The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-27

OWN Judges anu tACSutC lhclT own
protection. On February IA. 1914. the
Legislature of MASSACHUSETTS, pub
lished report in which is this SOL
emn declaration "fhe question of
New EngIands withdrawal from the
Union is not a question OF power or
of right to separate. but only a ques-
ton of time and expediency.'
The legal right OF recession Is here
proclaimed in strong, plain speech, and
yet these same people have written
that we were rebels in exercieing
a right in lS61-65 that was admitted
to be a legal right by virtually all
Southern statesmen and by a large
majority of the leaders of the North
slavery Imposed ON the south.
African slavery was only one cause
in group of many causes leading to
our Civil War, the bloodiest, the most
destructive war in all history. 1t Is
historically true that the greed OF Old
England and New England Imposed
African slavery upon this country, and
when the slave trade was at Its high
est activity the nefarious traffic was
carried on almost entirely by New
England slave merchants, who on the
streets of Boston would speak Of
themselves as dealers "in wool and
ivory" The best authorities estimate
that in the years from 1897 to 1908
New England sleve-ships brought from
African one million slaves.
died for States rights guaranteed I'M
der, the Constitution of the United
States. Our armies were composed of
native citizens of the South, the purest
strain of Anglo-Saxon blood on earth.
Moved by the same unselfsh motives
that animated their patriot forefathers
of 1776, following their example, they
pledged to each other their lives. their
fortunes and their sacred honor for the
cause of Southern Independence. The
result was an exhibition of such en-
durance. courage and persistence as
has never bten surpassed In the annals
vanauished more by famine than by
force of arms AS distinguished
writer has truly said
The fame of the Northern soldier
Is of physical force. the glory OF the
Southern soldier is OF moral courage:
the reputation of the Northern soldier
rests upon numerical strength. the re-
nown of the Southern soldier is based
upon unexcelled skill and fortitude.
One sought conquest; the other JUS
tice. One drew the sword In vengeful
hate. the other without hate or malice.
One climbed to the height of worldly
success. the other attained the sum-
NIT of lofty virtue. Ore :riumphed:
| the other lost. but with his face to the
foe and his eye toward Heaven, his
was the defeat of the vanquished pa
triot. No broken faith. but Il broken
hearti His soul spotless but his body
| SCARED: his worldly inheritance seiz-
| ed. destroyed: but the precious wealth
| OF clean conscience was still his
More Foreigners Than Confe,ierates.
The relative strength of the North
ern and Southern armies in the field
from 1851 to 1865, according to the
best and latest authorities Is as fol-
lows:
In the Northern army
Whites from, the North 2227 333
whites from the South 80. S1s,421
kNeBTOeSs . lSH.O1T
ihTTianS; - ............ 1890
In the Southern army ny, -. 900 900
Norths excess :. :. .2,l33.s0f
In the Northern army there were:
Germans - ...... 17s.so0
British Americans :. :. ...... $500
| Other natfonalities -. -. :. $4,000
Negroes :. .......... 1907
Here we have an authorized state state.
ment of the fact that the negroes and
foreigners in the Northern army ex-
ceeded the entire strength of the
men.
Six hundred thousand hungry, rag
ged, poorly armed and equipned Con-
federates against 2,7sS,3o1 Federals,
magnificently armed and equipped
with the world at their command 20
recruit FRONT
will be of interest to us and to
nOSteTltV TO READ the Following author
lied statement of the relating numbers
In the principal battles of the war:
In the Seven Days Fight -Confeder-
ates, tSO.sS5: Federals, i15,249.
Antietam- -Confederates 35,255; Fed
erals SILICA.
Charlottesville - Confedarates 81
212; Federals 1861.
Frederic ksburg- -Confederates. 7s1lO;
Federals. 10000.
Gettysburg = Confederates. $1,000:
Federals $4,000
Chickamauga - Confederates $4,000;
Federals $1,000.
Wilderness Confederates 639S7:
Federals 141.160.
At Appomattoy General Lee had less
than $4,000 men, while General Grants
army numbered $4,000.
Care Of the Prisoners.
There were in Confederate prisons
100000 Federal soldiers. of whom a.
$40 died, less than &. 5 per cent. In
Federal prisons there were 100000
Confederate soldiers. of whom 26433
died. more than twelve per cent.
In January. 1868, the Confederate au-
thorities Informed the government at
Washington of their inability to pro-
vide properly for the health and COM
fort of the many prisoners In their
hands because oil medical supplies
had haen declared contraband of war,
and as all our ports were blockaded
they proposed that all prisoners ON
each side should be attended by their
own surgeons to be chosen ov their
respective governments. these surgeons
to receive and distribute all medical
and other supplies forwarded 20 them
Theywere also to have full power to
make reports in regard to the condi-
ton and welfare of the prisoners,
This humane proposition was declined
Having ascertained by repeated eff
forts that exchanges could not be eff
fected, the Confederate government
offered the United States its sick and
wounded without any equivalents. This
offer was made in the early summer:
the TRANSFORMATION did not arrive until
November.
Final efforts were made to relieve
the situation by sending to Washington
a delegation of prisoners from An
Jacksonville to plead their own cause;
President Lincoln refused to see them
Finaky Vice President Stephens at.
tempted to treat in person with the
Federal authorities. to present tho Sc
rious condition of prison affairs. He.
too. was refused hearing.
By order of the Confederate Secre-
tary of War, the Federal prisoners in
the South had the same rations in quail
ity and quantity that the Confederate
soldiers had, Confederate soldiers died
by the thousands in camp and hospital
because there was no medicine to cure
and no proper food for the sick The
Confederate army was starved into sub
mission. The unavoidable conditions
in the South resulted in the death of
SIS per cent of Federal prisoners.
Our Confederate prisoners in the
North were in sight of luxury and com
fort while dying of hunger and un-
conditions TwClNp nor Capt