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Show I NOT SO DARK AS PICTURED. When America was divided, and Americans were fighting Americans, the days were as dark as the nights, but out of the horrors of that period there arose the America of today. On April 9, 1865, General Lee surrendered sur-rendered to General Grant at Appomattox. Appo-mattox. The man of southern birth thought the end of the world was at hand. The northern man was as blue as indigo as he surveyed the wreck and ruin of war. Within five years the country had recovered from the depressing state of mind and everywhere, except in parts of the South where reconstruction reconstruc-tion was a little slow, Hope smiled as never before. Well, we are not having any of those distressingly overcast skies of the early ear-ly sixties, but we are going throuch a period of deep doubt which is having its effect, but there isnothine like the days of the Civil war for us. A calamity in Europe can never engulf en-gulf us, whatever befalls France and England. The. worst that can come to us ie thai we will bo forced to arm to the teeth, and retain a great army and navy until the world overthrows the military' despot. rrt |