Prejudice on the question of slavery could be easily stimulated, and no effort was spared to poison the minds of the Southern people against the National Government and against the Northern people.

But the exaggerations at the close of the struggle were no greater than those which had been employed at its commencement.

From beginning to end the Rebellion was based upon the suppression of that which was true and the suggestion of that which was untrue.

To mete out the proper share of responsibility to the leaders who organized the insurrection would be a task at once ungracious and impossible.

The aggressive character of the movement was not concealed, and the motives underlying it were understood.