[MPIO-users] so many wars.

[Ptaschinski <pu...@ev...>]

At he had done what he could. Southern soldiers and generals as well as
Northern comrades and friends brought to his bedside messages of
affection and good cheer. At length he fell asleep. His tomb on the
height above the Hudson has become a Mecca for innumerable multitudes.
To the end of time, perhaps, Lincoln will be remembered as the Martyr
President, the best loved of all our leaders, the great Emancipator, the
gentlest memory of our world; but side by side with Lincoln will stand
Grant, the man of oak and rock, the man of iron will, who fought the war
to a successful issue, and will be known in history as the greatest
soldier of the Republic. XI THE LIFE OF THE PEOPLE AT HOME WHO SUPPORTED
THE SOLDIERS AT THE FRONT It is a proverb that nothing moves men like
tales of eloquence and heroism. Historians and poets alike believe that
stories of bravery and anecdotes of heroes exert a profound influence
upon young hearts. Here is Socrates. His judges condemn him to the jail
and poison. Socrates quails not, and says: "At what price would one not
estimate one night of noble conference with Homer and Hesiod? You, my
judges, go home to your banquets--I to hemlock and death; but whether it
is better for you than for me, God knoweth." It is a moving story. Here
is the early missionary martyr, fettered and brought before a cruel
tyrant, to be condemned to death. The missionary lifts his chains, calls
the roll of the king's crimes, flashes the sword of justice, coerces the
monarch from his throne, makes him crawl, beg, plead, and beseech the
missionary's pity and prayers, for speech has made a prisoner king, and
turned a monarch into a captive. It is a moving tale. And here are the
stories of war: Xenophon's ten thousand young Greeks, lost in the heart
of the great nation, a thousand miles from home, without maps, without
food, outnumbered daily ten to one, living off the country, fight