The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1922-11-04
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thing more substantial to do tina
dig up causes, etc. of the civil war
Life is too Short
Lincoln and Davis and Lee an
Grant, were all good men, they playe
their parts as their God and hte.
conscience directed.
Let them sleep!
The following from the Atlant
is to the point and
worthy of deep consideration-W
commend it most emphatecally:
The Macon Telegraph deplores
the current agitation of the
question of who started the civil
war, and particularly the attacks
that are being made in this late
day against the motives and
character of Abraham Lincoln.
In another column We repro
duct what it has to say on the
subject, and in reproducing its
editorial we commend its atti-
tude.
The civil war started almost
sixty-two years ago and ended
four years later
Even if it were possible for
everybody to agree upon the cause
of that war, no good purpose
can be served by resurrecting
issues that are dead, reminding
the res or sectional animosity,
quickening discarded prejudices
of the past and calling UP memo
ries of circumstances and condi-
lions that are rapidly being, and
should be, forgotten.
The civil war was fought to
bitter conclusion by brother ar
rayed against brother.
At that time the American peo-
pie were divided into two hostile
camps; The north and the south.
Each thought its cause was
right and that the other was
wrong.
Each was determined in its
honest convictions, and history
records how bravely, yaliantly.
heroically both sides fought.
From that day to this the best
sentiment of the north and of the
south has been striving tc neal
wounds of the sos" to "let by
cones be by-gones." to forget
past sectional hatred, to weld the
old breach ana to solidify both
sections into one great, reunited
whole.
And SO complete has been the
reconcillition that today it is
only upon rare occasions that
even an echo of the discordant
notes of the past is heard.
Since the civil war thousands
of men who wore the gray in
that bitter sectional conflict have
rendered valiant service to the
reunited country, side BY side
with men who wore the blue
all fighting under the same flag.
And their sons fought together
in the Spanish-American war.
And today thousands of the
sons of those men of the south
are lying beside sons of those
men of the north-casualtie of
the world war, and having fought
and died under the same flag ON
the battle1elds of France!
These belate attacks upon
Abraham Lincoln can do no
earthly good.
Even if it were true that Abra-
nam Lincoln was not "a praying
man. as has been charged. what
OF it-what difference does it
make now?
Abraham Lincoln can do no
an enemy of the South than JEFF
ferson Davis was an enemy of
the north.
Neither of those two great men
was an enemy to each others
section.
Both were born in adjoining
counties in Kentucky.
The great question of that dav
created differences of opinion
ana gave rise to division of SEN
timent resulting in controversy
OF long standing, and which could
be settled only by the arbitra-
ment of the sword.
There is too much of a con.
structive nature that the Ameri.
scan people, both north and south
can do and must do to advance
the cause of humanity and the
progress of the world for them
to waste their time in raking.
over the embers of a fire long
since burned out, in order to
disprove something that will hurt
the feelings Of brothers,
What's the use!
We have hie worL 10 do =.