The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-01-30

general bad feeling had to be settled
by the arbitriment of arms. The
greatest statesmen of the day acl,.
nowledged the right Of sovereign
states to seCede from The Union. Tho
slavery question was only a pretext
to intensity the sectional bitterness.
The southern people did not beliey,
It was right to sell to them slaves
for the love of money and take them
away for the love of God. say the
circular before us, does violence 20
the teachings Of that magnanlmous
leader Of the federal forces, General
Grant. who. after the war drum
throbbed no longer" In the land Of
Dixie, at the surrender of Lee. said.
Let us have peace, "A sentiment
borrowed from the one who was born
across the seas among tie lilies.
The wounds of prejudice has been
healed by the soothing ointment of
time and those times of romance
and chivalry have become a museum
chamber filed with pious instruc-
ton Foul bands aye trying to open
anew the wounds of prejudice and
hatred. They brand with bitter and
acrimonious words as grand a sol.
dierly as ever drew the warriors
steel" TO battle against a foe, and
call them rebels say NO. they
were not rebels unless you say
that they rebelled against wrong
True, they dened coersion and
/ threatened intimidation from the
North. Could they have been true
| Americans had they not resented?
| NO. | am not going to flaunt into
your faces the bloody shirt but !
say these men have done injustice
| to every Union man, TO their own
| members-a part of a remnant OF
noble band of warriors who mar
| blast was blown" and they rallied to
| the defense of the Southern Con
! federacy when it was being Graded
! by the most titanic strife the world
| has known. As grand heroes as ever
was borne on Spartan mothers
breast were deployed against each
other in that terrible conflict, but a
reign of peace followed those days
of sectional strife Great Grant re-
fused the sword of noble Lee at APP
pomattox. and later the big hearted
/ Lincoln climbed the heights of Get
! tysburg. which. short time before,
was literally aname with the fire OF
| battle, and as tears coursed down his
rugged cheeks, said, These were
my brethren" That sublime scene
should have and did, in fact. end the
war with the true federal soldier
| There should be no north and no
south and We should be here as true
| American citizens. | thought those
days of bitterness had ended. We
| should be one under the stars and
| stripes of our common country and
i've as a unit to build up the great
est commonwealth in the world, with
no bitterness in our heart, hurting 10
the feudands of despair the jealous
les, ranglings and hates Of the hui
man heart A short time ago, | was
thrilled when | read an account of
the patriotic accent that found vent
in our National Congress hail. when
the representatives on the floor, as
they bade each other farewell, began
singing MY Country, 'Tis of Thee"
and Star Spangled Banner alter
mating with Dixie The martial
strains that made the souls of the
contending cohorts strong in those
times of romance and chivalry.
All, do traitors or rebels fight like
the Confederate soldier fought? Was
Lee "A traitor? Was he a rebel? He
had toyed with the armies of the Po-
tomac until Grant took command and
then Greek had to meet Creek" and
then the death struggle began. When
brayest hearts failed at victories de-
lay, he became as stout as Titan,
restless as fate rose TO his best and
furnished courage To the Confeder'
acy. Honor radiated from his life
while virtue sat on his brow as on a
throne. He brayely accepted the
logic of Appomattox. The best that
he drew sword Tor are still here. The
wild doctrines of Sumner and Thad
Stevens are not our law. As the
Union is inseperabe, the states are
indistructible ! want to say for the
North that | respect their sodiery
Probably some of them are in this
senate. respect them and know
that they do not countenance this
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