Sounds Very Much Like An Extremely Unreconstructed Unionist

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: We are living in an age of cowardly, apologetic hypocrisy, when a wrong course of action is often given the appearance of right thinking, and when high-minded performance of duty is wholly ignored or considered so commonplace as hardly to be mentioned.

This tendency is apparent in the effort to recall and amend the public record of Roger B. Taney and others of the Civil War period, and is so strong in some instances as to engage the attention of individuals who seem to be unable to hold in remembrance the great issues involved in the terrific struggle to preserve the Union and abolish slavery.

Notwithstanding this, every careful student of history cannot fail to measure accurately the men of that period who used their power and influence to block progress and restrict the rights of men.

The unswerving efforts and courage of the men of that day, in all walks of life, who defended the great principles of human freedom, whether in the political arena or on the field of battle, will ever receive the unstinted praise of all who love liberty, while the memory of those who opposed or failed to grasp the meaning of those great principles will inevitably fade away like the cause they aided or espoused. WILLIAM H. PRICE.

Washington, D. C., Sept. 30, 1931.