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The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War news. (search)
he world was not worthy;) they were dead in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth"--these all must have been raving madmen. Saint Paul himself, who gave up a high position and bright prospects for a life of persecution and a death of agony, and the early Christians who were put to death in every form of human cruelty, must, in like manner, have been hopelessly crazy. All the apostles of liberty, as well as those of religion, must have been demented in like manner. Hampden and Sidney ought to have been put in straight jackets, and the martyrs of the American Revolution had their heads shaved and put under a water-spout. Giving up both property and life for an idea! What better evidence of the hellishness of a cause and the incurable insanity of its advocates! But we must remind Mr. Forney that there is a difference of opinion among mankind upon this as upon most other subjects. There are men to whom ideas are realities. There is one class of humanity