2307
Cleveland Morning Leader, 27 December 1864
(15 inches)
~ See original
p.4, col.2
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2307 - L. Dec. 27:4/2 - In a letter to the editor, C. N. Pond says: A
soldier, an Englishman who did not come to this country until the age.
of adult manhood, wrote such patriotic words that "I have made some ex-
tracts for your columns. You should have the whole but it is too long.
"We cannot deny that the war is a great evil.... But we may venture to
say that there are some wars which are not all evil.... Some say that
we have accomplished little and had better compromise. Accomplished ...
little ! Do we not stand today a self centered nation?... From a nation :
which the world and which itself believed to be sunk in hopeless mammon
worship, we have risen to be a nation that pours out its wealth like
water for a noble purpose. Never again will the almighty dollar be
called America's divinity. We were sinking fast to low and selfish pur-
poses.... But on hearing the summons, millions leaped to offer all they - --
had, to fling fortune, limb, and life on the altar of an unselfish cause,
and proved the readiness of the old faithful manly blood to be as bright
as ever.... Benevolence has become the -atmosphere of the land. Four " ' " .
years ago we would not have believed it; that the voluntary charity of .
Americans would count by millions yearly, and it is still flowing out in
a steady, deep, increasing tide of free, glad giving. And is this .
nothing?'" - - - . . . . . - (15)