights at the option
Of 40 petty despot, who owed allegiance only
TO his country and feslty only &c his God
From Maine to Texas, from the Atlantic to
the, Pacific seAbosrd, resounded the hum of
thriving industry, for peace was within our
borders, and we wers at peace with the world
without. Two short years ago we might
have defed the world in arms, now we trem.
years ago the complications in European
politics were of no account to u.s.. save when
our sympathies we're aroused by the gallant
struggle Of some oppressed nationality; now
we look to these uprisings as q providsntial
diversion in our favor, and calculate the effect
they will have on duration and ultimate result
Of our war Of the sections Why Is this?
and why is there sorrow in our dwellings, and
wailing throughout the land ? "Nobody's
hurt
"NobOdy's hurtr' Yet on the plains and
in the vallies Of Virginia fell Thousands upon
thousands Of American citizens, whose death
left gap in many freside circle, an aching
void in many a desolate heart, who died with
out religious consolation or medical aid-with-
out the soothing ministration Of friends or the
the loving care Of kindred--apid the horrors
OF battle, with the sound lof chrnage y or the
rush of charging squadrons, or the groans of
wounded comrades in their ears, with the
earth for pillow and the wind for requiem
"Nobody's hurt % Yet, from the waters
of the Mississippi from the harbor of Charles
ton, and from the waves OF the Ocean and
the Gulf comes up 4 gurgling cry, heard faint
ly and at intervals amid the iron storm that
ashes the waters into frenzy, and this cry
gives the lie direct to the axiomAtized nm
truth. -lr VI m CIT
forces dwindls and our Army Of the Dead
increases for Death has issued a O0ascrip-
tion Bin, and Ne drases lhis quota, chiefly
from our great military ceRtrss,
"Nobody's hurtr' Yet, there is GRIFFIN
wooden shanties and brown-stone mansions
in town and. country, at home and abroad.
Our troubles have pArAlyzsd tho manufactures
Of England, they have discouraged the com,
meree of france, they have violently Changed
the course OF European emigration But
what OF that "Nobodys hurt T. North
and South are bleeding Tat every pore the
life-blood Of the nation is oozing out drop
by drop immense tract. are laid waste ,,fsrtile
districts are depopuAted, the national pres.
tge ia lost, the national credit destroyed the
national honor tarnished, bnt--hobody' hurt
That glorious anliolimaK reRssures US.
"Nobodys hurt" Hark, how the eehoing
chorus swells from Manassas and Fredericks
) barg, from Shiloh and Antietam, from Vicks
bufR aud New Orleans, from The Pdthmat
and the Mississippi "N0B0DY's HURTI
Tell Il 10 that miserable woman with hsl
helpless starving family, tell Il 70 those Or
phans thrown upon the cold charity Of al
unfeehng world, or that old mau trembling
on the brink Of the grave, or 10 thpse troop
! of MANNED and wounded soldiers who arr
thrown back upon their State like so tnucl
damaged good--tell them, il yon dare, tha
''nobody's hurt That Woman's HUSBAND
: vent down 10 the illlated Cumberland, thoh
childrsn's fethsr fell at EdwAEd's Ferry
that old mans sole support was trAmPls
9 under the hoois Of Stuarts cavalry, thA
Q wounded soldier lost bis arm where imeny
gallant conTsdS lost bis life, on the banka q
ths bloody RappshAnhock Tell than fRs
lbOdya hurt pIiI aal tlf la iFilftulli a1ifc ~
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