The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02

WhlCn resulted Al the empire Ol INOilC
only appear to have purpose and
value when viewed in connection with,
or rattle as subsidiary to
the great stream Of AnglO-SaxOn emf
grafton to the west"
Secession.
With the wonderful growth Of our
country in material prosperity and
prestige and power, love of the Union,
at the North, ripened, until people
there forgot the beliefs OF their faith
ers, and came to look upon the In
ion as ~indissoluble, and upon Seces-
sion as a crime. This the fathers a
hoped would be universal.
But a long controversy over slavery
had checked the growth of Union SEN
timent in the South, and in 1S6O-1S61
eleven Southern States, adhering to
the Union, set UP the old constitu-
ton, amended so as to express what
they believed the fathers meant, and
sought to maintain it in a separate
government. Issue was joined, Con
| federateS n Federals were fighting
| for the preservation of the same O.
stitutiOn-Cne side, under a govern
ment at Richmond, the other, under
the old government at Washington.
The people who, Darwin said, had
broken the worlds record in progress,
were now to make worlds record in
war.
The war tina followed was a death
grapple-a question:. not OF courage,
but Of endurance, Of superior mum
bers and resources. and was fought
out for -four long years, and decided
not on one or on a h -ndred, but on a
thousand battlefelds. 1t was the
~bloodiest war in history. Captain
Battine, an English expert, in the
"Crisis Of the Ccnfederacy," 1905
writing after the Russo-Japanese war
says:
THE American soldier"-speakins
Of Federals and Confederates-"Stil
holds the worlds record for hare
fighting"
Restoration in England.
Oliver Cromwell died in 1859, am
then came the Restoration. The Roy
alists exhumed his body, hanged it OF
a gibbet and stuck his IA on a pole
What had been done for his bones
malignity and ignorance did for hi
reputation for nearly two centuries
Then came Carlyle, the great his
~torian, and public opinion in Englan'
now doe full justice to Cromwell an
his motives.
RecOnciliatiOn in America.
Within a single generation we j
America have been able as anon
: ourselves, -
"ro reap the harvest of perpetus
peace,
, By this our bloody trial OF shar
+ war;
After our war, passion and prejl
dice also, but only for a time, IA
r riot.
" In 1867 the seeding States WEI
subjected to the horrors Of Congre:
T.. sional Reconstruction. but in a fe
n years American manhood had tr
umpheG; Angio-Saxon civilization ha
n been saved; local self-government III
l. der the Constitution had been r,
" stored; eX-Confederates were serriI
the National Government, and tr,
patriots, North and South. were a.
IF dressing themselves to the noble tas
re Of restoring fraternal feeling betwet
m the sections.
re Within a generation after G.
re gressiOnai Reconstruction America
d historians condemned il, as unQuaI
X fiedly AS Carlyle, after a lapse of /
es years, did the treatment Of CrOr
te wells memory. James Ford Rhod
has denoIninated Congressional r
- construction as "a crime against eli,
lization," n public opinion seer
Mt to have approved the verdict.
he Many causes had conduced to t
~ fraternal relations that existed t
tween the North and South when t
n war came on with Spain in 1898
go the exchange OF visits between Uni
ID, and Confederate organizations, I
ei erection in 1895 OF q Confeders
OF monument in Chicago. the writin
le- ard speeches of bread minded b
~torians, editors, orators. and stat,
in men. but more fundamental thar
.C- else had been two factors: One, I
rs memory OF the once much mis-,
he derstocd Abraham Lincoln and
no policies; the other, the Federal C
yc stIIution.
-. Abraham Lincoln.
en- All nlcH, South as well as Nor
after the grave had closed Over 4
ed rah.am Lincoln, came to see him
re, | he was. He a warred for the
Hr. inn with charity for all and NAL
ev .cWcrI none" To him the Conf
Of crates had always been his ERR
fef3oW-cAizens." He had been
hat J avewed fee Of the. policy Of Rec