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Show 36 TilE GOLDEN HOUR. VI. FIGIITING TilE DEVIL WITII FIRE. . tl . tllat the Devil so likes as that his TIIERE IS no ung antarron1. sts s1 ld r1. ght him with fire : the ra cal lOU lJ b 1 t 0 n 11 be so much at home where fire knows t 1a none u. is concerned as he. Th . B k s.,ys " Be not overcome of evil, but e 'VISe 00 u. ' ··1 'tl1 overcome cv 1 o·ood " Every victory of evil over Wl o · ev1. 1 1e aves me as much vanquished as n1y cnc1ny. Every blow that gains me the victory as a brute, lo cs me the victory as a n1an. ~1y foe may lie dead at n1y feet; but beside hi1n, in the du t I have made him bite, lie my crown of Rca on, shattered. I could, then, find no wiser way of treating hi1n than thi . To beO'in on the lowest plane, we 1nay well a, k our-b selves, what advantage it will be to us to occupy the cities, i lands, and beaches of the Southern coast. The triple-headed monster of Southern fever will drive us away from there. Our government has hitherto occu- . pied the Southern forts with Southerner , and oven they only held them no1ninally in summer. No'v our Southerners have left us. If Southerners them elves have to move away fro1n their coasts in summer, how long is it likely that 1ncn who have gone South now for the first time can live there? The sanitary committee has shown that we have been losing soldiers sin1ply by dis- FIGHTING THE DEVIL WITH FIRE. 37 ease at the rate of twenty-six rcgi1ncnts per annum: if we hold the points on the outhcrn coast now occupied by us, it will be at thrice that cost. Arc. we to enact the part of Si ·yphus and his stone, -rolling the stone of conquest southward during one half of the year, to have it roll back again during the other half? Again : it i dcn1onstrablc that by any merely mHitary Yictory (for that would leave lavery undcstroycd) '\VC hoal<l be as rnuch conq ucrod as the rebels. !fy friend, 1fr. Rc i L-thc-Dovil J. Browne, a descendant of one of the Pilgrim , and now a. student at ca111_ bridge, wrote rnc so1nc ti1nc ago the following account of an event in that neighborhood:_ "Lately, onr little neighbor- the village of 0111_ erville- has been subjected to a terrible ordeal. Fancy the a1nazcn1cn t of the villaO'crs on cein 0' a lltlO'C . o ' c: b ana-conda n1arching leisurely down its rnain street ! It had , it scc1ns, escaped fron1 a circus cxhilJitinO' ncar the . b v1llagc. "No w, r't 1. s ca y to sec that a big snake, crawling through a small village, i scarcely condnci vc to the repose of mind of tho c re~i<lcnt therein. It is certain that the q uict of So1ncrvillc was di turbcd ; indeed, the only quiet was in the strcotf', which wore speedily deserted, whilst in the hou cs the li ''clio t comrnotion existed. Doors and \vindows were barricaded. The snake had all out of doors to hi1nsclf. At last the village concluded to have a n1ecting; which was held out |