The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-25


Yankee Philanthropy and Cunning
The following puugent and forcible
article, which we copy from alate num-
Der of the Houston (Texas) Telegraph,
expresses our sentiments exactly:
Those eminently philanthropic hu-
manitarians, Messrs. ID. Appleton & Co.,
and A. S. Barnes & Co., publishers,
somewhat noted, have opened their
large hearts and presented the Peabody
Committee with one or two hundred
thousand copies of text books for the
use of the schools to be established un-
der that most munificent gift. Now we
would rather see two hundred thousand
yipers uncoil themselves and crawl all
over the face of our country than the
same number of the Mcssrs. Appleton
or the Messrs. Barnes teri books. They
are no more or less than text lessons,
inculcating the most undying, malicious
hatred of our people-text lessons OF
the vilest and most slanderous lies that
were ever fabricated to instil poisonous
and erroneous ideas into the plant
minds of our coming generation. We
visited the "mammoth establishments"
of these people, during q late
Northern tour, and we glanced through
some of theiI publications" some OF
which will be of this same gener-
ous donation to the Peabody fund, and
we do now most solemnly declare that,
rather than see one of eur Southern
youth imbibe the prejudiccs, learn the
lies, con over the ISLANDERS therein, we
would see them gropc on forever with
only the great lessons of nature, which
we avow teacheth no falsehoods. as their
"text books"
We do not write this upon any i'll
founded prejudices formed against these
houses, because of the simple fact of
their Northern locality. We are now,
and will be in the future, in favor of the
fostering of every legitimate and land
able introduction into our midst of
whatever of capital enterprise our
Northern brethren wish to bring to us,
so long rs such enterprise does
not tend to create in the minds
of children wrong and erroneous i'm
pressions of their own people, to
teach them at the very outset of their
lives to disobey one of the most sacred
iniunctious, "honor thy fathrT and
mother" &c.-to teach the children of
Davis and Lee, and Jackson and Long
street and Taylor, that their glorious
sires were q set of "cut- -throats, vile
traitors, designing villains" &c, &c.
To parade before their eyes pictures of
"rebel defeats" where there were no
rebel defeats-to point out the stars and
stripes, "emblem of the Free" waving in
victory, where there was no victory; in
o word, prostitution of history-a re-
gard of truth and right, shameful
to any other people in the world, than
these same mendacious, inscriptions
Appletons, Harpers and Barneses. The
attempt of their fathers to SHm for
themselves new Government through
canses now unnecessary to dNSu spon,
failed, their flag has been
"furled away forever"
their hopes are dead, but their honesty,
their fearlessness, their noble, "heaven
born" patriotism must not be tortured
into brands of infamy and disgraced in
the eyes of the children of their loins.
When we forget their heroic deeds, their
years of devotion and toll and pri vatiOn,
when we teach the lips of our infants
to murmur their names except inesteem
and devotion, "may our tongues cleave
to the roofs of our mouths, may this
right hand forget its cunning We
are disposed to do all in our humble
power to restore our unfortunate coun-
try to its former happiness and pros
perity; we are willing to strike hands
with all those of the North, and we
know, thank God, there are many no
BILE and glorious spirits there, unshack-
led by bigotry, fanaticism or prejn-
dice, who will walk with us to that end,
but from the malicious, fanatical, frat
puritanical, psalm singing APP
pletons, Barnes and Harpers, Good
Lord deliver u.s."