Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-03-31

hothinR out the terrible prose. They
waded knee deep in mud. They sleft
In snow banks. They marched till their
cut feet tracked the earth. They were
swindled out OF their honest ration.,
and lived on meat not fit for a
dog. They had jaws all fractured
and eyes extinguished, and limbs shot
away Thousands OF them cried for
water as they lay dying on the field
the night after the battle, and got il
not They were homesick, and received
no message from their loved ones.
They died in barns, in bushes, in bitches.
the buzzards of the summer heat the
only attendants on their obsequies. No
one but the infinite God who knows ev-
erything, knows the ten thousandth
part of the length, and h=eadth. and
depth, and height of the anguish OF the
northern and southern battlcfelds.
Why did these fathers leave their chill
dren and go TO the front, and why did
these young men, postponing the mar
rage day, start out into the probabili-
ties of never coming back? For the
country they died. Life for life.
Blood for blood. Substitution,
But we need not go so far. What is
that monument in Greenwood? IL is
to the doctors who fell in the southern
epidemics. Why go? Were there not
enough sick to be attended In these
northern ATTITUDES? Oh, yes; but the
doctor puts "A few medical books in his
valisc, and some phials of medicine.
and leaves his patients in the hands OF
other physicians, and takes the rail
train. Before he gets to tho in
fected regions he passes crowd
ed rail trains, regular and
extra, taking the flying and affrighted
populations. He arrives in a city over
which a great horror is broodiug. lie
goes from couch TO couch, feeling o.
the pulse and studying symptoms, and
prescribing day after day, night after
night, until fellow physician saws:
Doctor, you had better 20 home and
rest; you look miserable" But he can
not rest while so many are suffering.
On and on, until some morning finds
HIM IN n delirium, in which he talks of
home and then rises, and says he must
go and look after those patients. He is
told to lie down; he fights his attendants
until he falls back and is weaker and
weaker,and dies for people with whom
he had no kinship, and far away from
his own home, and is hastily put away
in strangers tomb. and only the fifth
part of newspaper line tells us of MS
sacritice-his name just mentioned
among five. Yet he has touched the
furthest height of sublimity in that
three weeks of humanitarian 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. Substitution.
In the legal profession | see the same
principle of self-sacrifice In 1916,
VIM. Freeman, pauperized and idiotic
negro was at Auburn, y. Y, on trial
for murder. He had slain the entire
Van Ness family. The foaming wrath
of the community could be kept off
him only by armed constables. Who
would volunteer to be his counsel?
No attorney wanted to sacrifice his
popularity by such an ungrateful task.
All were silent save one a vounp law
yer with a feeble voice that could
hardly be heard outside the bar pale
and thin and awkward 1t was VIM.
ii. Seward, who saw that the prisoner
was idiotic and irresponsible and ought
TO be put IN an insane asylum rather
than put to death. the heroic counsel
uttering these beautiful words.
Il speak now in the hearing of
people who have prejudgcd prisoner
and condemned me for pleading in his |
behalf lie is a convict, a pauper q
Negro, without intellect, sense or emo |
ton. My child, with an affectionate
smile. disarms my care worn face of its |
/ IL.
he bcggar in the street oblires me to !
give because he says God bless YOU" as |
! pass. My dog caresscs me with fond
ness If / will but smile on him Nv |
horse recognizes me when | ill his !
What reward, what graft |
tude, what sympathy and aT.c-
ton can ! expect here? There the pri,-
oner sits. Look at him. Look at the as
'embiage around YOU Listen 10 their
censures aud their cy
cited fears. and tell me where amona
my neIghbpr5 or my fellow men. where /
even IN his heart, / can expect To ind
q sentiment, a thought not 20 say OF .
reward or OF aclSnowici vmcnt. or even /
~ recognition? Gentlemen. Won may
think OF this evidence what Won pleas. /
bring in What verdict YOU can. but
as-cr ate before Heaven and Won that /
% the best Of nv knowledge and boz |
L'i. tine prisoner 80 the bar does not /
al ih- moment know why DO IS THAT
my shadow falls ou YOU instead of his
own"
in' -aI"w- goo. its victim. bus Elm.
p0'i-nor'ew examination Of the poor
creature showed 90 all the SURGEONS
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