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sacsafcfor1has»xro:s»*va.-?dis;v*rnc:forSlt;hi*lt;etforil^S3RTO-■’AT-'* fi ~cormur- * c y nwinern statesman as an ag- \* * : pressor trying: to punish the innocent mo^ soutfi riended j30™1*- . * ..ed and j L^t ^ uistmctly borne m mind* that the southern people maintained s werft! human slavery for more than a cen-aco in *tur thiAt ****' seceded from the-which i “n|o^ *nlt;1 deliberately declared war d-part- ! solely to maintain human slavery. A atonal i people who could mercilessly deal In hlcaso, 1 lium^ flesh *■*lt;* keep in servitude tio 1 j human beings, sell their own sons and invest!-1 daughters for money, grind human it va^i- be^n^» *nto t*1* earth like mules or 5 ‘ ' ? horses* can have little to say in justi'r Colo- *lication of theSr conduct. The south of the suffered. btat th* south ought to have ; suffered. All the punishment brought, s on by the civil war was justly de~i ^ 11 ™*a i served. No one can defend the out-j ^ h^a thf 1 rase:5 °* **** crazy freedmen but it y Thft . was only a small part of the retrlbu-n from *ticm Permitted by an over-ruling prov-** and ’ ttlence against a people who had bar-' con_ j harousfy oppressed the colored man!‘ for generations. S; The blood of every surviving union ^ so^ier must boil with indignation to^ p * ; see the southern rebel deified as a : °»val^r and a pentlcman. Who can ^ I forget the horrible outrages of Libby These 1 prison* Anrierson;iilo and the stock-* , jade pens of the south, where union [lea. * soldiers were starred, beaten and ]j murdered ? Who can forget that it j *' | was a sci of chivalrous southern g«n-j* ilemen who sent smallpox clothing toj*^ northern cities to staxt a pestilence j J;*t , which wcuxld help the confederacy? ^ \ 1 All I want to do Is to warn every l * jntcrM- j man wo man that the great j^r*nd i SpfCjaclf is a little one-*ded and that s to ** 1 as we glorify l„ee and Stoi^.wall Jack-its hjs-; sen w-e should be careful not to reflect hou^e* upon Gram. Lincoln* Sherman and er.fkisA- , Sheridan, and while we sympathise arce is : with the southern people we should i from remember that they brought the, y citJfi i trouMe upon themseKes and thatj0^ *res*nt- | hundreds of thousands of homes]'** iy *1vw i throus:hcnt the north were madej * un a7,(1 * desolate and flJlfd with ixiowrning be- i b^lt; ; cause cf those southern rebels, offers j Every one should see the play but nsation. • every one should remember the truth ns and; Df !1Sptory. Some m^ats and some und^- * vegetables need plenty of salt in cOok~ ith ihe;lagr^ When you try to digest ‘The drlt; md an - Birth 0f * Nation use a little of the . salt of honesty and fairness, e ^ The south deserved all It sot.AC02pel:•sertb*f^rt!:r•a•V 4ilLaTC*1tohoitr^s5ot*yc«
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Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, US
Tue, Aug 31, 1915
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