Lincoln . E. Underhill. Dr. J. G. Louis Jacquot. L. B. Allan. Frank Harrington. To the Advice and Assistance of These Men the AuthorWished to Offer His Thanks. At the shrine of Lincoln, with nearly fifty yearsstretching out between us and the War, marvelousprogress in the Nation, and strange events in polit-ical history confront us. Time has somewhatdimmed the memory. The rancor of those crimsonyears of war has lost its keenness. The dire per-plexities of the reconstruction years were now for-gotten, save in the archives of our history, but forthe spirit of the ante-bellum South, whi
Lincoln . E. Underhill. Dr. J. G. Louis Jacquot. L. B. Allan. Frank Harrington. To the Advice and Assistance of These Men the AuthorWished to Offer His Thanks. At the shrine of Lincoln, with nearly fifty yearsstretching out between us and the War, marvelousprogress in the Nation, and strange events in polit-ical history confront us. Time has somewhatdimmed the memory. The rancor of those crimsonyears of war has lost its keenness. The dire per-plexities of the reconstruction years were now for-gotten, save in the archives of our history, but forthe spirit of the ante-bellum South, which some-times reasserts itself and brings to life and recol-lection what the Nation had to do to protect theloyal and the innocent, and to keep its plightedfaith with a race of Freedmen; and also, in itslong drawn out attainment, deplorable but true,recall to mind unprincipled and tactless men whosometimes found place among officials appointed forthat delicate, difficult and momentous work. Butto forget that all, or the greater part of Fed
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