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iMON. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY DECEMBER 29 1885.— SIXTEEN PAGES
TABERNACLE SERMON.
"Kccwlng (he Time, that Now it i> Tim* to
Awake Out of 8l*ep“-LooMIuc Backward and
Looking Forward- Reason* WSijr Wo
Should Wake Up—A Flee Beriaoa.
Brooklyn, December 27.--[ot>eoial.]— 1 This
Being Ihe last Sabbath night of the year 1885,
the Btv. T. DeWitt Talnrage, D. D., preached
at the fobernacle, this city, a sermon appropri
ate to the occasion. The hymn snug was:
“My days are gliding swiftly l»y,
And 1, a pilgrim Granger,
Would not detain them as they fly.
These hours of toll and danger.’* - *
The preacher took his text from Romans xiii,
It: ^‘Knowing the time,* that now it is high
time to awake out of sleep.” Following U the
discourse in full: .
While this morning with glad nmthem we
celebrated the Ccristmas hoar, has it occurred
to you that this is the hut Sabbath night of
grand and beautiful, and eveutful and joyous
and solemn eighteen hundred and eighty-five?
The oesasion is mightily suggestive.
Starting out on along journey on^horsoback,
you ride along without stopping for ,mauy a
mile until after a while you
come on top of a high hill. You
rein in the steed. The horse smokes by reason
of the length of the way. You take your feet
out of the stirrups. You turn around in tho
saddle. You look off upon the ravines through
which you havo passed and the hills over
Which yon have come, and make an estimate
of how many miles you have traveled. Then
turning around again iu the sad
dle and 2 putting your feet in the
Stirrups, you look ahead, and wonder how far
it will be before you come to the place of des
tination. And so, today, wo come up on tho
Sabbatic mount of privilege. Mo horseman ever
spurred on a steed factor tho wo
have gone up the steeps of life and down tho
dangerous declivities; but havjug come here
today, wo stop and look back upon tho way
through which wo have come—tho darkness
and the sunshine, the accidents and tho sue-
cesses—ar.d then look forward nud wonder
how long or how short will yet bo tho way.
And sitting and standing here, tho hour scorn ?
to me, as to you it must be. momentous. \ put
my finger on the pulse of this moment nud I
feel tbst it beats high aud eternal destinies.
Yon and J havo started on iu a life which will
continue to live after the sun 1ms gone out
cold in death and this wrecked and foundered
world shall have strewn its timbers on the
coast of eternal desolation. Oh! it is a mean
question for me to ask myself, and you today:
"Where am I? What am I? Whence camo I?
And whither am I bound?” The simple fact
is that each ono of us has a soul to savo. Now,
when any man in olden times had saved tho
life of a Roman citizon from drowning, for
instance, that man, who rescued the unfortu
nate, was honored. He was allowed some
times to sit in tho senate; ho was allowed to
ride in tho great processions, and when he
entered a room the peoplo would rise up to
greet him and do him honor. I would to God
that tonight wo might asplro for tho highor
honor of saving a soul—an immortal soul.
There arc threo or four reasons that I cau
think of why wo should obey the injunction
of mr text and wake up. Tho first arousing
consideration that occurs to my mind is the
fact that there are so many obstacles in the
way of our salvatian. Now, there is no need
of our hiding this fact. Wo sometimes hoar
people talking to the unconverted and saying:
** It is just as easy for you to bccomo a Christ
ian as It is to turn over your hand.” It is not.
There are tremendous obstacles in tho way of
your beroming a Christian, and every man that
has tried in thorough earnestnoss to bocomo
j,n child of God has round thattbero are obsta
cle*. That is not a wise general who depreci-
Ves the forco of an enemy—who says to
mop; “My troops, you will have an
easy time of it. Those castles can be cap
tured without any very serions bombardment.
There are only a few euemlos in that opposing
host. It will only be a few moments’ assault
and we will gain the victory.” No. A wise
general says: “Thosearc strong battlomouta;
those men who are coming out to assault us are
armed, and they are brave men. If you ever
capture thoso fortresses, and if you ever
©vereoino that host, it will bo by a mighty
raMying of all your energies.” And I have to
tell you now that if yon are ever going to get
to heaven it will be by going out in a contest
ns ono against a hundred, as one against a
thousand, as ono against a hundred thousand;
aye, it is an infinite impossibilty that you rfvor
r % succeed by any strength or resolution of your
own, and if there were not some supernatural
nid to be offered and some divine promise to
fako hold of, we would be lost, and we would
all ho lost.
