Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-06-02


south and the army of the north, does
not need, save in times of war, to call
the keenest brains, the strongest arms
and the brawniest bodies from the avo-
cations of peace and have the nation
grooming under the weight of useless
taxation. 1t does not need to have few
er merchants, fewer schoolteachers,
fewer lawyers and ministers and me-
chanics and farmers in order to have
more privates and lieutenants and cap
tains and majors and colonies and gen.
erals. If we have the right kind of
homes, there will be officers and pri-
Yates ready to protect the country from
a foreign foe whenever they are needed.
And what kind of fighting men did
these volunteers make? The very best
the world has ever seen! When the
American civil war opened, the Euro
pean monarchies looked upon it as a
war of mobs. These foreign nations
supposed it to be a disorganized mass
But when the civil war was over and
Count Won Moltke, the great German
strategist, the general who brought to
a successful issue the Austro-P russian
war in 1866 and the Franco-German
war Of 1871, studied the campaign in
the south he said: "The American war
was not collection of struggling pyg-
mics. 1t was war Of giants!'
Deeds of Heroism.
An American never fights as well as
when he is a civilian, taken out of the
ordinary walks of life, to fight for the
defense Of his own home and native
land Where in all the pages of his
tory can you find greater deeds Of her
oism than those exhibited in the south
ern army? The reason l use this as
an illustration is because the southern
army, being the defeated army, had to
suffer more. That army fought until
it could fight no more. The Confed-
crate soldiers fought until they had no
shoes upon their feet; they fought when
they had no food in their stomachs;
they fought until their clothes were in
tatters, and the southern ladies had to
tear up their dresses to bandage up
their wounds; they fought until the
slightest wound, on account of their
depleted physical system, would cause
death by gangrene; they fought until
they died.
Where can you find greater exam
pie of heroism than that exhibited by
| the colonel of a Pennsylvania regi-
ment? As he was leading in charge
he looked down and saw the upturned
face of his own boy. All that he did
was to kueel a moment and kiss his
child, saying, "Goodby, my darling;
goodby" Then he turned and waved
his sword, crying: Come on, boys!
Come on! Charge and follow me!'
Where can you find a greater deed of
field of battle when the ambulance
corps found among the wounded a boy
in blue with both of his eyes shot out
There he sat, holding in his arms the
dead body of another boy in blue. They
were brothers. AS the surgeons aid
came near they heard the blind boy
whispering to the dead boy: "Poor Bob
by! Poor Bobby! Mamma told me tC
look after you, and 1 will. Poor Bob
the free and the brave we do not want
greater standing army! We do need
however, more consecrated homes; we
do need more fathers and mothers who
will build the right kind of family al
tars; we do need the right kind oil
Christian churches, where those chill
dren can be brought in contact will
God; we need those Christian boys an(
girls started in the right kind of avO
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must come, the Christian homes Of til,
north and the south, the east and TIL,
west, will yield up their sons for TIL,
battle and their daughters for the fiel(
hospitals.
The Christian dead of our American
battlefelds are intensely alive toda,
in the heavenly recognitions which
have been given to them. Impossible
is it to suppose that God would ALLOW
his servants who were to be found il
both armies and who died upon tn
American battlefields to go unreward
ed. In the beautiful sermon upon TIL
mount Christ pronounced a blessing o.
those whose lives were full of tear
and heartaches, poverty and persecu
ton, SANDER and death. Do net Christ
words apply to those brave men? Di
they not suffer enough? Were not thei
wounds deep enough? Did not the
hunger enough and have homesicknes
enough? Did not many fair cheeke
boy under his blanket at night so
8 himself to sleep, or, unable to sleep, kee
on crying, ooh, mother, mother if
could only see mother" In one Of th
: national museums l saw a Bible whic
. had saved a soldiers life. When tn
. young man left home, his mother CAV
it to him. In battle he was carrying
in his coat pocket just over the hear
= A flying bullet almost cut its wa
through that Bible, but it was Stoppe
at one of the leaves of the four gospels
!, Did not many dying soldier have on
of these Bibles in his hand? Did
Oot u-opn over If when ha was dvio