l not ask the reader to follow me in my rapid journey through
Louisville and Cincinnati, and thence to New York. Nor need I
describe my joyful, tearful, welcome reception by father, mother,
sisters, and brother, as of one alive from the dead.

The story of my life in Secessiondom is ended. If the foregoing
pages, beside depicting my personal experience, have given any facts
of value to my bleeding country--facts as to the diabolical
barbarism of Southern society in trampling upon all personal
rights--facts showing the intense and resolute earnestness of the
whole Southern people in the Rebellion--facts demonstrating the
large resources of the Rebels in arms and men, and the absolute
military despotism which has combined and concentrated their
power--facts of the atrocious character of the guerrilla system
organized and legalized among them--facts exhibiting the efficiency
of every arm of their military service--facts showing the necessity
of restrictions upon the freedom of the press in times of war--facts
revealing the demoralizing influence of the doctrine of State
Rights in nullifying national fealty, and disregarding the
sanctities of an oath--facts which, if universally known and duly
regarded, would stir the North to a profounder sense of the
desperate and deadly struggle in which they are engaged than they
have ever yet felt--then my time and labor will not have been spent
in vain.

THE END.

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