The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-05-05
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j The Southern Home, published at Charlotte,
N. c., and very ably edited by Gen. D. H. Hill,
contains in recent number the following
glowing tribute to Southern men: sT3iJ s95a5s
In the formation of the Federal Constitution,
Madison, Pinckney and Mason were unques-
tionably the controlling spirits. The Supreme
Court Bench has had no abler nor purer Chief
Justices than Rutledge, Marshall and Taney.
The North has produced no statesmen equal
to Calhoun, Madison, Jefferson and Clay No
theologians comparable with Thornwell and
Alexander. No poet superior to Poe. No
painter to Allston. No naturalist equal to Au-
dubon. No inventors of really important
things superior to Brooke, inventor of deep-sea
sounding apparatus andtOrtOise-shell iron-clad;
to Mccormick, inventor of the reaper; to Gill.
inventor of the revolver, and to ClemmOns, in
ventOr of the telegraph. But the fact that
two-thirds Of the life of the Nation has been
spent under the administration of Southern
born men is proof enough that "chiyalry'' has
not dwarfed the Southern intellect.
In the first great rebellion, the army of the
United States was commanded by Southern
born man. In the war of 1912, Andrew Jack
son, of Mecklenburg county, North Carolina,
gained the most laurels and inflicted the heagi.
est blows upon the enemy In the war of
1861, it is notorious that the South fought bet
fer and endured better than the North All
Europe was ransacked to fill the armies of the
Union. though the North had four times the
population Of the South. And yet after getting
recruits by hundreds Of thousands from among
Germans, Irish, Italians, French, Poles, Swiss
Spanish, &c, the Secretary of War of the
United States made the humiiating confession
that the rebellion would have been established
but for the timely aid of two hundred thousand
negrOes! But this is not all, the South from
first to last furnished four hundred thousand
men tO the Union cause. No great disaster
befell the arms of the South at any time during
the four years struggle, without the blow COM
ing mainly or in part from one of her own
recreant sons. The first reverse was inflicted
at Mill Greek, by Thomas, of Virginia. The
first confidence inspired in the demoralized
army of Bull Run, was owing to the general
ship of Ord. Of Maryland, at Dranesville.
When two-thirds of the Federal army had
been scattered at Chickamauga, Thomas, of
Virginia, stood like a rock in the ocean against
which the waves dash and fuma and fret in
vain. Had it not been for the stubborn resis-
tance of this one man, and he Virglnian,
Chlckamauga would have been q complete
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established fact at this hour. Blair, Candy,
Crittenden. Alexander and Nelson were born
in Kentucky. Northern writers tell us that
the last naiued saved Grant from annihatioa
at Shiloh. Thomas, Newton and Cooke are
Virginians. Ord and Sykes are Maryanders.
The most successful of all the naval heroes
was David G. Farragut, of Tennessee. This
is the expressed sentiment Of the Northern
Government itself. Dupont, of slaveholding
Delaware, and Goldsborough, of Maryland,
made the first Judgments on the Atlantic coast.
The entire article is not only good but true
refutation of the many sneering speeches and
remarks lately pointed at the down-trodden
South and its oppressed people by the Charles
Sumner school of politicians. The eulogy
upon General Thomas, written previous to the
sudden and untirnely decease of that celebrated
General, is now rendered by his death pecu-
liarly apropos. May the lowering cloud of
tyranny. destitution, misery and the heavy
hand of intolerant Republicanism speedily be
removed from the sunny land and noble-hearted
people of the South.