The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-20

lie would plead most earnestly with ma
always that 7 should attend more 10 my
studies and less 20 athletics. and never
marsh word during the entire period"
Terrible War Penalty
Placed Upon South.
1T remains 20 assign due weight and
value 70 these precepts and this great
example az Just that 1uucturs and from
Just that man. And here. beariug- I'm mind
the common country-the community ia
which ] belong as we'll as that noo,
address feel / tread on danrarous
ground What must necessarily say
Will very susceptible % misconstruction
Speaking. however in she true historical
spirit rs throughout I have sought to
do, 4 must deal with this topic also as
besr / can.
Because no blood fowsd ON the scaroid.
and no confsca;ions OF houses or lands
marked the close OF our War ~ Secession.
r. has always been assumed by US OF tina
victorious party that extreme. indeed un-
precented, ciemency was shown 90 the
vanqnisned and that subsequently, they
had no good ground Of complaint or suffi-
Gent cause for restiveness.
That history will accord assent 20 this
somewhat sef-compIacent conviction IS
open 20 question. on the contrary. Il may
not unfairly be doubted whether a pco-
plo PROSTATE after civil strife has often
received severer measure than was in
ficted on the so-caled reconstructed Con-
federate State during the years iuuedi-
ately succeeding the close OF strife.
Adam Smith somewhere defined Rebels
ana Heretics as those unlucky per
sons who. when things have come TO 4
cert1in degree OF Violence. have the mis-
fortune 10 Dee Of the weaker party
spodadon and physical suffering have
imfnemortallv been their To-. The Con-
federate. IL IS true. Wien ne ceased 70
resist. escaped this visitation i'm fits usual
and time approved form. Nevertheless.
he was by no means exempt from r.
IN the matter OF confscauon. IL has been
computed that rho freeing OF the slaves
by act OF war swept out OF existence prop
ertv valued at some two thousand mil-
Hons while. over and above this "a svs-
tom OF Simultaneous reconsideration sub
Jected the DISTINGUISHED master to the
rule or the enfranchised bondsman. For
a community conspicuously masterftiI ana
VIGOROUSLY quick 70 resent affront. to be
thus placed by alien force unde- the civil
rule OF those Of a different and distinctly
inferior race. only lately their properly.
Is not physical torment il is true. but
that it is mild or considerate treatment
can hardly be contended
Yet this-slave confscation. and recor-
stuction under African rlile-was thu
war penalty imposed on the states 81
the Confederacy. That the policy in
spired at the time feeling az bitter
resentment in the South was no cause
for wonder Upon IL time has already
recorded a verdict. Following the high
precedent set at Apo mattoN II was dis
tnctly unworthy. Conceived IN passion.
IL ignored both science and the philosophy
OF craftsmanship. worse yet IL was I'M
generous. lee, for instance. again set
ting the example. applied formally for
amnesty and a restoration of civil rights
within two months OF his surrender. His
application was silently ignored. whils
he died "a prisoner on parole" the SUI
frage denied him was conferred on his
manumitted slaves. Verify. IL was not
alone the base Indian OF the olden time
who threw a pearl away richer than
all his tribe