The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1922-11-02
DID NOT HATE THE SOUTH

The continued efforts of Mildred
Rutherford to make the intelligent
and the large souled believe that Lin
coin hated the South are just as i'll
spent as it would be for the remnant
of the North that is yet fighing the
South to try make he most intelli-
gent and best elements in the Norh
believe that men like Lee. Jackson,
Gordon and Stephens espoued the
cause of the Confederacy because
they hated somebod.-' in the North,
says the Macon Telegraph. Miss
Rutherford's functions as historian
would be far better justified if she
would give her energies to bringing
to popular view the virtues and gen
erosities and heroisms> that were
in the Old South that would be car
ried over the new. Not only the
North, but the world recognizes that
General Lee was one of the best gen
erals of history and one of the best
men who ever engaged in terrible
business of war, and Lees virtues
represent in large striking way the
virtues of the old chivalric South.
Even Jackson could not be accuse of
hating the North, and men like
Stephens worked as hard to prevent
the Cival War as did men like Lin.
coin. Says the Moultrie Observer.
There does not appear to be in all
of the speeches and letters reported
conversations of Lincoln a single
thing that indicated hatred to the
aristocrats of the South or to any,
body. In his great debates with
Douglas, he is almost merCilessly
kind to him. Speaking at Cincinnati
convention of 1860, Lincoln said in
effect that he was going to speak to
his friends across the Ohio river and
tell them that his neighbor, Douglas,
who had recently defeated him for
the United States Senate in Illinois,
was the man for the Democrats to
nominate for the Presidency. He
went on to say that Douglas would
not only carry the South, but that he
also had a great many friends north
of the Mason and Dixon Line who
would support him. He just couldn't
keep from being friendly to Douglas,
and friendly with everybody. Going
along the road one day, he saw an
animal in distress and just had to
stop and relieve it. He explained
his action by saying that he would
have been miserable if he had not
done what he did
Here it is well to remember that
the gallant Waterson always con-
tended that the issue between the
Month and the South could have
been settled had the North been full
of Lincolns and South full of Alex
ander II. Stephenses. 1t was the
hot-heads of both sides that made
the conflict between the North and
the South culminate in a bloody war
between brothers The type of mind
that is still fighting over the war and
trying to keep the fires of prejudice
burning the type Of mind that caused
the war. Grady had the true per
septive and fought the noble fight of
turning the South from it's griey
ances to its duties and opportunities,
OF course, everybody knows that the
wounds between the North and the
South are upon the whole so COM
pletely healed that nobody is going
to succeed in reopening them. Hap
ply stafeS seahs have about digsppeierj'
ed, and only now ga1d then does one
find little snots of tender, proud flesh
either North or South. We have
passed away from those problems,
grateful to our forefathers for their
many virtues, and almost as proud of