The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-30
PEACE OR WAR?
THE SWORD IS THE FINAL ARBI-
TRAITOR OF NATIONS.
As n Nation We Are for Peace, But
when Duty Calls We Are Ready
for War.

As n Nation We Are for Peace; But
when Duty Calls We Are Ready
fer War.
Pine Crest villa, Fla, Oct 29.-With
thousands of armed soldiers camped with
in her borders it is safe 10 assert that Sa-
vannah is realizing. as she has ever done
since ogIethorpe landed on its primitive
Yamacraw bluff and founded the city, that
war is a costly and dangerous thing. And
yet through 1t the now proud Old city
Savannah and the Empire state of Geor-
gia have come into being, and steadily
grown in greatness and power.
1t is well enough to talk of peace so
cieties and arbitration commissions, and of
the gospel of the Prince of Peace,
but there is no peace gener-
ally, until the sword has worn 1t on the
field Of battle. Christ himself, the author
of peace and good wiz among men, also
brough the sword And it has been
true. in all lands, that by the sword the
Gospel of Christ has been carried through
out the world and ats civillzing and en-
obling influences, made powerful factors in
the elevating of all classes of the human
race But for the swords that defend the
power behind the flags of Great Britain
and the United States where would the
foreign missionary have found fun pro-
lection In the establishment and develop
nent of their noble work?
Not always, perhaps has the sword
been drawn in a righteous cause, nor has
It always been welded with a wise and
a.. I'm tla faa f inc md
will remain while time shall last, that it
has created great and honored nations,
carried freedom to millions of the down
trodden and enslaved, and established
international codes for the pro
lection of the interests of religious and
humanity. 1t has been claimed by the
advocates of peace, that high raised bat
Elements, labored mounds, thick walls and
moated gates do not constitute a state
yet In another and very important sense,
they make II possible that a state may be
constituted, defended and perpetuated,
provided there be behind those towering
battlements and frowning walls
men, high minded men,
Men, who their duties know;
But know their rights; and knowing
Dare maintain
Bulwer may have spoken wisely when
he asserted "in the hands of men en-
sword" but where are the men so EN-
tirely great" that they can rise above all
human passion, greed and ambition, and
settle all their differences by the arb-
tration of the pen rather than that of the
sword? 1t is all very well to talk about
the beating of bayonets into pruning
hooks and swords into plough shares, but
the world is not yet ready for so sub
blime and desirable a spectacle. "War
Is HE'LL said Gen. Sherman, and no one
who, like the writer of this article, has
faced the deadly artillery and musketry
of the enemy, and shared the hardships
and sufferings of the march, the camp
and the hospital, will claim for II a much
mider or more appropriate name.
Take the history of our own glorious
republic, the freest, noblest and most
Christian nation in the world, and what
Is its war record? Born and Graded in
The midst OF wars alarms and bloody con-
diets. it has had its periodical returns of