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tory and economics in the Florida
University pronounces to have become
obsolete and antiquated in 1861? Does
he not know that in 1860 Hale of New
Hampshire presented petitions to the
senate of the United States, praying
! for dissolution of the Union, and
that Chase of Ohio, afterwards ap-
pointed chief justice of the Unite
States by Lincoln, and Seward of New
York, afterwards appointed secretary
of state by Lincoln voted to receive
these petitions? Does he not know
that William Lloyd Garrison and 9TH
ers, who he thinks were in accord
with the progress of the age" de-
manded, in 1855, Northern Confed-
eracy, with no union with slave hold
lers?" If this professor of history and
economics knows these things how
can he say that the south, in 1861, re-
vived political science that was be-
coming obsolete?
Mr.. Banks again says viewing the
great civil conflict the semi-centennial
of whose Inauguration, this year
marks, in the light of these prin-
ciples, and in the light of broad his
torical philosophy, we are led ire
sistibly to the conclusion that the
north was relatively in the right and
that the south was relatively in the
wrong"
The broad historical philosophy
of Mr.. Banks article may fairly be
summarized as follows: Those who
align themselves with the forces that
are successful are in the right in the
best, if not the highest, sense of right,
because success brings benefits and
gains to the successful, and that is
always best; while those who align
themselves with the cause that is lost,
however just the cause, are in the
wrong because they reap no benefits,
no gains, from their sincerity, devo-
ton and sacrifices to cause that is
lost. Therefore as the northern fore
es were the strongest in battle, and
consequently successful, it is the part
of wisdom to repudiate your fathers.
condemn their heroism, patriotism
and sacrifices in the cause of consti-
tutional liberty, as obsolete and not in
accord with the commercial progress
of the age. You should adopt the
teachings of the north, and thereby
you may gain much in this worlds
goods. These southern men, however,
who decline to adopt and act upon
"the broad historical philosophy" of
this professor of history and econom
les, still insist that the south was
right, eternally right, in the great con
fiict of 81 to '65.
This professor of history and eco
Monies should know that the admins
tration of the government of the Unit
ed States from 81 to '65 was the in
auguration of that utter and fragrant
disregard of the constitution and of
all constitutional limitations, that has
paved the way for the corruption and
crime which has permeated every de-
partment of the federal government,
and for that dominance of the mon
ed devil'' from which the people are
now striving to free themselves. To
this Generalization the south has been
a constant and implacable foe.
No representative of southern birth
and southern lineage, in either the
senate or house of representatives of
the congress of the United States, has
ever been even suspected of corrupt
or dishonest practices, or of having
in any way prostituted his office for
private gain.
So far from concurring in the opiI-
ion of Mr.. Banks that Lincoln was the
superior of Davis. believe that the
impartial student of history too. ig-
noring the detractors and eulogists
Vi uOCH, anu lOOhlnS OulJ " OulC1dl
acts as officially recorded, must con-
clude that Jefferson Davis was all
statesman and patriot able and pure,
and that Abraham Lincoln was poll
tician of possibly higher type than
Theodore Roosevelt.
In conclusion, there are few, very
few, southern men who will subscribed
TO the views of the professor of his
tory and economics in the Florida Uni
versity, and those few are candidates
for northern applause to be followed
by yankee gold; therefore, the vast
majority in the south is out of thar
mony with the age" and still be-
lieves in an antiquated, obsolete order |
of things in morals, in economics and
in government.
According to the broad historical
philosophy" of the professor of history
and ooopnp,ioc ", tho IrIor;do TTpivor- |