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before 61. Heroically has the North used its victory. Not 
one life has been taken in revenge for the carnage and the 
cost of the four years’ war. Let us pay ungrudgingly hom- 
age to a clemency that has no precedent in the history of 
mankind. The warfare that rescued a race from bondage, 
that saved the Union from dissolution, bequeaths not a 
debt of vengeance, but inaugurates an era of closer and 
dearer brotherhood. 
The fall of the Confederacy teaches important lessons to 
all peoples. It admonishes us not to resort to revolution 
until all other means are exhausted, and of the wisdom and 
duty of waiting for the opportune moment. It warns us not 
to be in haste to draw the sword, and to put to the issue 
of battle that which may possibly be achieved by nego- 
tiation. It shows how vain it is to resist the progress 
of civilisation and the development of the principles of 
Christianity. These are some of the lessons to be learned 
from the story of the fall of the Confederacy. ‘There are 
many others, and one especially, that it would be a crime 
for any Christian people to forget or hereafter neglect. The 
fall of the Confederacy shows how a deadly conflict may 
end in a real peace, and how the foes of to-day may be 
brethren on the morrow. ‘These are the means by which 
this blessed result has come to pass in America. The 
people of the South nobly and righteously submitted to 
defeat, and when they ceased to be the armed enemies of 
the people of the North became on the instant their fellow- 
citizens, and loyal to the Union. On the other hand, the 
people of the North have not tarnished their glory by a 
single deed of vengeance. . Other nations may follow, but 
to the people of the United States will for ever belong the 
honour of setting the example of this all-wise and glorious 
clemency. It constitutes a bond of Union between North 
and South that Faction cannot fray, and that Treason 
cannot sunder. 
ANCIENT SPORTS AND PASTIMES. 
BY W. F. HUNTER. 
(Continued from page 563.) 
ROM very early times the people of England have 
been entertained by the performances of itinerant 
jugglers, minstrels, tumblers, and dancers. 
