North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-06-10
From the Metropolitan Record.
"NOBODY's HURT.

Two years ago the United States were at
the summit of earthly prosperity, Kingdoms
gray with centuries sought it's alliance, ma
tions whose record was the history of civiH-
zatlon, gazed with wonder on the new star
that appeared in the political armament the
oppressor looked to it with wondering dread,
and the oppressed with yearning love and
reverence. In every tongue it was syno-
nym for freedom, and its example fired the
heart and nerved the arm of struggling pa
trIots IN every land.
America THE very name suggested i'm
ages of smiling peace and plenty, land flow
ing with milk and honey, people prosper
Gus and contented-honored abroad and hap
py at home. No citizen of Rome, in Rome's
palmiest days, bore prouder title than he
who failed frG IN the Republic of the Vest
Then an American citizen meant freeman
one who owned no lord, saving the Lord on
high" who held his rights at the option of
no petty despot, who owed allegiance only
TO his country, and fealty only to his God.
From Name to Texas, from the Atlantic to
the Pacific seaboard, resounded the hum of
thriving industry, for peace was within our
borders, and we were at peace with the world
without. Two short years ago we might
have defed the world in arms, now we trem-
BILE at the thought of Intervention. Two
short years ago the complications in Europe
an politics were of no account TO US, save
when our spmpathies were aroused by the
gallant struggle OF some oppressed natlonall-
ty; now we look to those uprsings as prov
idential diversion in our favor, aud calculate
the effect they will have on the duration and
ultimate result Of our war of the sections
Why is this and why is there sorrow in
our dwellings and waillng throughout the
land No5ody's hart"
"Nobody,s hurt p Yet, on the plains
and in the valleys of Virginia, fell thousands
upon thousands Of American citizens, whose
death left gap in many tireside ci ircie, an
aching void in many desolate heart, who
died without religious consolation and med
| ical aid-without the soothenlng ministra-
ton of friends or the loving care of kindred
AMID the horrors of battle with the sound
of carnage, or the rush of charging squad
rons. OF the groans of wounded comrads in
their ears with the earth for a pillow and
the wind for a requium.
Nobody's hurt p 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 gurgling cry, heard family
and at intervals amid he iron storm that
lashes the waters into frenzy and gives the
lie direct to the axomed untruth.
"Nobody's hurt" Yet every day onr for
ces dwindlo and our Army of the Dead IN
creases for death has issued a Conscription
Bill and he druus has quota chiefly from our
great military centre.
"Nobodys hurt /" Yet there is grief III
wooden shanties and brown-stone mansions
in town and country, at home and abroad -
Our roubes have paralyzed the manufac-
lures of England; they nave discouraged the
co mmerce of France; they have violently
changed the course OF European emigration
But what of that? "No body's hurt ?
North and South are bleeding at every pore ;
tie life of the nation is oozing out drop by
drop immense tracts are laid waste fertile
districts depopulatde ; the national prestige
is lost the national credit is destroye ID the
national honor tarnisned; but, "n06ody's hart
That glorious anti-Climax Treasured US
"NoBoDY's HURT % Hark how the echoine
chorus swells from Manassas and Fredercks-
burg, from Shiloh and Antietam from Nicks-
burg and New Orleans, from the Potomac anc
the Mississippi. "NOBODY'S HURT"
Tell it to that miserable woman with her help
les starving family, tell it to those orphans
thrown upon the cold charity of an unfeelng
world or that old man trembling on th'
brink of the grave or to those troops o
manned and wounded soldiers who are thrown
back upon their State like so much damaged
| goods-tel them if you dare, that nobody
hurt. y That woman's husband went down il
the i'll. fated Cumberland those childeren's ia
, ther fell at Edwards Ferry, that old mans
sole support was trampled under the hoofs o
Stuart's cavalry, that wounded soldier los
his arm where many gallant comrade los
, his life, on the banks of the bloody Kappa
hammock. Tell them ''nobody's hurt"
And when you have had the moral hardi
hood to do that, then turn to the Administra
: ton, every member of which from the Presi
dent down to the lowest officer has lost char
icter and reputation, the respect of the civill
6 zed world, and the regard of their fellow-cit
izens--lost not only political capital, but po
litical life-and tell them "nobody's hurt
. It is probable they could understand tn
force of the saying better to-day than tw
= short years ago. Then they were starting o
their four years cruise elate and sanguine; no'
IS they lie stranded on the breakers and tn
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