All these unbelievers keep insisting North and South are natural enemies and must so remain.

The situation is further embittered by acts of enmity being practised by both sides to the extreme provocation of the faithful few.

Their forbearance will be sorely tried, and this is the final test of men.

By those who cling to prejudice and abandon self-restraint, extol enmity, and always proceed to the further step--the plea to wipe the enemy out: the counter plea for forbearance is always scorned as the enervating gospel of weakness and despair.
Though we like to call ourselves Christian, we have no desire for--nay even make a jest of--that outstanding Christian virtue; yet men not held by Christian dogma have joyously surrendered to the sublimity of that divine idea.

Hear Shelley speak: "What nation has the example of the desolation of Attica by Mardonius and Xerxes, or the extinction of the Persian Empire by Alexander of Macedon restrained from outrage?
Was not the pretext for this latter system of spoliation derived immediately from the former?
Had revenge in this instance any other effect than to increase, instead of diminishing, the mass of malice and evil already existing in the world?
The emptiness and folly of retaliation are apparent from every example which can be brought forward." Shelley writes much further on retaliation, which he denounces as "futile superstition." Simple violence repels every high and generous thinker.
Hear one other, Mazzini: "What we have to do is not to establish a new order of things by violence.