History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . ite of its brief recru-descence during the pendency of the ForceBill, was fast dying out. At the unveilingof the noble monument to Robert E. Leeat Richmond, in May, 1890, while, of leaders were warmly cheeredand the Confederate flag was displayed,various circumstances made it clear thatthis zeal was not in derogation of therestored Union. The last outbreaks of sectional animosityrelated to Jefferson Davis, in whom, bothto the North and to the South, the ghost ofthe Lost Cause had become
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . ite of its brief recru-descence during the pendency of the ForceBill, was fast dying out. At the unveilingof the noble monument to Robert E. Leeat Richmond, in May, 1890, while, of leaders were warmly cheeredand the Confederate flag was displayed,various circumstances made it clear thatthis zeal was not in derogation of therestored Union. The last outbreaks of sectional animosityrelated to Jefferson Davis, in whom, bothto the North and to the South, the ghost ofthe Lost Cause had become curiously per-sonified. The question whether or not hewas a traitor was for years zealously debatedin Congress and outside. The generalamnesty after the war had excepted a bill was before Congress givingsuitable pensions to Mexican War soldiersand sailors, an amendment was carried, amidmuch bitterness, excluding the ex-presidentof the Confederacy from the benefits there-of. Northerners naturally glorified theirtriumph in the war as a victory for the Con- 74 EXPANSION [i8go. Unveiling of tlie Equestrian Statue of Robert E. Lee, May 29, 1890, stitution, nor could they wholly withstandthe inclination to question the motives ofthe secession leaders. Southerners, how- iSgo] EVENTS OF HARRISONS TERM 75 ever loyal now to the Union, were equallybold in asserting that, since in 1861 thequestion of the nature of the Union hadnot been settled, Mr. Davis and the restmight attempt seces-sion, not as foes ofthe Constitution, butas, in their ownthought, its mostloyal friends and de-fenders. By 1890 the dayswere passed when de-nunciation of Davisor of the South elec-trified the North, nordid the South on itspart longer waste time in impotent resent-ments or regrets. The brilliant and fervidutterances on The New South by editorHenry W. Grady, of the Atlanta Constitu-tion, went home to the hearts of Northern-ers, doing much to allay sectional died, untimely, in 1889, lam
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