. Report of proceedings incidental to the erection and dedication of the Confederate monument. rought about by the politicians. As it is, the south recognizes andhonors the magnanimity of Gen. Grant toward our great chief,Gen. Lee, and deplores as an unmitigated misfortime the assassina-tion of Lincoln. 1 repeat emphatically, that the untimely death ofPresident Lincoln was regarded by all thoughtful men of the south asone of the most serious evils which had befallen our section, and Iventure to say that my southern associates here present will sustain myassertion. We know that during the war h
. Report of proceedings incidental to the erection and dedication of the Confederate monument. rought about by the politicians. As it is, the south recognizes andhonors the magnanimity of Gen. Grant toward our great chief,Gen. Lee, and deplores as an unmitigated misfortime the assassina-tion of Lincoln. 1 repeat emphatically, that the untimely death ofPresident Lincoln was regarded by all thoughtful men of the south asone of the most serious evils which had befallen our section, and Iventure to say that my southern associates here present will sustain myassertion. We know that during the war he devoted every energy ofmind and body for a restoration of the Union, and that result accom-plished, we felt that his big brain and his kind heart would prompthim to deal kindly and leniently to his fellow citizens of the south, forhis highest, if not his sole aim, was to see the Union restored, and it wasa cruel hope that deprived him of what he had hoped would be thereward of his labors, and the south of one who would have been herstrongest protector in her sorest hour of need. „£f^^. 121 Some of our northern fellow citizens seem to paraphrase the biblicalquestion, Can anything good come out of Nazareth? b} applying itto the south, but, my friends, we really are not all evil. Put ^ourselvesin our places and judge us from that standpoint. In the conventionwhich formed the constitution, there were two parties whicli held oppo-site opinions, one urging the formation of a strong central government,and the other advocating the doctrine of state rights. It was attemptedto reconcile these antagonistic views by a compromise, by which it wasdeclared that all powers not delegated to the general government wereannexed to the states, but like all compromises it left this vital questionunsettled, and from 1787 until 1861 the proper construction to be placedon the clause of the constitution just referred to has led to constant andoften to angry discussion. This unfortunate condition of
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