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WAR MISCELLANY. I   TWardthei.



   The War-what is to come of it? God oney
knotws; but it looks now, even to the eye of the
most hopeful, as though we were about given
over, as a whole people, " to work out our own
damnation with greediness! "
  Treason in high places, financial corruption
and military imbecility everywhere in the
army, and the gradual oozing out of much of
what seemed, at first, to be a true patriotism
of the people are the unmistakeable symptoms
of a most malignant disease, the prognosis of



                                             I which is certain dissolution
or ultimate recov-
                    Heroes.                    ery, aecording as it is examined
by the consti-
                                              tutionally hopeful or the despairing
patriot.
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                                                We are glad to be among those
who do not
       Do they thrill tit' Irt tl  h,- y.:r n,,  yetIl despair, though we
are farenough from
     A   le the gleaming snows and th*' poppies rel  believing that the nation
is to have a speedy
       All that is left of the bravo of yore?
     Are there none to fight as Thes,'us fought  deliverance out of its manifold
troubles. The
     Far in the young world'a misty dawn ?
     Or to teach as the mild-eyed Netor tanght,-  truth is, we have  waxed
fat too rapidly, and
       mother Earth ! are' the heroes, gone ?
            Mother Farth !  are the h~roes gone  have been well nigh spoiled
by successes such
     done 7 in a grander form they rise;
     Dead I we can clasp their hands in  r  as no other nation under heaven
has ever en-
     And light our path hy their MAsinig eyes,
       An~d wreahethoir hrowh withe immoral e wer  joyed-circumstances all
the more unfortunate
    Wherever a noble deed is donar           for us, politically, in that
they have been an-
      'Tin the pulse of a heroe's heart is Ftirred:poicalty
      There are the heroesa oie heard.       peradded to ethnological peculiarities
whose
      Theirareor wrings eon a  nobler hirI   natural tendency is to sharpness
of dealing,
      Than the Greek and the Trojan fiercely trod,  though at the sacrifice
of high moral principle,
    For freedom, sword is the blade they wield.
      And the light above in the smile of (od.  and to the indulgence of
a narrow and selfish
    Sto in his isle of calm delight,amion
      3ason may sleep the years away,         ambition.
    For the heroes live, and the sky is bright,Idew        r   odyraigtebte
      And the world Is a braver world to-day.     Indeed, we are to-day reaping
the bitter
                                             fruit of our own planting-suffering
the hu-
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       ruo
 idea is advanced in the following from     the      n of treason, of stupendous
fraud, of
 McGregor ?imes. Speaking of a soldier who wasted substance, of burdens grievous
to be
 left his wife and child behind him, while he borne and such as must be endured
for gene-
 went to the war, it says:                         to come, of a
   We will always concede the meed of patriot  rations            most terrible
destruction
ism   and self-sacrifice to the man who leaves of precious life, and, finally,
of what to us, as
his home and business to save his country from  a  people, is worse than
any of these, the de-
threatening peril; but we contend that the fondapeliswretnayofhsted-
wife who relinquishes her husband, and with gradation of a government which
for three
her babe cheerfully accepts the doubled cares generations of men has been
the marvel of the
and utter loneliness of a three years' separation
from    him who is more than life to her, in all world, and  the coveted
model of many strug-
that goes to make up the sum  of patriotic hero- gling peoples. And all this
because we have
ism, is immeasurably above her companion. It
is quite time the vast army of heroic, self-sac- Irified with high and holy
Principle, trampled
rificing   womeia of this land should receive a upon Justice, and  treated
with contempt the
jurst recognition fqir the important part they  great landmarks of our Fathers.
have enacted throughout this unhappy rebel-    eale
lion.   There is one courage that  goes to the  But the original principles
on  which thiw
batUe-field; there is another which cheerfully         .
yields every thing in life worth living for, upon epubli  was founded are
a  true to-day as
the alter of its oountry.                   they were in the beginning, and
   the world



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