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o brief and cold statistics which only vaguely show the martial patriotism of the South in the wars of the Republic. A country's fame is made great in part by the heroism of its people in times of wars. We have a heroic history, in which the patriotic valor and sacrifices of our people were so evenly balanced as to leave all sections wondrously rich in fame. Our forefathers were New Englanders as well as Virginians, and there are names that can never be made sectional: Ethan Allen and Francis Marion; John Starke and Harry Lee; Nathaniel Greene and George Washington—who divides these martial heroes into North and South! Jefferson and Franklin—twin sages; Madison and Adams—twin statesmen; Henry and Otis—twin storms in debate: who can separate these civic chiefs of the Revolution into sectional classes? I shall not recite the historic chivalry of the South in the slightest disparagement of Northern courage. Rather would I be silent and await the coming of the years of dispassionat