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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The address of Hon. John Lamb. (search)
ecession, a work by an Englishman, the author draws a deadly parallel between the methods and aims of the two people, and sums up the matter with the significant words: All the good qualities were on the one tide, and all the bad on the other. Let us discard the old superstition that Heaven is revealed in the immediate results of trial by combat. We know that the Christian civilization of the first centuries went down in the darkness of midiaeval times. We know that Paul was beheaded and Nero crowned, and Christ crucified. Our defeat was but another instance of Truth on the scaffold, and wrong on the throne. We know that the North succeeded because they mustered 2,500,000 men, and had the world to draw supplies from, while the South failed because she could not muster over 600,000 men all told, and was confined to her own territories for supplies. Northern writers and speakers have attempted to show that the South plunged this country into desperate war for the purpose of p