. Patriotic addresses in America and England, from 1850 to 1885, on slavery, the Civil War, and the development of civil liberty in the United States . esof America. It was an almost undisputed judgment, thatthe habits of the South bred prowess; that they werechiv-alric; that their educated men were better officers thanours; and that their common people, in the hour of battle,would be better soldiers than the laboring classes of theNorth. It never was our faith, it never was our belief, butthat the laboring and educated common people were justas much better for military development, when the t
. Patriotic addresses in America and England, from 1850 to 1885, on slavery, the Civil War, and the development of civil liberty in the United States . esof America. It was an almost undisputed judgment, thatthe habits of the South bred prowess; that they werechiv-alric; that their educated men were better officers thanours; and that their common people, in the hour of battle,would be better soldiers than the laboring classes of theNorth. It never was our faith, it never was our belief, butthat the laboring and educated common people were justas much better for military development, when the timecame, as for ordinary industrial purposes. Events havejustified our impressions in this regard. Let us look, for a moment, at the line of battle. Passingby the earlier conflicts prematurely brought on, in whichthe advantage was, without good conduct on either side,in favor of Southern men, what is the general conclusionfrom that line of conflicts that subsequently followed eachother almost without interruption, from Hilton Head,Beaufort, Roanoke, New-Berne, Fort Henry, Fort Donel-son, Somerset, Nashville, Island Number Ten, PittsburgLandinor?. /Kct^^i^^-.^ //-:;^^.^>c^^<yC THE SUCCESS OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. 353 Without further particularizing, what have been thegeneral results of this series of conflicts ? The rebels areswept out of the upper and eastern parts of Virginia. Theyhave lost one portion of North Carolina. Their seaboardis almost taken from them. They have been driven fromKentucky and Missouri, and in Tennessee they are closepressed on Memphis itself. They are on the eve, appar-ently, of losing the great metropolis of the has there been one single field in which Northern en-durance and courage have not been made to appear emi-nent over Southern ? In the battle of Pittsburg Landingwhat a disparity there was in generalship between theNorth and the South ! That battle was won by the Southwestern men had every advantage in militar
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