Civil War The Lost Cause 1912 Commandery Of New York Thomas Hubbard

Description: [eBay 2] SOON after the close of the war of 1861-1865 a dis- tinguished general of the Union armies was called upon to speak at a dinner of army men presided over by Ad- miral Farragut. General Sheridan was also present as a guest of honor. The speaker opened his address with the words "We have heard to-night the praise of Grant and Sherman and Sheridan. It is well deserved. But the time will come when we shall speak the praise of Lee and of Stonewall Jackson." The speaker got no further. A storm of indignant pro- test made the opening of his address its closing. If he cor- rectly forecast the feeling of a later time, his audience ex- pressed the feeling of the time then current. Forty-odd years later Mr. Dickinson, then Secretary of War, delivered an address at Gettysburg, at the unveiling, May 31st, 1909, of the monument to the soldiers of the reg- ular army. In this address he said: "At this day there are but few, if any, dispassionate thinkers in the North who ques- tion the patriotism of those of the South who on this stricken field gave an example of American valor that will forever fill the minds and hearts of mankind in all countries and in all ages." This address was published in the August, 1909, number of a respected New York magazine, not of the "uplift" class, with the editorial comment that in this address, the War Secretary "has helped memorably to complete the work of reconciliation of the sections that met in conflict on that battlefield." In November, 1912, the United Daughters of the Con- federacy laid the corner-stone of a monument to the Confed- erate dead in Arlington Cemetery. The President of the United States addressed them and told them they met not to mourn at the bier of a lost cause but to celebrate the hero- ism, courage and sacrifice of the men of the South. He declared that North and South alike should rejoice in the common heritage of courage left by the war and congrat- ulated his hearers upon the increased strength in the man- agement of the government that the South would have under the approaching administration of the Democratic party. As reported in the daily press he said: "Therefore, in solving the mystery of that providential dispensation which now brings on a Democratic administration to succeed this, we must admit the good that will come to the whole country in a more confirmed sense of partnership in this government which our brothers and sisters in the South will enjoy in an administration in which Southern opinion will naturally have greater influence and the South greater proportionate representation in the Cabinet, in Congress and in other high official station." No dissent from the views expressed by

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