Arizona republican., 1918-05-04

bers of foreigners as has the north. Do you think the southern people prayed? It was because Of faith in Almighty God that they had the courage to pick up the of their country and restore 1t again. and that, too, without aid from the north that had ruined them.
 Would it not be well to let the south alone and perhaps she may forget her past wrongs and she stands with you again against common enemy? Suppose the case of the south refusing to send her fight with her former foe. What, then. would be the condition in America today? It is sometimes blessed to be able to forget.
 Loyal American Citizen. but Southerner.
 The writer doubtless finds an implication in the editorial .hat God, in answer to the general nvoca- ton of April 30 1863 was on the side of the north. Such implication not intended. No doubt as fervent earnest prayers went up the south for the success of the confederacy went up from the north for the triumph of the union
 While the editorial expressed no opinion that the God of Battles in to the petition of that day of prayer placed Himself on the side of the north, it forth view entertained by many who believe in the efficacy of prayer as well as by many who do not, that the effect of the prayer the pie themselves They stirred by their devotions to greater effort.
 The south, from the outset had strained every nerve in the great struggle. It weaker than the north in numbers and but it made the most of what it had No spiritual spur could have driven it to greater exertions than it had already made. the early months of 1S6S at the end of the second year of the war, the people of the south had made every sacrifice All they had then in the They seemed to be winning, but they could win, we now know, only by the continued neglect of the north to bring its greater resources to bear
 The Day of Prayer had the effect, we may SUD- pose, of dispelng the last of northern ethargy. It the thing that stirred it to supreme action, to throw in the crushing weight against which the south already strained to the breaking point, could stand longer. The north provided, under competent commanders with the heaviest battalions, and Napoleon had said, God is the side of the heaviest battalions."
 Whether the north the south was right in the sight of God will be decided. It cannot be said that any issue of righteousness was raised in that struggle Secession certainly could not have been such issue. Slavery equally certainly, was not an issue in the first two years of the war. If secession been abandoned within those two years the would have ended with slavery still an Amer ican institution.
 The history of wars does not show that the right has always trumphed. Sometimes has brought cruel oppression upon conquered people. Yet in the long run, when count by centuries and not by years, find that have marked progress; that the world has been made better.
 It is generally agreed now by southerners as well as by northerners that the civil cleared our atmosphere and left the country stronger and more wholesome. It knit it closely together. The south loyal and the north was loyal each in its way. They loyal to each other and stand together, north and south, but an un- divided country in which they take equal pride and to which they equally devoted.