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Criticisms of W. A.
To the Editor of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY:
Sir: Regarding the communications
in the number of May 26, criticising a
brief note by me in the number dated
May 12, permit me to say that the writers
have misinterpreted my language and
misjudged my feeling. This is not the
first incident that has suggested a need
of strengthening the Department of
English by appointing a competent
Professor of the art of reading justly.
I am not ready to believe that it has
become improper and censurable for a
Yale man who fought on the side of
the Union to say in a Yale newspaper
that the war with Spain is not more
~ honorable than was the cause of the
preservation of the Union; or to say
that extortionate taxation is not a
worse evil than chattel slavery; or to
say that the policy of the Spaniard in
Cuba will not suffer in a comparison of
motives and consequences (I said noth-
ing of methods) with the policy of the
politicians of the Slave Power. This
last’ phrase was carefully chosen to
avoid seeming to reflect uncharitably
upon the great body of the Southern
people. Not believing that it is now,
nor that it ever will be, a reasonable
cause of offense to declare such opin-
ions, there is no occasion to argue their
wisdom or to apologize for uttering
them. I do, however, disclaim any
motive of personal malice.
[I made no comparisons, or parallels,
or contrasts, in respect of individuals.
I did not mention Gen. Lee, nor the
Lee ivy. That, by inference, I had it
in mind when I suggested a fanciful,
but possible, incident related to the
present war, is neither here nor there,
since I expressed neither approbation
nor disapprobation of such happening.
That my little parable caused perturba-
tion in ingenuous breasts must be due
to conditions for which I am not re-
sponsible. It is quite as proper, I am
sure, for any Yale man to think that
the planting of this ivy in disregard of
kindly remonstrance was not in the
best taste as for another to denounce
such an opinion as narrow, illiberal and
unpatriotic.
The notion that I am an irreconcil-
able and malignant sectionalist will be
amusing wherever my words and acts
are known. While the writers of these
communications were in short clothes I
was organizing Northern protests
against the interference of the army
with the Louisiana Legislature. As an
editor, and in other ways of service, I
have consistently opposed all force-bill
legislation and constantly advocated
the restoration of the Southern people
to full rights and responsibility as equal
citizens of the reunited Republic. (See
article “Two Years of President
Hayes,” Atlantic Monthly, August, 1879.)
Finally. let me commend to the con-
sideration of my _ swift critics this
remark of a great orator: “Because you
have your prejudices shall there be no
history written?”
WALTER ALLEN, ’63.
New Haven, May 30, 1808.
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