Where all have blundered, why apportion
blame?
Rather with clarion-call to brotherhood
Let each bethink him of the common good,
And hold to Freedom as no empty name;
This is no time each other to defame
Seeing we are all made of common blood,
Let not Conciliation’s nobler need
Yield to the fierce threat and passion none can
tame.
All to the ropes! or else our barque will drive
Straight for the rocks and we be ship-
wrecked all
In this overwhelming catastrophic tide.
Sirs, we are brethren! wherefore should we
strive?
Hark! from how many a grave there comes
the call—
“For Peace we hoped; for Right not
might we died.”
(Carlisle Journal, 3 October 1919, p. 7)