When once it is determined to engage in a war, it is the part of mercy and humanity to wage it with all the energy a belligerent possesses. The more sanguinary the conflict, the shorter will be its duration, and the sooner peace will be restored to bless the land. The more lives lost in battle, the fewer the victims of camp life; and a sharp and decisive campaign is far less wasting to an army than one of idleness and inactivity.
Hoping that our country has endured its last great trial; that perpetual peace and prosperity may bless its people, and that henceforth reason, and not passion, may be the arbiter of all differences, I bid the generous reader a kind
Good By.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Pronounced, Tonc-oo-a.
[2] "Stop, friends."
[3] A short, heavy riding whip, with a bone or iron handle.
[4] This word means "good;" and by it I was known among all the friendly Indians.
Transcriber's Notes
Obvious punctuation errors repaired.