In tho first place there are the obstacles in
tho worldliness that surround you. I need not
tell you, men ef Brooklyn and New York, that
thcro is a tide of worldliness sotting away from
God and from heaven. You havo folt
it. You havo waded down in it
until tho flood camo to yonr
knee, until it camo to your girdlo, until it has
como to your lip. Yon rise in the morning.
You find it is a few moments later than you
thought it was. You are in great haste. You
hurry through the morning meal. You race
down tho street You go to your office. Yon
open the letters and you answer them. You
examine the money market. You mn hither
and thither. Yonr life is a toil and a turmoil.
The long day, save the fifteen or twenty min
utes in which you lnnch, is given np to tho in
fluence of this world, and It is very rare indeed
that from eight o’clock in tho morning until
four or flvo o’clock in the afternoon that you
havo a single thought about the great future,
gome thought may, while you are standing at
the counter or in tho banking house, some stray
thought of the future world may come through
your mind, but it darts out again, just like a
■wallow that In summer time wheels into the
open window, mskes a circuit of a few minutes
and then goes out. 0 this tide of worldliness!
You have felt it. It sets away from God aud
away from heaven. Yon know it.
i Then there are obstacles in the way of your
getting to heaven, In Satanic and infernal as
sault. The sir is fall of evil spirits. Theyac-
. cost you. They meet you at the cross roads.
They tell yon the wrong road. They try to
nnboree your good resolutions, to spike your
guns, to outflank yon in every Christian move
ment, and If you are ever ouccessftil at all in
gaining the realm of everlasting bliss, it will
be by rallying all yonr physical, mental and
moral energies, aye, it will be by calling upon
the Lord Almighty by His infinite and omnip
otent grace to help you. And yet, if there
were a single man in all thisaudienco whb
should suddenly have come upon him the im-
pretsicn that he was going to min heaven,
there would, go up a shriek louder thsn that
which ia|hcard between colliding railtmtns.
There is uo man who expects to miss heaven
But how are you going to get over all- them
obstacles? I ask yon as reasonable men, if the
impediments in the way ought not to arouse
you.
Another awakening consideration is in the
value of the soul. Theodoric forbade the de
basing of the national coin. They say. “We
ought to debase' it. Wc can mix something else
in it and it will be just as good.” • No ” said
TbccdorJc. tho emperor, “I will not hare my
ffccc imprinted on a debsaed coin/’ . Here wo
arc; the image of God has been impressed if non
ouktOUl, and yetlt has been debased and has
becc-mc a counterfeit. We have all siunei and
wc are all lost, unless divine grace rescue and
redeem us. Now, hero is the son!. What is it
worth? Is there not som»-th»ug in Us value to
arouse us? I sometimes hoar iieople compare
the f ovil iu valud to a mine. That is a very
* poor comparison, for the silver and the gold
in the mine will melt after a while and be of
no more value than the scoria spit out from
Cotopaxi, while these jewels of the soul will
exist as long as there are vases in eternity
to kold them. Might I not rather take a
Bckln? They are rightly adjusted, The two
■Mrs tre just even now. I hold up the bal
ances. On the one side of that seals I put in
simply ■ sonl; nothing else at all; no trappings,
but simply a naked Soul That is on one side
. if the balances. On the other side of tho bal
ances I put this world with all its riches, a id
Loners, and gains, ,a ponderous world. But
that world rises—that side goes up, whilo the
other side, in which is tho soul, comes down
with ten thousand million ton weight. It is
an immortal soul. It is a priceless soul. It is
caged now. It beats sometimes against the
wires of the cage and tries to et&pe, hut it can
not; but, let once tho door or that cage bo
opened the thousandth part of an inch, as it
will be after awhile opened, let it bo opened
never so little, and that soul goes out, taking
fifty worlds at a bouud. Ob, “What shall it
profit a man if he gain the whole world and
lose his own soul?”
Another arousing consideration I find in the
brevity of the time in which wo have to pre
pare for the next world. How long it took to
complete the East river bridge! Twolvaor
thirteen years. If it had takeu twonty years
from tho day the foundation stone was laid, it
itwon!d not have been a great while forgo
magnificent a structure. How long was St.
