404 Nort Carorina Troops, 1861-’65.

men who before the war had never disputed the proposition
as a reserved State’s right, however inexpedient, they were
confronted on every battlefield, from first to last, by men in
gray, who (relying only on the inalienable right of revolu-
tion), could find nothing whatever, expressed or implied, in
the Constitution providing for a secession. The motto on
either side, however, when the conflict came, was that of the
brave Decatur: “My country! Right or wrong, my country.”
To the North this meant the Union. To the Confederate sol-
dier it meant his State; and her call he obeyed.

Like the Protectorate of Cromwell, the Confederacy has
taken its place in history, with the powers that be no more.
England under the restoration, may ignore her Ironsides; but
North Carolina accepting the situation in good faith, and re-
turning to a Nation whose origin she was the first boldly to
propose, will never blush to exhibit her long Roster of Con-
federate Soldiers.

Ro. D. Granam.

Wasuineton, D. C,
9 Aprit, 1901.