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vered son back through the perilous path? Not thus did that 

 great heart commune with itself. With a word of indignant cen- 

 sure to the men for not bearing their wounded comrade with them- 

 selves to the gallery where he found them, he pointed out their 

 path, bade them escape, and then turning back, entered a path 

 more perilous and difficult than his preceding one. He nears the 

 chamber. A cry from the wounded and prostrate man, who 

 descried his advancing light, brings him to his side. Mangled 

 and helpless he could not stand, and shrieked with pain as he was 

 lifted up. When placed on Bryden's back, he had not even 

 strength to hold himself on. The former placing the flaccid arms 

 of the w^ounded man around his neck, and crossing them on his 

 breast, grasped them with one hand, his miner's lamp with the 

 other, and thus commenced retracing his steps! For rods he bore 

 him on his hands and knees! When the rocks were too low even 

 for this, and could not be clambered over, he partially dragged 

 him, and the man who was now somewhat revived, partially as- 

 sisted himself! Thus through perils which no man can appre- 

 ciate, who has not strode through those gloomy caverns, he bore 

 him a full mile — bore him to the light of day and to safety! — 

 What is the bravery of the warrior, excited by the hope of glory, 



" the neighing steed and the shrill trump, 



The spirit stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, 



The royal banner; and all quality, 



Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war." 



to the disinterested heroism of this act! The Romans awarded a 

 civic crown, the highest military reward, to him who saved the 

 life of a citizen. He who bore it took his seat next the Senators 

 in the theatre, and these haughty waniors and sages rose up, and 

 the assembled people of Rome rose up, to honor him, as he en- 

 tered. Shall no testimonial perpetuate the memory of an act by 

 which the lives of eighteen American citizens were saved from 

 peril more imminent than that of the battle field, or any of those 

 ordinary casualties, where man risks his life for his fellow man?* 



* The stateliest ballad in any language — Schiller's Diver — was written in 

 commemoration of an act, which, should we concede that its commission re- 



