the conntry as strong as it is possible to render it, and he knows that it cannot he made strong by fostering sectional prejudices and destroy ing the prosperity of the most productive por tion of it. He is a little too enlightened for that. Besides, he is a soldier, and soldiers genuine soldiers—do not love to torture the defenceless. Even the warriors of the savage tribes are wont to leave that part of the con sequences of war to be wrought by the women