Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-04-06


You are very bitter-I should have
expected that from Yankee lady, but
hardly from YOU
:" | am from the opYbsite extreme, from
Iowa, but | hate rebel worse than the
Yankees do; you are rebelling against
the power of God, and the kindness of
man."
/" Lady, do you consider what you say,
these are fearful words"
" | know they are !; but still repeat
that | hope not one of you will escape to
carry the tilings. You had no right to
come here, and destroy our homes, and
take away our friends, and leave nothing
but devastation in your track. You may
not hope for the blessing of God upon
your undertaking
LADY" he answered, while a tear
sprung to his eye, 81 should not be
found here to-day. had not your army
found its way to my home and desolated
it. | had young and beautiful wife,
fair as the beauty of heaven, loving and
tenderly loved, but even her they did not
spare. but we'll nigh broke her heart with
fear and sorrow. Then | resolved to for
felt my life, or avengc the wong de.
terlnined that the homes of the North
should feel the power of the invaders
hand, if my single strength could accom-
piish it. 1t is easy for you, with your
abundance, TO sit and declaim against US,
who have been nerved to the last point Of
desperation, by the wrongs of your armies.
And when we see our dear ones reduced
to the last extremity, what shall we do
bat raise our hands, and strike in their
defense. | did not willingly enter into
this struggle. But having entered it.
death alone shall put limit to my ef-
forts"
Do you expect God will forgive you?"
81 trust have father in heaven who
has forgiveness for me- for am conscious
of doing only my duty and does not
that always meet the appreciation of
God? My convictions of duty brought
ne here, and will follow me to the end
But if fall, | should hardly expect you
to minister to me. Would you comfort
dying man whom you can rebel ?"
81 don't know as | should, if he contin-
ued rebel"
MAY God forgive you. The chances
of war may cause us to meet again Grace.
fully raising his h,t-"rill VIC meet
again." he said, and mounting his horse,
rode away.
Those words of the resolute young'offi-
Ger rang in her ears like u fatality. What
could he mean? He certainly could not
be so unsoldierly as to seek personal re-
venge.
But the soul of the young girl whom
no danger daunted- was filled with unrest.
For several days all remained in quiet
and suspense. Vast bodies of men-in-
fantry and cavalry-wcre moving to and
fro like the surging of enormous pillows
Heavy demands we're made upon the peo-
pie, and those supplies that were not
willingly granted, were forcibly taken,--
until all began to look anxiousy for the
time and place when the dreadful blow
should fall. At last it came. and that in
the consccrated abodes of the dead Oh |!
the terrible thunders of artillery Oh !!
the sickening thought that thousands of
unprotected human breasts were the tar
gets for those missiles Of destruction.
The contest was frightful. and bravery
desperate on either side. But at length
there was lull--and the stars and stripes
in the ascendant.
The firing ceased. aud the armies slow
ly retired. Every available spot from
the temple consecrated to Jesus, down to
the vcrriest howell was filed with the
wounded and dying-friend and foe side
by side. Blasphemies. groans, praying.--
and these are the noble forms whom but
yesterday were in the full glory Of man.
hood. Mothers and sisters, with tender
est sympathy quickly gathered round to
perform kind Offices, fearing lest each mo-
ment should reveal the countenance of a