Mrs. W. W. Gordon, of Savannah, the wife of the brave ex-Confederate officer who was commissioned brigadier general by President McKinley, and served with distinguished gallantry in the Spanish War, had kindred in the Federal army, which under Sherman captured Savannah. As the troops were entering the city she stood with her children watching them as they marched under the windows of her Southern home. Just then the splendid brass band at the head of one of the divisions began to play the old familiar air, "When this cruel war is over." Just as soon as the notes struck the ear of her little daughter this enthusiastic young Confederate exclaimed, "Mamma, just listen to the Yankees. They are playing, 'When this cruel war is over,' and they are just doing it themselves." NORTHERN MEN LEADERS OF DISUNION In 1860 it was plain to the world that the people of the North were determined to spurn the compact of union with the Southern States and to deny to those States all right to control their own affairs. Here are the sentiments of the Northern leaders: "There is a higher law than the Constitution which regulates our authority over the domain. Slavery must be abolished, and we must do it."--_Wm. H. Seward._ "The time is fast approaching when the cry will become too overpowering to resist. Rather than tolerate national slavery as it now exists, let the Union be dissolved at once, and then the sin of slavery will rest where it belongs."--_New York Tribune._ "The Union is a lie. The American Union is an imposture--a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. We are for its overthrow! Up with the flag of disunion, that we may have a free and glorious republic of our own."--_Wm. Lloyd Garrison._ "I look forward to the day when there shall be a servile insurrection in the South; when the black man, armed with British bayonets, and led on by British officers, shall assert his freedom and wage a war of extermination against his master. And, though we may not mock at their calamity nor laugh when their fear cometh, yet we will hail it as the dawn of a political millennium."--_Joshua Giddings._ "In the alternative being presented of the continuance of slavery or a dissolution of the Union, we are for a dissolution, and we care not how quick it comes."--_Rufus P. Spaulding._ "The fugitive-slave act is filled with horror; we are bound to disobey this act."--_Charles Sumner._ "The _Advertiser_ has no hesitation in saying that it does not hold to the faithful observance of the fugitive-slave law of 1850."--_Portland Advertiser._ "I have no doubt but the free and slave States ought to be separated. * * * The Union is not worth supporting in connection with the South."--_Horace Greeley._ "The times demand and we must have an anti-slavery Constitution, an anti-slavery Bible, and an anti-slavery God."--_Anson P. Burlingame._