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of the North; but we do object to, and protest against, his
being proclaimed to the world as the exemplar and representative
of the South and its people. We proclaim Washington, Henry,
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee,
"Stonewall" Jackson, Joseph E. and Albert Sydney Johnston, Wade
Hampton, Jeb Stuart, and such like men, as our heroes and ideals
and as the exemplars for our children and our children's
children.   There are three reasons which we think in great
measure account for the erroneous conceptions and extravagant
portrayals now being made of Mr. Lincoln, viz:  (1) The cause of
which he was the official head has, temporarily at least, been
deemed a success.  (2) The manner of his death was such as to
shock all right-thinking people and to create sympathy in his
behalf; for, like the great Roman Germanicus, it may well be
said, he was most fortunate