Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-23
THE HISTORY Of TWO WARS.

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some of his books, but the strict dis
! cipline exacted by our commander,
Gen. Weitzel, prevented getting them
Everything betokcncd that this belli-
gerent churchman, was what Gen
French calls him,-"a valiant trench
| crman." He was killed mt Pine noun
tain by grape shot from one of Sher-
mans batteries.
or course General French INDUCES
| in the usual Confederate claims of i'm
mense disparity between the numbers
engaged. greatly to the discredit of
the Northern troops, In his estimation.
This habit has become so inveterate
that we shall soon expect to hear that
Gettysburg was fought on Lees side
by himself and Confederate sergeant
with his squad. We find no fault with
this; it results naturally enough when
the survivors of an army in which its
numbers were habitually suppressed
In the reports of its engagements, and
when no allowance Is ever made for
the immense advantage arising from
operating on interior lines. in friend
ly country where every man, woman.
and child, was n swift witness against
hn in,r .ls.. Il bA ,tIN l,,;,,,,
equal If not superior forces to bear
at the point of impact every time, and
where the Northern armies were no
toriOus for their laXncss in keeping
anything like their nominal strength
present with the colors In time of ac-
tion.
We notice on the cover of the book,
which is gotten up IN excellent typo
graphical shape, the picture of at least
six tiags,all Confederate. We looked,
and regret not to find, any American
flag, although no inconsidcrable Dor.
tion of the work deals with the authors
campaigns in Mexico, when ut least
he fought under its negis.
We observe also another strange
thing. In dedicating the book to the
Confederate Soldiers" General French
describes them as men who battled to
maintain the cause for which Oliver
Cromwell and George Washington
fought" A very remarkable state
ment that George Washington fought"
against the government which he
founded. But stranger still is the
enormous non-sequitur of the govern
ment whose cornerstone was what
Alex. Stephens said 1t was, and the
cause which was the handspring of
CromwelPs life. Indeed, in this re-
spect the now aged Confederate is
not even consistent with his former
chieftain, and of whose conduct the
book is largely an attempted vindica-
ton.
JEFFERSON Davis, in an address deliv-
cred before the Legislature of AIissis-
sippi December %, 1862, speaking OF
us of the North. said: And it was
with these people that our fathers
formed union and solemn contract
There is indeed a difference between
the two peoples. Let no man hug the
dclusion that there can be renewed
association between them. our enc
mics are u tradltlonless and homeless
race; from the time of Cromwell TO
the present moment tney have been
disturbers of the peace of the world
Gathered together by Cromwell from
the bogs and fens OF the Nortl, of
| Ireland and of England, they COM
menced by disturbing the peace OF
their own country; they disturbed Hol.
land, to which they fled, and they dis
turbed England on their return. They
prosecuted Catholics in England, and
they hung Qunkers and witches IN
America
Having been hurried into II war
with a people so devoid of every
mark OF civilization etc.
OF course this statement was false
and Davis knew 1t TO be so. But what
We wish to remark is that the former
head, and now canonized saint of the
toniederacy, charged the Northern
people, hs the gravest otfense known
III the calendar of crime, with being
SromWelllans; and 40 years later, n
representative writer of the SAME Con
iederacy, who still swears by Jeller
son Davis aud prints his picture in his
book, dcdicales that same book TO
MS comrades In arms for whom he
claims the proud title of CromwcllAns
also. Time and events certainly work
great changes IN mems opinions.
We apprelfend that II responsibility
~ laid upon the later historians OF the
great civil war, who write from the
Southern viewpoint, which did not
devolve upon the earlier writer's of that