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The Restoration of the Lost Cause

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 29, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 14.

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The Restoration of the Lost Cause

The restoration of the “lost cause” is now the hope of those who were so lately in rebellion. It is the spirit and animus of the excitement now rising all through the South. And should these leaders be restored to power what would be the effect? This question the Methodist thus answers:
“But with this spirit, what would be the effect of restoration of power to the leaders of the late rebellion? What would be the form in which the lost cause would appear at its resurrection? We answer promptly: ‘In substance, slavery.’”