Call-to-arms

Elisha Burnet, the veteran of the already mentioned veterans, took part in the battles of Chippewa and Lundy’s Lane, but escaped uninjured. He belongs to the ‘Brimfield dubs,’ and during the exercises was called upon to exhibit the beating of the drum upon the call-to-arms, during which he seemed to be carried back to the Wars again, beating his drum with an energy truly remarkable for one of his age.

The latest shout of the alarmists who think it their duty to startle us on the subject of the “inevitable” war between Germany and Great Britain came from an unexpected quarter. We are accustomed to such calls-to-arms from those whose business it is to fight and to whom war is a fierce delight, and we can generally estimate them at their proper importance and give them correct weight. But when leading Socialists suddenly take up the cry and make themselves conspicuous by calling “Wolf” in louder tones than everyone else outside observers wonder what is really going on.

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