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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Two foreign opinions of the Confederate cause and people. (search)
periodicals, he has written a number of articles in defence of Confederates, and their cause, and the following but adds to the many obligations under which he has placed us. Percy Greg's tribute to Confederate heroes. Do you forget, then, rejoined Cleveland, how often the hand of Providence has been manifestly against the better cause? Do you forget the Pagan saying that reconciles so many readers of history to the fall of the noblest States and the defeat of the truest heroes, Victrix causa Deis placuit, sed victa Catoni, or the cynical paradox of the French Empire, that Heaven is on the side of the bigger battalions? Do you forget, again, that in the American struggle everything that was personally great and noble was to be found almost exclusively on the Southern side? The North produced no gentleman and chevalier worthy to be named in the same day with him who led so long the splendid chivalry of Virginia and the Carolinas, and before whom, on every occasion, the N
The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], More Southern farms. (search)
on Post, the organ of the British Government, of August 8th: "Three Federal regiments have returned to New York, and have met with an enthusiastic reception." Whether these regiments were composed of ninety days service men who left the field of battle when the enemy's cannon was sounding in their ears, the telegraph does not state. The Republicans in New York, revering the Io triumphe of Republican Rome, appear to justify disaster and disgrace by accepting and acting upon the maxim, Victrix causd Dite placuit, sed victa Catoni. Their policy evidently is to put a good face upon defeat and disaster. We do not quarrel with them for doing this, because it is only an additional specimen of that spirit of exaggeration which would be excusable if it had the merit in any sense of being true. The Northerners, to adopt the American phraseology, have received a thorough and complete "whipping," and the elasticity of their patriotism can only be measured by the folly which has give