Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1864-07-29

periled my life to maintain her Liberties and her
unity; these are first things my mission is
Godlike, TO wit to maintain liberty and the
right forever! Amen.
When this war is ended much of the scuf
and scum of society will have disappeared, and
nine out OF ten of those who return from vic
torious battle-felds will make better, sterner,
more manly members of society than ever be-
fore. The most of the great soldiers OF history
were men of simple tastes, quiet manners and
of unaSsuming department. This is the ten
tency of war, to lop off eXcreseences, n con-
soidate the character, to uure TO self-delial, TO
impart energy, determination and self reliance,
and to mold the whole man Alright. This war
will leave more men in the country than were
found it the day when Sumter was fired at and
! fell
Official reports of European countries have
shown more boy. children are born in war than
in times of peace, and that although at the end
of the wars OF the First Napoleon, 1t was rare
to find Frenchman over five feet three, there
was recuperalion in the next age, and now
the average height of the men does not wary
much from what it was before The Directory.
As soon as the war closes there viii ireyita-
bly, be a universal financial crash in five years
thereafter the country will exhibi degree OF
solid prosperity and national pc-e er that can
defy the world besides an amount of cotton
will be raised annually, which will astonish all
civilized nations. WhyP
War makes men determined, self-reliant
men; such men have degree of self-respect
which idlers never dreamed of; these charac-
teristics will impel them to labor to intelligent
labor, 10 labor well directed. Five years ago,
many planter had from 500 to 5000 acres oi
land, of which few hundred only were cuti-
waited, the remainder was held in reserve for
children who were growing up with the expec-
tation OF fortune, and with the full calculation
to live in ease and luxury, to end in life OF
idleness, intemperance and debauchery. Five
years hence, there will be ten households in
stead of ore, to every thousand acres there
will be ten families instead of one to be sup
piled with schonl-books and libraries with tie
ubiquitous newspaper; the weekly journal ard
the magazine. Ten families will want a sew
ing machine, piano, reaper and clothes
wringer, where one does now. Ten neat cet-
tages will spring up, where was seen but fIe
years since a solitary planters house, never pl-
pcred, seldom paslered, and always in a mote
or less unfinished condition. Intelligence vii
not plant the teeming soil with corn and pots
toes at the price of twenty dollars an acre when
it can raise a hundred dollars worth of cotton
and sometimes three hundred dollars worth
with less labor.
That country is strongest, is most prosper
Gus, and can hest defy all outside nations whicl
is marked off into farms Of forty, fifty, or al
hundred acres instead of embracing ten O,
twenty Of these in one partially TILED parta'
ton. SO that aside from the mere question d
slavery there will be benefits arising from th
war which will present an encouraging from
compared with the opposite phases.
The ravage of war as to human life is exag
gerated in almost all minds, and is never 81
great as it seems TO be. Many OF the soldier
who sicken and die in hospitals would hav,
sickened and died at home while the proper
tion of all who die from wounds is astonishing
ly small, and some OF these would have perish
ed by accident had they remained at home.
1t cannot be denied that war is always a curse
and can seldom if ever fail to be n sin; but Il
in the present state of human morals it vii
come sooner or later, to the nationalities Of ,h
earth, it is well to look at both sides calmly an
. dispassonatey take an intelligent view OF al
j its phases, and endeavor to make the best OF il
falls Journal Of Health.