t they had long been in possession of since their
dear-bought independence, and could not therefore be willing to submit
to anything like oppression, even from the mother country.

This national calamity, that seemed to awaken feelings of hilarity to
some few among the multitude, but those of the deepest regret to so many
others, where the parties must at length become personally engaged and
animated against each other with an enthusiastic ardour, and with the
hope to signalize themselves by their bravery--where the impetuosity of
youth and the experience of age are called forth in open field to
execute the decided discussions of government, and to engage with
patriotic zeal in the common defence of their just rights and liberties;
impelled with ambitious impulse to enlist themselves under the proud
banners of their country, while the sound of martial music strikes a
feeling of enthusiasm and enterprise to the bosom of the patriot.

[_NY Weekly_: On War:

On the first appearance of this dreadful and destructive calamity,
the parties more particularly and personally engaged, are animated
with an enthusiastic ardour, to have an opportunity of signalizing
themselves in it. It is then that the impetuosity of youth, the
fervour, the experience, the sapience, of old age, are called forth
in open field, to put in force the discussions of the cabinet, and
to engage with real zeal in the cause of their country; it is then
that every manly breast feels a warlike impulse thrilling the whole
frame! The sound of drums, the roaring of cannon, the clangor of
every species of martial music, rise figuratively within us....]

Thus, in the name and cause of honour, the youth, generous and brave,
with all those who are compelled to take arms, sally forth with the
ambitious hope to bear down at once all contending opposition, and give
themselves no time to reflect on the many disconsolate ones they leave
behind them, that, however deeply concerned, can neither engage or
assist in the shocking contest; while they go forward hastily to meet
the foe, and hosts are advancing to dispute with them the victory, and
they can indulge no thought concerning those who, when the battle is
over, may have to lament the loss of a father, brother, or some other
dear friend, and who mournfully await the decisive tidings, which
perhaps is to render them for ever disconsolate; while they remain a
prey to that incessant anguish which