Even from the grave the treacherous hand of the Confederacy reaches forth to take our great President from us. The assassin, John Wilkes Booth, should not be allowed to die a single death but many for the horrendous deed that he hath committed. Seeing that victory was beyond their reach, the Confederates resolved to injure us in the worst way possible, to take our great leader from us.
Not only did they decide to take away our beloved President, they desired to cripple us in every way possible. That very day, there was an attempt on Secretary of State, Mr. Seward. He was stabbed but survived. His son, however, is said to have been fatally wounded.
Is this how the South deals with defeat? When we show them kindness when they surrender, they decide to stab us while we turn to go home? No, this cannot be said of all of the South. I believe that General Lee and the Confederate Army would not stoop to such low means. It may be a man of the South who was responsible for such a deed but he did not speak for all the South.
Source:
Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman
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I appreciate the fact that you realize that one man’s actions cannot represent the whole of the south.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your opinion of Booth. The man has brought even more grief to me, just as I finally began to hope once again.
ReplyDeleteI as well was surprised by the immediate action taken by a Southerner. But if not him, then the deed would have surely been done by another.
ReplyDeleteYour opinion of the Southerner Booth. I would not expect this, even of the late Confederacy.
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