The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-08-24

The following Is an extract from an ad-
dress before the Yale law school,
Some two thousand years before Christ
we read that Il certain king, one of the
kings of those times the head Of a tribe
or city-boastcd, "Thrce score and ten
kings, having their thumbs and great toes
cut off, gather their meat under my ta-
bic" When the men OF Judah made his
royal mutilator n captive according TO
the received lex talionis of the age, they
cut off his thumbs and great toes, cast
him into Il dungeon at Jerusalem and
left him to die of hunger. When Ne
buchadnczzar took Jerusalem he slew
the sons of king Xcdekiah before his face,
carried him to Babylon, put out both his
eyes and left him to end his days in
prison. At the close OF the long Jugur-
thine war, Marius brought Jugurtha to
Rome, and, in accordance with thcestab-
lishcd usage of the Roman triumph,
chained to his chariot wheels this dcposcd
king, this gallant soldier, dragged him
in triumph through the streets, amid the
insults Of the popuace, and when he
turned his chariot from the forum to as
cend the capitol, he unclaimed the royal
prisoner from his chariot wheel, cast him
nearly naked into 4 dungeon, where he
was not strangIed until he had COntcnded
six DAYS against famine. When Carthage
was taken it was bOtted from the map
of nations, its past destroyed its ships
burned and its inhabitants sold as slaves.
The campaign against Corinth ended in
the extinction of that luxurious, mag
nfccnt city and the cnslavement of all
its inhabitants. The curse which Joshua
pronounced against the man who should
presume to rebuild Jericho, "Cursed be
the man who shall rise up and rebuild
this city Jericho! lie shall lay the
foundation thereof in his first born, and
in his Youngest son he shall set up the
gates of it," was but the expression OF
the common sentment-thc common
law of ancient times; at the height OF
Greek and Roman civilization, after n
lost battle, every man, woman and child
every human being, not sIaln-bccame
an exile or a slave. A campaign usually
ended in the destruction of 4 city; awar
III all cXllIlCG HdlluIldllJy'
Let us skip over two thousand years
to our present civilization. The nine
tccnth century saw all Europe under
arms from Siberia to Archangc, from
the Atlantic to the Nistula; ships bat
tered one another to pieces in every sea.
When these wars closed, by treaty of
peace, some boundaries were altered,
some dynastics were changed, but is not
necessary to say that all prisoners were
released and no property destroyed, for
such is the settled law of Christcndom.
And when the allies took Paris by siege
each Cossack paid for cup of coffee
handed him by the French waiter, and
the publicists and moralists of Europe
got angry in discussing the refined qucs.
ton as to whether the allies had Il right
under the law of nations, to restore tc
museums and galleries of Italy and llol
land the pictures and statues that Napo
leon had taken from them as trophies o
war When our late war closed, we hclc
ourselves responsible to the world, t'
history, that our only prisoner, and he
the instigatOr and head of the rebellion
should be lodged and fed in accordance
with the most refined rules. When III
last proceedings against him ceased,
northern abolitionist became his bonds
man, he took a trip to Europe as Al
American citizen, protected byan Amer
lean passport.