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The Southerners seeing the fall of the general who was so popular among them hesitated and then gave back. Thomas, watching everything with keen and steady gaze, hurled an Ohio regiment from the right flank upon the Southern center, causing it to give way yet further under the shock. "We win! We win!" shouted Dick in his ardor, as he saw the Southern line yielding.
About two months after their return from the South, Mr. Percival called one evening, and said: "Do you know Mr. Brick, the police-officer? I met him just now, and he stopped me. 'There's plenty of work for you Abolitionists now-a-days, said he. 'There are five Southerners at the Tremont, inquiring for runaways, and cursing Garrison.
The chivalric Southerners disliked his philosophy, and the solemn New-Englanders mistrusted his jokes. He made no extravagant claims for his own motives, and some of his ways were not distinctly ideal. He was full of prudential proverbs, and claimed to be a follower of the theory of enlightened self-interest.
Southerners who had not gone to the extreme in the prohibition of the instruction of Negroes felt more inclined to answer the critics of their radical neighbors.
"Now I desire to know," said Mr. North, "if we are never to pray in public about slavery? Is it not the great subject before the country, and are not all our interests in Church and State deeply involved in it?" "While we believe," said I, "that holding slaves is a sin, I take the ground that praying for the Southerners is a false impeachment.
I heard an educated gentleman say, 'Like the flag-officer did. His cook or his butler would have said, 'Like the flag-officer done. You hear gentlemen say, 'Where have you been at? And here is the aggravated form heard a ragged street Arab say it to a comrade: 'I was a-ask'n' Tom whah you was a-sett'n' at. The very elect carelessly say 'will' when they mean 'shall'; and many of them say, 'I didn't go to do it, meaning 'I didn't mean to do it. The Northern word 'guess' imported from England, where it used to be common, and now regarded by satirical Englishmen as a Yankee original is but little used among Southerners.
The people of the United States and the Government of that day justly prided themselves on the effectiveness of the blockade of the whole Southern coast. It was a great feat, a very great feat; but it would have been an impossible feat had the Southerners been more numerous, and a nation of seamen.
"Don't be a fool," said Wilson earnestly, "Don't be a better rebel than the Southerners." "I'm sorry," replied Shadrack. "That's what we were told to say...." "I know," interrupted Wilson, "but we have to be careful in the way we tell that story. For one thing, remember that we're still inside our own lines." "Yes," replied Shadrack ruefully.
This discord exercised a debilitating influence, and when Go-Murakami died , the Southerners found themselves in a parlous condition. For his son and successor, Chokei, failing to appreciate the situation, immediately planned an extensive campaign against Kyoto from the east and the south simultaneously. Then Kusunoki Masanori passed into the Northern camp.
It is high time for the law to be laid down once for all on the reputation as drawers of the long bow which Northerners fling at Southerners. There are no Baron Munchausens in the south of France, neither at Nimes nor Marseilles, Toulouse nor Tarascon. The Southerner does not deceive but is self-deceived. He does not always tell the cold-drawn truth, but he believes he does.
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