Peter’s in building? Scores arid huudreds of
years. And St. Paul’s is not done yet. If
there is a vgat work to be dono you expect it
will take a great whilo to do it. Now hero,
they tell us, is a temple of holiness to be built
in every man’s soul. How long are you going
to give us to build that temple? A thousand
years? “O, no,” you say, “you can’t have so
much as that.” Nor seven hundred, nor fivo
hundred, nor three hundred, nor two hundred,
nor one hundred, and some of us will not have
sixty, and some of us will not have fifty, arid
some of us will not havo thirty and none of us
will not haye twenty to build this great tem
ple. O how vast the work aud hour short a
time them is to do it!
When will this procession that you sco every
afternoon from two to four o’clock, stop? This
Jong procession going out toward the ceme*
tciics. Not until all thero merchants havo
gone out of their stores, nnd all these mechan
ics have gone out of of their shops, and all these
aitists have gone out of their stadios, and all
tlicir mothers havo left thoir cradles, and all
this city shall be emptied of this present popula
tion. The processiou will keep going on until
all thoso who are here this night shall have
joined it in silence. O, how brief life is! We
talk about it until it gets a stalo truth, but some
times God strikes it on the soul with such ve-
1 cmcncc that we arc roused up. My brother, a
missionary in China was telling me of an instru
ment that they had at work in China during
the insurrection, for tho beheading of men. He
said it woikcd a stroke something liko that (in
dicating; nnd at every stroke one life went, and
another, nnd nnothet. And I thought to my
self, tbnt is just like tho stroke of tho minutes.
In just that way the generations pass off. Cer
tainly as quickly ns that. A llfo—another, is
gone, and another, nnd another, and another,
nnd soother, and another. The waves of huma
nity dash np on that other beach in quick sue-
ccfstou. Every stroko cf tho heart says: “Be
quick! ” The revolution of the sersons: “Be
quick!” Tho coming of tho morning, tho drop
ping of the night: “Bo quick!”
Another arousing consideration I find iu tho
glory to bo won. Paul was very fond of com
paring the Christian life to a foot race. Thoso
foot races have gono out of fashion. But you
have seen racing and you know that very
often the speed of tho driver nnd his horse is
influenced by tho wager. Ho knows when it
is a largo wager and a small wager. Two
steamers start for Liverpool and it is known
that tho ono that makes tho quickest trip gots
the job of carrying tho Unitod States mail.
Will not tho fact that tho contract will bo
given to tho swiftest vessel somehow influence
the speed of those ships? Now, I Say, wo arc
started In a race, and ought not the fact there n
are vast emoluments, great gains, a crown of
glory that fadeth not away, before us, ought
not these considerations to inspirit as by the
way? OJ blessed land. If you were offered
in tho gospel merely a bunch of withered
flowers—if you were offered jncrely tho dregs
of a wine cup, I would not bo surprised if yon
faftnninterc. ini in the. result; hut when I tell
yon of the joys that are offered to you through
tho gospel, I do not sco liow you can stop a
moment, in tins race. I do - nqt understand
why ydtjrni put forth redoubled strength
that you '-J qTV gain tlio pri»o. i'TJioy ahull-
hunger no Dime, neither thirst any more,
neither shall th»snn light on them, nor any
beat, for the Lamb which is 1n tho midst of
the throne shall lead them to living fountains
of water, nnd God shall wipo away all tears
from their eyes.” : ’ ;
“Blest arc tho saints bolovod of God,
Washed are their robes in Jesus’s blood;
Brighter than angels, lo! they shine,
Tlicir glories splendid aud sublime.”
