The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-06-21
THE WOMEN TOO.


women and the preachers of the Soutl
were not conquered, and would remain
recalcitrant, bitter, and unreconstructeC
to the last. The women have agair
fastened to verify the truth of his say
ing. The Southern Women's Historical
Eve came near writing "hysterical "
Society went into raptures of rhetoric
over the Reverend Doctors address, and
overlooked with long string of pream-
! bles and resolutions. The first stated
that the policy of silence has not been
shining success" What they meant
F.! by this, Heaven only knows; for what
ever else the rebels may have been,
they have not been silent" The reso-
buttons read:
"ResolUed, That we send to the Rev. DIR.
Cave our heartfelt thanks for the breaking
of that bad policy, and assure him that we
also have ever held the unwayerjng faith
that an enlightened posterity would decide
that the South was in the right: And be it
further
''ResolUed, That we herewith present to
the thinking people of the city few indis-
putable facts, on which the South will rest
her cause in the calm confidence of winning
the verdict:
"First-That wars of conquest are per Sc
wrong.
Secondhand wars of defense are always
right.
Third-That from the first to the last
day of the war the North fought war of
conquest.
Fourth-That from the first to the last
day of the war the South fought war of
defense.
"Fifth-That the South from the first was
eager for peace-prayed for peace.
"Sixth-That the North's answer to her
prayer was the army of 2,772, 402 men to
hurl on the South, TO kill, desolate and con-
quer
Seventh-That at no time did the South
have half (if she had one-thirdJ as many men
Eighth-That in its four years. efforts to
conquer the South the North used the enor-
nous sum OF S2,714000,000. That in her
efforts to resist conquest the South had no
money, but she spent her hearts blood with
out stint. By these and other indisputable
facts the South will be Judged
On what earthly or celestial grounds
will can enlightened posterity decide
that the South was in the right %? Is it
likely that humanity and Christianity
will retrogress so far as to allow men TO
believe again in slavery and in causeless
rebellion?
If "wars of conquest are per Sc
wrong" then there is terrible burden
on the public conscience for the terri
tory taken away from the Indians, the
French, the British, and the Mexicans.
We haven't any right to single foot of
the soil over which the American flag
waves.
If "wars of defense are per sc right"
how wicked were Joshua and his fellow
patriarchs who drove out the Canaan
ties from the Promised Land?
If the North fought a war of con-
quest, and won at it, how does it hap
pen that the defeated people remained
in entire possession Of their country, and
are now not only ruling it, but the whole
Nation?
If the "South from first to last was
eager for peace" how did it come that
it began organizing forces even before
seeding, and would not even wait for
the little garrison in Fort Sumter to be
starved out, but surrounded it with pow
erful batteries and opened fire on it? If.
it was SO eager for peace, why did it not
accept President Lincoln's proposition
in the beginning of 1865, when he said
he would hand them a sheet of paper
with "Union" written at the top, and
they could write anything they pleased
under it?
The North did not "hurl an army of
2,772,402 men on the South" The
entire number of men in the service of
the Government, from first to last, was
not in excess of 100000; and against
these the rebels opposed force Of be-
tween l 100000 and 100000 men.
The Nation spent actually about
Sc, 500,000,000 in putting down the
rebellion, or nearly three times as much
as the "S. w. H. s." states. Nor is it
true that the "South had no money"
She began by confscating all the money
in the South owed to Northern people.
The South had its own resources to draw
from and convert into money, the same
as the North had. 1t got out paper