The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-05-06
Poisoning the Minds OF Children.

julius Poppe, Anderson c. H.
Poisoning the Minds OF Children.
During the past week, we have
come across book which seems to
us to exceed anything before given to
the public, both in falsehood as to
facts and in vulgarity as to style The
book is ''The Child's History of the
Great Rebellion" published by the
Harpers, and it is sufficient to stamp
that house with incffable infamy, if
they never again publish another
book of the kind. In order that our
readers may form some idea both of
the style and contents Of this infa-
nous volume, which is to be put into
hands of the youth of our land, we
give few choice extracts.
Referring to the secession of South
Carolina, the writer says:
s.These bad and foolish men now
said the long wished-for pretext had
come, and that the Union must be
dissolved The State Governor, one
Gist, called his Legislature, and sent
word to them that the State ought to
secede. The United States Judge,
one Magrath, who had taken an oath
to be faithful to the United States,
took off his robes in open court. and
declared that the United States Of
fcers had no further business in South
Carolina. The South Carolina Sena-
tors IN Congress resigned-u good
7'iddancei"
"a good riddance'' to those whom
the writer denounces as traitors for
going! Again, referring to Mr.. Bu-
chanan's Cabinet, he says:
"Hls Cabinet was full of traitors.
The Secretary of the Treasury, How
ell Cobb, labored with will to ruin
the credit of the United States, re-
signed when he could do no more
mischief, and became rebel general.
The Secretary of War, Floyd, sent to
the South all the arms he could Law
hands on, stole some money, and
then ran away, and became a rebel
general. The Secretary of the Inte-
rior, Jacob Thompson, stole a mil
hon, ran away, and became rebel
general"
Considering that it has been
proved, over and over again, that all
the above charges of stealing are alb
solutely false, the GOODNESS with which
they are here stated as historical facts
IS, to say the least, refreshing. Again,
hear the wretch tell how Mr.. Bucha-
nan turned 'sgreen," and wrung his
yellow" hands. Fine reading for
children, truly:
H"Mr. Stanton boldly told the Pre-
sident that further parley with rebels
was treason, on which feeble Bucha-
nan turned green with fright, and
wrung his hands in abject imbeciity.
'Mr. Buchanan looked On cooiIy.
wringing his yeUo,o hands, and the
rebel batteries grew by the rood each
day"
here Is lie out of whole cloth:
''Those Northern men who are
of the rebels beloved franti-
cally for peace; regiment was raised
In New York to fight for the South,
and many Northern newspapers as
s'lred the rebels that if it came to
war, there would be as many North
ern men on their side as against
them"
Who raised n regiment in New York
to fight for the South? Just listen
to the sneering way which he refers
to the patriotic efforts of ex-Presi-
dent Tyler to prevent the horrible
war through which we have passed:
.'There was a droll body which met
ut Washington, under the Presidency
OF shuffiing Captain Tyler, and called
itself Peace Conference. This
droll body met to see if anything
would satisfy the South, but the
wholesale eating of dirt by the North;
on inquiry, the South said, No,
nothing would do but the eating of
dirt wholesale;' and SO this droll body.
adjourned. a. ~
Here is something absolutely fiend-
ish. Referring to the killing OF Gene
raj McCook, in Tennessee, by n band
of guerillas, he says:
"I confess that I am not quite rs
sorry as. perhaps, I ought to be when
I tell you that this gallant hero's
regiment, hearing of his death, OBJ
tanned leave to visit the place where
he was murdered, and bum do,on