The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-04-11

1t is a thing worth bordering that,
forty-nine years after Appomattox,
at time when the prestige of the
United States is admitted among the
nations, when what We think and
what we do becomes the index of
done in half the globe, the men who
are shaping these great policies, who
are establishing the gospel of Am
ericanism, are the sons and the
grandsons Of the remnants of that
army of Lee that fought to the TAX
ing Of the last gasp at Appomattox
The most dangerous thing in the
world is the man who is ''let up
after he is supposed to be clicked"
Columbia State.
All of the foregoing is timely and
true, but the State should have add
ed to its last paragraph that the
North, and the North alone among
the powers of the world, possessed
the spirit Of letting up on an en-
envy supposed to be licked"
1t is true that the political spite of
some, the unreasoning hate Of
| others, the corruption OF many and
the ignorance of many more, laid on
the South for years burdens that
were most CALLING and almost crush
/ ing.
But the great heart of the north
ern people beat in kindness and re-
| Cancellation for their estranged
brethren in the South. Nowhere in
this world since time began has there
been such an instance of the spirit
of forgiveness and willingness to be
forgiven.
Thousands of northern people
came south and have done their full
share in building up the section and
healing the scars caused by war
Thousands held out their hands and
opened their homes to those of our
people who went north to repair
shattered fortunes.
! Look at the uncounted sums thai
were poured into the hands of south
ern cities when they were devastat
ed, as they so often have been, by
fever or fire. This world can show
no parallel to the national generosi
, ty of America.
If anybody thinks the South wa:
: traotod with ovoopt;op,1 r;ror L.
, him look at the case of Hungary
| whose fight against Austria in 1S4|
has been recognized as much re
|, sembling our own.
The people Of Hungary, a doze1
/ years before our civil war seeded
l from the Auctrian empire on
: question of national rights which
. much resembled the Southern doc
/ trine of state rights. Successful a
4 first against the Austrians, they wer
l conquered when Russia flung he
: sword into the scale.
e The Hungarian patriots wer
: treated with extreme rigor. All thei
: leaders who were not able to escap
were executed or imprisoned for Ion
Y terms. Kossuth, their leader, foun
: refuge in the United States Anothe
d prominent Hungarian, Martin Kos
"a, who had signified his intentio
d of becoming an American citizei
a was taken by the crew of an Au!
It trian gunboat from a merchant We!
W sci in the Turkish harbor of Smyrn:
e and the captain of an American wa
h ship brought his country to tn
h verge of war with Austria by con
v polling at the cannons' muzzles til
l. return Of Kostza to a neutral dec
i, Russian Cossacks, more brutal tina
g any American negro knew how
E. be, swarmed over Hungary, subjec
n ing the helpless people to murde
rape and robbery.
Is There was no prescription at Il
a close of our civil war The hangir
le of Captain Wirz and Mrs. Surra
as and the imprisonment of Jeffersc
Davis were unjustifable, but co
ID sidering the magnitude and leng
V Of the struggle, and the foolish al
wicked murder of Lincoln. they we
re no more than was to be expected :
is we'll known, northern men We
a on Davis bond. and had he been
the custody Of almost any other c
he ficer than Miles, his imprisonme
ar would have been little more tn.
re honorable detention
en- Northern soldiers encamped in t
IN South during and after the war !
n, spected the rights OF the peoT
ed more completely than any host
he army ever did before Except