. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . full one hundred thousand are now in theUnited States military service, about one-half ofwhich number actually bear arms in the ranks ;thus giving the double advantage of taking so muchlabor from the insurgent cause and supplying theplaces which otherwise must be filled with so manywhite men. So far as tested it is difficult to saythey are not as good soldiers as any. No servileinsurrection or tendency to violence or cruelty hasmarked the measures of emancipation and blacks. Tiiese measures have been much dis-cussed in foreign coun
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . full one hundred thousand are now in theUnited States military service, about one-half ofwhich number actually bear arms in the ranks ;thus giving the double advantage of taking so muchlabor from the insurgent cause and supplying theplaces which otherwise must be filled with so manywhite men. So far as tested it is difficult to saythey are not as good soldiers as any. No servileinsurrection or tendency to violence or cruelty hasmarked the measures of emancipation and blacks. Tiiese measures have been much dis-cussed in foreign countries, and contemporary withsuch discussion the tone of public sentiment thereis much improved. At home tiie same measureshave been fully discussed, supported, criticised, anddenounced, and the annual elections following arehighly encouraging to those whose olTicialduty it isto bearthecountry through thisgreat trial. Thus wehave the new reckoning. The crisis which threatenedto divide the friends of the Union is Annual Message, Dec. 8, AlfredDamon^T^uriyoQ Two men were caught in a Moro trap, and the Dattos guns sang near;And one wore an officers shoulder strap, the other a privates gear;One was a black of the Twenty-fourth, and one was a Southern man,And both were caught in a dark defile by the lines of the Moro clan. Oh, wonder it is, and pity it is, that they send the Scouts aloneTo die in the silent jungle paths with never a word or groan;Wonder it is, and pity it is; but the two stood back to back,And never a word between them passed as they waited the first attack. What prayers they said they said them low, and to their beating hearts,That thumped so loud and out of tune; and now the battle ring of flame about them ran; a tongue- of fire shot through;Then as machines their muscles moved, and aimed their rifles true. The bullets whined, the wounded shrieked, the rifle bores grew hot,But still the two stood back to back, and answered shot for
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