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BY
S.
A.
STEEL
COLUMBIA,
THE R.
L.
S. C.
BRYAN COMPANY
1914
Copyrighted in 1914
by
Ella
B. Steel.
JlJN-2 1914
CI.A374297
FOREWORD
I
dedicate
today.
It
is
work
this
young Americans of
the
to
in
many
large works,
but our young people never see them, and the average
man
is
side,
to
Most of the
histories used in
tant that
it
should be understood.
in
it is
very impor-
have endeavored to
will
and
colleges.
I believed in the
in
our
beginning of the
war, though only a child, that the South was right, and
I believe
it
government
And
now.
lasts
it will
For
should be understood.
Columbia, S. C.
S.
A. Steel.
if
from
it, if
Athens has
any regard for her own glory, her past history, or her
future reputation."
"We
tain,
Demosthenes.
and rights
bound to do our
* * * If
it
best, even if
were
in precisely the
all to
we were
we perished
in
duty
in the endeavor.
same manner."
Lee.
A.
STEEL
They
of America.
without
revoluntionary
peaceable
violence,
The United
intention.
States
resolved
to
tO'
from
first to last
were
lost
neai'ly half
women and
loss
life
a million
billions of dollars'
the
sides
on
cliildren
to express the
they sustained
inflicted
in
was one of
It
way
there was no
As both
to stop
sides
it
were
in
mortal earnest,
was exhausted.
After four
To
South
fell.
army
"compelled
resources."
to
yield
After a
to
at
Appomattox, it was
numbers and
ovei-whelming
time
States
were
the
seceded
The
honor
lost,
unmanly
indulged in
regrets,
no'
idle
bore with
with
life,
all
but
repinings, uttered no
marvellous
patience
made
the
their
left their
judgment of History,
for that awful war?
As in the
Who
was responsible
own
The result is a
Much of what
ends.
war
is
on a par with
sworn to
"Mose,"
tmth?"
the
tell
"Yas,
"Well, then,
sir."
have you told the jury the truth about this matter.^"
"Yas,
sir,
boss,
and a
leetle
it
it
it
this.
One
"out-
I can
the phrase, I would say that the North won, not because
it
But
the South.
not true.
tier's
It
was pure
fiction,
purpose of
it
did outwrite
a vast deal of
Fritchie,
it
accomplished
we frequently hear
said
it
now that
right."
[8]
But
it
makes
it
the Southis
nearly
mean: Of
sin-
cerity.
honorable men.
and afford a
may
patriotism
believe in fraternity,
and have
tried to contribute to
must be obtained
high.
but
I
its
if it
is
too
was willing
this sentiment
is
for which
it
North has
Union, and
The
afraid to take
let
us
the question
ours.
tell
the
into
We
are not
high court of
History.
We
people
may
Superficial
but
Had
negroes.
to'
tion in
its
in the
South with
of
its
own
people,
against
it.
[9]
It
is
yet
to
be seen
this
the only
way
involve us,
day
in
Nor
neck.
its
with
float,
is
tlie
this
issues.
it
has
now
The
by the war.
and
on
is
life.
And
it
grew
directly
it
is
no'
man
And
up the
thinks we must
as to stirring
in his senses
may
get mad.
civilized
men want
the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
To' decide this question
When
Southern people
mean that
it
it
did.
to
when he
I think
do.
said
"We
in the
it,
satisfied,
if
it
exactly
sacred principles
[10]
1860.
had, I was
in
great strug-
we were
we perished
in
in
the endeavor."
When
it
it
were
was
all to
To
man
is
men
What
same manner."
about
Hampton "If
he said to General
all over,
as Lfee,
and many
others.
tO'
Army
of Northern
men.-^
some of them.
But
first,
on the
tliink.
let
it.
us decide
This
As one
is
emi-
may
be compressed in a name,
ism" or "Realism."
So you
as,
whole philosophy
see a thoughtful
man can
am
discussing.
