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as well as a general license to be democratically disobedi 

 ent to all that is lawful and just) find it in their Govern 

 ment good to enlist a foreign army, surely they ought to 

 assign from the State funds sufficient to supply that army 

 with a place of divine worship, and to maintain a priest. 

 As I have before remarked, it is the custom in the United 

 States to go a-head by what means that is done is imma 

 terial. As their own natural-born sons will not serve as pri 

 vates in the ranks of the army, but as an army they must 

 have, they get it by foreign enlistment ; but whether the 

 component parts of it go to the devil or not, after their five 

 years of enlistment are over, is not worth the consideration 

 of the representatives in Congress brought together. It 

 is a fact, after you leave the frontier towns, men, whiskey, 

 and tobacco go a-head roads and religion are left 

 behind. 



On the following morning, Monday, the 17th of October? 

 we had settled to take Druid, and draw " Smokyhill 

 Creek " for a deer, but it again set in to blow and rain, 

 so that we agreed to postpone the attempt till Tuesday. 

 The weather had become bitterly cold, there were large 

 fires kept in all the officers' rooms, and I began to ask 

 myself where was "the Indian summer?" On the 18th 

 of October the weather cleared up, and it was very fine, 

 so we set out from the Fort to get Druid, when, on reaching 

 my camp, I found that Mr Canterall and Tom had taken 

 two mules, and on the preceding day gone out, against 

 rules, on their own hook, to see what they could kill ; 

 they killed nothing, but they started a buck, so at all 

 events I became aware that there had been a deer in the 

 vicinity. 



Having obtained Druid, and accompanied by some of 

 the ladies from the barracks, we then began to draw the 



