Address to the Survivors Association of the 150th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunt
Address to the Survivors Association of the 150th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunt
Richard Lewis Ashhurst
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But in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, all was changed ; the plain people of the country awoke, and with that sublime instinct which in great crises illuminates the ordinarily slow minds of plain men, they felt and knew that this was all wrong, that there was but one course for the salvation of the nation, and that, the brave and direct one of fighting to the death for libert)' and union, one and inseparable. The>- realized in an instant that to reckon of profit or loss in such an emergen...c>- was the wildest folly. The Scriptures say: " What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul ? " the people real ized what would all trade and business gains profit us, if we lost our united country ; if we ceased to be Americans and were broken into groups of divided States ; and, on the other hand, what other loss of property or of life itself would count in the scale, if we could save and hand down from sire to son citizenship in this great united free American republic ?
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