The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-07-10
They Have No Enthusiasm for the
Question at Issue.
REV. DR.. EDWARD |. PELL'SVIEW
He Saws That the Southerners Have
Calamity Entered the Cause for
Love of Country-There is No
Question ofLoyalty at Stake

to its significance. AT least This As The I
opinion OI the more thOushllul class Ot 1
Southern people, VINO may not be denied I
the credit OF rightly Interpreting tne.r !
own feelings. / am not sure, bul l am /
disposed 10 doubt whether the south mas
In a score OF years felt quite as awkward /
as IL old the Otner day, when, having re-
spOnded as a matter OF course 10 the
call for volunteers II was overwhelmed
with concentrations Tor uOlug only what
the rest Of the Union had uOne. 4 know
thar 1t put some OK Us most chivarous
leaders 10 their ,rumps 10 stand up and
look pleasant while II was being said IN
their faces:
I'VE nave been trying to make believe
you were In the Union, but now you are
in"
OF course 1t was all done with the best
OF motives, or perhaps / should say, the
nOblest Of impulses, Out, therein was me
PUB. one does not ENJOY being cOngrdt-
uated for standing up with his brother
against a common foreign foe, however
the case may be- or may nave been, De-
tween him and his brother And one uOes
not like 10 have 1t said OF him with al
concealed surprise that he mas proved
equal 10 a very ordinary occasion.
LACK OF ENTHUSIASM.
on the other hand, the noticeable lack
Of enthusiasm in the south since the
war began has been given a significance
that is quite as wide Of the mark. l am
not disposed to underra,c the prevailing
indifference. 10 Is undeniab.e tnat the
Southern people. as rule. have no heart
for the business In Cuba. But the sus-
piclon thar this indifference grows out
of Indifference 10 the Union IS based
upon an utter misrepresentation OF real
conditions In the South. There are per-
fectly satisfactory reasons lying WhOAy
outside of the question of Southern loy-
atty, and they are Dy no means or an
alarming or sensational character.
IL has been a common saying IN the
South almost ever since the days or re-
construction that "a war with foreign
power was the one thing needful 10 we'd
the broken nation together. That.is 10
say. through all these years the Southern
people have been conscious or the Iacl
that whatever they might have against
the North the Northern people were none
the less bone Of their bone and iesh Oh
their flesh. and that only an opportunity
was needed to show that blood was thick
er than water.
While the North and the South are not.
and never have been, az close together
as demagogue peacemakers have pro-
claimed, they have always been closer
together than either side has ordinarily
realized. They have always quarrelled
more or less, but they have always Deeh
brothers. The notion that the South mas
Just awakened TO a sense or It's hlnshlp
with the rest of the nation Is wholly
at variance with the history OF southern
thought and feeling.
| Even the heat and smoke OF the great
| conflict often failed % smother OUT the
| sense Of brotherhood. 10 was this tna1
| made the war so terrible. Neither the
| North nor the South could keep out OF
| It's mind for long the feeling that me
| whole business was iratriclddl, ana lutl
| the men who were iacing eacn o,nci
| should be standing shoulder to shoulder.
| Such war had TO be fought Hereby or
| il could not have been fought az an.
THE NORTHERN INVASION.
The most pathetic chapter in the hlsto-
| ~ of the conflict is that Whlch ttllS now
| men brought face 10 face with the
! awful truth broke down under IL. Even
| the invasion the memory Of which IS siili
| as "a horrible nightmare 10 the southern
| people. was time and again interrupted
| by the proclamation that blood 81 thick
| or than water. S0utherners SIN r.cail
| as the only luminous incident OF the Dark
| davs at the close how Northern soldiers
| often took sides with them against tn-
| negroes who mistoOk the coming OF the
| Union army as a signal for plunder ana
| violence So long as a Northern oulcer
| remained at headquarters he could give
| orders I'm favor of The negro against tne
| Southerner. but when he rode Iorth ana
| sa an Egyptian smiling one OF ms own
| race ne was very apt 20 draw his SWORD
| and rush upon said Egyptian without
| stopping to inquire into the merits OF the
| The stay-at-homes could hate the Sou
| fnnTneT III
| might be with "a perfect hatred, Dut
| when the test came TO the men az the
| front thev discovered that they were ar
| rayed against bone or their pone Ine
| few officers whose orders favored the hr-
| gro as against the white man were men
| ,-boso names have been since dcspiscd al
| heartily I'm the North as they have bteh
| I'm the South As "a rule The men " no en-
| couraged the freedom 10 violence asalhs.
| the whites were not sOiolcfs az all Dut
| adventurers, who sWarmed IN the rear
| of the army, and WHO remained 10 deyouI
| long after the soldiers had felurntu TO
| their homes That This feeling OF hnsnlp
! was quite as common among the so olgIs
| Of the South every NJrtneIh soldlsI W.
| served on nicket duty VIII gladly teslli1.
| THE neopie who remained az home on
| either side would have preferred snon,i
| one of The enemy above their chef JOY
| but there was never n une our n-
| war when the soldiers al the front would
| not have been glad II u had turned our
! that the men they had killed were OF an
'''''' No QUESTION or LOYALTY.
| What 7 am trying TO indicate IS that
| the motives which prompted the ooutl..
| ern militia TO volun' or Tor the prcseh.
| v,er arc not Of recent origin, and that
| they are altogether ordinary; IL is nor
| true that the SOU. N,. GUY ~, y,
| ened 10 the realization that II Is part OF
| the nation. As hard IS 1t may be for the
| North IA understand. The South would
| have responded 20 "a can Tor volunteers
] twenty years az.
| enthusiasm IN the South has no connec-
| tion u-ith the question Of Southern 10y
| altv. one reason Why the South has no.
| zone into the war with a heart for The
| business Is that IL has not forgotten the
| last war. Northern people very naturally
| think they know what war means Dut
| they don't know the meaning Of INVASION
| IN NAV he a weakn IS. but the avera2e
| Southerner cannot separate from the j ca
| OF war the idea when MS own "Nper nee
has given him OF war He knows nothing
about small wars, or snort wars. ~ "a, :
| eign wars: when var Is mentioned IL
| brings before him the worst war OF the
world. He has not forgo ten what
| suffered, and for the lIe OF MIN ne can
| not drive from his minu me Tear tnat MS
| hov has gone 10 the front 10 suffer as he
| di1 lie remembers how he came home,
| broken down in body ana spirit, TO md
| no home but a chimney and a pile Of
| ashes.
| THE Southern woman remembers how
| ont n the hundreds Of fair Toys who
| ,,ept from, her nelgnnOrhoOu there came
| hack handy "A dozen. hdlf OF whom We're
| wrecks. and how. as Richmond wO-
| man told me the other day, Tor years
| after the war, when she would look OUT
! OF the window her heart would ache for
I the sight of q young man In the pass
| in, crowd Of tottering veterans and bows
lust in their teens These bitter memories
have taken the heart out OF the women
"a generation ago the Southern mothers
| fairi0 nushed their boys OF 10 the front.
| tIav were the bravcst women IN the