The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-08-01
The North and the South.

General Shaw, Grand Army Of the
Republic commander, did not mean to
wound the feelings Of .Confederates
and no doubt, as he said, got some of
his inspiration from General Gordon's
lectures at the north, which he pre-
sumably and unintcntionally misin-
tcrpreted. We have sometimes thought
that General Gordon, in those lee
lures, was occasionally too famboy-
ant, too dramatic and too gushing;
but these were incidental bits of
stage-p play allowed public speakers in
"the enelny's country" He did not
apologize for his southern country,
the Confcdcracy and the cause Of the
South, but defended the heroes of the
Confedcracy, civic and military, with
clo1uencc and enthusiasm General
Shaw probably chose such portions Of
General Gordon's lectures as suited
his purpose and did not reflect that
the lectures must be taken as whole
and not in Fragments Tallcyrand
said he could hang any man by using
such language disconncctedly. Cen
eral Gordon, in good temper, put
himself where We all know he belongs,
and General Shaw accepted the stu
alton.
The fact is that the people of the
north and south will not, for an in
definite period, come together on that
question, and they need not attempt
to do so. 1t would be we'll to avoid it
in their gatherings together. Gen
eral Garfield once said, in the house
of representatives, assailing he south
ern members, that there could be no
common ground of settlement until
"We (of the north) who believe we
were eternally right, get you (of the
south) to admit that you were eter-
nally wrong" Well, we Of the south
will never do that, and you of the
north may as well cease your impor-
tunities in that direction. We of the
south believe that our cause was just;
and that it was overwhelmed by num-
beis. That cause was not the Incl
dent of slavery, but local self-govern-
ment and constitutional liberty.
Never was that cause more vital than
it is to-day. Never was constitution
al liberty more seriously menaced by
the northern faction controlling the
government. Even Senator Hoar ad-
mits that. If the empire be estab-
iishcd here or false system of rennh-
lican government, who will doubt the
} verdict of history as to the cause Of
the Confederacy. And it is "the
cause. not the fate Of the cause, that
} is glorious"
} At Antietam, not long ago. monu-
ment was erected to the Blue and the
} Gray who fell there. In his address,
} on that occasion, Governor Smith
} said cit is the only instance in the
worlds history Of singled monument
r being erected to those who sfought
each on the field of battle" In the
battle Of Antietam, as in many other
battles Of she Civil var, Americans
not only fought against Americans,
but foreigners as well. The 'Con-
: federate Handbook" Of which Col.
Robert G. Wood, Of New Orleans, is
the author, states that there were
494 600 foreigners in the Union army,
not including 10000 negroes. The
seeding States Of the south also sup
piled the north with 317,7 ,714 soldiers.
! "The Federal government" declares
, Col. Wood, "could have placed in the
field an army 212,6 ,614 superior in mum.
, ber to the entire Confederate forces
without enlisting single man from
the northern States" The total en-.
rollment of Federal soldiers during
> the Civil war was 2,778, 300, and the
number Of pensions now on the gov
ernmcnt rolls is nearly 100000.
These figures :show the tremendous
/. odds against which the south had to
contend and the extent to which
Europe was q factor in defeating the
Confederacy. The north owes debt
Q Of gratitude to the hundreds Of thous.
. ends Of soldiers Of all the nations Of
Europe, who helped s4keep the south
in the union" The number Of for
). eigners who were killed will probably
never be known. The norAh, it is esti.
Z mated by Col. Wood, lost altogether
359, ,527 men, who were either killed
i in battle or died from wounds or die
ease. The losses Of the south aggre'
8 gated 100000 men, or one-third Of
J the entire force engaged.
General Gordon said at Atlanta