It happened once in our history that for 

 "every drop of blood drawn by the lash an- 

 other must be drawn by the sword." It cost 

 us six hundred and fifty thousand lives to get 

 rid of slavery. And this number, almost a 

 million. North and South, was the " best that 

 the nation could bring." North and South, 

 the nation was impoverished by the loss. 

 The gaps they left are filled to all appearance. 

 There are relatively few of us left to-day in 

 whose hearts the scars of forty years ago are 

 still unhealing. But a new generation has 

 grown up of men and women born since 

 thewar. They have taken the nation's prob- 

 lems into their hands, but theirs are hands 

 not so strong or so clean as though the men 

 that are stood shoulder to shoulder with the 

 men that might have been. The men that 

 died in "the weary time" had better stufFin 

 them than the father of the average man of 

 to-day. 



Those stateswhich lostmostof theirstrong 

 young blood, as Virginia and South Caro- 

 lina, will not recover forcenturies — perhaps 

 never ! 



Read again BrownelFs rhymed roll of hon- 



The 



Human 



Harvest 



[lOS] 



