The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-06-16

which these inciden
we note two express
papers which afford
One is from the Rit
answer TO some oh
Washington Post; al
tho Louisville Cour
ply to some similar
Milwaukee S5atine
better than 10 put
each side by side:
TRiclmOHi Times. |
Aside from the con-
sidpratiou and respect
which the officers and
soldiers Of both sides
showed each other all
through the war and
which was handsome
ly excmplified by Gen
eral Grant and his men
at AppomattoX, we are
unable to app eciate
t hat affectiUnate
magnanimity Of the
victorsn to which the
Post refers. The claim
to magnanimity was,
perhaps, based upon
the acceptance by the
victors OF the surren
der of the VanQulsled.
But we have yet to
learn that in tue last
half of the Nineteenth
century it is consid'
cred a macuanimous
act for one armed foe
to give quarter to his
vanquished enemy. 1t
is no more than a Gus
tomary act Of the
plain e st humanity.
The side which would
make merit for itself
out of such an act goes
u long way toward
proving itself barbar-
Gus.
Starting with this
ordinary act of civil.
lied war, what did
that affectionate ~
and " magnanimous
victor next dOy He
subjected the people
of the south to u rule
of thicving carpet
baggers, voted into
place by a population
of ignorant. semi bar
barous slaves, and sus-
tanned in place by the
bayonets of that "af-
fectionate and mag
unanimous cnCm y"
That sime "magnani-
nous victor held the
people Of the south
bound down for y ar
after year under this
horrii carnival Of rob
berry, pillage and
crime Of all sorts un-
til he had inflicted n
greater injury upon
the south than he did
with all his armies
We are not prepared
to appreciate or be
thankful for any "af-
fectiOnate magnanim'
itYn of that sort.
ENor is this our only
complaint Of this
"magnanimousn enc
my. We cannot for
get that his armies
were, to a large eX. /
tent, composed Of for.
eign merccnaries, and |
that they made war |
as such armies usu- |
ally do, Now, we of |
tho South frankly al. |
nit that the North |
had able aud bfave !
officers and many pa
triotic men in tho |
ranks. Let that be
understood clearly
and explicitly. But |
we deny that you had |
an army Mt all like
ours, and 1t is not out !
of place that in funeral |
Cere IN OnleS hel d |
among ourselves to
commemo rate our
own Butferings and |
glories we should ana.
lyze the case and OK |
hibit all its clements !
just as they were. An |
honorable proper ton !
of your men fought |
because they loved |
their country, but the
overwhelming mum
Der of those that en- |
listed and now swell |
the pension rolls stood |
in ranks for hire and
for money. You paid !
them enormous boun- |
ties to enlist, and you !
paid them well while |
they served. The view |
Of the war, which OBJ
tanned during the war,
can be seen at this day |
all over the North.
Your politi clans
mouth n great deal
over the soldiers, but |
your population looks
upon him in he main |
as n man who was paid |
to do what he did.
This preponderance !
OF mercenaries made |
all the more honorable |
the service those sol |
diers Of the union who
vol lun teered and |
fought for the flag,
which was nowhere l
more venerated than
in the South until it
became the emblem
of = broken constitu
tion and offs merciless
invasion.
How: different was
the case. and is the
case still, here. Our
soldiers fought for
love Of country alone.
We were ono homo
peneous people IN the
fight, and tho women |
and children and old
mon at home were
Just as much soldiers
in spirit and in mind
as the men who stood
up in rank to give and
take fire. In evidence
of this the confederate
soldier is to this day a
raqpactn1 man ba.