[128] Edmonds, p. 2.
[129] Ibid., p. 14.
[130] Edmonds, pp. 1-2.
[131] Ibid., pp. 2-8, 19-20.
[132] Edmonds, p. 21. Cf. Ibid., pp. 19-20.
[133] E. G. Murphy, The Present South, p. 97.
[134] Murphy, p. 102.
[135] Murphy, pp. 10-11.
[136] Murphy, p. 21.
[137] There were earlier expressions of the same spirit, some, as if in foretaste of the South's fate under the old system, before the Civil War, and others immediately following the war. But the motives were liable to be selfish and unsound, as for the purpose of retaining slavery, and if they did not lack, that fire and conviction which marked the full movement commencing fifteen years later, they were fruitless of large results. "We are going to work in good earnest, not only to repair the waste places of the war, but to build up and improve and prosper, and to show the world that we can be good soldiers in peace as we are in war." (W. J. Barbee, published 1866) Cf.