Tliero is anothor arousing consideration in
this suhlcct, and that is that ao many havo
made shipwreck of their opportuulty woo had
as good cliauccs as wo havo. A man takes a
good deal of responsibility when he says in re
gard to any ooo who goes out of this world:
’That man is lost.” There is a way of calcul
ating tho extinction of physical life. The phy
sician cornea in, examines the eye, puts his
hand under the arm, feels the pulse aud says:
“Life is extinct; the man is gone.” Bat there
is no such accurate way of deciding
in this world in regard to the death
of a soul. But I will say this: “That
if yon know a man who lives on without any
interest in Jeans Christ and is careless in re
gard to bis immortal destiny, and that man
lives In that carelcssnen all tho way long un
til his last hour, and you never hear him say
ouo word of penitence or give any expressions
of faith or say anything in regard to tho etern
al world or his preparation for it, if ho dies in
tilenro In reference to all those subjects—I will
iay in regard to that man, it is warning to you
and me. Young people, where are those who
entered school with you four years ago? Grad
uates of colleges, where are those who took
the diploma with you on tho aamo commence-
mcntfPay? Businessmen, where are thoso who
started in commercial life with you twenty
yean ago? “Well,” you say, “some of them
have passed off.” There is a business man sit
ting here who had a partner who left tho
world, and now ho thinks over that caso.
He rays: That man lived on without
any concern about tho futuro world and
suddenly he died.” Well, I como to you today
and I say: “What do you supposo was that
man’s destiny? Where uoyou suppose ho is V’
Well, you are embarrassed. You say: “I
wouldn’t like to take the responsibility.”
“Well,” I say, “you are not bound to take any
responsibility. 1 want your opinion as to
where he is,” and again you resist the question.
You don’t want to take thfe responsibility. O!
I wonder if when we are dead there will bo
any awftil guessing about whoro we havo gone.
These men sat under the same Gospel. They
sang tho same songs. They had the same op-
? »rtunities of salvation. They rejected them.
ou sit under tho same advantages and yon
arc going through precisely tho same process,
and I ask if it is not an arousing consideration
for you snd me. The day will como when you
and I will have to quit this life. We.
may be stalwart today, we may not have an
ache or a paiu, we may be exuberant in our
pbyscal health, but our common sense tells us
that there will have to come a time when we
will put our bead to the pillow and die. O! if
in that hour you hear the upbraidings of con-
science, aud the reverberations of a broken law.
and tho thunders of God’s anathemas, you will
wish you had never been born. Why not come
out tonight and have this matter gloriously
settled? If there be anything in Christ, and a
bright hope of heaven, why not come ami get
it? It is yours if you will have it. la tho
name of my Lord Jesus Christ, I plainly offer
it. Pardon for all your sin. Comfort fir all
your trouble. Hein for all your burden <. The
Gospel that I preach is not one of destructions
but a gospel of salvation.
Pcrtinax heard, one night, pounding at hit
palace door, some messengers who wanted to
get in. He said to himself: “ They have come
to take my life,” and be trembled, and bo
refused to open the door. They kept on
pounding and pounding away until he
almost fainted with fright: but after a while,
plucking up courage and girding on his sword,
and putting bis hand on tho hilt, he had the
doer opened, when lot ths messenger* hvi
crme to offer him a.crown. They said: “THe
king died one hour ago of apoplexy, and you
have been chosen to Ih> his successor, and we
have come to offer you the crown.” O! I thought
bow much like that is oor rejection oftbegoipel
as though it were a matter of overthrow, wii.»n
it is a matter of coronation. Not to slay but
to enthrone. If, this.moment, by giving up
your sin fairly aud squarely—I do not take the
responsibility of saying what yon/ sin U, I do
not know—if you would honestly, and before
Gcd, this moment, giro up your rin and take
Christ, the news would fly heavenward and
would strike seraphic harps, and angels bend
ing in the aky, and ministering spirits flying
on errands of salvation, would join wing to
wing, and wing towing, while they cried: “Be
hold! ho prays!”
GENERAL TOOMBS’S OPINIONS,
To speak of General Toombs now ono must go
back to defective sketches, Imperfect memories and
scanty traditions.
He labored not tor fame, nor courted popularity,
newas a popular man without the least taint of
the demagogue in liis composition, for his was
“that popularity which follows, and not that which
is run after.”
In conversing with some gentlemen at the Kim-
ball house, General Toombs said, that tho idea of
advertising real estate, and the benefits derived
firom it, did not originate with an Atlanta man as
feme supposed, that in fact some where Jn Buth,
there is an account of a real estate transaction
which tcok place in Bethlehem, iu which Boas,
speaks of advertising, selling and buying a parcel
of land before the inhabitants.
