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The Daily Dispatch: June 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Lines, & C. (search)
od of demoralized Rome; the iron hand of the great Frank settled the nations and founded existent Europe; the Crusades introduced into Europe humaner arts, destroyed the tyranny of feudalism, and checked the progress of the Mohammedan sword and Koran. "You call the Godfreys, and Tancreds, and Richards, mad men, but the frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate. How know you that but for the terror inspired by the hosts who marched to Jerusalem, the Crescent had not waved over the forum of Rome, and on the site of Notre Dame? The crusader fought for the tomb of Christ, but he saved the life of Christendom." War, then, has within it seeds of good, seeds which must be fertilized by blood to bring forth a harvest of blessings. And if ever there was a war which demanded at once the energies of the patriot and the benediction of the Christian, it is a war in defence of homes and altars, of civil liberty, of social virtue, of life itself, and of all that makes life worth having.