heroes of the national guard could act as 

 officers. All could be done in decency and 

 order, withnorecriminations and no oppres- 

 sion of an alien foe. We should have all that 

 is good in war, its pomp and circumstance, 

 the " grim resolution of the London clubs," 

 without war's long train of murderous evils. 

 Who could deny this ? And yet who could 

 defend it? 



If war is good, we should have it regard- 

 less of its cost, regardless of its horrors, its 

 sorrows, its anguish, havoc, and waste. 



But war is bad, only to be justified as the 

 last resort of "mangled, murdered liberty," 

 a terrible agency to be evoked only when 

 all other arts of self-defence shall fail. The 

 remedy for most ills of men is not to be 

 sought in "whirlwinds of rebellion that 

 shake the world," but in peace and justice, 

 equality among men, and the cultivation of 

 those virtues we call Christian, because they 

 havebeenvirtuesever since man and society 

 began, and will be virtues still when the era 

 of strife is past, when false glory ceases to 

 deceive, and when no longer 



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