Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-10-27

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"iiH lo'e 'aufeiS en- ms pfouu anu
ncblc brow, saw another son Of a
mother of Georgia and .ae South
ootored +, III, c,rao.. of ,otioI1al M
,o' 'io'' "' 'i"' year l ''eo''oi (
Roosevelt, iolloWHg ms lmpetuous
appeals for better political morals at
the Baltimore civil service confer
coca. was anncin.od bv President
Ha,,ison TO the Civil Service Com
mission. and his national career be-
car. A son of the East and of the
Scatl. but already adopted bv the
West he had become deyouf ad-
mirar of hat son of ..e South wrom
all tbe nation had t,kon to it's heart
Think Of them. Won Georciaus. YOU
men and women of the whole South
think 1f their services and careers
and tell. me, for .uch sons AS thcse
would Won wish to provide q leqSe,
stage than t.at of the united coun-
nt en- which thpy pIaved t1ei, parts?
; kaoW YOU would not and never viii.
For ceaiuzas zuch as these Won fur
pfsh. vou us ae least lei ps afford
4 sitting scane a1d setting. No
'pent-up Utica for such as they!
"ILe other day there came into my
hands a.-yohllae of the letters Of a
group of eminent Geoeians of .ae
Civil War and reconstruction period.
In the main. thev represented the
ccliespondence Of Alexander H
Stephens, Howell Cobb, Robert
Tumbs and Governor Joe Brown.
Only reccntIv nublished they nrovad
fascinating reading as t,rna3 the
pages and fels myself admitted to
the very inner thoughts which these
leaders of the Confedarqcv were
thinking in tne wears immediately
following the war. Especial,y was !
interested in the extensive correspon-
dence between these soutbarr lead
crs and proninent men of the north
which was carried on at that neriod,
1t was nothing less than astonishing
to note how little cf bitterness Of
resentment. of hatred and recalci-
trance was manifested on either side.
With almost no execution thew
breathed ,he fine spirit of chivalrv
cf readiness to accent in whole heart
and good nature the arbitrament of
the war. They held q flavor of
something mcle than RESIGNATION as
if already the writer's were reaIizin9
how fcr,unate II u,,e foo+ 80,
should have been preserved
Worl, for State
They were all back in the barneqe
working for the restoration or thair
state, their people. their nreserg ed
country They wrote fhouob4fnI
earnest counseIs as to the wiser mol.
icies in state and nation eaal.ina al
ways to make their friends IN fbo
north understand how con,nIa4e nd
sincere was the South's acceDtance Of
it's place in the restored unioo how
determined it was TO contribute ~
utmost to a perfect national acrorI
At times thew sounded the noto ~
disappointment that the north coon,
ed slow t. accent their nro, oetafione
as in complete good faith and ho
assured that t1ey could ha doolt ,yit h
in complete confidence Ruf boy
were seldom in1patient. tbav bold
their heads high, had no anofSgia.,
TO make for the past bnt wcro IooE-
| ing clear-eved t., the fufn,a of M
soluble union.
THAT was he spirit which nod
reconstruction, despita bnnoI;pn and
some exceptional manifestation, ~
acerbity, on the whole ca ranid md
effective'a Drccess when F.l, n,ess,,raJ 'r,,(i
by like incidents in bnnan bisto,y
They wanted 10 be taken bacl, into
full fellowship.
'''We would rather have ono in,
migrant from the north than ffty
from Europe, wrote one fa,y yoo,.e
after AnDomattoy and bo u,,aoJ h;a
Northern friend to make he Nortb-
cr npeoplc understand now u,oIoor,o
they wculd be. Not even tb. n,ro-
constructible hatred Of OH Tbad
Stevens could maintain an afrorfiyn
trent agains such aDneale nc rbaf
The North did come f. Won With
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