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count of this record in the Memorabilia. But the good man forgot that on the roll of heroes and saints, in that Splen- did passage of Holy Writ, the Xlth chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, there stands the name of Rahab the harlot. He forgot that Revelation it. self was progressive and that the laws given to men of old time, much more their practices, were imperfect.
 According to the international code of antiquity, the lives of captives taken in war were forfeited. They might be reduced to slavery or slain, at the op- ton of the captor. Ethical feeling had risen to no higher level. It is manifest ly unreasonable to hold Julius Caesar as guilty for the slaughterof prisoners of war as a modern commander, in the light of Christianity, would be for the same act. Napoleon Bonaparte ordered multitude of Turkish prisoners at Jaf- fa-whose lives, moreover, had been promised them-to be marched to the beach and shot. Of the opinion of apol- ogists who excuse this foul deed, Prof. Sloan properly remarks: Those who hold that in any war, whether just or unjust, the practice of barbarity is ex- cusable if it lead to speedy victory, will agree with that opinion" The deed of Napoleon was eXecrable, because he was not in the dark as to the code of Chris tian morality, but with ruthless cruelty trampled it under foot. Bismarck sent broadcast over Europe a telegram which he had recast from an official message sent to him, by emitting parts vital to the impression that it conveyed. The impression of the garbled telegram was, that personal insult had been of- fered to the Emperor William by Bene- detti, the French minister, and had been so regarded by the emperor-which was false; and the impression, which was likewise false, that for this reason nego- tiations as to the Hohenzollern question between the two governments had been broken off by the emperor. Bismarck, as reported by Busch, said of this pro- ceedlng, the thing really succeeded. The French were fearfully angry at the condensed telegram, and a couple of days later they declared war against us" He predicted on the spot, as he says in his autobiography, that it would have the effect of a red rag upon the Gallic bull" He fairly chucklcs over this cunning device that tested the temper of two nations to the boiling point. It is mild judgment to call it Machiavellian trick. A French man might almost be pardoned for call- ing it an instance of shameless mendac- ity. s
 With the lapse of time, as events and persons recede further into tie past, we. find that history looks at men in their broad lines of difference.It drops out of sight minor circumstances It Is the ruling purpose when it stands out that absorbs attention and determines the popular estimate of personal worth Subordinate details, even grave errors of opinion and conduct, vanish when viewed from the distance. Ins a crisis, did this man cast his lot on the right side? And was he unselfish and brave? If he did that and was this, xerious faults are condoned. The most noted leader in the anti-savely conflict in this country was MT. Garrison. He was ye- hement in his advocacy of dsunion. He denounced the constitution of the united States as covenant with death and an agreement with he'll" In hm the following sentence, which I cas- ually met in looking over an old number of the "Liberator," was characteristic:
 The man who throws tip his cap and cries The Union forever is morally in condition to be sent to a madhouse, and have a straight-jacket put upon
 him." cLiberator," March f. 1S59).
 Yet Garrison now stands high in the popular esteem. A scholar and author as distinguished as Goldwin Smith writes euiogistic memoir of him. 1t IS simply because he is thought to stand the test that I have stated He is con sidered to have been on the right side, and to have been fearless and unselfish. i In Boston, where he was led along the street with rope about his neck, you may see his statue in ever- during brass
 The great statesman, Daniel Webster,
 saw some things that Garrison did not see-one thing in particular. It was not simply that his heart was full of the precious memories of the American | (Continued on Seventh Pagel