Identifier: civilwarnational00thor (find matches)
Title: The Civil War : the national view
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Thorpe, Francis Newton, 1857-1926
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Publisher: Philadelphia : George Barrie & Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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tbe kept. The signs look better. The Father of Waters againgoes unvexed to the sea. Thanks to the great Northwestfor it. Nor yet wholly to them. Three hundred miles upthey met New England, Empire, Keystone, and Jersey, hew-ing their way right and left. The sunny South, too, inmore colors than one, also lent a hand. On the spot, theirpart of the history was jotted down in black and white.The job was a great national one, and let none be bannedwho bore an honorable part in it. And while those whohave cleared the great river may well be proud, even thatis not all. It is hard to say that anything has been morebravely and well done than at Antietam, Murfreesboro,Gettysburg, and on many fields of lesser note. Nor mustUncle Sams web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery mar-gins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, thebroad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow,muddy bayou; and wherever the ground was a little damp,they have been and made tracks. Thanks to all. For the
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THE THIRD TEAR OF THE WAR 341 great Republic—for the principle it lives by and keeps alive—for mans vast future—thanks to all. Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope itw^ill come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to beworth the keeping in all future time. It will then havebeen proved that among free men there can be no successfulappeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who takesuch appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost.And then there will be some black men who can rememberthat with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye,and well-poised bayonet, they have helped mankind on tothis great consummation; while I fear there will be somewhite ones unable to forget that with malignant heart anddeceitful speech they strove to hinder it. Still, let us not be over-sanguine of a speedy, finaltriumph. Let us be quite sober. Let us diligently applythe means, never doubting that a just God, in His own goodtime, will give us the rightful resul

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