Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1898 — The Same Old Song. [ARTICLE]

The Same Old Song.

In the summer of 1964, while the war for the Union was going on, the writer of this paragraph talked with some Confederate prisoners, who said that a short time before a distinguished Confederate officer had made a speech to the men of the command to which they belonged and had assured them they had only to fight on a little while, longer to win success, that McClellan would be elected, and then peace would be made, and the North was opposed to Lincoln's administration, and Lincoln’s party would go to pieces after the election. Thus Northern newspapers encouraged them to fight another year. And now the same kind of newspapers are making Spain believe this country is opposed to McKinley’s administration, and encouraging them to fight again.—New Albany Tribune.