The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-01

Tho south q Unit, the North
Divided.
nom a New York ESnld Interview.
"There 10 another point" said the Gen.
eral, shat these historians omit. Il Il
said that We overwhelmed the South. In
foreign journals and foreign assemblies
Il is put this way, that We oVerran the
South With the scum OF the world-With
hirelings and Hessians. No one would
do more honor 10 the foreigners who came
into q ranks than myself. They were
brave men and earned our gratitude.
But 90 far from our armies being foreign
! question II more than three per cent
were aliens. Yet / have no doubt many
we'll informed authors will tell you that
only three per cent were Americans,
This Is the way public opinion Ia made
during the war, and this ia the way his.
tory IL made now. We never oyerwhel.
med the South, and / Am only sorry that
we could not have done 90 and ended the
war and its miseries. What we won from
the South we won by hard fighting, and
tie odds when there were odds, we're new
or decisive. We had to Fight the South
ern States. They were 3 unit'and we
were divided. Every able.bodied man
in the South from fourteen TO sixty was
10 the army, or was supposed to be there.
We had 10 depend upon volunteers or the
CONSUMPTION. The South had 100000
Of negroes. These negroes kept the farms,
protected the families, supported the ar.
mics, and were really u reserve force, 9
most important reserve force in a6ghting
nation. Those 100000 Of negroes did
q work that white men would have been
compelled 10 do. Yet they are never
counted In any summary Of the forces Of
the South. They are forgotten as II they
never had existed, and yet they kept the
acres green and the harvest growing
while the white men were in the war.
Men, women, and children went into the
felds. The South was really an organi-
zed army. During the wal in the South
all progress, all industry came to a halt
and nothing was allowed TO interfere with
the war. Even now, the South suffers
from war ~stagnation, from var paralysis.
In the North industry was never more
brisk; all the arts Of peace were cher.
ished; society moved on; inventions were
discovered; the genius OF the country was
rs keen as ever. We supported an army
and q blockading fleet. We never tagged
In our industry. We kept nj place as q
manufacturing commercial power. Cit
les like Chicago, New York, San Fran:
cisco grew and grew, while s~ayannah,and
New Orleans and Charleston languished.
We not only sustained part in the
war, but all that was required for peace.
In spite Of all the drain upon the resour.
ces OF the North we were more prosper
Gus, more powerful, more respected and
feared by the nations than when the war
broke out. Remember, as l have said,
that we had by no means 3 united North.
while the South was unit. We had to
send troops to suppress riots In New
York; we had enemies in u midst. In
every Northern State there was 3 strong
party against the war; always rejoicing
over disaster, always voting to paralyze
our forces; ready for any concession or
surrender. This party was strong in eve
~ state-strong enough TO carry States
like Indiana, Pennsy lyania, and New
York during the war. Nothing but Nor.
toms courage saved It from making Indi-
ana 4 rebel State, like Kentucky. This
was the party that voted the
war was u failure at the time
Sherman was setting out on his march to
the sea, at the very time when that great
General and his great army were about to
cover our arms with imperishable renown.
You can imagine the effect such 8 resolu-
ton must have had upon the enthusiasm
OF an army, for II Is q mistake TO imagine
that such things did not affect an army.
They did affect It as | know we'll. Dur
ing our var there was scarcely 4 wind
tina, came from the North, from u own
homes, that did not come laden with cal.
umny and disparagement. The Southern
Generals were models Of chivalry and
yalor-our Generals were yenal, incom-
petent, coarse. lam speaking now ofour
own people, Of writer's and speakers who
we're loyal and 10 4 certain extent
Republican. Everything our armies
did was wrong, could have been
done so much better. Everything
that our opponents did was perfect.
Lee was q demigod, Jackson was ademi.
god, while our generals were brutal
butchers. So II was in Europe. With q
few exceptions here an there the public
opinion OF the world was against the
North, and our own friends at home would
often grow nervous and %fault.fnding with
the army. You cannot read q file Of
journalist in England Of that time that did
not contain some horrible calumny about
men in the army, and copied from our
own journals. II we won = battle like
Shiloh, for instance-one Of the most use.
ful victories Of the war, one Of the most
important in It's results-our own papers,
set 10 work to belittle the victory and
give the enemy as much advantage as
possible. These were essential elements
In A war like ours-the war OF . free
people. do not recite these things TO
complain especially. / have nothing to
complain about. The more foes We con.
quered the more important was our
victory. Having conquered 1t Is not for
Us TO say anything unkind or in dispara.
cement Of our enemies. That Is not my
purpose. merely mention these points
In q general way, IS points which our
historians overlook and which show that
the North aud South were not As equal
in force Us alleged-that the South had
advantages which We never possessed
and that, il we had q larger population
than the South to draw from, there were
probably as many living under our pro.
lection whose hearts were with the REBEL.
ion IS there were in the c~onfederacy
itself"
Home, wife and Saturday Night.
Happy Ia the man who's has a little
hnma md n little angel In Il Of Saturday