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ble limbs the prop is taken away; upon the sorrow of wives for their slaughtered husbands, and the weeping of children, because their dear fathers must return to them no more.

All these evils, and many which there is not room to mention, come from a single battle. But in one war, there are often many battles. Towns are sometimes burned, and the aged and helpless destroyed. The mother and her innocent babes, perish in the flames of their own beloved homes.

It is very sad to think of the cruelty and bad passions, which war produces. Men, who have no cause to dislike each other, meet as deadly foes. They raise weapons of destruction, and exult to