In speaking of the instruments produced in the
agricultural world, he said, that ho thought that
the most valuable and Important one, was the cot
ton gin of Whitney. That it gave a spring to the
agriculture of Georgia which lias continued unim
paired to this clay, and a credit that will endure
while the cotton plant whitens the farms of tho
south with Its snowy harvests, or tho maehiuoryof
the cotton factory clatters upon the water falls.
That idea of Jeflfcrscn's, as to all men's being
created equal, said General Toombs, may hold
true In some respects. They have a claim to live,
they have an impartial ahare in the Divine love,
and they may have been created equal as to certain
rights nnd privileges; but thcro Is no equality in
man. In the natural world no two things were
ever created precisely equal. No two flowers are
of- equal fragrance; no two stars are of equal
brightness; no two men were ever created equal. It
is evidently the universal law of nature that this
world was made for progression. Irregularity Is
the Aindamcntal law of nature, and hcnco the
haimony of tire world.
In congress, or elsewhere, General Toombs waa
never approached with a bribe. He mado no
money by corruption, or by tho fruits of extortion
nor did ho wring from the widow’s hand a cup of
water, or from her orphan children tho crust of
bread.
When Johnson was asked whether Burke resem
bled Tullius Cicero, “No, sir,” was the reply, “he
resembles Edmund Burke.” In his conversation
and speeches, Toombs gave proof of tho first char
acteristic of genius. Originality, power, variety,
novelty of thought, and intellectual brilliancy
flashed at 1) wart every subject ho handled. Bo gen
eral was his Information thnt he conversed practi
cally with men of all professions and pursuits.
With the breederof horses, he was a veterinary sur
geon ; with the farmer, an experienced agricultur
ist ; with the mechanic, a muter of all trades. Evory
one with whom he convened might havo supposed
that he belonged to their own art, trade or calling,
General Toombs was convening with a stranger
about the war,*ono day at New Holland, and dis
covered that ho was a Methodist preacher from
Alabama, no formed tho opinion that tho min
ister was an original union man and opposed tho
war. “Sir,” said he, “when northern politicians and
trim business nien were encroaching upon tho re
served rights of tho states; whon it bccamouseless
to talk about tho constitution; yes, and whqp
northern Christians became too pure In thoir faith,
too holy In their zeal and too elevated in tleclr
heavenly sanctity to commune with you, and lu
looking to a higher law, disregarding tho Bible
what.did you doJ “Well,sir,” said he, “I closed my
Bible, Joined a company under General Forort,
and thought that wo might keep thorn in their
proper Sphere of action by mounted cavalry «nd a
good supply of cnnulsttfr, bnt the supply of men
General Tconibs waa indeed If hfl sail ho would'
call the roll of his negroes at tho foot of Burikor
Bill? “No,’’.said he,'“I was riot guilty ofao fool
ish a speech. 1 believe T am a practical man in
business and had been successful In raising cotton
in Georgia. Massachusetts, Now York, tho north
ern states, had tried slavery, and when Ibund it
non-paying, their moral sentiment bccamoos
strong that slavery was dono away with. Success-
Ihl as I may have boon in Georgia, I would not bo
willing to risk realizing anything in a locality
where a Massachusetts man had failed. As to call
ing a roll of slaves In Ma^sachsctts, I knew of no
Job in that state, unlcu I could havo mado a con
tract to blow up and dig up Plymouth Rock and to
have thrown it into the bay, for, indirectly, that
rock hat cost tho south about ns much as many
other things. Now, the north should remember
that the south was not responsible for slavery. A
Dutc h slave owner, in 1020, brought tho first slaves
to Virginia; that Georgia was tho first among tho
colonics to resist the slavo t rade, and that slavery
existed in New York until 1830.”
'Among other tilings settled by tho war,” said
Gen. Toombs, “it drove the faith from a pretty toast,
used :tc hear, 'The United States, distinct as
the billows, yet one as tho sea’ Yes, tho war
settled the right of secession, tho rights of tho
states. It is now all sea Not a confederation of
tovcrclgn states, hut a consolidated, Indivisible)
country. Georgia now, is but an indistinct billow,
having no separate existence, is not a sovereign
state having important rights which she may in
terpose to defend by virtue of that sovereignity,but
is merely an humble department of an unique and
inseparable notion, and as such she has no power
to determine upon the nature and extent of her
own right#, nor in any care to intorposo for tho
maintananec of them. Stic must i mplieltly submit
to the usurpation of a government ordained by
herself to promote her welfare and happiness, and
whoro powers she has expressly set limits In a con
stitution. Georgia a billow? Why shots tho abso
lute slave of her own servant, and any attempt on
ber part to withdraw of secede from under his op
pression gives trim a right to chasiiso her into
obedience.”
