The Ocala banner., 1922-08-11
"a VOICE FROM THE TOM8s"

passed by the Confederate Veterans
at their late reunion in Richmand Va,
l. e. that Miss Rutherford's History be
taught in Southern schools.
Miss Rutherford resides in Athens,
Ga. and was formerly librarion of the
Georgia Historical Society.
The last newspaper we were favored
with is a copy OF the Boone, (Iowa)
News Republican.
It's comments are more moderate
and less vindictive than number OF
others. yet the editor could not re-
frain from calling the war between
tfe states" rebellion" %pd those
Wa participated in it. rebels"
Ii pretends to believe that the war
of the Sos is forgotten except by
few remaining Confederate veterans,
who, happily, are in their dotage, so
they cannot be able to make their
children believe that their fathers who
participated in that titanic struggle
were right.
AS we have already pointed out that
10 assume that the South was the
aggressor in that conflict is a gross
perversion of history.
Partisan as he is, even Mr.. Henry
Cabot Lodge is on record as saying
that under the compact voluntarily
entered into a state had the right to
withdraw from it, and, he could have
added, if the very ends for which en-
tered were threatened.
Feeling that we were within our
rights and were not the aggressors
and exhausted every effort to have a
peaceful separation, the survivors
feel that the deeds of those who par
ticipated in it are so many sacred
heirlooms confded to their keeping
for those who are to come after them
and if by any fault of theirs they are
allowed to be impaired or sullied
while passing through their hands
they would be guilty of a double
crime-traitors alike to them and to
posterity.
For fifty years the Confederate
veterans have sincerely endeavored
to bring about unification of the
! sections
1t has now been more than fifty
years since General Beauregard is
sued his "unifcation proclamation"
History shows that it met with nc
response from those on the other
side
AS early as 1S72-nOw fifty years
ago-letting bygones be bygones,-
with singular unanimity, the South
endorsed Mr. Horace Greeley for the
presidency who was generally regard
ed as the head and front of the aboli
tion movement
1t. however met with no CORES
ponding response.
The old sage met with only de
famatiOn at the hands of his former
colleagues who first provoked the
sectional disturbance
Mr. Greeley did not carry single
northern state.
The South next nominated General
Winfield Scott Hancock, who haC
lent such brilliant luster to the blue
uniform. In battle he was brevetted
the superb
This effort on the part of the South
to clasp hands across the bloody
chasm," bore no fruit, and that splen
did military chieftain shared the same
fate as the sage of Chappaqua
The speeches of Ben Hill, Alex H
Stephens, Lamar and so many others
on tolerance and unificatiOu were elo
quence thrown away the same as this
flowers that waste their fragrance OIL
the desert air.
When the tocsin OF war sounded tina
brought on our little tilt with Spain
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. Cen Joe Wheeler
and the flower and youth Of the Soutl
quickly and patriotically responded tt
the call, yet the old feeling of sus
picion and distrust continued
II was Southern boy who mad'
the first supreme sacrifice in chat con
fiict.
And in the last war no part OF TIN
Union showed more patriotism thai
the South.
But the old feeling, win not dowl
and shows itself whenever occasion
offers.
L.awless men may commit depreds
tions that lead even to- wholesal
slaughter in Iowa and other norther
; and western states and il Is aceepte
, as an incident, but Lat the same thin
, happen in the South and it is at one
} declared to be the fixed habit OK tn
community.
In any northern state IL. the ele'
: tion returns show that less than ha
the registered population participat