Year: 1879

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dours' whole country, one. at least, might
call it very patriotic The fact that it
means only single state-or, at the most,
the Southern States-prove it decidedly
barbaric. In this mundane world it is
not worth while wholly to let 90 of COM
mon sense $50 often found uncommon,
even in poetry. Thus, when one reads {:
| "Give blow for blow give hate for hate.


Remember all the bitter hate that Northern
hearts is rending,


| And plight your trOth to hate the North with
| hatred deep, unending!"


one is very naturally reminded of the way
in which this same "fendish North"
manifested its "hatred" when it poured
forth without stint its most precious
treasure and life, last summer, to save
the victims Of the yellow fever-a fever
caused quite as much by barbarism and
neglect of hygienic law as by climate.
When l read:


southland's deathless pride;


Though trailing in the dust it be and stained
Soon time viii see that it shall be FREE SOUTH
LANDS STARS AND BARS ~


(The capitals are not mine.) 1 am re-
minded of what l once saw with anguish
on Southern soil-the stars and stripes
of the flag of the United States tied to
the tail of a horse striding after Stone
| wall Jackson, trailing in the dust of Vir-
ginia amid the fendish shouts of the
hordes who followed it and him!


Here IS your damned United States
fagl" crisd rebel soldier to little child,
who had ventured out to see "Jackson's S
men" come in


am sure you will not wonder when
tell you that the lines have just quoted
the words hear to-day in Congress have
a very peculiar sound to me.


You will not accuse me OF any exagger-
alton of speech when l call it treason" !;
treason against an indissoluble union of
states, making one indissoluble central
government, one indissoluble country
Against such country the whole South
ern mind and nature wars. It's patriot
ISM its civilization is not large enough
to take it in. You cannot measure the
egotism nor the provincialism of the man
who declares his native state to be his
country" Nothing else defines so dis
tinctly the difference between the civili-
zation of the North and the lack of it in
its higher, wider sense in the South as
this comprehension of ones whole coun-
try, combined with utter devotion to it
in all its breadth, which forms an intrin-
sic part of the Northern conscience and
heart, and this unreasoning passion for
one state which runs in the very life
blood of the Southern constitution. 1t is
equally overpowering, as Extensively man
ifest in the clay.eater of the plains, the
ignorant rustic from the mountains, who
never read a word, and the "fower of
chivalry" who blossoms in passionate
speech on the floors of Congress. Long
as the gamut is of their social difference,
they are but one in this: their hatred of
the North their wild fealty to the state
that makes their country"


why did you fight p l asked, pitiful-
ly, once, a young boy from South Caro-
lima, to whom l WIS giving broth in an
improvised hospital in an Episcopal
church. but one day after terrible battle.


II fought for my state" he said, with
quivering lips. II lived in the noun
tains. They came for US all. Every boy
went l wish l could see my mother
She always taught me to do right. And
now"


He was wounded to death. He died
that night His mother never knew
where he fell nor where he was buried.
It was impossible to tell her.


Far be it from me to blame the South
for its love of its sacred slain; its child
ren, tender and fair as flowers, slaugh-
tered in deadly battle. I blame it, l up
braid it for the unreasoning passions, the
Incorporate speech, the provincial AFRO
gance the monstrous conceit, firing big
oted sectional hate, the lust of personal
empire and power, which made the first
sacrifice of manhood and womanhood
inevitable, and which just as surely will
pile up second holocaust of human life
and love and bring terror anguish-if
not to us, then to those who come after
US.


What wonder that Zachariah Chandler,
in the Senate, brooding over the events
of the last fifteen years, listening to the
same words of treason which in 1861 dis
solved the Union uttered with hate una
bated in the Senate to-day, should have
sprung to his feet to utter the burning
words of truth which stung the maddest
and widest of Southern Democrats to
silence. In a speech of twenty minutes
he said more, saying it with terrible eff
feet, than Hill, of Georgia, has said in a
speech of four hours