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the superiority of tree institutions. The war was not merely a conflict of arms, and shallow must be the man who stilt believes it. It was a conflict of brains, ot ideas, nf mind with matter, of moral ideas with physical forces, of right with wrong, of truth with falsehood, of justice with injustice,of shivery with freedom. And yet these diseased, crippled, spineless, leaders of the “ Lost Cause/ grasp ilieircrutches; hobble up upon platforms, bellow out their platitudes, shake their little rag of a Confederate flag to a corporal’s guard ot biols, as shallow as themselves, and pretend to believe that the great party that not ouly saved the nation from destruction, but lifted it up above all other nationals growing weak ia its spinal column, has lost its backbone and is to lie helpless ou its back while the wheezy old party who made the South a desert, and laid her □oldest sons in their graves through their folly, are again to walk into places of honor and direct the destinies of the people ? It ia
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Weekly North Carolina Standard
Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Wed, Aug 19, 1868
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