Date:  Fri, 14 Nov 1997 20:54:02 -0500
From:  "Barry A. Popik" <Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
Subject: VETERANS DAY SPECIAL: Civil War

CIVIL WAR

   This is from the New York World, 23 July 1898, pg. 3, col. 5:

   "CIVIL WAR BETWEEN THE STATES."
Confederate Veterans Object to
 "War of the Rebellion"--Honors
    for Miss Winnie Davis.
   ATLANTA.  July 22.--(...) the convention of United Confederate
Veterans. (...)
   By unanimous vote it was decided to condemn the expression "War of the
rebellion" being applied to the struggle of 1861-65, and to urge the
designation of it as the "Civil war between the States."

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THE CONFEDERATE STATES

   This is from the Daily Telegraph (Macon, Georgia), 18 February 1861, pg.
1, col. 4:

   "THE CONFEDERATE STATES."
   "The name is a good one, and means the same thing the old one did.
 Confederate means United, and hence, though a different word is used, the
name is the same in meaning as that of the old government,"--_Griffin Union_.
   There is a very important difference in the meaning of the terms
_"united"_ and _"confederate,"_ which it is desirable should be pointed out
and understood. We believe, if the name of the late Republic had been
"Confederate States" and not "_United_ States," the intestine quarrels to
which she fell a victim would in great part have been avoided, and the
country remained at peace. It was the misfortune of the terms "Union" and
"_United_ States," that they conveyed to the Northern mind an idea,
sedulously encouraged by their politicians from first to last, that the
country was literally a _unit_, subordinate in every thing to a central
power, to which it was responsible and amenable for every act of a political
character. Hence, the Northern abolitionist became, in his own fancy,
responsible for the existence or the extension of slavery, and held, as a
corollary, that the Federal Government ought to prohibit both. This
pretension would have never been set up to any great extent, if a just idea
of the character of the government had been conveyed in its very name--if it
had been called for example "The Confederate States"--_i. e._ Sovereign
States (not _united_, merged into, cemented together, or compounded into one
government or sovereignty), but leagued together in a compact or alliance for
mutual support. There is about as much difference, then, between _"united"_
and _"confederate,"_ as there is between an egg nog and a fagot.

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REBEL

   This is from the Intelligencer (Atlanta, Georgia), 19 December 1861, pg.
2, col. 2:

   One remarkable feature about Lincoln's late message is that he avoids
altogether the word "rebel." He has discovered at last that Southern
patriots rejoice to inherit the epithet applied to George Washington--"the
first rebel." He now doses us with the designation of "insurgents." The
coming generation will regard _that_ name equally honorable.