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 24 And can such scenes, to a repetition of which, the opening of a campaign so naturally leads, be contemplated with pleasure? Not surely by men possessing the smallest portion of the milk of human kindness. These can be beheld with complacency and delight only by demons, strangers at once to the softer feelings of humanity, and those exalted conceptions of superior intelligences, by which, the mul- titude of the heavenly host were taught to sing, at the birth of HIM, WHOSE LIFE AND DOCTRINES WERE SO. EMINENTLY CALCULA- TED TO GIVE PEACE TO THE NATIONS: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth PEACE, good will toward men. "