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made. a heroic effort against tremendous
odds to maintain their right to sePatate

made heroic effort against tremendous
odds to maintain their right to separate
from the Union.
AS THE WAR WAS FOUGHT.
Z It was early in the struggle that tnos
secured the recognition OF belllseL ..u -,
and in the m ain the war was fouens 81
lines consistent with the rules OF CIV Nv
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Unfortunately from the first dif-
f1culty as to prisoners arose, and la.et
when the use OF negro troops N Tue
North was adopted, the questioh ny NC
came too difficult to be settled. . lne
sutrer1ngs that were endured by pIiSot
ers on both sides while those unsolsauie
questions were discussed, can hevei# 80 80
justified Undoubtedly the dlHlcu1ties -
the way OF exchanging prisoners nI.s
created by the North and gave coior
to the charge that there was no oesile
to secure the return Of Northern prison.
ers from the South, as it involved the re-
turn of Southern men to their army.
In fact, General Grant in letter -
General Butler expressly so stated
War is 1nseparablo from horrors.
Civilized warfare is indeed contfao!c-
ton in terms. but taken as "noie'z
perhaps, the war itself was as Tree
from extreme barbarity as could nave
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esty which dictated the terms offered oy
General Grant and with such magniici-
ent moral courage, accepted by Genera!
Lee at Appomattox had been recognized
throughout the North, possibly with all
Its evils, many blessings might nave
come to both sections as the wars al
rect results. Without the SEQUEL the
names of Grant and Lee might LOT 81
time have been linked together oJ Inc
| whole people Of the reunited states IN
ever grateful memory.
The noble purpose Of General Lee in
putting an end to bloodshed by laying
| down his arms instead OF scattering
/ army to wage a desultory warfare,
| should have allaycd all bitterness OF
feeling and heIping hands shoulds nave
| been extended !, to the desolated South.
| The wise and generous policy OF Cen
eral Grant in allowing the Southern prl-
vate soldiers to keep their horses 70 40
| their spring plowing. should have been
| followed everywhere. Sad and bitter
as seemed the end to those who had
! struggled SO nobly for their cause little
| did they dream that their suferings had
| scarcely begun. They could not have
beneved that the victors who appeared
| SO generous in the field would have fol-
| lowed in such courses that thirty years
| later the true history has to be written
! in lied ROCK and In Leopard epots.
It is a happy auSury for the future.
when from the lips Of such distlh-
| gushed sen or Massachusetts as Charles
! Francis Adams has fallen the highest
| praise of Robert Z. Lee.
SOUTHERN HEROS EXAMPLE.
| IS 1t would indeed have been happy
( fate for the country ii the example OF
| the Southern hero, after Appearances
| which has secured for him for all time
/ a recognition that makes him only sec
ond in war, second in peace, and second
] in the hearts of his countrymen, mad
been followed by the North and Its
| commander.
1t is difficult to speak with camness
| and moderation of the scenes enacted
in the decade following 1875. No appeals
! could check the wild orgy into which the
! controlling powers in the North had
rushed.
A South, SO plundcred that all the
/ ruins of the war appeared as MOTH
/ ing: a North, rocking with corruption
1 until the records of credit moblier
frauds, and black Friday tumults made
1 the people doubt the integrity of all.
/ The terrible scourSe OF so-called recon-
/ struction, as directed by the distorted
/ brain Of Thaddcus Stevens, and the in
1 EQUITIES of the .'Freedmen's Bureau.
! aroused not only the South, but the
| North itself. Even those apostles of
| The cause who produced the war-Cirecley,
/ Chase, Julian, the war Governors An
| drew, of Massachusetts. and Curtin. of
Pennsylvania, and many others-rebelled
against the actions OF their old political
4 associates. Few governments have sur
vived such evil influences as eliminated
| il: the great crime of 1876, when even the
| will of the people, Overwhelmingly as
/ serted at the polls, was ruthlessly dis
1 regarded The sad story is now, l hope,
nearing its end. Sowy. but surely, the
] truth is being recognized and public sem
/ timent is approving the assertion of their
powers by the several States over their
/ damestic concerns.
am conscious that I have touched
/ upon much that is full of controversial
feeling but the day has come when JUS
/ tice should be done to those whose views
/ have been condemned by popular clamor
with no foundation OF reason.
/ To treat a contest between the peoples
of two great sections Of continent as
| an internal uprising or revolt against
constituted authority is not only puerile,
/ but grossly wrong.
The honesty of convictions on both
sides should be admitted and the legiti-
mate results of the struggle Should
alone be recognized.
WOMEN or THE SOUTH
feel no sympathy with those who
| would deny a place for this monument
| on Northern soil over the graves OF the
men whose memory. it records. I have
come here to unite with You in admira-
! ton for the noble women Of the South,
who have borne their sufferings and their
| trials with such unfailing fortitude, and
who have sustained with an undaunted
courage their husbands and sons, their
| fathers and brothers. in their struggles