The North
is
called the
lion,"
and gave
Now,
rebellion
ernment.
We
This
is
this
it.
This name
11
is
it
was
unfair to the
it is
failed
it
Carolina.
It
By some
The
gives
It
is
it is
called
objection to this
no idea
name, only a
label.
By some it has
The objection to
name
this
is
that
War
it
it
this
first
and
sM'ord.
For
to last.
That name
it
invaded the
is
misleading.
not true.
is
South with
of Secession."
official
name,
is
the "Civil
civil
war
is
War."
a war
same government,
Pompey
in
Roman
like
the
war between
CfEsar
and
English history.
It
have been a
"civil
it
would
[12]
Whether
the fact
"civil
that
lasted, the
it
ment, possessing
the attributes
all
powers of govemment.
ported and defended by
and exercising
the
all
It
citizens
its
money,
issued
it
levied taxes,
belligerent rights.
The
war of
it
concedes
have
all the}^
plain logic of
makes
it
it
and
But
querors.
It
use
it,
may
tell
and
pass
I teach
it
what
is
little
None of
but
names
it.
fit
right.
the war?
UNION.
The North
I pi'efer
It
is
That name
this:
the Union
the
President
Lincoln
paramount
to "save the
THE
states
it
Then
name for
Its brevity
it.
these
the proper
tnith about
the tinith
to take a
my
I never
issue,
finished
repeatedly
to which
Union" he
all
delib-
of arbitrary power
and
if
[13]
in
it
this
name
it
sibility, too,
a respon-
sibility
ought
it
first to last
It
all
is
The
in the past,
so let us be
the
gle the
War
effective
so useful,
represented as
Now
may
Whatever wc
principle, a
moment of
Did
the separation
to
[14]
become an independent
people?
Union
in territorial extent
The
won
in
it
less
States.
by a peaceable separation
its
it is
The
first,
did
it
The
am
am
willing to let
it
was right
who
Before adducing
to withdraw
rules
my
let
me say
that the
sumption that they had valid ground for the course they
pursued.
Such men
intelligent people.
and Robert Tombs, and Lamar, and
They were an
as Jefferson Davis,
[15]
government, and
political
I think
may
it
devotion to the
in patriotic
any
in
the North.
freedom,
constitutional
me
and
their
in
Federal general
New England,
He
South."
in
and
many
brought him
into'
association with
he was amazed
tO'
find such
men.
To
finer
He
said
type of intelligent
the
]Men
they did
at
their conduct.
in
it.
For
memory
*******
[16]
let us look
the Union
was
fii'st
When
is
it
formed.
won
their independence,
On
for
all
office
same way.
When
the
War
of the Revolution
closed,
ereign,
tion which
The
first,
loose confedera-
in the
Hayne of South
Carolina.
in
The
reply
else to
it
became a school
declaimed
it,
classic.
[17]
by
it.
Webster was
clearly in error
speech
the
that
Constitution
"We,
On
its
But
principles.
if this is true,
famous argument
false,
by the board.
This
is
is
must go
it
it is
Look
true, nevertheless.
When
it
mark
that word
to a convention, which
(italics
when agreed
to in
Congress and
of the Union."
action
on
this
The
States,
recommendation.
ri8i
as
States,
majority
of
took
the
it,
stitution
was
to the
When
this
ConCon-
finished, it
Their
ratification
The
and force.
validity
it
New York
and not
majority
ratified
it,
had
acted.
"The
Critical Period of
will
not
The
it.
memory of Webster,
With
all
due
will reinforce it
He was
it
than
there
[19]
Webster
did,
composing
distinct
flatly contradicts
tion
It
is,
there-
That
The
M. Curry, one
the
is
Hon.
