Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-10-06


called him, with thousands of others,
to endure the last peril and stand
ready for the last sacrifice. "all that
man hath will he give for his life"
and all that man can do is to offer that
life for his country. This offer he
made, but before it was demanded, he
entered upon the dearest relation of
his life. He had vowed himself to
love and honor the woman who to-
day is the most pitied, and the most
to be pitied of human beings. lie left
her side to follow the flag, but the love
of wife and home is the inspiration of
the patriot soldiers heart.
A moment, while the bugIes blow,
lie secs his babes about thy knee,
Then, like fire he meets the foe,
And strikes him dead for thine and thee.
That "the loving are the daring" is
as true Il word as ever was written.
War, even, cannot harden the true
heart. kiss me, Hardy" said the dy-
ing Nelson.
The work that called him from his
home being done, and well done, he
returned thither to receive the highest
hOnors that his fellow citizens could
confer upon him. He went back to
the men who had known him from his
childhood, to the men who had seen
him come and go all his days; TO the
men who had watched every action of
his life, from whom, if lie had been 50
minded, he could have concealed moth
ing his weaknesses, his faults, for all
men have them, were as well known
as his virtues and Lis talents, and
what a record lie made, The prophet
Mohammed, being about to depart
from this world, was carried to the
mosque, aud there rising up demanded
if there was Il man in the assembly
whom he had wronged, that he was
then and there TO speak, since he, the
speaker, was soon to 60 where ho
could make no restitution. Could
some strong angel stand today by the
open grave of James A. Garfield, and
make such a proclamation in a voice
that could be heard throughout this
land, think you an accusing voice
would be heard in reply? Not onel
Not onel No man, no woman, no
child could say, al was in trouble and
he helped me not; ! WAS weak and he
forgot me; was in his power and lie
crushed me" No, no, for the soul of
the man was warmed and thrilled by
the undying flame of love.
There ora men MANY Of tbem ,vho
soon ncccss,rv in tho worrJ,s arf,irs.
whose ghilirv f.. ON tranecnrJ,nI thoi
lie rocomi,i9r i, onrcr"oJ. v,I,n d;roct
the noIicv or rnlinms onI decide fbc
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riso. mo- lrnI.on ,,oIros cyor rnso to
trouble his pcacc: no Iirighl Ind ever
less TO fear. none ever 90 lived without
rcproacb In fine fierce controversies
of n national ramuafrn conducted 0s
such strurcIe3 aIo In this colniry
with msnairjpa, severity toward ali
the real Oh, imagiur9. aclnaI or slupo.
sitious faults and rrailifias Of fine can.
didnte. no accusation Of cruelty or
irenchcry Of wrong was bronold
oanjnst Tim. his to rccorni2e in a fen.
der and graceful figure which will be
long remembered, the chiyalric courtc.
sy Of his opponents, as "the flowers
that bloom over the party wall of p0li.
tics"
Such was his life in brief. such its
motive, and it is easy to read and find
its lessons. Itis that the darl, plots
the subtcrrures, The sinister plans of
men in public life, are the merest
waste and the most fruitless of toll
1t is to the true heart that mankind at
last We'd their homage when III,
scheming, plotting brain is forgotten
Ability is well. learning ID well. elo
ouencc is well, industry is well. bpt thc
brave heart that loves on and on is al
in all.
We murmur at the end. We think
it hard that this man, who wronged NJ
man; who ought, in the natural order
of things, to have lived to a green ole