The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-10-22


pillar of smoke; the bridges were all
in flames. heard soldier say: !
believe Sherman has set the river on
fire. His comrades replied: If he
has it's all right The rebel inhabi-
tants are in agony. The soldiers are
as hearty and jolly as men can be.
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Mr.. John S. C. Abbott; speaking of
our refined Southern women in his
history entitled: The History of the
Civil War, says:
"a gentleman just returned from
New Orleans says we can have no
conception of the indignities our brave
! fellows are compelled to suffer at the
hands of these fiends in petticoats.
| All sense OF shame and decency APP
pears to have departed out of them.
They rival the most degraded street
walkers, not only in ribaldry but in
obscenity. Women who have been re-
garded as the pattern of refinement
and good breeding indulge in language
| towards our officers and men which no
decent journalist would dare to put in
print Presenting upon the privilege
of the sex, they not only assail them
with the tongue, but with more ma
terial weapons. Buckets of Stops are
emptied upon them as they pass; de-
cayed oranges and rotten eggs are
hurled at them. and every insult "a
depraved fancy can invent, is offered
to the hated Federals."
1.-The forbearance of our troops" the
said gentleman continued, sis wonder
full. They endure the jibes and perse-
cutions of these unsexed wretches
with a philosophy nothing can over
throw
This historian devotes two or more
pages to this sort of stuff that it seems
to us no one but a blinded historian
would dare put in print.
Page after page of this so-called
history is devoted to villification of
the Southern people, their customs and
especially their barbarity to their
slaves.
Fighting the war in order to pre-
serve the Union after it's restoration
and the South swore allegiance to the
new order of things how were we
treated?
We believe that every fair-minded
Northern man would gladly be willing
to expunge the record from the pages
of history.
Pardon us for making few extracts
from the speeches of some of the
prominent statesmen of that era:
On June 13, 1866, Mr.. Window, of
Minnesota, referring to President
Johnson's policy, said:
"This grand panacea for all our poll
teal ills is based upon the theory
that the people who attempted by
violence and perjury to destroy the
government, who waged wicked and
most diabolical four years war for
the establishment of a slaveholding
empire upon the ruins of the Republic,
who murdered our soldiers in cold
blood, who fired our hotels filled with
women and children, who starved our
soldiers to death in loathsome prison
pens within sight of storehouses groan-
ing with Confederate supplies, who
polluted the fountains of life by know
ingly inoculating prisoners with the
virus of nameleSS disease, which will
scourge them to their graves and en-
tail untold suffering upon innocent Off
spring, who laid down their arms only
when our victorious bayonets were at
their threats, and who, when profess
sing to accept the issues of the war,
assasSinated the nations hOnOred
chief-that this people, without any
evidence of repentance, but with every
indication of sorrow for the lost
cause, and bitter hatred towards the
Union and its defenders, have sudden
ty become sufficiently loyal to be
trusted with,all the rights and franchis-
es they have forfeited; that in accept
ing the situation they have entitled
themselves to step at once, unquestion
ed. from the rebel congress and the
rebel camps into the halls of legisla-
ton, to make laws for the Republic
which they have so recently tried in
vain to destroy; to become the guar
dians of our widows, orphans, and dis
abled soldiers. and custodians of all
the civil and political rights the
humble colored patriots whom they
held in slavery as long as they could"
The following is an extract from a
speech of Mr.. Shallenberger, men,
Der of Congress from Ohio, delivered
about the same period:
"They (the southern people) franz
ed iniquity and universal murder into
law. They besieged for years your
capital and sent your bleeding armies,
in rout, back here upon the very sane
tuaries of your national power. Their
pirates burned your unarmed COM
merce upon every sea. They carved
the bones of your unburied heroes into
ornaments, and drank from goblets |
made OF their skulls. They poisoned
your fountains, put mines under your
soidlers prisons, organized bands
whose leaders were concealed in your
homes, and whose commissions order
ed the torch and yellow fever to be