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Trusting In A Broken Reed

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
December
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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of ihe rebel prisoner in Fort Warren evide: lly have confidentie in tho ultitr.ate wuccess of tho robollion, and they amuse tlieiuselves inging, to the tune of " Dixie" a lot of dnggerel, in whiub aro the lollowing lineH : 41 Wo havo no tieet, we Iiave no naviea But wo put our trust in oM Jtf IK'ivit. " y&" When Oolonel Gorooran was told that he was to be hung if one of tlie [)iivateersmen wero executed, he Baid : " Well, Bir, I am ready. When I engaged in thi war I rnado up mv mind to Rnciifice mv life, if nccessary, in defencu of that flag under wliich I have lived and gained an honorable posuion.1' iy Napoleon was not so extravagant as many peoplu imagine, when he declarad that, in modern time--, " bnyoncU think." Is ït not evident that every poüubed bayooet is capable of refloctior;

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Old News
Michigan Argus