, 1863-10-14

.Eress, he had NOT, When II zRp6eQ Into
blind and insensate worship Of uaan-sel-
ling and women-whipping-a de1draten
of Might Us opposed to Right-of Bar
barism as the opponent Of Civilization
the man]iness and the courage to protest
against the..war, aud the strange cnormities
to which it was committed, and, alas !
waswithout that deep aud strong NOR
al sense that makes men obedient
to conviction, though it runs counter
to education and interest, and Was carried
of, in spite Of his intellectual discriu1inar
tious and protests, into that sea in which
80 many have been swallowed up. He
warred sgainHt his reason for ten years Of
his life. a German by birth. and educa~
ton, hence unayoidably, as he was also |
Of the middle class, 9 liberal In his in
! most thoughts, he consented to become and
remain the mere serf OF, at the best, the
ill-phid hireling Of that odious party Of re-
action that has made the name Of Democ-
: 1acy 3 stencil III the nostrils Of the true
men Of all the world. And no man who
has not seen his rcst1essness and disquiet
'~ under the badge that he wore, can COM
prehend how he tretted and chated against
the insult to his intellectual as well as toh his
moral sense to which his partisanship
subjected him. Hewas even the protessed
friend Of that epitome of all the vices Of
modern and mis-called Democracy cy-James
Buchanan Could any man bearing the
German name descend to greater depthss
AT last, in 1lr. Crumbs career, came the
= supreme moment in which be was forced
TO a nearer adherence to the truth As
an editor and publisher IN Philadelphia,
he saw, and no mnn could see better. the
perils BY which the country Of his adop-
ton, and not less, the property that he had
laid up, were compassed about; and for a few
days the impulses Of his better nature pre-
rallied. Instead Of covert able and dan
. genous enemy Of the government and Of
the Immortal principles Of which the gov
ernment is the embodied type, be, doubt
lese, impe1led BY one Of those profound
mental and moral resolutions that mark
the lives Of all men, became the stout and
intrepid defender Of the institutions that
had sheltered and enriched him, and ofthe
principles that have made these institu,
:. :tions possible in the country Of his ndpp
.. ton For q few days he did yeoman's ser.
vice to that sacred cause Of which his 1ifi
was one continued betrayal
IS, But mark his end! The men whom b,
=; had served with such super serviceable yea
hunted him to death. Outraged BY hi
,-... supposed betrayal Of their cause by hi
3. emphatic denials Of the dtsinity Of Huma
Slavery and Of the infa1libi1ity Of its POP
and Apostle, JEFF Davis, the sympathizel
with the South sought him at night Wit
, ?. brand and torch, swearing to end Il
apogtate and the apostacy at one hlo'
>. a. conscience into which cowardice III
been instilled by crime, forced the hunt
man to flee.
~ Our readers know the rest. He died
exhaustion. induced by the fight; and Il
80 savage exultation Of those whom he b
" :, served 80 long and so veil was' the on
=. hymn that he heard at his exit.
~ We do not intend to preach q serrno1
= :. but there is q lesson in this life and dea
of Grund that all men, especially all mi
of German birth and Saxon connection
may prodtably study. It is this-that ma
selling under the guise Of Democracy
d. :: Barbarism assuming the mfen Of Progres
= is the most into1e1ant Of the tyra1nIes t
':.- :. which this world is afflicted; and th
whenthe despotiHna Of the Old World q
- abandoned only that the emigrant mi
= take service under the most intolerat
:. - = : despotisms that have grown up here,
T.. :. mistake is committed for which, as in t
=: :; ;. case Of G1und, moral death is. the Pc
4" atty, If it be not followed, as with him,
= =: that physical taking-of that shocked Ph
... adelphia only day or two since. Mode
-, Democracy, as poor Grund learned, is ,
~. for the German or Anglo Saxon races.
belonge to quite other people among VIII
-. slavery is no crime
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