J. L.
He
said: "It
to'
As
ascertained.
to
its
own
own
The
people.
vitality, not
the result to be
in
Constitution
was
got
its
limited to
its
validity,
its
as constituting one
all
That each of
other States.
man
these States
will
deny."
as Webster,
support of
[20]
Webster simply
The
Webster was
States
known that
shall be per-
understood that
made
if
it
and entered
Her
ti-ue
people said:
to
its
purpose
"The powers of
it
is
[21]
they
may
What
New York
Virginia and
The Union
did
all
but to delegate to the Union certain attributes of sovereignty that were necessary to the general government.
The supreme
We
now
are not
we
much
less
funda-
the par-
all
ties.
it
deny, that
its
as certain as
it
foiTtned the
of association involved
possible then,
and
this
if
to the
it.
Those who
danger
this
kind
Union was
all
built
supreme law.
And
if
the
violated
oppression.
I think I
my
there.
first
22
is
The
is
I will
now advance
to'
my
it
was
first
second argument.
this doctrine
was held by
all
was formed.
The
many
led
it
But
Southern theory.
the truth
threaten to put
it
is
that
it
was a
original
rights were
its
the
in use.
so,
not because she doubted the right, but because her interests
hardly admissible to
on
this point;
a State
tO'
cite
nobody
So
secede.
it.
It
is,
perhaps,
men
in the
I will restrict
myself
to'
the testi-
bill
New England
bill.
made a speech
in opposition
it
bill
toi
the measure.
In this
The
dissolved.
it will
And
be the duty
if
they can,
as
forefloor
^^
-,
of
New England
Law
He was
for
many
seces-
legal
years Chan-
He
was
West Point
Military Academy when many of the men who adhered
which
to
is
the South in
the
Here is what
Rawle said about the Union: "The Union was formed
by the voluntary agreement of the States, and in uniting
together they have not forfeited their nationality, nor
official
it
would be
difficult
its
name from
to disprove
its
If
the
right of
[24]
claim, either
its
by force or
right.
whether
* * *
To
deny
will
it
member of
continue a
this right
depends on
it
the Union,
The
the
composition
of
the
government,
general
which,
The
may
and there
battlefields,
am
doctrine of secession.
am doing
is
is
to prove
no resurrection for
tO'
the
it.
What
that the people of the South in 1861 had the legal right
to secede.
And
Northern
ability,
of
How
South.
the
could
that be
as well as those
"rebellion"
and
in
the very
ideas of duty.'^
1860!
But
let
this
it
is
and
will
prevail.
The
it.
Truth
satanic proverb
[25
may
is
mighty
be true,
on
its
boots
overtakes the
lie in
is
pulling
may
be, it
the end.
staying power.
revenges of history.'"'
real.
Goldwin Smith.
liis
Time of
its
disguise, he said
of Secession
Of
course
it is
charitable to think
1860-65 as "rebels,"
Uncle
Sam
England
to
hands
say
off
it is
and
char-
"When
States at Philadelphia,
[26]
it
is
from Washington
and Hamilton, on the one side, to George Chnton and
George j\Iason, on the other, who regarded the new
system as anything but an experiment entered upon by
the States, and from which each and every State had
nght peaceably
the
was very
likely to be exercised."
is
from
and
is
fair
from the
skies.
mean
In
his noble
address on the
sition
The
in
seems
plain, and, to
my
thought, unanswerable.
organization
tral
all
attributes not
common
thus
cen-
specifically
moment were
tion.
There
to be construed as conceded
is no'
Now we come
was
shipnot among
as
allegiance
citizenship.
So far
all
is
allegiance
by implica-
elementary.
Not only
by
it
was
explicitly
reserved,
[27]
the
instrument
State should be
fore,
due
ship,
and not
to the State
as citizens
to the central
whomever
citizens
(Italics mine.)
This testimony
is all
Adams
takes
It
But
immense preponder-
ance of proof
established
my
is
on the Southern
and
side.
I think I
have
of
all
I will
now advance
to
my
third
argument.
