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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 155 (search)
itical audacity is reached when you, though rather tamely, endeavor to speak respectfully of the Southern General Washington. In your estimation his only title to public honor was that he was called a rebel, and that he was honored by the British, and therefore honored by D. H. Hill, Major-General, confederate States army! The monomaniac of secession, D. H. Hill, at last speaks respectfully of Washington! Therefore it became a proverb, is Saul also among the prophets. Washington's Farewell Address has always been regarded by all of the proud and honored house of Stanly as entitled to veneration next to that due to Holy Writ. They were taught to treat with scorn rebel hypocrites like you, whose malignant efforts for years past have been directed in poisoning the minds of your countrymen, and encouraging them to hate their Northern brethren; encouraging them to smile benignantly upon all efforts to alienate one portion of our country from another. Is it not reaching the pinnacle