The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-05-28
The South,s Recempense.
Gen. D. H. Hill in May Century.

I Gen. d. II. Hill in May Century.
If we were to be beaten it was bstter
/ to be beaten by former friends. Every
| true soldier loves to have ga foeman
| worthy of his steel" Every true man
/ likes to attribute high qualities to those
! who were once friends though now
/ alienated for a time. The temporary
| estrangement cannot Obliterate the re-
/ collection of noble traits OF character.
/ Some one attempted to condole with
/ Tom YearwoOd, famous old South
/ Carolina bully, upon the beating given
( him by his own son. Hush up said
old Tom. 81 am glad that no one put
my own flesh and blood had a hand in
my drubbing."
The sons of the South struck her many
heavy blows. Farragut, of Tennessee.
rose as a re ward of merit, to the highest
| rank in the federal navy. A large
number of his associates were from the
! South. In the federal army there were
of Southern blood and lineage Generals
Thomas, Sykes, Reno, Newton, J. J..
Reynolds, Candy, Ord, BraDnan, Will
liam Nelson, Crittenden, Blair, r. w.
Johnson, T. J. Wood, N. B Buford
TeIrill, Graham, Davidson, Cooke,
Alexander, Getty, French, Fremont,
ODOs II uDACI. DOulE VI LuGSH uOQDIlHSS
served the South better by the side they
took, but most of them we're fine officers
and some of them were superb.
Then the South had three hundred
thousand of her SONG In the federal army
in more subordinate capacities. Her
armies surrendered when a Southern
born president and Southern-born vice
president we're at the head OF the United
States government. Surely we have the
comfort OF old Tom Yearwood, and It is
a comfort. That the wounds of defeat
and humiliation have been so soon heal
ed it has been owing largely to this balm
to mortified pride. The sting of shame
to proud and sensitive Frenchmen Is
that their magnificent capital was cap
tured by ard their splendid armies sur
rendered to, soldiers Of an alien race and
religion, speaking a different language.
and unlike themselves in manners and
customs and in all those characteristics
which constitute their pride and their
glory. On the other hand, the civil
wars in England have left no bitter
memories behind them. Who now
knows or cares whether his ancestors
fought on the side of the White Rose or
the Red ROse2 Who now knows or
cares whether they were for King OF
Parlisment; for James II, or for Will
liam or Granger Compare this folgetfnl-
ness OF civil strife in England with the
bitterness which Ireland still feels over
her subjugation; compare it with the
fact that the Roman occupation of Eng.
land for five hundred years made no i'm
preston upon the language Of the natives
SO little intercourse was there between
them and theirconquerors; compare with
the fact that for four hundred years
after the Norman conquest there was no
fusion between the Norman and Saxon
tongues. In truth, all history teaches
that the humiliation of defeat by a fol-
elgn foe Is felt for ages, while that of
deteat by the same race is temporary
and soon forgotten. The late civil war
was relieved of very much of its sec
tlonal character by the presence of so
many SoutnerneTs in the Union armies.