. Recollections of a Rebel surgeon, and other sketches : or, in the doctor's sappy days . And, Danels (he always would call me Dan-els, confound him), looking back at it nowthrough the vista of thirty-odd years, you are, Ibelieve, a just man, a good man—my wife saysI am, but then she is partial, you know I dontsee how you and I and others of our sort couldever for a moment have tolerated, condoned,thought slavery was right. Well, we were born in-to the world and found it here, and thought notmuch about it at first. But there is no considerationthat could now induce us to have it restored; wear
. Recollections of a Rebel surgeon, and other sketches : or, in the doctor's sappy days . And, Danels (he always would call me Dan-els, confound him), looking back at it nowthrough the vista of thirty-odd years, you are, Ibelieve, a just man, a good man—my wife saysI am, but then she is partial, you know I dontsee how you and I and others of our sort couldever for a moment have tolerated, condoned,thought slavery was right. Well, we were born in-to the world and found it here, and thought notmuch about it at first. But there is no considerationthat could now induce us to have it restored; weare happily rid of it. Why, we smile at the blind-ness and bigotry of good old Mrs. Watson,who was so grieved because she could notChristianize Huck Finn; at the same time shewas offering a reward of $200 for the arrest of II RECOLLECTIONS OF A REBEL SURGEON. her runaway nigger, Jim, and proposed to sellhim for $800. Yet she was but the type of manythousands of truly pious people in the South,who saw nothing un-christian in selling a nig-ger. And that, Danels, only thirty-odd years 03. DID YOU EVER LOOK THROUGH THE BUTT-ENDOF A TELESCOPE? ago. Doesnt it look paradoxical even to us,the survivors of the terrible struggle? But look here, Danels, I dont like to talkabout unpleasant things; its against my princi- 12 THE OLD DOCTOR TALKS. pies, and its against the principles of my Retro-scope. What is your Retroscope, Doctor? Danels, said he, when you were a boy didyou ever look through the butt-end of a tele-scope? Yes, of course, said I; why? Didnt it make things look away off yonder?Thats the way the war looks now; it seems likeit was a thousand years ago. But I have an in-strument of my own invention which not onlybrings things near, like a telescope does whenthe little end is used, but when I look into thepast it has the faculty of making things look liketwas only yesterday, and it brings the past in re-view before me in sections, with the added effectof bringing out, conspicuou
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