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Show ou CONFEDERATES RESENTFUL. Confederate Veteran-, in convention in Richmond, Vs., adopted a resolution declaring the Civil war was deliberately deliberate-ly and personally conceived by Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln and Lincoln was personally person-ally responsible for forcing war upon the south The Confederate Veterans have made a mistake in reviving an issue of that kind. When General Lee surren dered to General Grant and the soldiers sol-diers went back tq their homes to rc new the labor? of peace under the flag of a united country, the animosities which made men bee blood red were softened. The south was defeated. After nearly Bixty years it is evident i o all that It Is well the south was de-leated de-leated That being true, the old sores, iter being healed, should not be torn open If a grievous wrong had been committed, com-mitted, which demanded a corrective; il a united country were undesirable, it slavery should have been maintained; main-tained; if the past sixty years of our aaaaj nisiory were a.u ii iuit.iu.ive, mcu iuc Confederate Veterans might do well to recall the dead past, and ask for retrial retri-al bution Histroy proves the Confederates ft fired the first gun when they made ft the assault at Fort Sumter. In the face of that fact they charge Abraham B Lincoln with deliberate! inflicting B war 0D them. Lincoln went so far B ab 10 0Iier compromises which did not B meet his own conception of exact jus- B B But there is no need of heated con- B troversy over this declaration of the B Confederate Veterans. The north won, B slavery was abolished, states rights B were made to conform to the requlre- B ments of a solidified nation, and the B victorious side can well afford to view B the charges as nothing more than the B dying embers of a lost cause. Old B ' mon revert to their youthful fancies. The Confederate Veterans simply are B living again the days of their youth when the rich red blood of their man-J hood fired them. They dream the dreams of the battlefield and they; feel some of the old resentments. But; they are fading away. Tapping them' gently on the shoulder, let us bring them out of their reveries long enoush j to divert their thoughts and lift their eyes to "Old Glory." Then they will wipe away the mists of yesterday and, see the flag as it is unsullied by the J years. oo |