General Toombs was asked what was to l>c the
future of the colored man In this country. Hald bo:
Time will decide. David Ilcnsbaw, a prominent
man of Massachusetts in his day, said: 'Tho two
races cannot exist together on terms of sociality
politically and physically it is Impossible.’ Hon.
Caleb Cushing, of Boston, said: ‘It Is impossiblo to
deny that the free blacks in the United States labor
under disadvantages, arising from color, which no
system of laws, howeveajust and equal, no plana of
benevolence, however comprehensive, could re-
Tho southern people do not believe that
the two races of men so palpably distinguished,
not only In personal appearance, but in liablts,
manners and caste, can amilatc or become a united
and harmonious people.”
•The Union—It must bo preserved.” General
Toombs was asked what it was he had said about
"a masked battery.” 8atd he, the sentiment, “Tho
Union, It must be preserved” Is a noble sentiment
ben judiciously applied, and docs not fall from
the lips of the demagogue, or from a mere factlon-
i*t. But to preserve the union, far more is required
to Its existence than a simple devotion. The con
stitution ia the contract which Imparted to tho
government all of Its pow ers. The preservation of
that contract Is the only means by which the union
can be preserved. As long as the constitution is
adhered to the union w ill be preserved. No re*
served right in the constitution should ever be en
croached upon by the federal government; and no
power not delegated to the United State-* can be
rightfully exereixd by congress. On no occasion
thould the federal government seek to limit, ren
der conditional, or otherwise interrupt their full
and perfect enjopment. Tho cry, "The Union, it
must.be preserved," l*ef nme common north. An
amount of hypocritical patriotism, never folt, waa
cried cut. Bbc violated and set at naught right*
the south derived from the constitution, and she
interfered with the internal policy of the states
1 raid that “the cry of union is the masked battery
behind which the rights of the south are to be
availed.”
“As to the war,” said General Toombs, “perhaps U
was hastened; It may have, been hastened a law
yean, yet it bad to come. A simple love of the
union would not hare prevented it; its serenity
rested on the contract which created it and im
parted to U all of its powers. But that contract the
north ceased to regard, was continually making
encroachments upon the reserv ed rights of the
states, severing the ligaments which united them.
Aside from other tilings, there was a continuous
interference with slavery. After the south had
pretty much given up everything, and secession
was threatened, and Mr. O'Conuor, of New York,
said 'that he did not desire a union held together
by the military force of onesectlon directed against
the other and compelling its reluctant obedience, 1
the south saw but one course left for her to pursue,
and that was by following tho remedy
knowlcdgcd by James T. Brady, of Now York, In
1850: 'A state whose rights are disregarded has a
perfect right to secede.’ Sho saw but one remedy,
that of Edward Livingston, In his debate on Foote's
resolution, in his claiming 'that compact between
the states of secession;' that of the Jurist and states
man Tazewell, with bta 'constitutional right of
secession;' that of Phil Barbour, when candidate
for the vice presidency in 1832, with his 'My
opinion is, tho rightful remedy of scccsdon,' and of
our own Troup: Tho argument being exhausted,
to stand by our arms.’ ”
His married lift was a beautiful one. Mr*.
Toombs waa always his tender and faithful friend
his relief In sickness, his joy in health, his partno’
in his good fortune, and his comfort under all cir
cumstance*. She never had cause but for tho most
unshaken confidence In his virtue. Her heart was
never chilled by the least indifference, receiving
nothingfromhim but bis tendcrcst lovo. He over
ke^iJOite the flame kindled in youth constantly
fed by gentleness of affection, kindliness of man
ner and depth of regard, and thus cherished a holy
light that cheered and gladdened his hearth and
home, until the last hours of his life. Aa sho bo-
came feeble from ago and disease, ho could sco
that her cheek was paler, that her smile bad a
fainter play, and that her footstep* flagged with a
weaker ring, yet lie found on her check a bloom of
aflcctlon, a richer damask than the bloom of
■healtlfmis smilo Irrldiatcd his home, threw
beauty upon the features of tho chosen one of his
youth, and kindled light upon the forehead of his
children. Many great men are retired distant in
domestic life; many are absorbed in business or
tbeir studies, and aro unwilling to be disturbed by
the ordinary occurrences of lifo, and are seldom
communicative and pleasant at home. General
Toombs ever showed tho fondness and solicitude of
a man who seemed to have no caret for others ou
his mind outsido Iris family.
