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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of Jane Claudia Johnson. (search)
ht not to have been treated as rebels, for, says he, Secession was not rebellion. And so, we say, the time has come when these intended opprobrious epithets should cease to be used. But whether called rebel or not, the Confederate soldier has nothing to be ashamed of. Can the soldiers of the Federal armies read this record and say the same? Yes, our comrades, let them call us rebels, if they will; we are proud of the title, and with good reason. More than a hundred years ago, when, as Pitt said, even the chimney-sweeps in London streets talked boastingly of their subjects in America,Rebel was the uniform title of those despised subjects (and as our own eloquent Keiley once said): This sneer was the substitute for argument, which Camden and Chatham met in the Lords, and Burke and Barre in the Commons, as their eloquent voices were raised for justice to the Americans of the last century. Disperse Rebels was the opening gun at Lexington. Rebels was the sneer of General Gage a
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Report of the history Committee (search)
ht not to have been treated as rebels, for, says he, Secession was not rebellion. And so, we say, the time has come when these intended opprobrious epithets should cease to be used. But whether called rebel or not, the Confederate soldier has nothing to be ashamed of. Can the soldiers of the Federal armies read this record and say the same? Yes, our comrades, let them call us rebels, if they will; we are proud of the title, and with good reason. More than a hundred years ago, when, as Pitt said, even the chimney-sweeps in London streets talked boastingly of their subjects in America,Rebel was the uniform title of those despised subjects (and as our own eloquent Keiley once said): This sneer was the substitute for argument, which Camden and Chatham met in the Lords, and Burke and Barre in the Commons, as their eloquent voices were raised for justice to the Americans of the last century. Disperse Rebels was the opening gun at Lexington. Rebels was the sneer of General Gage a