into the hands of such savages, who have forgotten that we are united by the ties of blood, and who have lost their manhood by trampling under the iron heel of tyranny all that was sacred to a race that had become degraded by cruel oppression. it is impossible for man to have complete controll of his fellow without becoming a tyrant. This war is an ordeal that will try men "as by fire" and bring out their true character, it requires great criseses to develop great characters, the revolution gave us a Washington, and the rebellion has given us - - who, perhaps the historian will say a Grant a Butler or a Sherman. But is is sad to contemplate the moral depravity that this war is developing; even our bosom friends whom we thought were all that was pure and noble and true decive us, and we are tempted to doubt the integrity of the whole of the human family
