slaves, they never once rose anywhere in insurrection against their masters.
Whether those who, by force of circumstances, maintained it were not as noble as those who, by force of circumstances, opposed it, we may well leave to the calm judgment of posterity, and to the Providence which placed the institution in our midst, with the names of Washington and Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, Marshall and Calhoun, Clay and Crittenden, Davis and Lee, Maury and Manly, and Stonewall Jackson and Stephen Elliott.
But what of the great principles for which we fought?
Have we abandoned them?
The great substantial, animating principle for which the South struggled was the right of a State to control its own domestic affairs—the right to order its own altars and firesides without outside interference—the right of local sovereignty for which brave people struggle everywhere, and without which there is no peace.
Secession itself was a mere incident in the application of this principle.
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er, 167; reverenced in the South, 334; persecution of, 337.
Davis, Colonel, J. Lucius, 242
Davis, Captain J. T., killed, 12.
DeArmond, Hon. D A., 300.
Denson, Captain C. B., 129.
Dew, Thomas R., 352.
Dick, Major, Charles, 349.
Dismemberment of Virginia by the U. S., 39.
Dixon, Lieutenant G. F, Heroic death of, 218.
Dualey, Lieutenant, killed, 7.
Duncan, Colonel, Blanton, 173.
Eager, Rev. G. B., Prayer of, 183.
Earle's Battery, 238.
Eason, J. M. and T. D,, 67.
Elliott, General Stephen, Jr., 233.
Ellis, Governor John W., 138
Emilio's History of the 54th Mass., 77, 85, 239.
Ewell's Corps, General R. E., 17, 127.
Fairly, Major J. S., 140.
Faith, Hope and Charity symbolized, 255.
Falkner, Captain, Jefferson, 220.
Falkner, Major, Address of, 219.
Farrar, Judge F. R, Johnny Reb, 261, 302.
Federal ruthlessness, 21.
Fiske, John, on the influence of the Northwestern territory, 54.
Fletcher, Death of Lieutenant, 13.
Foe, They honor