struggle back to life and to prosperity the hard

struggle back to life and to prosperity the hard way, without *ny aid program or without much aid from within, since its currency had become worthless upon the defeat of the Confederate armies. Human understanding dictates sympa thy for an honorable people, who fought an honorable struggle on points of princi ple. The recent notion, helped along by misleading movies and television, that the South fought a war for slavery, is an inac curate description.Abraham Lincoln, U. S. Grant, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee, among the foremost leaders of the period, all agreed that the war was fought on the question of state sovereignty, of local in dependence and local self-government and state government. It is well that all Americans remember that this war, between the North and the South, was not a black and white affair, that there were as many good men on one side as the other, and as many conscien tious and sincere men on one side as the other. The question whether state sover eignty allowed a state the constitutional right to secede from the Union was settled by the war, and today Americans subscribe to the sentiment — “one flag, one country, one nation.”