The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-12
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A NEW VIEW OF "HEBEL"

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The Charleston News and Courier
enfesy wrote of that foul word rebel
Hmm 1t Is, as we a often said, a
sure sign Of people being underbred
uh0 use it. 1t is intended to be Of
Esnsfve. 1t Is a lie as well as an ex-
ample OF spite and ignorance. The late
f~nteresting and successful novel, Don
AeH," in the book characterized the
use OF that foul word rebellion" as
~~~underbred," whence we got 1t, n In
n letter to US many years ago, he said
slrat it had caused him to lose the sale
~ thousands Of copies in the north.
Tsey could not stand the truth. NO
xenfleman or lady would use such an
false term. The intent is OF
Suuurse, to rebuke and insult the men
rwho wore the ray so bravely, SO
Hp1endidly and all who a patriotism
enough to be in full sympathy with'
Them and the grand 'lost cause" So
far from the war being really a re
Sel1ion," it was q var for second in
.deDendence on the part of the south.
The compact had been broken already
and the south sought to withdraw
D~eaceably. Mr.. Webster, in his famous
Capon Springs speech, in Virginia, ad-
united that the constitution was a
compact" and q compact" could be
broken- If you would see this question
presented with distinguished ability,
and with reasoning and facts that
sfand to this hour unbroken, even, un-
asRailable, read Rev. DR.. A~lbertTaylor
RzeSisoe's "Is jeff Davis a Traitor?"
President Davis told Colonel Wharton
Z Green, of Fayetteville, that it was
xhe ablest book on the subject.
We failed to preserve h the News
and Courier had to say but two of it's
correspondents are writing intelli-
gently concerning the foul word"
One writes:
Your correspondent recollects see
Eng some years ago in one of the ques-
ti0n books, comprising questions and
answers on all common school studies,
published somewhere at the north, this
identical question prOpOunded: What
WAS the cause of the war Of the re-
bcilion? And the answer printed in
the text was: The principle of abso-
HSate states rights, as applied to the
maintenance Of slavery
III you are informed you will under
stand the significance of it. The cor
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"A wide application and is true. He
writes:
"Our educational system, as there
has often been occasion to- observe, is
s-OnducteL. in a too hap-haZard, per-
fnnctory sort Of manner anyhow, from
the selection of the most important
zunctionaries to perform it's duties to
the teachers. trustees, examiners and
school books, down to the questions
and answers to test the qualifications
and proficiencies of EACH"
Another correspondent thinks the
foul word" has a northern applica-
ton, and it was the north that ere
SeIled" and really and truly rebellion
against the constitution" That is the
correct view. History contains no war
that was waged with a greater disre-
gard of justice, right, honor and hui
manity than the war Of the north wag-
ed against the south and in violation
OF the constitutional open rebellion
against it. But let South Carroll
nian be heard. He says he heard the
late Mr.. Lewis M. Aver, a pronounced
secessionist of the South Carolina
school, say, in answer to a question
from him, the writer of the communica-
sion. as to the name for the war, which
would be true to history. The reply
given is this:
IT do not object to it's being called
she war of the rebellion, provided it
ke distinctly understood that the term
rebel was to be applied, not to those
who sought to establish this constitu-
EIonal rights, under a new ~organiza-
ton, but to those dominating the leg
5slative and executive branches of the
government, sought to violate the On
stitution under which the union was
formed. In fact, it was a war Of re-
Oeliion, a rebellion against the consti-
fntion Of the United States, and the
rebels were successful"
Any one who has carefully, thought
fully studied the subject must know
chat the real rebels were in the north
and not in the south.
WHAT THE ELECTIONS HAVE