at  all  ?  or  small  movable  forts  and  magazines,  at  the
service  of  some  unscrupulous  man  in  power  ?  Visit  the
Navy- Yard,  and  behold  a  marine,  such  a  man  as  an
American  government  can  make,  or  such  as  it  can  make
a  man  with  its  black  arts,  —  a  mere  shadow  and  reminis
cence  of  humanity,  a  man  laid  out  alive  and  standing,
and  already,  as  one  may  say,  buried  under  arms  with
funeral  accompaniments,  though  it  may  be,  —

"  Not  a  drum  was  heard,  not  a  funeral  note,
As  his  corse  to  the  rampart  we  hurried ;
Not  a  soldier  discharged  his  farewell  shot
O'er  the  grave  where  our  hero  we  buried."

The  mass  of  men  serve  the  state  thus,  not  as  men
mainly,  but  as  machines,  with  their  bodies.  ^They  are
the  standing  army,  and  the  militia,  jailers,  constables,
posse  comitatus,  &c.  In  most  cases  there  is  no  free  exer
cise  whatever  of  the  judgment  or  of  the  moral  sense  ;
but  they  put  themselves  on  a  level  with  wood  and  earth
and  stones ;  and  wooden  men  can  perhaps  be  manu
factured  that  will  serve  the  purpose  as  well.  Such  com
mand  no  more  respect  than  men  of  straw  or  a  lump  of  dirt.
