HALLOCK ARMSTRONG

Very few of the rich are in the army except as officers. Our mission is to disenthrall just such men, to open up before them a brighter future for themselves and their children. Labor must be dignified in the south, and all must have an equal chance.

I am more than ever satisfied that this has been a war against the Aristocracy of the South, and that the poor, the great mass of the population, are loyal to the core. This war will do vastly more than enfranchise the blacks: it will knock off the shackles from millions of poor whites, whose bondage was really worse than African. These poor, suffering families had one grain of consolation, and what do you think it was? Why it was a source of comfort to them to know that the rich nabobs who had kept them in poverty and ignorance, were now as poor as they. They mentioned this fact with great delight.

I am more than ever satisfied that this has been a war against the Aristocracy of the South, and that the poor, the great mass of the population, are loyal to the core. This war will do vastly more than enfranchise the blacks: it will knock off the shackles from millions of poor whites, whose bondage was really worse than African. These poor, suffering families had one grain of consolation, and what do you think it was? Why it was a source of comfort to them to know that the rich nabobs who had kept them in poverty and ignorance, were now as poor as they. They mentioned this fact with great delight.

Very few of the rich are in the army except as officers. Our mission is to disenthrall just such men, to open up before them a brighter future for themselves and their children. Labor must be dignified in the south, and all must have an equal chance.