Disquisition by Scripps, E.W., The Germans two generations hence, May 29, 1919

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!!he Civil War t or War of the RePe1l1an, closet. ~le I was in rq twelfth
yl!t8Z'. All during the VJa't" I was old enOll,@,h to receive memory impressions whieh.
encl:nre to this day. One of m:r brotlJers was killed in ba.ttle. Another brother
who ba:rely failed to die of e2posure t lived for thirty-five ,ears after the clese
of the war a cripple. A brother-in-law died in a. rebel prison a.t AndersQaVille.
lq own hoIoo was in a SIl811 town in Illinois. I reca.ll the extreme bitw;oDeas
at feeling against the Southerners that existed amongst all those who s'Ul"rcnmd.ed.
'lfI3' childhood. In those days, the peo,le wllQ lived south at liasGD. &n.d DiX9n.'s
Line were a.ll hated, colleetiveq 8ZId indiT1dually, by us. There was no feeling
of fellowship toward them. Ifhey were hated a.s cordially as tho~ tl:ley _re peo-ple
of &nother race or of another contimnt, who were attelJ:!)tiIIg to destrel' our
country.
The feeling that existed in tlle United States towm.-d the Germans during the
~a.rs 1917 and 1918 was no more bitter thml was the feeling of the liwt:f:ler:eers
to'll'&l"d the Southerllers in the yea.-rs 1861 to 1865, 1nelusi'V'e. Bat tlle J'.-th con­quered
the South. Wi thin the first half of the first decade after the war, it
seemed th.a.t the feel~ of' bitterness of' the lI'orth towa.ri the So'Q.th :bad entirely
Somlrit.here alGXIg in 'TJ11' eighteenth or niDateentb. year, I reviewed or extEmded.
.,. re&d.iDg of the history {]f. the 11nite4 States, espee1al17 as 'lio those events that
... ~ . let.. to the war -- the f1U6Stiou involve4. About tha.t t:lDe I eorwl ... ~-
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