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country who, in the name of peace, have been en 

 couraging Aguinaldo and his people to shoot down 

 our soldiers in the Philippines might profit not a lit 

 tle if they would look back to the days of the bloody 

 draft riots, which were deliberately incited in the 

 name of peace and free speech, when the mob killed 

 men and women in the streets and burned orphan 

 children in the asylums as a protest against the war. 

 Four years of bloody struggle with an armed foe, 

 who was helped at every turn by the self-styled ad 

 vocates of peace, were needed in order to restore the 

 Union ; but the result has been that the peace of this 

 continent has been effectually assured. Had the 

 short-sighted advocates of peace for the moment 

 had their way, and secession become an actual fact, 

 nothing could have prevented a repetition in North 

 America of the devastating anarchic warfare that ob 

 tained for three quarters of a century in South Amer 

 ica after the yoke of Spain was thrown off. We 

 escaped generations of anarchy and bloodshed, be 

 cause our fathers who upheld Lincoln and followed 

 Grant were men in every sense of the term, with too 

 much common sense to be misled by those who 

 preached that war was always wrong, and with a 

 fund of stern virtue deep in their souls which en 

 abled them to do deeds from which men of over- 

 soft natures would have shrunk appalled. 



Wars between civilized communities are very 



