American adventures : a second trip "Abroad at home" . and in southern burial grounds where rows uponrows of tombstones, drawn up in company front, standlike gray armies forever on parade. Small wonder if, amid its countless tragic memorials,the South does not forget. The strange thing is that bit-terness has gone so soon; that remembering the agoniesof war and the abuses of reconstruction, the South doesnot to-day hate the North as violently as ever. If to erris human, the North has, in its treatment of the South,richly proved its humanness; and if forgiveness is di-vine, the South has, by th
American adventures : a second trip "Abroad at home" . and in southern burial grounds where rows uponrows of tombstones, drawn up in company front, standlike gray armies forever on parade. Small wonder if, amid its countless tragic memorials,the South does not forget. The strange thing is that bit-terness has gone so soon; that remembering the agoniesof war and the abuses of reconstruction, the South doesnot to-day hate the North as violently as ever. If to erris human, the North has, in its treatment of the South,richly proved its humanness; and if forgiveness is di-vine, the South has, by the same token, attained some-thing like divinity. Had the numbskull North understood these things asit should have understood them, there would not now bea solid Democratic South. Such rancor as remains is, I believe, strongest in thesmaller towns in those States which suffered the great-est hardships. I know, for instance, of one lady, froma little city in Virginia, who refused to enter the Massa-chusetts Building at the Chicago Worlds Fair, and 200. THE LEGACY OF HATE there are still to be found, in Virginia, ladies who donot leave their houses on the Fourth of July becausethey prefer not to look upon the Stars and Stripes. TheConfederate flag is still, in a sense, the flag of the love it as one loves a pressed flower froma mothers bridal wreath. When the Eleventh Cavalryrode from Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, to Winchester,Virginia, a few years since, they saw many Confederateflags, but only one Union flag, and that in the hands ofa negro child. However, war had not then broken outin Europe. It would be different now. A Virginia lady told me of having gone to a dentistin Winchester, Virginia, and having taken her littleniece with her. The child watched the dentist put arubber dam in her aunts mouth, and then, childlike, be-gan to ask questions. She was a northern child, andshe had evidently heard some one in the town speak ofSheridans ride. Auntie, she said, was
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