The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-02-25

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We sen't know tina, nc are doing any ''' Wv. -
NJ. Nar,,. po,,i.her, by stating that ne fro
noses TO publish a great work OF =, ,he War
-, r... ,ha .averti.emeni.l relating 10 70.
- parn,r,ion IN the Southern ~
-, ,,..,na s,stcs--A department. ~ -,
" $50 .,st.m .ticsiy nes'et'eo 's
'e"',o .1.. a. il is diligently inSes'ie"''" '''N
'.,,hIv nru adered by Northern ''"''1
fhoroash'' -. ,he songs Of nation. and care
Ls' Me chair laws" The hand that "r1'e'
-. ,he songsoi nation 9n' 's "'a'o
:, the same time, manufactures iu' w.
sH. sr.ts its commerce, may decidedly c'a'n'
ua,n hand and TO have the inside tf"c~ ~
". ,... of power The Southern people AZ" no'
,,a,.A "a have A Present, a Future, or even !"
pas, With the exception Of George was" 'o"'
tba s,o,h had 10 hero In the Revolution anu ',''
battles Of that war fought ent'Eeiy ON ',"''
Arm hattie aci6s There Is a school Door 10" 80
IN the schools Of Rich nond. (the smart ~ ''e
rauov, furrish ali our Fchooi books Vt '''''
sa-r History which teaches 'he '"''"''" -
s,r,h thai the ruri.ans Of New ShS''' We
rrsa. pioneers and heroes IN 'ae seS''e'''"
.n,,inant. which nlsgniaes and d''"'"S 'A''i'.
$50 .,.-x real or imaginary achievement OF
vary Yankee Doodle father VINO e''' "''"'N@
90 drowned witch. and which passes
18th hFt"i C'u'i'''h'i H'A '''N-''~
r,t.,o., Kind Of praise the early founders Of Vir
.io,a. almost completely ignoring Captain JOAN
s,u,f,. a soldier. a gentleman and Christian, who
h.a more virtue, common sense and chlvairy 10
~, lille fuger thaa all the other Cavaliers aud
pari,aas Of his generation combined: who laid
the foundation of Anslo-saxon civilization in Viz
r,nin, If not liz the whole Northern portion Of this
Continent; Who gave New England itself its name,
nninfpt ont the
whai. fisheries. by which she afterwards acquired
N upch wealth aud maritime aptitude, likely
90 be worth more to her than all the gold mines
which people of that age were so mad after, a
n,,tue.s which Smith. solitary and alone, had the
d,scernment and the forti.ute to see through aud
resist 10 other man who ever lived in America,
aYrept George Wsshingto deserves TO be name q
IN the same century with Capt. John Smith, the
mos. wonderful combination OF chivalry end com
,nna sense the greatest hero and the purest m an
that, with that one exception, ever placed foot
upon these Western shores.
Yet such man is ignored by DR.. Lord and
sroers INDUCED at Southern institutions, which
reaairo the teacher as he uses the book to stop
And adm anish the scholar that he must not be-
,ieye what this historian records Therefore, we
saw that, so long as the South administers such
pp.rImeus 70 its children, we know not that we
do any publisher a service by recommending such
q book as that which Mr.. Morris il about to pro-
duce. There may be some, however, who woui6
like to sec justice done TO the revolutionary de-
ps-,nent Of the South as we'll as the North, mel
whose patriotism does nc: exclude the North, sut
whose love of home and ancestry does not disdsir
20 embrace the South; does not content itself with
masuioqusut praise OF the dead and with the chear
homage Of the lips, but embams their memory IT
the heart, and entwjrss around their rugged and
heroic deeds the freshest sarlands Of honor and Of
love. To such We commend this book, volume
which ought TO be 10 every Southern gentleman s
library, even il to make room for it it should be
necessary &c isllaes biography OF General Is
rssl Putnam or a History of Massachusetts, un-
der tho psms ola History Of the United States; or
Modern History. IN which the Southern facts
are omitted. and the Northern facts are OF "mod'
e.n'' invention.