The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-01

interest between the two sections of
the republic.
They Ghe southerners) saw that that
constitution had been openly and
boastingly violated by the northern
states and they felt it their right and
duty to withdraw from the union.
The original preference of the north
for strong central government was
increased, as / have before said by
the large influx of foreign population.
which had no state attachments nor
state pride, and which gloried in the
national government as being partly
regulated by themselves.
After awhile the politicians (north-
ern) thought it wise and prudent to
take advantage of the abolitionist doc
trine of 1.-The sin of slavery" and en-
grated it into their creeds and plat
forms as popular catchword TO in
crease the opposition to the south
which was aggravated by a growing
jealousy of her civilization and pros
perity
A general spirit of intolerance to-
ward everything not in their favor
characterized the party in power at
the north during the war;.
1t was bitter (for the northerners) to
confess that the southern leaders were
better generals and the confederate
armies, though so much smaller and
the host they so often defeated.
At the north the (emancioation)
proclamation called forth new out
burst of patriotism and devotion. as il
proved that in the name of ''preserv-
ing the union the northern admins
tration had resolved to trample upon
all law, to defy the constitution and to
work its will by any and every means
at its command.
Their Gees army in Pennsylvania
magnanimous conduct was in singulas
contrast to the behavior of the federal
armies in the south, whose course was
generally marked by -barbarous out
RACES upon the innocent and defense
less and the wenton destruction of
private property.
The Baltimore Sun comments on
what its New York namesake saws
about these southern histories. II
truthfully remarks that all partisan
histories are bad, and says we see it
Illustrated in our school histories Of
the war of the revolution. 1t very,
properly says that our school histories
should be absolutely fair and true, and
If it can be done without the sacrifice
of truth, things calculated to produce
bad feelings should be omitted. The
Sun concludes it's article with these
words:
But If our contemporary should
examine into the northern school his
tories as carefully as he has examined
the southern histories, he might find
there the reason why the lat
ter were written: No one I'M
familiar with the subject would
gather from the northern his
tories that the right of secession
was an open question until the war
settled it. The southern people were
lighting for a principle. They now
and have for a quarter of a century
admitted that the question has been
settled, and settled adversely to their
contention, and they acquiesce in that
settlement, but they naturally object
to teaching their children that they
were traitors and rebels. Secession
was first threatened by New England
states, but we doubt whether that fact
is very plainly brought out in north
ern school histories. Partisanship is
no better on one side than the other.
1t is only the truth which will make us
whole"
only the truth will make us whole"
True words fifty spoken. Above ali
places in the world truth should be
taught in our public schools.