We'll have many notes to compare with him when the war is over."
Harry sincerely hoped that the three would meet in friendship around
some festive table, and he was moved by the affection and admiration the
two colonels held for Carrington. Doubtless the great artilleryman's
feelings toward them were the same.
They went into camp once more that night in a pleasant rolling country of
high hills, rich valleys, scattered forests, and swift streams of clear
water. Harry liked this Northern land, which was yet not so far from the
South. It was not more beautiful than his own Kentucky, but it was much
trimmer and neater than the states toward the Gulf. He saw all about
him the evidences of free labor, the proof that man worked more readily,
and with better results, when success or failure were all his own.
He was too young to spend much time in concentrated thinking, but as he
looked upon the neat Pennsylvania houses and farms and the cultivated
fields he felt the curse of black slavery in the South, but he felt also
that it was for the South itself to abolish it, and not for the armed
hand of the outsider, an outsider to whom its removal meant no financial
loss and dislocation.
Despite himself his mind dwelt upon these things longer than before.
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