The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-10-27

| CduuOb cApItsS 10 you. 10e mos
important part of my life was thai
which was connected with the army
1t was not my fortune to go to the
field. l was placed in a position oil
much responsibility and labor con-
nected with the army. / ever look
back to it as the most solemn, the
most interesting part of my life.
| THE SACRIFICE OF THE WAR.
When the soldiers went away was
always oppressed with the idea, as |
| saw regiment after regiment depart
from the State-house and from the
depot-how many of those men that
60 away with cheers on their lips will
never come back; how many Of them
will find graves in the South! They
are leaving home, wife, children,
father, mother. for the last time. It
was very certain that many of them
would not come back, and yet they
went away with light hearts. / have
seen regiments go from here to the
depot. and they would march through
lines of friends that were in the city
to see them depart-fathers, mothers,
brothers and sisters walking along by
the line, and getting a last shake of
the haud as they went away, many of
them never to return. / saw rcgi-
ments coming back with one third
and ne-fourth of the number with
which they went away; men with
solemn and staid countenances, who
had the education that war alone can
give, that can only be obtained in the
shock and storm of battle. [ saw
these men go back after three years of
service, many of them with health i'm
paired, and yet [ saw them with few
exceptions, volunteer and go back to
the field again until the war was over.
Oh, it was a grand and noble sacrifice.
that only treemen and intelligent men,
men that love liberty, can make.
THE SOLDIERS AFTER THE WAR.
You know what was said by your
enemies, both at home and in Europe,
that when that great army of mil
lion and half of inen was disbanded,
the soldiers would have contracted a
love for a life of adventure and OF
strife; that they would be dissatisfied
with the pursuits of peace; that they
would become idle and vicious citi-
zens. But what lesson we taught
Europe! That army was disbanded
and moulded like the snow into the
ranks of civil life. to return to the
pursuits of peace-to the farm, the
shop. the office-and they became the
very Lest OF citizens as they had been
the very best of soldiers. Applause.
We showed what this nation could
rely upon.
Soldiers, my heart is too full to
speak to you any more. | have said
that l have seen what | never expect
ed to see again, and / now bid you
good bye, saying, may God bless the
Union soldiers. [Applause, and
cheers for Morton.1
Sold AgaiE-A True Bill.
The Madison Courier is response
bic for this:
He was a timid young man, but
she swung upon his arm with the ease
and grace of new gate on creased
hinges. He tried to think of some
thing to say, for lull in the conver-
sation was to him as painful as pick
ing boil with duh pin. Finally,
he made the same remark that every
bashful lover since Adam has made
under similar circumstances, to wit
Its a nice evening" She said
Yes; it is truly delightful, but then
| think the company one may chance
to be in has great deal to do with
the atmosphere" He threw his eye
up along the gable end of the new
market house and said he'd bet there
would be ''many a good steak and
soup bone sold in that buildin'" She
said she had no doubt but there
would be, and went on to remark that
it would be a nice thing for newly
people to get their marketing
at a newly-fnished market house.
Then after a pause she told him of
the funniest dream she had the night |
previous she dreamed somebody had !
proposed to herl He replied that he |
believed that dreams were NEARLY |
always caused by eatin' too much sup
per-; but he hoped "hern" would |
come true. providing it was himself
that did the proposin'. This took her
so completely by surprise that she
said he'd have to give her weeks
time to think about it. And the
young man is now undergoing all the |
agonies of suspense, fearing his "ior-
wardness" has lost him bride"