The
by implication, the
grounds on which
it
was exercised,
is
Here again
sovereign,
to the
in the
Fed-
beginning,
The North
This
According to
Confederates were
[28]
::
legitimate authority
the
It
fied
it
Union.
Now
on
this theory, it
authority acknowledged by
said,
a State in once
is
in forever.
things in mind.
This
is
render, told
an engagement to meet for further discussion the folAs they were parting, Johnston remarked
lowing day.
[29
If there
us.
is
no objection, I
will
fetch
of War!
No, no; we don't recognize any civil govei'nment among you fellows, Joe. No, I don't want any
Secretary of War.'
" 'Well,' said General Johnston, 'he
general in the Confederate anny.
tion
to'
" 'Oh
his
'major general!
bring
I shall
major
also a
any objec-
quoth Sherman, in
!'
is
Is there
general.'^'
characteristic
his
But
be glad to meet.
no Secretary of War.
Do you
recollect,
way,
may
Johnston,
understand.'"
story.
'Well,
For
absorbed.
difficult, if
effect
tlio
dull
liquor Breckenridge
his
nearly
eveirything
to
not impossible,
to^
procure liquor.
had found it
He showed
He
Somebody
fine
his
was rather
in
Danville
coming.
in
latter arrived.
He
bustled
chair.
He
Introductions
followed,
and
for
while
[30]
me
to
and
occurred
it
my way
over.
Breckenridge at
Tossing
his
when the
this
announcement, and
bottle
was
it
beatific.
fire,
to
him he
With an
Then
He
followed.
rule
seemed to have at
in
his tongue's
end every
ing
Breckenridge,
of
pushed
rendering anyhow.^
me sending
who
is
doing
this sur-
a letter of apology
to'
Jeff Davis.'
thought.
it
bottle.
Again he took
his
quid from
his
mouth and
of
his
action,
poured out
[31]
some
liquor,
expectation
the
From
grog.
on
expression
Breckenridge's
face
At
last his
Upon
chew.
this he
"After
man
part
in
up
what was
said.
and said:
his papers,
them
make me
sign a capitulation.
to the authorities at
how they
I will
Washington, and
let
are received.'
off"
as he
you hear
the assem-
went
submit
arm and
had come.
left
the
replied
tion, 'but,'
Yes,
sir,
a hog.
Did you
see
Sherman
is
a hog.
himself.'"
"General Johnston tried to assure General Breckenridge that General Sherman was a royal good fellow, but
the most absent-minded
man
in the world.
He
told
him
that the failure to offer him a drink was the highest com-
tO'
[32]
needed
it
"The
He knew we
needed
badly.'
make it pubhc
On one occasion,
Laughing
him.
but
if
heartily, he said
hustled
and
it,
me
day
so that
give them,'
it,
'I
was
it
it
to
don't remember
it,
so.
Those fellows
sally
I did
laughter."
The
story
is
fine
of
illustration
the
force
of
Breckenridge, doubtless,
Sherman had
among you
fellows,"
any
and refused
civil
to
told
government
consent to the
of
War
According to Sher-
man's theory, which was the theory of the Federal government from the beginning of the struggle, no State
had
on
left the
same relation
trouble began.
to
Of
course,
the
So,
cally,
rights
[33]
when the
case
came
irresistible
but
was all-powerful,
But
the government at
to'
War
to win a
first
force.
The South
They
upon
to get
it
in
its
feet.
order next.
billions
in
Union was
in
and proceeded to
am
whatever
dom,
it
South^
may have
been
its
motive,
its
but
wisdom or unwis-
that
my
third point
namely, that
advance to
The
hold that,
my
war proved
I will now
fourth argvnnent.
is
was over.
one
admit that
this
officer,
argument
is
[34]
close of the
all
to
liable
other
all
the
When
traitors.
if
He
trial.
earnestly desired
it,
and
would demonstrate
whole
to the
civilized
him was
bail,
finally dismissed.
