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WAR-War! what miseries are heaped to-
gether in the sound!-Nhat an accumulation
Of curses is breathed in that one word TO
US, happy in our insular position, we have,
within existing memory, known chiefly of
war by its pomp and circumstance alone: the
gay parade, the glancing arms, the bright
colors, the inspiring music-these are what
we see of war in its outset ;-glory, and
praise, and badges of honor, these are what
appear to us as its result The favorite son,
the beloved brother, he who, perhaps, is
dearer still, returns to the home of his youth
or of his heart, having sown danger and
reaped renown. Thus we do look on war
But ask the inhabitant of a country wh;ch
has been The seat Of ,car, what is his opinion
oft. lie will tell you that he has seen his
country ravaged, his home violated, his fam
ily-. But no. the tongue recoils from
speaking the horrors and atrocities of war
thus brought into the bosom of peaceful
home. All the amenities and charities of
domestic life are outraged, are annihated
All that is dearest to man; all that tends to
refine, to soften him-to make him a noble
and a better being all these are trampled
under foot by brutal soldicry-all these are
torn from his heart forever! He will tell
you that he detests war so much that he al
most despises its glories and that he dctests
it because he has known its evils, and felt
how poorly and mserably they are compen-
stated by the fame which is given to the
slaughterer and destroyer, because he is
such!


He that can apprehend and consider vice
with all her bats and seeming pleasures,
and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet
prefer that which is truly better he is the
true waylaring Christian. cannot praise
furtive and clustered virtue unexcrcised and
unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees
her adversary, but sinks out of the race
where that immortal garland is to be run for.
not without dust and heat-NIilton.


A gentlemen was one day composing the
music of a rondeau for lady to whom he
paid his addresses. "Pray Miss ID (said
he) what time do you PREFER 90! (she
replied carelessly,) any time will do, but The
quicker The better" The company smiled
at the rejoinder, and the gentleman took her
at her word.