The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-08-30
The Other Side.

read the letter in your issue of June IA
entitled RecrudesceHce of Rebellion" It
Is true, every word of it. The only question
IL, should such sad truth be sent abroad 4?
VIII IL not retard immigration? The South
has climate adapted to the very needs of a
large number, and she has undeveloped re-
sources coveted by large number, and what
she needs most of all is large immigration
of well-to-dO, kind hearted, honest, frugal,
industrious, aud withal Christian people.
Then, is it wise TO in any way prejudice the
public? Many Northerners have already
come here TO stay. They would not go back
for good deal; they want their friends to
come. Many are loath to believe any good
of this section; yet there is good here. We
that have lived here FIVE and ten years, and
even longer, know the people are kind and
courteous; everything goes on well where
politics are let alone. The Southerner does
not usually press his ideas and does not care
to argue the thing, but should the subject be
started ne wants to maintain his cause and
L think he respects Us more when we uphold
our side; still, we that have come here for
home, do not care to engage in controversy.
1t is the climate we are after and the oppor-
tunities for making living, or more than a
living and we also feel that to have this
country settled up with stanch Unionists
will go far to wipe out that trace of seees-
sion that still remains. It does not look TO
me that there is much of that feeling ex-
hibited in the ordinary rounds Of life here.
The sparks from the embers of the Lost
Cause" are famed into blaze once in a
while; but will they not all the sooner die
out? / know many whom we had supposed
would always side with the Lost Cause,1
have come out and denounced Cave and his
address Tho Paw n Iro-I,r-
terrain Divine of great deal of ability, and
very much respected, comes out in an article
In the Richmond Times of July 8, wherein
he sets forth the mistakes of this man Cave.
He criticizes the man strongly for siding
with Charles the First against Cromwell,
and quotes Macauley where he says, " If We
have any freedom now we owe it in a large
measure to Oliver Cromwell" and SAYS:
" After announcing his Caves adoption Of
so gross and deluding historical heresy as
this, we can have little faith in the other
salient positions of the address"
He then goes on to enumerate some of the
errors this man made in his address. and
states that =" it is very important that our
Southern people shall look the points of his
tory fully in the face and shall profit by
their lessons"
He does not touch upon as many "points
cause of the war he gives no chance for dis
pute. He says: This address repeats the
attempt made by previous writers to pro-
duce the belief that negro slavery as it ex-
listed in the Southern States was not the
cause of secession and not the cause of the
war. This attempt is vain, and is so COM
pletely overthrown by the established facts
of history that it is time that we should dis
card it as weak and puerile." He then gOes
on to give history of slavery as it existed
for 4 600 years, and reiterates the statement
that " African slavery was the efficient cause
of the secession of the Southern States and
of the war of four years that followed.
Slavery caused the long-continued contest
beginning in the Presidency of Washington
and eliminating in the Presidency of Abra-
ham Lincoln" etc. He says also: The
time for the destruction Of human slavery had
come, and God swept it away by the use Of
human instruments after it had been main
tanned in the world for more than 1000
years. Shall not the Judge of all the
earth do right %"
The people of the South are really quite
religious, and it is quite possible that on ac-
count Of Rev. Caves heresies his words will
have little effect. 1t has seemed to me for
some time that " the best minds of the South
have accepted the results of the war as not
only inevitable, but righteous" and we can
not for the life of US see the fun in thTusting
hard words at one another. Quite often We
read encouraging things like the following:
"At mass meeting last night, called by
the Richmond County Confederate Survivors,
a resolution was unanimously passed in
dOrsing the patriotic and noble utterances'
of Senator John B. Gordon In the Senate
yesterday:
BE further esolred That the association believes
that it is the duty of every lbetyloving American
citizen to uphold the dignity OF the law and sup
press mob violence and any infringement of the
rights of life, liberty. and the pursuit OF hsppi-
ness; that we fully indorse she action of Grover
Cleveland. President of the United States in every
step he has taken 10 enforce the laws and pledge
ourselves and our sacred honor to sustain the
Executive in every effort he may make to maintain
the dignity of great Republic, and suppress
lawlessness in every section of the country; that
we know no North, no South. East. md no
West when common enemy. either foreign or
domestic, threatens our institutions"
Such sentiments please u.s. It looks like
peace. Oh, let us have peace. If there is
no law to prohibit the use of that, to US,
hideous banner of Lost Cause no cause
at all-why let Us say as little about it as
possible, outwardly, but use our influence to
bring the other flag-the glorious Stars and
Stripes-to the front Let us scatter them
broadcast. Do not you Northern Posts be
afraid to help Us. Give Us plenty of flags as
well as flowers. Children love flags and
banners; they care little for the sentiment,
but let's have little mission, flag mission,
and try to place a flag in the hands of every
one who will accept it. We who pretend to be
loyal should possess plenty of flags to be able
to decorate with them, so that "Old Glory"
will be honored more here. We don't do as
we might / know of some Northern people
here who even decorated their homes on the
line of march last Both of May with Con-
federate flags. "These things ought not so to
be" we have principle and we should
it. 1t is not fear of the people, but
and 1 suppose, too, that it is
Northern firms who furnish these Confed-
crate flags. They keep on making them;
wish we could prevent it.-A. c. F., Rich
mond, Va.
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