Why was
tried for the crime with which they were accused with
It can-
it
was, for
it
would help
to clear
all
treatment of Mr.
Davis
is
as
prisoner
idea of magnanimity.
in
Foi'tress
He was
held in
and the
sleepless eye of a
[35]
and
ball
and chain on
but to
him
all
little
when
his
read.
to
afflicted father,
the
little
girl
to go to him.
who were
Oh, no
men
Why
their
truth.
The Torch
The Sword
could slaughter
its
million
men
in arms,
make
the nations stand in awe. But the Sword and the Torch
and the Bayonets of a million men recoiled from the
adamantine front of Truth as it was represented in the
the seasoned veterans of a hundred battles, could
frail,
The}" could
left him.
O'Connell,
the famous Irish barrister, and his trial would have been
[36]
Secure
in
the power of
title
The
trial
would have
where
it
and
it
war
Southerners,
were
in
was founded
in the beginning.
had
as
much
right to construe
is
that
it is
it in
it
favor of
The answer
it.
to
it.
North,
the
therefore,
toi
withdraw from
construed the
it.
When
to
Constitution
Again
first
said
In his
The South
in
its side.
it,
in the
nature of a contract
as a contract, be peaceably
[37]
unmade by
less
the parties
all
not require
It
is
it
who made
break
One party
it?
so to
it,
to a con-
speak -but
does
it
all
that
is
and unan-
it
made
of the contract.
understood by
all
it
was
if
this right
it
all
was
Now
first
It
intended
point.
sal
It
it
He
to'
lawfully
rescind it."
Again:
all
Mr. Lincoln
to be perpetual.
stressed that
States
is
perpetual.
expressed, in
Most
ments."
Perpetuity
assuredly.
not
is
implied,
all
national govern-
But there
is
if
difference
in the
take
it
that no sane
which he succeeded
all
man
Lincoln had
in establishing,
claim that a
in
mind, and
[38]
it
involved
throwing
them to favor
off for
it.
They
intended
if
all
it
to
obeyed
Union
The
idea of unconditional
The
Union seems
to be as follows
For
States.
formed a federal
They
all
North.
Union
if the
Con-
compact grew up
in the
Northern
whom
violently
the very
had
no
opposed to
name of
the
[39]
first
duty of
all
On
Americans,
the South adliered to the idea that the Union was not
national, but federal, in
the States,
and had
its
nature
strictly
that
it
hmited powers
was made by
and
tliat if
the
South
as
an
country
agricultural
Generation
theory.
The economic
fell
And
they gave
this
it
lived,
and died
in
What
favored
interests of
in
1860.
it.'^
A very
great part.
in their native
But
in Charleston.
of
New England,
the South.
while
So the shrewd
it
sterile
New Englanders
They
and on the
money on
unloaded
the South.
slaves.
It
in their political
So they
convictions and in
[40]
friendly for a
He was
Jones.
sold
him
Newfoundland.
He trained him to
gO'
Mr.
him
Finding that
rid of him.
wanted a dog he
wortliless to
his black
useful to
to'
The
render service.
of his business
step.
When
Then
was none
it
away and
loose.
ture was
way
smashed
in
for
it
the stitiggle.
to help
their
helping Jones
all
he could.
[41]
German set
upon Jones, who,
Then
all
of them
fell
All
sat on
Jones'
gratified their
would
of them
five
his foot
When
let
more work.
on
they had
Then they
do'
any
him.
left
and
man and
lawless intrusion of
Smith into
Of
for fighting
difficulties
man who
a finish
home against
******
up
to
now take up
the
Here again
the unwarranted
is
Having shown
no
intermeddling of outsiders
it.''
to'
them
in exercising
affirmative
[42]
but a
many doubted
advised against
it.
the wisdom of
and earnestly
it
measure.
North
as
to' its
to^
character.
certainty in case of
its
a seat
by me on a sofa where
an hour.
