results of his four. or eight years' administration as those of Tennyson on the great Iron Duke?

"The statesman, warrior, moderate, resolute;
Whole in himself a common good;

The man of amplest influence,
Yet clearest of ambition's crime.
Our greatest, yet with least pretence;
Great in council, great in war;
The foremost captain in his time,
Rich in saving common-sense,
In his simplicity sublime;

Who never sold the truth to serve the hour,
Nor paltered with Eternal God for power;
Who let the turbid stream of rumor flow
Through either babbling world of high and low.
Whose life was work, his language rife
With rugged maxims hewn from life.
He on whom from both her open hands,

Lavish Honor showered all her stars,

And affluent Fortune sanctified all her hours.

Yea, let all good things await

Him who cares not to be great,

But as he saves or serves the State.

Not once, or twice, ere our own country's story,

The path of duty was the path of glory:

He that walks it, only thirsting

For the right, and learns to deaden
Love of self, before his journey closes,
He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting
Into glossy purple, which out-redden
All voluptuous golden roses."

CHAPTER II.

THE PURPORT OF THE BOOK.

Our War-Its Magnitude-Its Sphere of Humanities-Austro-Italian War-Our Relief Societies-No precedent-Appropriate that a rapid Sketch of the War be given in this Work-Accepted History— Nothing succeeds like success-The Apple of Sodom nipped in the bud-Douglas and Lincoln-The South divided to elect LincolnWar the result.

THIS book is not a complete history of the war, or of any part of it, but rather a record of historic and authentic events in that most eventful time, as they came to the observation and experience of one who was called upon to drink to the dregs of the bitter cup, and who did what lay in her power to lessen and alleviate the sufferings around her.

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