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ably, being feasted and feted by the inhabitants, whose esteem they gained to such an extent that their departure was marked by a general holiday, assisting hands, and such public demonstrations of regret that many a rude cow-boy when once again carreering o'er the pampas of Texas will rest his weary steed while memory reverts back to the pleasant days and whole-souled friendships cemented at the foot of the Vosges mountains in disputed Alsace- Lorraine.
In Alsace-Lorraine! whose anomalous position menaces the peace, not only of the two countries intersted, but of the civilized world ; whose situation make it intensely---even sadly--interesting, as the theatre of that future human tragedy for which the ear of mankind strains day and night, listening for detonations from the muzzies of the acme of invented mechanism of destruction. The lurid-garbed Angel of Devastation hovers, careering through the atmosphere of the seemingly doomed valley, gaily laughing, shrieking exultantly at the white-robed Angel of Peace, as the latter gloomily wanders---prayerful, tearful--hopelessly hunting, ceaselessly seeking the return of modern man's boasted newly-created gods : Equity, Justice, Reason !
What a field for the vaunted champions of humanity, the leaders of civilization ! What a neighborhood wherein to sow the seeds of " peace on earth and good will to all men!" What a crucible for the universal panacea--Arbitration ! What a test of the efficacy of prayer in damming up the conficting torents of Ambition, Cupidity, Passion, and Revenge, which threaten to color crimson the swift currents of the Rhine, until its renown as the home of wealth and luxury be eclipsed by eternal notoriety as the Valley of Death !
Leaving the temporary colony under the charge of his director partner, MR.
SALSBURY (whose energy found occupation in attending to the details of the future)
Cody, the indians, and your humble servant departed to America, arriving safely ; and after refuting satisfactorily, by the indians themselves, the base slanders that emanated in the imagination of notriety-seeking busybodies, procceded to the seat of the Indian difficulties in the distant State of Dakota. The splendid action of the traveled Indians, and the records of the Wild West's repersentatives on the spot, in the mutual interests of an excusably excited (and, to a certain extent, unitentionally wronged, yet headstrong and misguided) warlike pepole, and | 64 58
ably, being feasted and feted by the inhabitants, whose esteem they gained to such an extent that their departure was marked by a general holiday, assisting hands, and such public demonstrations of regret that many a rude cow-boy when once again carreering o'er the pampas of Texas will rest his weary steed while memory reverts back to the pleasant days and whole-souled friendships cemented at the foot of the Vosges mountains in disputed Alsace- Lorraine.
In Alsace-Lorraine! whose anomalous position menaces the peace, not only of the two countries intersted, but of the civilized world ; whose situation make it intensely---even sadly--interesting, as the theatre of that future human tragedy for which the ear of mankind strains day and night, listening for detonations from the muzzies of the acme of invented mechanism of destruction. The lurid-garbed Angel of Devastation hovers, careering through the atmosphere of the seemingly doomed valley, gaily laughing, shrieking exultantly at the white-robed Angel of Peace, as the latter gloomily wanders---prayerful, tearful--hopelessly hunting, ceaselessly seeking the return of modern man's boasted newly-created gods : Equity, Justice, Reason !
What a field for the vaunted champions of humanity, the leaders of civilization ! What a neighborhood wherein to sow the seeds of " peace on earth and good will to all men!" What a crucible for the universal panacea--Arbitration ! What a test of the efficacy of prayer in damming up the conficting torents of Ambition, Cupidity, Passion, and Revenge, which threaten to color crimson the swift currents of the Rhine, until its renown as the home of wealth and luxury be eclipsed by eternal notoriety as the Valley of Death !
Leaving the temporary colony under the charge of his director partner, MR.
SALSBURY (whose energy found occupation in attending to the details of the future)
Cody, the indians, and your humble servant departed to America, arriving safely ; and after refuting satisfactorily, by the indians themselves, the base slanders that emanated in the imagination of notriety-seeking busybodies, procceded to the seat of the Indian difficulties in the distant State of Dakota. The splendid action of the traveled Indians, and the records of the Wild West's repersentatives on the spot, in the mutual interests of an excusably excited (and, to a certain extent, uni |
