Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-04-20
The cultivation of Fraternity.

lhe expression Vi pupnc ScHJlluSnt III lle
North, through the press, public assemble
ges and varied channels rejecting and dis
seminating it, will have an influence in the
work of reconstruction and restoring frater.
nal relations among the people only second
to that Of the official action and authority
dealing with the question.
For thirty years the people Of the north
have been taught by false teachers and fan
atical presses to hate the people ofthe South,
which begat hatred on their part and led to
rebellion and this destructive civil war
Now that the military strength of the re-
belion has given way, it becomes US to
crush out the old malevolent spirit Of con-
tenton and hatred and to cultivate the
kindly ones which will unite the people Of
the north and the South in one common
brotherhood. He must be something more
or less than human who can loook on the
misery caused by this war and say there
has not been enough done for vengeance !;
and if there has, if the spirit of hatred has
been satisfied, of what avais are harsh
words, abusive harangues and taunts in the
shape OF carricatures, negro doggeral, etc.
1t is entirely proper that we should re-
joice over our victory, the prospect Of peace
and the hope Of restored Union, but we
cannot assume with any degree of proprie.
ty that it was SO easily obtained that we may
ridicule our opponents for their weakness
or want Of skill in delivering battle. How
long is it since our congressman left the
field Of Manassas in much greater haste
than the Confederate authorities left Rich
mond ? How long is it since the President
and his cabinet had steamboat in readi.
ness to convey them from Washington, as
the thunder of Lees cannon reverbated
around the capital ? We do not revive
these facts to recall the shame which wa,
fastened upon the nation by the imbecilit!
and mismanagement Of those at the heac
Of affairs and their chosen generals in those
instances, but to remind the people of the
| north that when they exult over the defea
of the south, and taunt her with the surrcn
, der of Lee, they exult over a foe that will
less than a third Of our numbers, and will
r but a 1.-THE of our resources, maintained
c against us as an equal contest during fou
years of as desperate warfare as the worlC
= has ever known.
The union can never be built up in its oil,
integrity by ordinations and recrimination
1 between the sections; by boastful taunts Of
| our part of having overthrown the militar
power of the South, or by citations of fact
S showing how dearly the victory has bee
G purchased, and pointing to the skeletons o
our sons and brothers strewn over her bat
e.felds We have won our triumphs no
by superior courage or skill, these hav
, been equally displayed, but superior mum
bers and resources. By these we captured
"Dixie," which the President requested th
band to play when it called to regale hin
t with music on his arrival at Washington
G from Richmond. We commend his musi
cal taste in thinking it cone Of the best tune
e he ever heard" The words and musi
express tho love Of the southern people &c
their homes Let us adopt it as a nation,
Il air, and by the adoption, with feelings an
n sentiments in harmony with it, make ou
home their home and our people their pee
. pie. The late national democratic conven
ton could not have more truly and eloqucn
j. ly expressed the quality of its unionisr
d than by its selection of music for its open
&c ing--Yankee Doodle, Dixie, and Aud Ian
e Syne, The spirits OF the Father, of til
Government spoke to the hearts of the pee
70 pie in this combination of melodies,