We
He
I sat.
We
in
He
After
We
will
have to be
that we will do
endurance
all
and
And
dogged
courage,
and
dash
red-hot
There
For one
That
thing, either way, he thinks it will be a long war.
already.
long
for
me
floored me at once.
It had been too
Then he said, before the end came we would have many
patriotism.
a bitter experience.
He
it
all.
doubted the
toi
fight
when
that he was, he
He
is
it
But we must
Ave
mean he
"The
did
as a
His conduct
so.
did not
He
as a citizen of Virginia,
and
said:
from the
my
and
people
So firmly con-
Succeed or
struggle.
He
our rights.
fail,
said:
principles to maintain
we were
in the
"We
in
endeavor."
best, even if
we perished
said
leisure
Hampton "If
:
it
in precisely the
like he ever
were
He
said to General
do over again,
all to
same manner."
That
would act
44
the cause.
may
testified
folloAvs:
a.s
"I
tO'
that
it.
* * * I did
it
It would
sides."
wisdom of
the
among
and
file
and
my
it.
doubted
secession
many among
the rank
We lived in Mississippi
He
minister.
opposed secession.
little
secede,
short of
him preach.
invade the
sides,
So, like
all
the rest,
side to take.
Two paramount
in
First,
the growing
hostility of the
attitude
The
hostility of the
North
is
First,
[45]
its
North was hostile tO' the territorial expanThere was no particular or strenuous
First, the
to begin
and
But
work.
its evil
we have
as
still
friendly,
it
seen, Josiah
sion of Louisiana
It
itself,
Avhen
The American
sent
of
New England.
alanned
Adams had
Madrid
to
the
This
To
negotiations
Once
Washington.
there,
prevent
it,
Presi-
transferred
from
it
So
line.
New England
statesmanship, through
hostility to
Texas to Spain.
When Andrew
facts, he
New England.
Houston
When
He
it
to
Texas
to
He
sent
admission
into
the
Union,
New England
earnestly
opposed
it.
It succeeded only
[46]
ton.
fortified there,
and
in
A man
was dispatched by
Jackson that
if
Jackson rushed a
Ohio
last
to Pittsburgh, thence to
Washington, and
at the
How
it is
especially
"My
country,
of thee.
'tis
Of thee I sing!
Land where my fathers died.
Land of the Pilgrims' pride," and
Neither Dr. Smith, nor any of
"pride"
in
in the
so on.
his people,
had any
song
is
sung
for
like
in
substitute the
my
it
It
it
a fact,
When
to be told or not.
home,
is
that
childi^en to
up out of
coming
into the
Texas from
[47]
bitterl}^
When
Texas.
the
War
But with
made Union
and out of
South,
on the
and especially of
slavery.
it.
They
make war
They employed
parties to
life.
By
pushed their
it
societies
and
fire their
culminated in
its
natui'al
Southern
They formed
slaves.
and proper
incite a race
[48]
Finally
result in
war among
anarchist.
the
tlie
Yet
in the
his
They
as for that.
memory
when
safe,
it
build costly
ought
lie
is
a hero
monuments to keep
about John
"That
affair,
many attempts
An
ors.
in
its
and emper-
own
execution."
is
correct,
This estimate of
in
According to Lincoln,
it is
the "soul" of an
and peans sung to the arch anarch of our history. Lincoln classed John Brown with J. Wilkes Booth,
The North honors Brown and damns
his own assassin.
erected
Booth!
up
government
The
hostihty of the
North
is
It is by one of their
when he died, our own
ple.
need
cite
first
If such a
man
could use
[49]
floor of the
who
neither
knew or cared
of Charles Sumner on
provoked the
w^hicli
Every
vituperative.
speech
is
epithet
is
Every sentence
The whole
To' use his own
vitriolic.
an unfortunate thing,
There
chastised him.
it
was
is
While
Human
In doing
Northern sentiment
and
and darkness.
