The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-27
The Wessengm.
THE SOUTH AGAINST THE NORTH

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was that waged so mercilessly, so
savagely by the northern states against
the southern states. The spirit of the
devil was in it all, and among wars
none is more inexcusabfe, defenceless,
monstrous in it's iniGuity than the war
OF vengeance waged by the north
against the southern part of the repub-
lie. He'll vomited itself when the
Shermans and Sheridans and Killpat-
ricks, and a dozen other Attilas-"the
-scourges'' of Satan-turned loose their
armies to devastate the south, and to
make war as the Duke of Alva made
war in the Netherlands.
The records of the United States war
department show that the north had
more than 2 Zoo, 900 men in it's armies,
exclusive of the great navy it sent out
to ravage and destroy. The south for
four years met this monstrous force
with 100000 men exclusive of a very
small extemporized navy. When in
any other wal in any other age were
nearly $4,000 900 men actually compos-
ing the fighting forces? 1t was a ire
mendous display of power on the part
as a great recruiting ground. Never
before did the Internal animus of re-
venge and hatred and barbaric cruelty
ever so assert itself. There never was
the faintest vestige of justice and right
in the wal that was so -brutally conduct
ed by the overwhelming north. It had
not a leg to stand upon. Lies, mis-
representations, perversions of facts,
and a complete ignoring of the truth
lay at the foundation of the whole war
against the south. These are not idle
assertions, but are facts easily seen,
and truth that has stood and will ever
stand the ~fiercest light that can beat
upon it.
1t is the duty of every man in the
south Of the present generation to in
form himself thoroughly of the true
cause that led to the great war; to
study carefully the authentic and gem
uine records Of this country that he
may understand perfectly why it was
that the proud and i~nsolent north, con-
fident in it's great numbers and it's vast
Accommodations of wealth, at the ex-
pense of the south mainly obtained,
dared to disregard the entire facts of
history and the fundamental law of its
country, and conduct a war of ruin
and reprisal, of venom and savagery
outlying the Red Men when making
their most merciless and cruel forages.
You must study the actual records OF
the congress-, and the de~liverances' of
public men if you would arrive at the
precise facts, and see uncovered the
true i~nwardness of the north in its
I. sweeping invasion of the fair southland
tina was defending it's rights and priv
ileges and bravely striking for liberty
: once more and second independence.
The present generation in the south
needs very greatly to read UP and gath
er in the truth as to the war between
the states. 1t has read so constantly,
and absorbed so much of northern
newspaper fiction and lies as to the
south, as we'll as the highly colored
magazine articles always painting the
south black, in the contest, n the
multitude of so-called northern school
histories, that fairly TEEN with mis-
representations, concealments and pos
tive ~falsehoods-as unfair as partian-
ship can make them, as unveracious
and false as cunning ingenuity and a
wicked heart can devise and a syste-
matte mendacity given to the fabulous
can fabricate, that it must have the
truth revealed at last-must study we'll
the real facts and principles involved
must have the pure, white light Of his
.toric verify turned in upon their minds.
Truth, supreme, mighty, regnant, must
meet Error clothed in it's brazen armor
of deceit and overwhelm it. Read the
records, study the evidences, gather in
the precise facts, and you will be il
Iumined as never before, and you will
stand amazed as you see the %falsehoods
and deceit, the treachery and oppres-
sions of the north fully and fairly I'M
covered.
DO you ask what shall be read?
Whittier shall we turn to gather
all this, and make it our own? To
what works shall we go to ascertain
the fuses and the results? Who has
unveiled the facts and made plain the
developments and laid bare the ma
.chinations and ISLANDERS and f%alsehoods
of the artful, bold, mendacious and lib
ertine enemy?
Read Bledsoe's mastery little vol
ume-"Is jeff Davis a Traitor; or was
Secession a Constitutional Right Prior
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