Excerpt from The Heirs of St. Kilda a Story of the Southern Past
In the altered condition of affairs seen in the South, the author of this book, like many others, has been led by the stress of circumstances into different paths than he was wont to follow in happier days. Had the late war between the States resulted differently, it is highly improbable that this work would have been undertaken. In the wreck and change wrought upon our social life arose a mute cry for vindication against the cruel slanders and caricatures which have been published to the world as true pictures of our inner life as a people. The possibility that posterity may be deceived as to the truth concerning the men and women of the South preceding and during the late Revolution, has induced the attempt at their portrayal here submitted to the public.
It can certainly appear neither unnatural nor presumptuous in us who participated in the long agony endured in defence of our institutions to be sensitive as to the opinions of those who are and shall be in positions, where the truth may not be known concerning us and our ways. We did not shed so much of our best blood to uphold a cause, which, when fully understood, will be likely to make us
"Fixed figures for the time of scorn
To point a slow unmoving finger at."
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