On this point, however, all parties in the South were agreed, and the vast majority of the people of the North--before the war. The Abolitionist proper was considered not so much a friend of the negro as the enemy of society. As the war went on, and the Abolitionist saw the "glory of the Lord" revealed in a way he had never hoped for, he saw at the same time, or rather ought to have seen, that the order he had lived to destroy could not have been a system of hellish wrong and fiendish cruelty; else the prophetic vision of the liberators would have been fulfilled, and the horrors of San Domingo would have polluted this fair land. For the negro race does not deserve undivided praise for its conduct during the war. Let some small part of the credit be given to the masters, not all to the finer qualities of their "brothers in black." The school in which the training was given is closed, and who wishes to open it? Its methods were old-fashioned and were sadly behind the times, but the old schoolmasters turned out scholars who, in certain branches of moral philosophy, were not inferior to the graduates of the new university. BASIL L. GILDERSLEEVE (_On Slavery_) September Fourth TOAST OF MORGAN'S MEN Unclaimed by the land that bore us, Lost in the land we find, The brave have gone before us, Cowards are left behind! Then stand to your glasses, steady, Here's health to those we prize, Here's a toast to the dead already, And here's to the next who dies. _General John H. Morgan killed, 1864_ September Fifth If slavery were an unutterably evil institution, with no alleviating features, how are we to account for the fact that when the Confederate soldiers were at the front fighting, as they thought, for their independence, the negroes on the plantations took care of the women and children and old people, and nothing like an act of violence was ever known among them?... Is it not perfectly evident that there was a great rebellion, but that the rebels were the Northerners and that those who defended the Constitution as it was were the Southerners; but they defended State rights and slavery, which were distinctly intrenched within the Constitution? CHARLES E. STOWE (_A Northern view in the light of fifty years of history_) September Sixth In regard to Barbara Frietchie a word may be said: An old woman by that now immortal name did live in Frederick in those days, but she was 84 years of age and bed-ridden. She never saw General Jackson, and he never saw her. I was with him every minute of the time he was in Frederick, and nothing like the scene so graphically described by the poet ever happened. HENRY KYD DOUGLAS _Jackson enters Frederick, Md., 1862_ September Seventh OF JAMES RUMSEY, INVENTOR OF THE FIRST STEAMBOAT