. A daily journal of the 192d reg't Penn'a volunteers, commanded by Col. William B. Thomas, in the service of the United States for one hundred days . , Christians inany, scholars, artistsand capitalists, largely of men of thought and principle.\Ae have seen our Vice-President, Hannibal Hamlin,enrolling himself ah a private soldier, and last, thoughnot least, we have ourselves been led to the tented fieldby a citizen of the Quaker City, (himself a descendantof that peacefid trilje,) who laid aside high-ofi&ce andsocial station, to contribute his share to the commoncause. Why have such men, ask
. A daily journal of the 192d reg't Penn'a volunteers, commanded by Col. William B. Thomas, in the service of the United States for one hundred days . , Christians inany, scholars, artistsand capitalists, largely of men of thought and principle.\Ae have seen our Vice-President, Hannibal Hamlin,enrolling himself ah a private soldier, and last, thoughnot least, we have ourselves been led to the tented fieldby a citizen of the Quaker City, (himself a descendantof that peacefid trilje,) who laid aside high-ofi&ce andsocial station, to contribute his share to the commoncause. Why have such men, asks another, desertedtheir callings, left their homes, stibmitted to the priva-tions of camp life, and exposed their lives on the battle-field ? What are they fighting for? Is tlierp not acause? as the young David exclaimed to his disdainfulbrethren, when they upbraided him with leaving hisfathers sheep in the wilderness, and thrtisting himselfin the front of the enemv, bef<)r the o;iant foe. r ^z^ THE NEV^REF This book istak< YORK PUBLIC LIBRARYERENCE DEPARTMENT under no circumstances to been from the Building i 1 ■H form 410.
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