From the Detroit Free Press.
I had camped near tho fork of tho Platte,
and was aroused just at daylight by footsteps
around me. After listening for a moment, I folt
sure that they were the footsteps of horses. They
seemed to be circling tround me—not at a canter—
not at a trot, but at o modcrato walk. It was well
that 1 had secured my horso In a thorough manucr,
foy I never saw him so excited. He tugged and
pulled at his lariat, stood up ou hlahliul legs,
neighed and snorted and pawed and pranced, and
it was bis actions that gave mo a clue to tho idem
tlty of my visitors.
They were wild horses?
Had they been Indian ponies my tralnod horso
would havo remained as dumb and alicntas a post.
Indeed, Indians would not havo approached mo in.
that manner.
I remained very quiet, hoping tho horses would
remain in sight until daylight should glvo me a
good view of them. I had to wait fofa foil hour,
but when tbo light grew strong tho spectacle waa
one to make a man’s blood tinglo. The clrelo had
been enlarged until it was half a mile aerpss, and
my little camp was the center. Every horso, and
there were 129 of them, stood with his head to this
center, and soldiers could not havo taken positions
on the skirmish line In more precise order.
I pitied my own animal. He stood with the lar
iat drawn taut and trembled In every limb, nud ho
waaes wet with sweat as if I had galloped him
twenty miles. I realized how ho must long to
brcitk ard Join tbc wild rovers and fore it*, m
end hllpxnflj'i ry. . -j/
I torn r feet for fear oft •v* A* * .
droves ,< ?ml , noTerfh«».» far this note 1 |
hortKjflfkt of- n I
Wanes down on their ihouldenf W in the pow* I
gras*. They were of various colons, *atflfl*north | -
cd in ago from tho yearling colt up to tho veterans
probably twenty years old. The bays predomina
ted, but ©very color was present,
Wo had been observing escb other about ten
minutes, when a Jet-black stallion, who was tho
leader of the herd, gave a snort, threw up his heels
into tho air and broke off at a gallop, followed by
the drove In singlo file. They ran in a true circle,
nnd they made tho circuit five times before mop
ping. Then, at another signal from tbc lender, the
circle broke and the horses wheeled iuto a lung,
tingle line, or “company front.”
Troop hortee could not have done better. I
thought at first tho line moan^to chargo me, but at
a signal it made a left wheel and galloped straight
off on the plain for a mile. Then U broke, assum
ed tho rhepo of a triangle nnd returned. When
the leader wss within pistol-shot ho wheeled out
and the horses formed in a square, with tho four
yearlings in tho center. They galloped off for a
milo or so, broke again and returned in two ranks.
1 had an almost lrrisitble desire to kill tho leader
with a bullet. Indeed, I reached for my rlilo with
that Intent, but then camo the reffeetton that it
would lie little short of murder. Bueh another per
fect horse I had never seen. . His black coat shono
like silk, his limbs and body were perfection, aud
he bad the speed and bottom of aracc bone. Not a
halt wom made for a full hour, aud then U was
only pnqiara'ory to taking a departure. Tho lost
maneuver was a circle at a slow trot, and each
horse w hinnied In a coaxing manner to my own
steed. Poor Selim! He struggled in the most
frantic manner to break loose, and when finding
all h!s efforts of no avail ho threw himself down
on tiic grasa and actually groaned his disappoint
ment.
I rare up then anil waved my blanket. Instead
of rushing off In affright, as I expected, the leader
of the baud deliberately approached me a fewrods
ami stood and snorted and pawed aa If sending
forth n challenge. Then I set up a shouting, waved
the blanket some more, and ho took hla place at
the bead, formed tho band at "company front,”
and they went off at a gallop and maintained It as
long ss 1 could see the waving line.
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