Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-10-26

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! Substitution.
! About twenty four years ago there Wan
firth from or homes hundreds Q
| thousands Of men to do battle 70
their country All the poetry Of va
soon vanished and left them nothing bnl
the terrible prose. They wadsa knee deel
in mud. They sleptin snow banks lie
marched ill their cut feet tracked tn
earth. They were spindled ous Of ihes
hopest rations and lived on msat not &
for dog. They had jaw oil fractured
and eyes exiipguiahed, and limbs Bho
away Thousands Of them cried for watei
as thew Iay dying on the Geld the nigh
after the battle, and got it not They wer'
homesick and received no meg lge from
their loved ones. They died IL barns, =
bushes, in bitches, the buzzards and the
summer heat the only attendants on Their
obseouies. No ore but the Infinite God
who knows everything, knows the ten
thousandth part of the length and breadth
and depth and height Of anguish ct North
evn and Southern bst,le6el1a Why did
these fathers leave their children and go
to the font, and why did these young men
postponipg the marriage day, start out IN.
TO the probabilities of'ne7er coming back
For the couhtry they died.
IIrE FOR LIFE.
Blood for biocd. S6bstit1ti6a .
But we need not 60 SO far. What II
that monument in Greenwood? 1t is 10
the doctors who fell in the Southern
epidemics. Why go2 We're there not
enough sick to be attended 10 these north
ern iatitudes2 Oh, yes; but the doctor
puts few medical books in bis vallse, and
some visls of medicine. and leaves his pa
lients here in the hands of other physicians,
and takes the rail train. Before ne
get TO the infected regions he passes
crowded rail trains, regular and extra,
taking the flying and affnghted populations
He arrives in city over which great
horror is brooding He goes
from couch to couch, feeling OF pulse and
studying symptoms and prescribing, day
after day, night after nigh, until fellow
physician says: doctor, you had better
90 home and rest; you look miserable.
But he cannot rest while so many are suf
teripg. On and on until some morning
finds him in o deliriun in which he talks
Of home, and then rises and says he must
90 and look after those patients. He is
told to lie down, but lie fights his attend.
ants until he falls back, and is weaker and
weaker, aud dies for people with whom
ne had no kinship and far away from his
family, and is hastily put away in
strangers tomb, aud only the fifth part OF
a newspaper line tells US Of his sacrifice,
his name Just mentioned among five Yet
he has touched the furthest height OF
service. He goes straight
as an arrow to the bosom of Him who
said: Il was sick and ye visited me.
Life for life. Blood for blood. Sobstitu.
ton.
In the legal profession l see the same
principle of
SELF SACRIFICE.
In 1916 William Freeman, pGuper-
ized ana iiiotic negro was ut Auburn,
New York, on trial for murder. He had
slain the entire Van Nest family. The
foaming wrath of the community could be
kept of him only by armed constables.
Who would volunteer to be his couDselH
No attorney wanted to sacrifice his popu-
larity By such an uDgrateiul task. All
were silent save one, young lawyer with
feeble voise that could hardly be heard out
side the bar pals, and thin and awkward.
Il was William Fl. Seward who saw that
the prisoner was idiotic and irresponsible,
and ought to be put in an asylum rather
than put to death, the heroic counsel ut
tered these beautiful words: . speak ToU.
IN the hearing Of Q people who have
preiudiced the prisoner and condemned
me for pleading in his behalf BE is a
convict, pauper, o negro, without intel
lect sense or emotion. My child With an
smile dissrms my careIorn
face of its frowu whenever i cross my
threshold. The beggar in the street obhges
me to gve because he says, God bless
you as pass. My dog caresses me with
fondness il | will but emile on him. Ny
horse recognizes me when | fill his maDger
What reward. what gratitude, what symps-
thy and affection, can | expect heref
There the prisoner sits. Look at him.
Look at the sssemblage around you. Lis.
ten to their iil-suppressed censures AID
their excited fears, and tell me where
among my neighborS or my fellogmen,
where even in his heart, / con expect to
find q sentiment, thought, not 10 say Of
reward or of acknowledgment or even
OF recognition? = = Gentlemen,
you may think of this evidences what you
rlease, bring in what verdict you can, but
/ asseverate before heaven and you, that to
the best Of my knowledge and belief, the
prisoner at the bar does not ST this mo-
ment know why it is that my shadow falls
on you instead OF his own" The gallows
gotits victim, but the post mortsm exaui.
nation OF the poor creature showed to all
the surgeons and to all the world, that the
public were wong and William 81. Seward
was right, and that hard stony step Of
obloqdy in the Auourn court room was the
Grst step OF tie stsirs of fame up which he
went to the top, or to within one step OF
the top, that last denied him through the
treaehery Of American politics. Nothing
sublimer was ever seen in 8n American
court room than William q. Seward with.
out reward standing between the fury ct
the populsce and the los.hsome irbecils.
Substitution.
in
TIE REALM OF THE FINE ARTS
there was as remarkable an instance A
brilliant but hypercriticised painter, Joseph
William Turner, was met by voliey Of
abuse from elt ihe sTt galleries ol Europe,
His paintings, which have since Won the
applause Of oil civilized nations THE
Filth Plague Of Egypt" "Fishertnen on
a re Shore in Sguaily Westher," Calais
Pier" "Ths Sun Rising Through Mist"
aud dido Building Carthage" were then
targets for critics to shoot at In defense
Of Ibis outrsgeously abused man young
author Of tweniYioUr yeers, ;uet one year
ont Of college. came forth With bis pen ard
wrote the ablest aud most famous essAJs
on Srt Tia. the world ever saw, or e-eF will
sse1Jobn RasEins Aodsgn HsinteTs.
For seventeen years this author fought the
battles of the mslnested artist, and after
in poverty and broken.hesrteiress the
painter had died sad the public tried to
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