The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-05-21
From the Metropolitan Record.
Nobody's Hurt.

/ Nobody's Hurt.
Two years ago the United States were q
the summit of earthly prosperity King
doms gray with centuries sought its alliance
nations whose record was the history O
l,civilization, gazed with wonder on the nev
star that appeared in the political frmaneut
the oppressor locked to it with wonderin,
dread, and the oppressed with yearnipg low
and reference, In every tongue it was
synonym for freedom, and its example 6reC
the heart and nerved the arm of struggling
patriots in every land.
! America!-the very name suggested i'm
/ ages of smiling peace and plenty, lant
flowing with milk and honey, a peopl,
prosperous add cohtented-houored abroad
and happy at home. No citizen of Rome
| in Rome's paimiest days, bore a proudeI
title than he who hailed from the Republic
of the West. Then an American citizen
meant freemau-one who owned no lord
Saving the Lord on high" who held his
rights at the option of petty despot, who
owed allegiance only to his country, and
fcalty only to his God. From Maine to
Texas, from the Atlantic to the Pacific sea-
board, resou uded the hum of thriving indus
try for peace was within our borders, and
we were at peace with the world without
Two short years ago we might have dehed
the world in arms, now we tremble at the
thought of intervention. Two short years
ago the complications in European politics
were of no account TO US, save when our
sympathies were aroused by the gallant
struggle Of some oppressed nationality; now
we look to these uprisings as providential
diversion in our favor, and calculate the ef-
feet they will have on the duration and ul-
innate result of our war of the sections.-
Why is this? and why is there sorrow in our
dwelling and wailing throughout the land?
Nobody's Hurt. p.
"Nobody's hurtn' Yet, on the plains and
in the vallies of Virginia fell thousands up
on thousands of American citizens, whose
death left gap in many a fireside circle,
an aching void in many a desolate heart,
who died without religious consolation or
m edical aid-without the soothing minis
tration of friends or the loving care of kin
Gred--amd the horrors of battle, with the
sound OF carnage, or the rush of charging
squadrons, or~the groans of wounded COM
rades in their ears, with the earth for a pill
low and the wind for requiem.
"Nobodv's hurt!" Yet. from the waters
of the Mississippi. from the harbor OF Char
lesion, and from the waves of the Ocean and
the Gulf comes up a gurgliDg cry, heard
family and at intervals amid the iron storm
that lashes the waters into frenzy, and this
CIV gives the lie direct to the axiomized
untruth. ..... r..-.
'Nobody's hurt!" Yet, every day our
forces dwindle and our Army OF the Dead
increase; for Death has issued q Conscription
Bill. and he drG,os h;s quota chiefly from our
great military centres.
"Nobody's hut " Yet, there is grief
in wooden shanties and brown-stone man
sious, in towns and country, at home and
abroad. Our troubles have paralyzeG the
manufactures of England; they have dis
couraged the commerce of France; they
have violently changed the course of Eu-
ropeau emigration. But wha. of that?-
IN body's hurlI" North and South are
bleeding at every pore; the life blood of the
nation is ooziug out drop by drop; immense
tracts are laid waste; fertile districts are de-
the national prestige is lost; the
national credit destroyed; the nltioual hon
or tarnished; but-'nobody's hurt That
glorious anti climax re- assures. US. No
body's hurt!' Hark how the echoing cho-
rus swell from Manassas and Fredericks-
burg, from Shio and Antietam. from Vicks-
burg and New Orleans, from the Potomac
and the Mississippi, NOBODY'S HURT.
helpless starving family, tell it to those or
phans thrown upon the cold charity of an
world; or that old man trembling
on the brink of the grave; or to those troops
of manned and wounded soldiers who are
thrown back upon their State like so much
goods-tell them, if you dare,
that nobody's hurt. "That woman's husband
went down with the i'll fated Cum mbetland
those childreu's father fell at Edwards Ferry
that old mans sole support was trampled
under the boots of Stuart's cavalry, that
wounded soldier lost his arm where many a
gallant comrade lost his life, on the banks
of the bloody Rappahannock. Tell them
"Nobody's hurt"
Aud when you have the moral hardihood
to do that, then turn to the Administration,
every member of which from the President
down to the lowest officer has lost character
and reputation, the respect Of the civilized
world and the regard of their fellow citizens
lost not only political capital, but politi
cal life-and tell them "nobody's hurt" 1t
is probable they could understand the force
of the saying better to-day than two short
' ears ago Then they were starting on
their four years cruise elate and sanguine;
now they lie stranded on the breakers
the good ship Constitution battered on all
sides, the crew fearfully diminished, the
supplies gone, the reckoning lost. Now ring
10 their ears the mocking cry with which
they started-"Nobody' hurt"
The piles sustaining tho London bridge
have been driven FIVE hundred years. 10
1845 they were critically examined. and
found to have been 6ecayed but slightly;
these piles are principally of elm. Old Sa,
voy Place in the city OF London. is sustained
on niIss driven six hundred and fifty years