"
"But you're for the Union, papa, are you not?" asked Horace. "You'd never
fire upon the Stars and Stripes--the dear old flag that protects us here?"
"No, my son. I love the dear South, which has always been my home, better
far than any other of the sections; yet I love the whole better than a
part."
"So do I!" exclaimed Rose warmly; "and if Pennsylvania, my own native
State, should rebel against the general government, I'd say, 'Put her down
with a strong hand'; and just so with any State or section, Eastern,
Northern, Middle or Western. I've always been taught that my country is
the Union; and I think that teaching has been general through the North."
"It is what my mother taught me, and what I have taught my children," said
Mr. Dinsmore; "not to love the South or my native State less, but the
Union more. I was very young when I lost my mother; but that, and some
other of her teachings, I have never forgotten."
"There is, I believe, a strong love for the old Union throughout the whole
South," remarked Mr. Travilla; "there would be no rebellion among the
masses there, but for the deceptions practised upon them by their leaders
and politicians; and it is they who have been whirling the States out of
the Union, scarce allowing the people a voice in the matter.
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