I
if
know
It smells of brimstone!
serve
my
more
influential one.
mean
West was
luxuriant grass.
Tom's
Before the
before
in its
it.
It
path and
left a
it.
can
[50]
effect
world.
It
of people,
it
on
fire.
]Millions
a political speech, or
runaway
slaves
and
who read
it
Over yonder
sit,
on
there
is
it tells
church,
the
in
to the core
us that
Of
from where
The inscription
memory of Bishop
wall.
sacred to the
it is
visible
of
set
hunting
upon them.
inflicting tortures
course, the
in
Among many
revered
is
So
making
memory
libellous
of a pharasaical philanthropy,
this
godly
from
faith in Christ.
among
to blacken
succeeded in doing
it.
civilized
Her
tell
and defame
us,
and she
The
effect
Francis
Adams
says:
General Charles
[51]
it.
Uncle
Tom
So
it
despairingly
at
is
last
the
and the
inviolate blockade
with Lee
tile
it
The
missiles
When you
less
calmly
reflect
on
all this,
you
will
doubt-
and
to the South,
its
all
intolerant.
The
hostility
justified the
South
in
seeking to protect
by
itself
At any
resoii:-
rate, the
hostility, the
influenced
the
South was
Constitution.
The
all
irresponsible
North
did.
affirm,
and
ignore
government to erect an
despotism.
To
To
That
will
59.
is
exactly
what
the
spurned
denounced
repudiated
They denounced
Wm. H.
the
Constitution.
it
Here
it.
is
They
it.
the proof:
is
and we must do
tive slave act
obey
this
it."
is filled
Charles
Sumner
said:
"The
act."
is
Up with
is
lie.
throw
fugi-
hell.
We are
for
its
over-
may have
is
but these
sufficient.
They
They disobeyed
the Constitution.
[53]
Here
is
the proof:
and protected
it.
in slaves
million
slaves
in
If
it.
Now
and
South,
the
Of
property.
were four
there
they
represented
worth of
dollars'
evil.
All recog-
of this
is
many
It
had
its benefits
race.
life,
its evil,
ments about
ished.
it.
lie to'
it
ought to be abolthat,
and but
did
it
South believed
]\Iultitudes in the
and
All of this
mitigate
it
it
is
slaves.
his
on.
[54]
as
To
in
was amply
Now
finally did it
by the power
owners,
"No
consequence of any
Law
or Regulation therein,
up
delivered
whom
(italics
may
be done."
reference
a 'dead
to'
that
its
stipulation
in
letter,'
it
was fonned.
Mr.
am
[55]
consists.
it
it
reason.
heard Mrs.
Mary
March Speech."
Times."
Referring
to'
Webster
Avas
proud of
his
the idol of
fame and
New England.
felt
Webster's
toi
that time
They were
Nation had
would rue
it
was toppled
forever.
But
in the dust,
it
was a
first effect
on
was
Mr.
on this speech
in his
"The
this speech
angel."
men
Webster was
his
an arch-
chusetts,"
poems, wrote:
[56]
dis-
Massa-
politician
in
one of
gone
is
The
When
soul
faith
fled;
is
lost,
is
The man
is
when honor
To
his old
Walk backward
And hide
old days
fame
with averted gaze
his
shame
!"
Poor Webster
"his shame?"
dies,
dead.
sin of slavery,
thought
It
was
It
was Webster's
lized people,
fidelity
his
among
all civi-
him "a
and
called
cially to
Here
and that
is,
what he said:
is
"But
my
among
tion
individuals
to
[57]
wrong.
is
my
South,
judgment,
bound by oath,
like
is
right,
every other
the country,
officer in
and
up
fugitives
from
in
No man
fulfils his
duty
in
tutional
service,
binding
obligation.
from
is
as
article.
him-
sets
this consti-
and
I confess I
it
When
and
is,
my
and
judgment.
I entertain
I
it
itself, in
That
is
now."
