New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-16
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High Miller recorded his reflections, standing
Ill the border line between England and Scotland.
there il wisdom observes the Philadelphia Age,
III what lie says, IS well as beauty; his thoughts
are pensfys, tender. charitable, such as beft the
soul Of christian man; and ID this day, when il
Is proposed to use victory as means toward the
conquest ard oppression Of sister States, instead
of making IL avail to the restoration Of the peace
ful union Of our fathers. timely lesson may be
learned from the meditations Of the great Scotch
mans
And this was the famous border line, made good
Nv the weaker against the stronger natien-at how
vast an amount Of blood and suffering for more
than theusand years. II wore to-day in the
quiet sHnsline d look Of recluse tranquility that
seemed wholly unconscious of the past a tum-
bling sea Of dark green hills, dsicately eheekered
with light and shadoWBwalled up ward on either
side toward tho line Of boundary, like the pillows
of opposite tdeRays that rise over the general
level where the currents meet; and passing on
and away, from wave top to wave top, like the
cork baulk Of the fisherman 5 net afioat on the
swell, ran the separating line. Bat all was still
and mesianless, as in the upper reaches of the
Baltic when the winter frost has setin.
5iEe passed, on the Scottish SIDE group Of stall.
wart shepheTds4sDld, gfaye-featuTed men, wht
eertanly didinotlo0k as If they loved fighting fol
Its own sake and on the English side, close by,
few stout rudy hands engaged in driving carts
Who seemed just as little qaaFrelaome as theil
Scotch neighborg War must be intrinsically mis-
chieYsus, 1t must be something very bad let as
neEs5nify Is proudly rs we may, that gould have
Set on tl1ese useful peaceable people-cast SO
nearly IN the same mould speaking the same
tongue, possessed Of tile same common nature,
3eveable doubtless insome points from the deveI.
opnant Of the same genial Affection to knock one
another on the head simply because the one.half
af them had fstseen the light on the one side of
the Alll and The other half on the other side And
getsnch was The state Of things which obtained in
&his Wild district for many hundred years.
seems, however, especially well for England,
SINCE the quarrel began at all that 1t should have
Beer 80 doggedly maintained by the weaker peo-
ple--so wen maintained that the border hamlet,
round which they struggled in the days Of the First
Edward, as q piece Of doubtful property, is a
piece ofdoubtf1l property still and has in royal
Proclamation and ID act Of parliament, its own
separate clause assigned to it, as the town called
Berwick upon the Tw ed,n It is quite enough for
the English, as shown by the political history Of
modern times, that they conquered the island had
theg conquered Scotland also, they would have
Been ruined utterly One such victory more,
and they would have been undone.'' Men have
long suspected the trade Of a hero to be a bad
one but it is only now they are fairly beginning
70 learn that of all great losses and misfortunes
his master achievement the taking of nation
Is The greatest and most ineurably calamitous.
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