Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-21
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that spreads over the whole world
reaches from continent 70 continent
across rivers and seas and waste an
desert places, more beautiful everywher
than the jewelled vault of the uncloude'
sky, and covers up all human deformi
ties, and hides that mighty multitude 0
sins which else would make this world
which after all is beautiful, the home o
demons and evil spirits
Ever since the angel stood at the gat,
Of Eden with his flaming two-edge,
sword, and drove our parents forth int
cold and barren world, it has been tn,
sad fate of humankind to step into BY
and forbidden paths, and to fall intt
errors which none may escape, save BY
Providential Intervention, but during al
that time it has been the divine right o.
every human being to forgive the errinl
"a right that angels would not, and de
mons could not, deprive the possessol
Of the brightest jewel in the crown Of
personified Humanity = the right to
breathe forgiveness in the ears of those
who have gone astray, and lead them
back again into the paths Of rectitude.
1t is little thing to give cup of cold
water in charity-but, small as it is, we
have the highest assurance that, like q
pebble dropped in the bosom Of a calm
lake, it ripples outward forever across
the whole universe, until its tender inhu.
ence is felt and recorded beyond and
above the highest stars.
1t is easy to be magnanimoas--to treat
the fallen with humane consideration,
and to respect the sorrows of others. 1t
matters not whence their grief arises, or
what poison raDkles on the barbed arrow
that pierces their bosoms. But to be
the reverse of all this. TO close the heart
against the appeals and lock the portals
of the soul against the currents Of out
flowing humanity, strips man of all the
attributes of god and makes him pig
my wart and a dwarfed deformity upon
the plain of the universe.
We have been led to these reflections
by reading the following telegraphic dis
patch:
WASHINGTON, October i3, lS70.-The
following dispatch was received to-day
by Secretary Boutwell, from Collector
Robb, of Savannah, dated to-day: |
have just this moment learned that the
nag on me custom nouse was ~ nan Il.
mast ior tne oeatn OF oenerai Lee. IL
was ordered oy my deputies; without my
: az l nave orcereu the nag az
manifested at my action. Shall the flag
be lowered again? Answer Immediate
w. In response to the above, Secretary
Boutwell, has telegraphed Robb approx
my MS ac.loh: ~ NJ.
a grea. nation UIusnes l1l inns. w
oniy private grie' put pnolc sorro" rs Is
lnsuiteu ey tne latiohal EAecut.se. 10
puohciy ior1iu 50 simple ,ripu's W .ne
memory oi sne u'stihgulsneu ueau ~ .ne
covering Oh 'he na.iohai coiors, SHOWS
VIVA" ] narrow souis are s p;s1A " oe
n ~ 'ne ooiHeis aHI n.u a'Ia ava" -
me inhhlte =, ous. VI nlEn piao1s' ~
,ohteIt WIN iorpLuuing .n'S sLnple si, Is
l.e, wnicL " nv h poss aa.;n3. Io J;
,ost any 'nln9 70 nu;nan vi na '.;.h LUZ
my, 'ne an San. 10 1891 .orn ",.n 81 ~
iings anu SEM 70 eseiy colneI VI .ne
latioh, US 'n9ugn lne a9t was NJ. oom
piete uhtli the hnowieuge Vi ~ was
'rougnt 10 Tue reaii-a'ion Vi every o"e
n IN Tue lanu.
men INA, gray -haileu oiu soiuier gave |
" hls sworu u .hi tne nppaeleI1 a
APponiat'oS thinA ye ne ueeheu nc
'9rrenuerea II 70 'ne Aeeplus Vi d maj
Vho rom ms nisn place as ene L na.lon
'uier' Wou:u seen W pace a i1u. olo' anu
"a aspeislon upJn LIS ueau nesnory
Wy, fefnyI iol 'nousn ns s"oiu "ao
lra"h III wrong FAUST a1u against his
hke some s'ern olu nonian war,
loT, ne woSiu nave nave del'ersu ms sworu
o Ulysses .. pran. WIN a 1eau anu lol
hVing manu-, anu ihs'eau Vi ha'ing
,eeh iouhu III INA. surIeiuei unuer .Ie
Apple-lree az Apponia1'oA, ne , Woulu
ave - oeeh !, lounu covered mi,I lne 2.ars
~ pdrs anu surrounueu " his ueau
ai n. c9n IRA. G.,Iohou;oo,
GRANTED 'naI uenerai Ie .tt cnalh P sI
ne wrong cause, gran'eu tna' nc iougn.
go I he sa;J IN ,hat way and Tet he was
soldier of eminence, the admired of
ne W. Iei,a Wv rSpo onJ ~ tain op T" IS
ought againsI ni'I, anu Tue neioNeu vi
lis own people. his soldier record was
minent for his civilized views and all
Lo@ h. d;J 20 N N, al;orata tba ava- raour
nat MS uiu W a'HeHvla'e tne ever FecuI
ing and attendant horrors OF war. de
ouOht even against hope and bravely to
/. T.. - e., h. JouaJ boJ;d
"a soldier bowed IN fate accented
ha Situation with restoration returned
= ,he cantIer arts az neace and died
MD he nnivarsaI tears of those whose
sader he had been.
There ,vos ganu;ne raoret for HE death
,ar n "a' eyan amons those Who Nd
AIRED aga;nst him the most bitterly
lille the ent;re Sonth sorrowed for him
a tbev would for a beloved nsrent Was
'ot Their grief entitled 10 even common
on-tasrEtbe gr;ef NJ twsntv m;Ilions "a
,eonleyof nearly half the nation9 How
IL Tho snir;t HAT moved Young Cl;fford
:, 81 Eibans w;.bont anv ~ tbs canses
,as The one tbat nromnted The d;snate5
70 have Gnoied abovei ~
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y ne mine 'u'" = " ''sH'' anu "H"s -
t shall be stony; York not our old men
spares;
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nd beauty, that the tyrant oftrecleims,
hall e Hy Fsmiiilg FEath Pc a. % ha1 ai,,
leet an miami ~ .ne hgufe ., ofA'
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