Sunday Washington globe., 1902-04-13
LOYALTY of the south"

The home head liners and the eorespon-
dents who accompanied the President to
the South disgusted an intelligent public
with the constant reiteration Of the express
sion loyalty of the South. - Gould an in
habitant of Mars drop suddenly on this
planet aud, picking up any OF the daily
papers, begin to read the columns Of stuff
on the Presidents trip 10 Charleston he
would assuredly conceive the impression
that the territory visited was conquered
province and its inhabitants suspected
rebels This expression. loyalty of the
South" is offensive and uncalled for
There is no such expression used of the
North. the East or the West. Wherefore Of
the South? Every decent, well.bred South
ern man eutertains the same convictions
on the questions decided at Appomattox
These convictions have not changed except
in so far as that all agree on the wisdom and
advantage Of maintaining a union Of ALL
the states instead Of, as was cOntended for
BY the South, two separate governments.
The South aCquiesced to this new order Of
things in 1865, perforce. and because the
arbitrament of the sword decided against
her. The issue was then settled as issues
are settled, and determined every day in
the year in Legislative assemblies or in
courts Of iustice-hnally.
The sovereignty Of the states, in so far as
withdrawing from the Union was voted
down by the sword, and the minority &C
cepted the decision and will OF the major
ity The debate was Of battle and bullets,
not oratory and ballots. The question,
therefore, arises why this persistent and
offensive reiteration that the minority has
accepted-that the South is loyal-when
this self-evideut fact was determined thirty
seven years ago?
Is there any political issue Of the two
great parties which have been decided by
an appeal to the people thus treated? The
will of the majority has been and is ac-
cepted, the Government is administered on
the policy decided by the ballot-box. The
minority acquiesces and neither the term
Rebel" nor ''loyalist" is uttered or applied
10 the one side or the other
Now the South contended that the Union
was aA az EElllNAlA VI "a aAoAIo ~ AlA~A
voted in their several legislatures 70 form
one government, or country, and that the
same tribunals-state legislative assemblies
could at any time vote to withdraw as
they mad previously voted to join the COM
pact or Union.
me South held to this view in 1861 and
attempted to withdraw from the Union by
enacting ordinances to that effect in their
several state legislatures. The opposing
states North, East and West denied the
right of the South to withdraw, and, as
stated, the question, instead of being settled
by the ballot box, the Congress Of all the
states or the Supreme Court, was taken to
the highest earthly tribunal-the battlefield
and there settled forever against the
South, and the South thereupon acquiesced
and again joined her sister states in the
Union.
Is the South dissatisfied Is she arming
10 again re open the issue settled at Apo
mattox2
is her press, her courts or her legislative
assemblies threatening to do so9
If not why this reiterated and offensive
assurance. that she is loyal? Loyal to what
and to whom?
To the Government Of the United States2
Why--that is her goverum ent as much as it
is the North's, the East's or the Vests.
She is, therefore, loyal to herself, precisely
as New England or any other section of the
country is loyal.
Whoever heard or read newspaper ac-
counts of the loyalty Of New England"
when a President of the United States
visits that section Of the country
And it is Extensively suspicious as well as
absurd to refer to New England as loyal"
Precisely as it is both offensive and absurd
to refer to ''the loyalty of the South "
The war between the states was CIVIL
WAR because the question had not yet
been settled by the highest tribunal-the
arbitrament Of the sword-as to the right Of
states which voluntarily joined a union to
dissolve their connection But now that
the question HAS BEEN DECIDED another
such attempt would be REBELLIoNl This
the South knows and the whole country
knows, and il is because Of this universal
AuuWlGABc Aldl AuG DNcualNe ana insulting
expression loyalty Of the South" is iterated
by Presidents and Republican leaders Of the
Crumpacker-D Dick school as interrogatively
questionable or directly suspicious, and re-
iterated in that section of the press devoted
TO sectionalism and the unquestioned loyalty
alone Of the North aud the Republican vot-
ers thereof Caesars wife must be above
suspicion and because the South fought out
to a 6nal decision the unsettled question or
doctrine of states rights. her acquiescence
in the decision is to be eternally under sus-
picion because her people will not dishonor
Themselves and confess palpable untruth
that THEY KNEW THEY WERE WRONG WHEN
THEY APPEALED TO rHE swORD
And the South will be unworthy a place
in the American union and her people the
hand Of American FELLOWSHIP p whenever they
make such a reasonable admissionl
The Secretary Of War, like Davy Crock
ett's coon, finally came down and furnished