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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ARTICLE III. Justice in the Army. Justice is absolutely essential to discipline in our Army. Inasmuch as the military is a more arbitrary and despotic system than the civil, so is even-handed justice the more necessary in it. Mercy (which is one form of favoritism) should not be confounded with kindness. It implies wrong known both to the offender and the judge. Justice and mercy are totally incompatible. There can be no such compound as justice seasoned with mercy. The least particle of the latter destroys the former. In the Army, if not elsewhere, it is justice, not mercy, that is twice blessed ; it blesses him that gives, and him that receives ; and as justice conveys double blessings, so does mercy bring double evils. The records of our Army sustain the assertion that remissions and mitigations of deserved penalties smooth the way to repetitions of offences and lead offenders deeper and deeper into trouble. But the more common form of favoritism in Army management does not come under the head of mercy. Many Army scandals if not attributable to, have been promoted by, the purer form of this evil. It is a truism that some men cannot stand prosperity. In the Army where regularity and strict routine are the rule, sudden elevation is dangerous, especially whenit does not come from established merit. Take for example the case of . A cadet, he was promoted in 1871 to the grade of 2d Lieutenant. After less than two years' service in that grade he resigned; and without distinction in the Army or out of it he was in 1876 appointed paymaster with the rank, pay, and emoluments of Major, while his classmates who had served faithfully during the time he was out of the Army, were still Lieutenants. He could not stand the sudden and unearned elevation. To him the pay and emolum...
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