The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-12-04
Which Was EpOch-Mak-
ing In Its Sentiment.
IN ADDRESS TO THE LADIES
OF the United Daughters OF
the COnfederacy Made
at Washington.
ssnEAT THOUGHTS EXPRESSED

DpCTling session OF convention OF
Rh< United Daughters Of the Con
HedfTacy. at Continental Memorial
han. Washington. ID. c., November,
-. 1912.
ladies Of the United Daughters
OT the Confcderacy beg to wei
come you to Washington. You have
captured this city beautiful and
mmd, II more lovely by your pres
''nU Az It's temporary head,
give you the freedom of the city.
and recognize that in what you
have done. you have founded n
.shr1nc and an altar here which will
". visited In the future by many n
fIllhful pilgrim.
a. the OcagiOn which brings you
h~rc wrrr the mourning at the bier
OF n loSi cause. | know that the nice
sense of propricty of a fine old so
a'ial trh0ol would have prevented
you from inviting me. as the Presi'
ISSeni You are not here To
MOURN ar support n cause. You are
herr TO celebrate. aud justly to cell
.rbIIte. the hcroism, the courage
ana IN, sacrifices To the uttermost
ot yVuv fathers and your brothers
Ind NOur mothers aud your sisters,
and VI all your kin, In cause
with they honcstly believed in
dhcu hearts To be right. and
tOt which they were willing to lay
down their lives That cause ccas-
I'D ~ he. except in history, now
mUlr than half century ago. IT,
was one which could elicit from
half n nation. and n brave and war
bike race, four years struggle I'm
which lives. property, and every
thIng save honor were willingly
parted with for it's sake. So great
ship 81 mwny of your generals, so
adaptable was the individual of
NnJ rHce To effective warlikc train
NJ. 80 full OF patriotic sacrifice
rrrr your people, that now. when
II thc bitterness OF the struggle ON
.-'r part OF the North has passed
nay. We are able to share with you
II Ghn South your Just pride in your
en ma women who carried on the
aInr xAmplcd contest 10 an eXhaus-
tIon that few countries ever suffer
ed. The calm observer and histo-
rian. whatever his origin, may now
rejoice In his heart that the Lord
ordained II as II u.s. Hut no son of
the South and no son of the North,
with any spark in him OF pride OF
race. can fail to rejoice in that COM
mon heritage of courage and plo-
rious sacrifice that We have in the
story of the Civil War and of both
sides In the Civil War.
VI has naturally taken a long time
Tor the spirit Of hostility that such
an in,crucciue struggle develops
completely to die away. Ot course
At lasted a less time with those who
were the victors and into whose
homes and domestic lives the hor-
rurs VI war were not directly
thrust The physical evidences OF
war were traceshle in the South for
decades after they had utterly dis
appeared in the North in the few
places In which they existed. Then
there are conditions in the South
which are 4 constant reminder OF
the history 81 the past. Until with
in recent decades, prosperity has
MOI shed he- boon 81 comfort upon
the South with as generous a hand
as upon the North Hence those OF
us at the North who have been
sometimes impatient al little fash
now and then OF the old sectional
antagonism are unreasonable in our
failure to allow for these marked
differences,
For years after the war, the Re
publlca party. which had carried
the Nation through the war TO its
successful conclusion, was in con-
trul OF the administration OF the
Government. and Il was impossible
for the Southerner to escape the
FEELING that he was linked in his
allegiance 10 an alien nation and
one with whose destiny he found it
diricult to identify himself Time.
hrweVer. cures much. and after
while there came a Democratic adj
ministration OF four years. and
then another one OF four years.
Scutherners we're called to federal
once. they came TO have more in
fiuence in the halls OF Congress aud
in the, senate. and the responsible
ity OF the Government brought with
u a sense OF closer relationship to