The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-07-07

sssoPE0E osteWs ~ berea, Ike GtMRte soldiers
must hare their sofaa they are more noble
than our mobiles and richer than. our bankers.
30 II comss to paes that war, oaee 10 grand.
country-hss become . trade, for sale at more
than one market. It is, to be sure, vssy ushle
YET; a1ess s2sS9as.ss are Xas woss but .h:s I;
ika & sl Z 4 CO. az. M co ss,e
|l4ttyiA4 - heseAsasb wv , thiaN this
ing .sn, from simple students to professors of
theology, are rising against you in arms. You
have tho greatest general of tho world ut your
head, but We have eternal Justice. You believe
t'dencFs- and- tho Hessiaus on your side; undo
csixe yoprpeaves the nAildren of old Germany
welt know that tho greatest crime, the greatest
kings make alliances; the people are agsinst
lives, their Fatherland-ail that God makes US
All are ready to assail you; the Austrians
standing the marriage of Marie Louise with
| terests Of Kings are not the interests of all
mankind, aud that the greatest genius cannot
change the nature of things"
but did not then fully understand what he
| meant, and thought, "Words are only words,
! and bullets are bullets. If We only encounter
students and professors of theology, all will go
|
| Bavarians and Saxons from turning against us,
as it forces us Frenchmen to fight. little as we
may like it. Docs not the soldier obey the cor
the marshsl, who does what the King wishes'
One can see very we'll that this pastor never
served in q regiment, for if he did he would
thing but do not care to contradict him, for
then the postmaster would bring me no more
! wine after supper. Let them. think ashley
please. ALI that hope is that we shall have
While we used to chat thus suddenly, on the
morning of the twenty-seventh Of March, the
rested that night at Lauterbacb, the next at
Neukirchen, and we did nothing bat march,
march, march. Those who did not grow accus-
toned to carrying the knapsack could not com.
plain OF want of practice. How we travelled!
I no longer sweated under my fifty cartridges
and my musket on my shoulder, and do not
We were not tho only ones in motion; all
on tho road, detaehmsats Of cavalry, long linss
of cannon, AMMUNITION traius-all advancing
towards Erfurt, as after heavy rain thousands
of streams, by thousands of channels, seek the
Our ssrgeants kept repeating, 1--WE are near
ing them there will DO hot work soon ;" and
we thought, " SO much the better ~ that those
| beggarly Prussians and Russians had drawn
manned quiet, we would have been yet in
France.
These thoughts embittered us all towards the
rejoice s alone Seg sna
Zebede talked only of the pleasure It would
give them to meet tho Prnssians; and /, not to
seem less courageous than they, adopted the
On the sjehth of April, the battalion entered
Erfurt, and will never forget how, when we
broke ranks before the barracks, q package of
letters was handed to the sergeant Of the COM
pany. Among the number was one for me,
ana recognized Catharine's writing at once.
This affected me SO that il made my kBees
tremble: zebsde took my musket. telling me
to read It, for he, too, was glad to hear from
home. . -. ~ f'.,.Th 'e-t - .1.e
put 1t ia nay pocket, aud all our Phalsbour1
mencod whom I was quietly seated on ay bed
In tho barracks, while they crowded around.
Tears rolled down my checks as she told me
how she remembered and prayed forthe far.off
My comrades, as read, exclaimed, "And We
are sure that there are some at home to pray
for ms, TOO"
One spoke of his mother, another Of his sis
ters, and another of his sweetheart.
AZ the end Of the letter Monsieur Goulden
edded few words, telliaG me ehet all our
friends were we'll spd that ;l should take CONF
He charged me % bo sure 70 tell my comrades
that their frienaa thought of them, and coua-
them.
This letter was . consolation to us ALL We
know that hefore laany days passed we must
be on the field OF battle, and &c seemed q last
farewell from homo for sS least half of u.s.
Many were never to hear again from their pa
rents, friends, or those who loved them in this
world.
But, as Sergeant Pinto said all We had yet
| seen was but the prelude TO the bail; the dance
| was now about to commence.
Meanwhile we did duty at the citadel with o
battalion of the Twenty seventh, and from the
| top of the ramparts we saw all the environS
covered with troops, some biEouacking, others
| quartered in the villages.
The sergeant bad formed particular friend
ship for me. and on the eighteenth. on relieving
| guard at Warthau gate, he said, "Fuslier
Bertha the Emperor has arrived"
had yet heard nothing of this, and replied,
] rasnantfnllE. ~ have inat had q litkla pl ass