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heart of gold? Does he sit down in sullenness and despair? Not for a day. Surely God, who has stripped him of his prosperity, inspired him in his adversity. As ruin was never before so overwhelming, never was restoration swifter. This soldier stepped from the trenches into the furrow; horses that had charged Federal guns marched before the plough, and field that ran red with human blood in April were green with the harvest of June; women reared in luxury cut up their dresses and made breeches for