text:  No man could look upon his property the earnings of his manhood the resource for his age or the provision for his children without the knowledge that it was at the mercy of the plunderer; no man could look upon the birth of his child without the bitter consciousness that another victim was preparing for the general sacrifice; nor could see the ripening form or intellect of those who were given to him by Providence for the comfort and companionship of his advancing years without a conviction that they would be swept away from him