The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1900-07-27
THE EORrN AND THE SOuTU
"oi"e differences Between the Two S,c.
tions thnt arc IrreconcIsb!e.
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hepnbllc commander, did not mean
20 wound the feelings of cx. .ConfeG.
crates and no doubt, as no said, cot
some of his inspiration from General
Gordon's lecture at the North, which
he presumably and uninlentionaliv
mlsintcrpreted We have sometimes
'honSht that General Gordon, in
those lectures, was occasionally too
i1amboyant, too dramatic and too
gushing; bat these were incidental
bits OF stage play allowed public
speakers in "the encmy's country"
lle did not Apologies for lis South
ern country, tho Confcdcracy and the
cause OF the South, hut defended tho
heroes of tho Confrdcracy, civic and
military, with oloqucnco and enthu-
slasm. General Shaw probably chose
such portions Of General Gordon's
lectures as suited his purpose and
did not reflect that the lectures must
bo taken as a whole and not in irag-
monts. Talleyrand snid ho could
hang any man by uain,s his language
disconnpctedly. General Gordon, in
good temper, put himself where wo
all know he bo!onHs, and General
Shaw accepted tho situation.
Tho fact is tia; the prorIe CT tho
North and South will not, for an in.
definite period, come together on that
question, and they nc"d not attempt
to 90 SO. 1t would be well to avoid
it in their gathering together Gen
eral Garfield once said, in the House
OF Representatives, assai]ing the
Southern members, that there could
be no common ground of settlement
until "Wo (of tho North) who bo-
lieve that we were oternally right,
get you (of the South) to admit that
you were eternally wrong" Well,
we Of the South will mover do THAI,
and you of tho North may as well
cease your opportunities in that di-
rection. We Of the South believe
that our cause was just; and that it
was overwhelmed by numbers. That
cause was not tho incident Of
slavery, but local self government
and constitutional liberty. Never was
that cause more vital than 1t is today.
Never was constitutional liberty moro
acTious]y mcnaced by tho Northern
faction controlling the government.
Even Senator Iloar admits that. II
The empire be established here on a
false system of Republican govern
mont, who will doubt the verdict Of
history as to tie cause Of the Con-
feceracy. And it is "the cause, not
tho fato Of the cause that is glorious"
At Antiotam, not long ago, q m on-
umont was erected to tho Bluo and
the Gray who fell there. In his adj
dress on that occasion, Governor
Smith said: at is the only instance
in the worlds history Of a single mon
ument being erected to those who
fought each other on tho fields Of bat
tle." In tho>battlo Of Antietam, as
in many other battles Of the Civil
war, Americans not only fought
against Americans, but Foreigners as
we'll. Tho "Confederate Handbook"
Of which Col. Robert G. Wood, OF
New Orleans, is the author, states
that there were 100000 foreigners in
the Union army, not including 1885,
600 negroes. The scccding States
of the South also supplied tho North
with 317,714 soldiers. "The Fod-
eral government" declares Col. Wood,
"could have placed in tho field an
army 2l2,Gl4 superior in number to
the entire Confederate forces with
out onlisting a single man from the
Northern States." The total enroll.
mcnt Federal soldiers during the
Civil war was 2,773,300, and the
number Of pensions now on tho gov.
, ernment rolls is nearly 100000
These figures show tho tremendous
odds against which tho South had tt
contend and the extent to which Eu
0 rope was factor in defeating th'
Confederacy. Tho North owes
% dobt of gratitude to tho hundreds 0
1 thousands of soldiers Of all the ma
y tions of Europe, who helped "koe]
d the South in the Union" Tho nun
Dor of foreigners who were kllle'
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