36 ATJTOBIOGKAPHY AND 



From that time the community at large seemed more 

 inclined to win laurels than to cultivate them and I 

 think they were right in that occurrence. The abolition 

 of slavery was more glorious than all the exhibitions put 

 together. " That Holy War ! " " Cette Guerre Sainte " 

 u Hoc Belluin Sanctum ! " which has elevated the 

 supremacy of the Anglo-American race, Americano- 

 Yankee progeny ! ' ' This last appellation suits me bet- 

 ter ; in it I feel the pulsation of the shaking of the hand 

 of our Uncle Sam ! sez he ! ! The supremacy of that 

 sublime monotype nation ! I say monotype emphatically 

 for which other nation on the whole surface of the 

 globe after the victory of the federal armies over the 

 old prejudices would have used such clemency, behaved 

 so generously with the vanquished ? ? \ None ! Unless 

 that magnanimous? Russia that would have done 

 something that 'Yankees ! would not have done, to- 

 wit: hang half of the vanquished and send the other in 

 Siberia for life 



That war which has elevated the supremacy, the 

 glory of the grandest Republic in the world to the 

 highest altitude ; exalted the bravery of that improvised 

 army ! ! that many pygmies ! mentally speaking, said 

 was fond of playing "soldiers" Indeed ! they were 

 fond of playing, so fond of it that in 1865 our Uncle 

 Sam ! to make them give up the idea of continuing 



