. Memoirs of the war of '61. Colonel Charles Russell Lowell, friends and cousins . eir emancipation from slavery:We hold, as between the ignorant of the tworaces, the negro is preferable. . The negroesare conservative, they are good citizens, theydo not consort with anarchists, they cannot bemade the tools and agents of incendiaries; theyconstitute the solid, worthy, estimable yeo-manry of the South. After the recent race riot in Chicago thestatement was quoted from some of the whiteaggressors that it was not so much because oftheir color as because most of them were notunion men that the colo
. Memoirs of the war of '61. Colonel Charles Russell Lowell, friends and cousins . eir emancipation from slavery:We hold, as between the ignorant of the tworaces, the negro is preferable. . The negroesare conservative, they are good citizens, theydo not consort with anarchists, they cannot bemade the tools and agents of incendiaries; theyconstitute the solid, worthy, estimable yeo-manry of the South. After the recent race riot in Chicago thestatement was quoted from some of the whiteaggressors that it was not so much because oftheir color as because most of them were notunion men that the colored men were mal-treated. Meantime many of the labor unionsare now opening their doors to colored workmen. These facts in themselves give proof that ourheroes of 1861 did not give their lives in vainwhen, in preventing the extension of slaveryinto the territories, they set free that stolenrace and made them American citizens, withthe rights and mutual obligations pertainingto citizenship in our free nation. Elizabeth C. Putnam, 104 Marlborough Street, Boston, lUSSKLL LOW , CHARLES RUSSELL LOWELL Captain of Cavalry, May 14, 1861. Colonelof Second Massachusetts Cavaliy, April 15,1863. Died at MIddletown, Virginia, October20, 1864, of wounds received at Cedar Creekon October 19th, Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., was born inBoston, January 2, 1835. When only thirteenyears of age he went from the Boston LatinSchool into the English High School; in 1850entered Harvard College, took first rank inscholarship and maintained it until he gradu-ated in 1854. He did not win popularity atfirst, but later was proudly acknowledged as theforemost man in the class. He threw himselfwith glad and vigorous activity into the currentof college life, a leader in its sports and exercisesand its public affairs. He chose for his valedic-tory oration, The Reverence due from OldMen to Young. As a workman he entered the iron mill of theAmes Company at Chicopee for a year, oftenmee
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