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A PICTURE OF WAR.

is no subject on which the common sense of mankind has gone farther wrong than that of WAR: This demon of discord, while it bewilders with its glare, subjects to the greatest privations, not only those engaged in it, but all who are not far removed from its influence. While mankind are by nature brethren, mutually dependant on one another (in whatever quarter of the globe they may reside), for the supply of the necessaries and comforts of life, War destroys the connection—makes those enemies who should be friends, and entails misery and want where comfort and plenty would otherwise be found. Neither is there any thing in which principle is more