That was
clear
The
fallen archangel."
If
to'
stand
throAving
it off,
if to
in
if this
the Seraph,
[
it,
others are
than an archangel
all
58
me of one higher
Among
Among
Unshaken, unseduced,
unterrified,
To
Though
But
single."
bitterness
this
attitude of the
To
War
"The Northern
States, not in
form, but
most irregular,
illegal,
in the
and contemptu-
by pulpit and
associations,
Constitution,
press,
made
null
They
Now
in
hostility to the
to the
Constitution.
What more
by
elected President
this
in this disobedience
reasonable than
to
itself
[59]
no
They had no
alternative.
authority
resist its
now passed
into'
I think
to'
candidate of a party
had proclaimed
tliat
felt it
And
its
virtual
What
concerned?
thought
call
so.
Virginia
That ended
for troops.
all
Here
L^nion."
is
his
it
evidently
until Lincoln's
And
he did do a world
He
"If he could
his
justified
language: "I
felt
that measures
assumed
That was
heroic,
this
Right
now avow
nation.
ground, and
of the
it
patriotic
but
or
it."
if it
and
illegal
intelligent, high-
[60]
To
tyrannical authority.
resist it to the
utmost became
his
What warrant
have for
West
that.^
in
arms to enforce, a
it
was before
its
it.
West Virginia
sword.
ceived in sin
into the
and born
is
in iniquity.
Union contradicted
all
the
And
its
admission
and
justified
ical
allowed
Virginia
it
West Virginia
is
to secede
from Virginia.
polit-
West
it
may be
counted on to
resist
such
[61]
and
will
my
point,
Even
so fair
Adams
says:
"As an
then suspended.
irresponsible
Congress,
exercising
revolutionary
but
common
country."
was
It
think
As a
political
party
it
was
utterly lawless.
them
in
revolution to force
new and
its
different
original mean-
ing.
Whether
not
the
North was
centralized power,
is
its
highly
compatriots
principles of popular
government
Neither
am
I con-
to
do with the
case.
My
single aim
[62]
it
to the
of the
ances the centrifugal, the planets will fall into the sun,
and ruin
will ensue.
be wrecked.
As applied
to the
carried
ment
will
is
and the
to maintain these
is
If the prinit
will dissolve
It is one of
self-government,
that
Constitution
the
sui-^aved
the
Nor
is
new national
the maxim, "An indissoluble Union of
indestructible States."
The
is
as
When
America.
[63]
fit
to'
Look-
North.
in
1860, I glory
people
who would
made
Both
them.
forever settled,
why not
let
There are
remain
though the
and are as
issues
were
'vital
No
A
is
is
great
man has
told
in
The
present
in the
the
North
splendid
Patrick
Henry
[64]
past."
When
sign of a fool.
a man, prominent
the sure
is
in poHtical life,
the
The
man
pendous event
Union
idea of a sen-
War
for the
third reason
of the dead.
our
flesh.
To what
them, and
perity
let
obliterate
What more
sentiment
the
that
reveres
them.
allow the youth of the South to quietly imbibe the opinion that, if not traitors to their country, they were
deluded
and
reckless
revolutionists
Could we more
in
to forget
them
fire
it is
our veins
"Where
pos-
!!
"Where
On
be.
And
its
waters be,
By
As
it
To
Of
no flower
To
the chancel-rail of
Up
its
pile,
oriel arch,
the knightly
Human
[66]
Heart,
liosts
its
its
first
displayed,
By memory's
pictured wave.
Dead we
love.
We
Rome
that there
At
up.
filled until
last
The people
city.
tried in vain to
an oracle declared
fill
would never be
it
in the
He
mounted
his steed,
country's weal,
liis
The
tO' fill
it
up.
It
Rome.
would not
The
its
people tried
depths.
Legions of noble
Marcus of
most
manhood of
alike,
like
yawn-
So may
it
[67]