The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1867-12-28

sach other before. Nations srs the "fancy
gentlemen" who kssp. and couducb the
national human cock-pits and cock-fghts
Of var End the battlefield. N
Foolish. or (knsvish,) - when tho South
in the late war, said its armies were standing
guard over their homes, while the North said
precisely the same thing i'm relation TO It's
armies One CT the other was mistaken or
deliberately He'd.
Foolish, because II Ia anger with God, be-
cause He has made men different from each
othsr-when the plain duty is to compromise
difficulties, and dwell amicably together.
read lately Of Gen. Longstreet saying that
q The highest Of human laws is the Law that
IL established by nm appeal to srms." This
| gentleman's mistake was in supposing that
the highest lax (ss he makes it out) was the
law the best for an 20 be under. A lower
lsw, Mr.. Longstreet, iof one thing, would be
far more economical.
War IL unnecessary, for nations, rs have
said before, i'm their right minds, can come
! toa settlement u their difficulties without
ID. That ID In 80 wants. to right-mnded
man. no extendsa Argument to convince him;
il il does want il, let him consider that that
which must be purchased by the sacrifice Of
. single human life, aud whatever means are
mlschievous, cannot be necessary. take
the ground that al quar- refs imply some
wrong in ourselves-thereforc war Is wrong.
70 believe in war is to believe tha. every
thing in creation may be determined by mil
itary strength-except where it may pay 70
compromise. That which Is the moral oRiec
ton TO a thing, must be also the economical,
or prudential objection. II is not that which
In rhe economical objection is the moral
objection. The right must be the strongest; not
the strongest must be the right, or the right
must always be the strongest. The strongest
msy be, and is, sometimes the right. War
il no gain to mankind at large-never in a
moral sense-beeause the means being wrcng
must make the end wrong. In an economical
sense, if it is one nations gain, it is an
others loss-so that the thing Is balanced.
y War Is fraud, by using all the allurements
to persuade the soldier to enlist in the ranks
Of an army, that art can haven't The
, spirit stirring drum" when It l. to excite
in the soldier warlike propensities, becomes
the devils music. The gaudy uniform, when
il is to please the soldiers eye or fancy, is q
sham. The Haunting banner, in war, is q
humbug, and so on 1t is fraud again, for
none 90 10 war except they are persuaded
that they shall get the advantage over theiE
enemy. II We talk to Christians, war, i
| must be said to them. Is emphatically th'
business Of the world-hence they should
- .~ts ,, q a.
| I ing 10 BE- separated from the world by theu
religion should have nothing to do witt
strife. Il is appropriately the business Q
Christian preachers to preach surrender. Il
ia the fundamental principle Of the Christian
religion to give up the human heart, with al
its affections, to its maker. Is the responsi
biliIy altered If it Is their bull that cores ou
oxf But not crediting the good book Oh
Bible) 10 the full extent Of It's claims, I woul,
say, in making God the author Of wars, th
thing is ovsr-wrought, aud it convinces 70
that il the Bible u not true, its "a action
. are highly rischievous- Nations should b
generous, though Just Just, bold, the
are not, when they 90 to war aud, as D
=. three-fourths OF the wars, they themselve:
with their eyes open,) must aimit. Let
Q nation ack on generous impulses and th
Q whole world might seek (territorially) to b
annexed 10 it. Let 1t act on selfish impulse
and annexation has 10 be, or may have I
be, compelled, at the lannon's mouth.
!, think ID pretty sight, Of some moon
d light night, to look up at some star tina.
!, brighter than its fellows, and often do it
4 but shall be told that its inhabitants ar
y engaged in staying each other, as they arr
q on this earthf Was he visionary who, i
It the Bible, predicts that the day viii com
!. when war shall be no more?
But, some person will ask, "Wili you nc
7 defend yourself IL attacked by marauder
4 to take your life or pursef might; but
Il might not defend another, or nation Thi
~ defending others involves the principl
which We are combating, Of capital oppres,
, IN, labor it. IA calling on one man 70 d
L something for another man, and that withoI
to due compensation. As newspaper write
" are fono Of saying nowadays, it is me
!. "bosA" to pot such question and try
- make out . CAse upon it.
De A SREKkR AFrKR TRUTH.
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