. A common and natural
result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers,
colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in
admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay,
against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching
indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart. They have no doubt that it is
a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably
inclined. Now, what are they? Men at all? or small movable forts and magazines,
at the service of some unscrupulous man in power? Visit the Navy-Yard, and
behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it
can make a man with its black arts- a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity,
a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under
arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be,
"Not
a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
As his corse to the rampart we hurried;
Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot
O'er the grave where our hero we buried."
ምንም አስተያየቶች የሉም:
አስተያየት ይለጥፉ