The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-01-18
WHOLE NO. 1872.

richest land in Minnesota became theirs.
One after another Of the children mar
tied, renewing in handsome lhomes and
IN the midst OF broad fields, the beautiful
traits of virtue and family affection
| which had distinguished their little vii
lage habitation.
! But not all OF them lived TO enjoy this
happy future. When the deadly sounds
OF war rose on the gale, in the spring of
1861, this emigrant family saw that the
battle of the nation was for liberty, for
their liberty, for the liberty OF all men;
and two of the sons entered the army of
the nation and fought gallantly and well
| in defence of their native land One of
them,-the youngest son.-never re-
turned, but gave up his life in one Of
the prison pens off the south dying"
as Abraham Lincoln said, ssthat the
nation might live. The other, Thomas
Callaghan. returned at the close Of the
war; married and settled down upon
the fair Rosemount prairie, where the
opening harvest of last year found him,
a prosperous and respected farmer, be-
loved by all who knew him for the gen.
tleness of his disposition and the straight
forward honesty of his character.
We turn from this picture ofsweet
home life, and OF all the traits which can
| opoLla ~, ', :, +,yrc
darker prospect.
Two young men,--they had scarcely
reached manhood, LETT their fathers
home on the upper Mississippi TO work
in the harvest fields OF Dakota county,
They. had, doubtless, beenitenderly raised
in the midst Of favorable associations.
They had not. like the poor Irish fam
lily we have described, been compelled
to fight their way across the waves of
the Atlantic and through the darker
waves Of poverty. They had been raised
in this Tree land Of schools, aud churches
and opportunity. But they had within
. their breasts the cruel and -aerciless
hearts Of wild beasts they were human
tigers
In an evil hour they encountered
Thomas CallagLan; in an evil hour they
caught sight of his we'll flied pocket
book. Murder entered into the souls OF
these striplings. Not the murder which
leaps on its victim, full OF passion or re-
t venge; but coid-blooded, calculating,
IMPLYING murder.
! Through a long summer day they
plotted and planned their dreadful
: work. They cut the club, heavy and
: knotted and murderous they found an
! old basoa and filed it with water, with
: which to wash away the bloody stains
] which they foresaw must soon darken
their hands and faces. From hiding
place, amidtthe growing corn, all day
long they watched the home OF their
|, victim--watched for bis coming. They
. could see his wife engaged in her house
: hold duties; they could sec his little
y children playing about the doorstep
) Did this beautiful AMI innocent sight
> touch their hearts a1d move them to
- pitYp No. 1t was sight to have turned
) aside descending thundcrDolt, but ii
= had no effect on these monsters glowering
ie from their hiding places.
= At length night came; and, within q
.. few rods Of his ownIhome. the murderera
10 fell upon their defenceless prey. The
70 crashing blows beat MIN to the earth
aud then, lest spark Of life should re
:, main in him, they fired four bullets from
. revolver into biz poor mangle'
y head, and enlpsying his pockets left hin
/ there to die.
o. Ii would be difficult 10 conceive NOR
T. marked contrast than Ii here presented
n It Ii difficult to realize that the yictln
~ and bis slayers were both develops
OF ments OF our common hnman nature =
're Of that common hu1an nature. Thic
az embraces In its ilimitable scope alike tn
-, highest moral characteristics and ia
Us lowest. basest and bloodiest traits OF th
Or brute world.
aer The moral we would draw is,--ths
rer the mos. valuable part Of mar i not hi
ovs intellect but his heart. II will profit .
the little, as d nation, 10 sharpen the wits
md the people to the highest point Of cult
tor vation At the expense Of their moral nj
Ia. ture. 4 race that would unite huns
lera intelligence to the instincts Of the jack
or panther, would desolate the world Al
ttla eventually destroy each other.
dad We must nnlearn part Of our philos
IA. ply, and begin 70 ratio the amind low
N. than The conscience.