Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-07
Will NEVER BE FORGOTTEN.

courteous exchange of compliments,
every genial smile Of reconciliation, thai
betokens the growth of greater fellow
ship between the north and the south
will be hailed with approval n joy by
every loyal citizen of the republic. The
%prejudices of the war, incident 10 the
heartaches which time alone could
assauge. have been crumbling in an at
mosphere of mutual interests and COM
mon purposes. The American character
is too broad, and the aims of our people
too high, to forever cherish the hatreds
and nurse the sorrows of the civil war.
But while the north has forgotten the
bitterness of that awful struggle for
human liberty, and has buried in the
sepulchre of the past the prejudices en-
gendered by the lost cause, it can never
! erase from the heart of loyalty the
memoir of those who planned the de-
struction of the nation while under the
protecting care of it's flag. The southern
soldier was a hero in his own right. He
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He met his northern brother in deadly
combat upon the open field. There was
an element of chivalry in his brave de-
Tense of a monumental mistake.
AS time tenpers the passions of men,
and the grey hairs mingle with the gold,
the veterans of the north and the south
can afford to take each other by the hand
and pledge the loyalty of posterity to the
flag of a reunited country. Blu no mar
who reveres the emblem of his country
can forgive or forget the northern cop
perhead. who left behind him an in
effacable trail of dishonor. Too cowardly
to enact the role of an open and honor
able foe, he sought by treachery most
foul to undermine the government that
afforded him protection and gave him
/ bread. Ready at all times to strike the
union soldier in the back. his vicious
energies wove meshes to entangle the
/ defenders of the nation at home and in
the field. He was a viper. No r%econcilia-
ton between the north and the south
can ever remove the stain which the
northern c%opperhead inflicted upon the
history of that great American conflict.
Had he died with the confederacy-
had he breathed his last when the great
concluding drama Of the war was played
| upon the stage of heroic American his
tory at Appomatox--time might permit
the memory Of his acts to fade. But he
still lives. and it ma be said, in the
language Of a modern song writer, "he
has his habits on" He has lain in the
background for years, arrayed in the
paraphernalia Of good citizenship, await
ing an opportunity to again strike the
government in the back. 1t came with
the war in the Philippines, and today he
is doing allrthat lies within his power to
give aid and encouragement to Aguin-
aldo, by seeking to embarrass the adj
ministratior in its efforts to bring that
the honor of the American fiag and the
dignity Of American arms.
In mass meetings in Chicago, and else
where, he Kisses the honored name of
the president OF these United States. and
cheers the red-handed bandit whose out
laws are numbering our citizen soldiery
in the Philippine islands under the flag of
truce. In the columns of the democratic
press he hurls his invectives at the ad-
ministration. and treachery and treason
pulsate between the lines of his diatribes
and poison the air with a putrid rehash
of the copperheadism of the civil war.
He magnifies a horde of savage cut
threats inio heroes struggling for liberty
against the cruel and unjust government
the people to believe that this republic
is pursuing a remorseless policy of rapine
and murder in the southern seas, trying
to eXterminate from the face Of the earth
a peaceful and Gou-iike nation of liberty
loving men!
He would incitc mutiny among the
soldiery and discomfort among the peo-
pie. He would dishonor the nation and
tldiiIlt us nag III the aust. he would
do this and more. in the hope that from
the turmoil of strife he might cultivate
criticism into an issue with which To
snatch from a confiding public the right
to rule and the license to plumber. Verify.
the copperhead is a hold-over from the
civil war and he does not belong to the
, school of reconciliation in which tn.
soldiers Of the north and the south are