. The olive branch of peace and good will to ment anti-war history of the Brethren and Mennonites, the peace people of the South, during the civil war, 1861-1865 . mas Mattock and asked him whether his fathershould not have a hearing. He replied, * Yes, but wemust sell his effects first. He then applied to to stop the sale till next court, who endeavoredall he could to do it. But they had invented a lie,namely, that I, or some of my people, had secretlycrept into the house, and had destroyed all the NewTestaments and that if the sale did not go on, all wouldbe destroyed before the sai
. The olive branch of peace and good will to ment anti-war history of the Brethren and Mennonites, the peace people of the South, during the civil war, 1861-1865 . mas Mattock and asked him whether his fathershould not have a hearing. He replied, * Yes, but wemust sell his effects first. He then applied to to stop the sale till next court, who endeavoredall he could to do it. But they had invented a lie,namely, that I, or some of my people, had secretlycrept into the house, and had destroyed all the NewTestaments and that if the sale did not go on, all wouldbe destroyed before the said court would come on, andso they passed on with the sale of all my personalestate, and rented out my several houses and lands forone year, and then sold them also, contrary to the con-cession of the convention in the case of forfeited es-tates, by which no real estate could have been sold be-fore my youngest son is of age. And so they have notonly broken the fundamental rule (of the government)in selling my estate; but have also published me in al-most all the newspapers as a traitor, without any causeand without ever giving me a hearing, or trial. AI- WmF. 46 THE OLIVE BRANCH OF PEACE. though I never had gone a mile from the place of myabode, and their own attorney, Mr. Bradford, has him-self declared to a friend of mine, that if I had not for-feited my life, I had also not forfeited my estate, forthey had no more right to my estate than to my life. HIS LAST DAYS AND HIS DEATH. I close this pathetic account of injustice and perse-cution with an extract from a Memorial Addressby M. G. Brumbaugh, of the University of Perinsyl-vania, delivered in the church of the Brethren at Ger-mantown, January 1, 1899: When the fury of war had blasted his hopes andinipoverished his life, he was still rich; rich in his devo-tion to duty, rich in the love and confidence of hisfriends, and rich in religious zeal. Even in his poverty God opened to him a Alethacton the homeless and wifel
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