The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-27
.Roolks for tho sonth.. J

lowing article on the donations of
school books made by some Northern:
publishers to the Peabody Fund
Commission. The comments are Sc
vere, but Northern publishers have
too often-perhaps unintentionally-
given cause for such structures:
Those eminently philanthropic hui
manitarians, Messrs. d. Appleton Il
Co. and A. S. Barnes 6 Co., publish
ers, 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 under that most NUM-
cent gift. Now, we would rather sec
200, 900 vipers uncoil themselves and
crawl all over the face of our coun-
try, than the same number of the
Messrs. Appleton or the Messrs.
Barnes tert 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 instill poison
Gus and erroneous ideas into the
plant minds Of our coming genera
ton. We visited tho mammoth
establishments" Of these people,
during late Northern tour, and we
glanced through some Of their ''pub-
lications," some of which will be Of
this same generous donation to the
Peabody fund, and we do now most
solemnly declare that, rather than
see one of our Southern youth I'M
bi5o the prejudices, learn the lies,
con over the slanders herein, we
would sec them grope on forever
with only the great lessons of nature,
which, we avow, tcachcth 10 false
hoods, us their ''text books"
We do not write this upon any i'll
founded prcjudiccs 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 lc-
gitimate and laudable introduction
into our midst of whatever OF capital
and 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 er-
roneous impressions of their own
people, to teach them. ut the very
outset of their lives, to disobcy one
of the most sacred injunctions-
"honor thy father and mother" "&c.-
to teach the children of Davis, and
Lee. and jackson, and Longstrect,
and Taylor, that their glorious sircs
were Il set OF -throats, vile trai-
tors, designing Williams" sc. To pa
rade before their eyes pictures OF
''rebel defeats where there were no
rebel defeats-to point out the stars
and stripes, ''emblcms of the free"
waving i'll victory, where there was
no victory; i'll word, a prostitution
of history-a disregard of truth and
right-shamcful to any other people
in the world than these same menda-
cious, unscrupulous Appletons, Har-
pers and Barncses. The attempt of
their fathers to form for themselves Il
new Government, through causes
now unnecessary to dwell upon,
failed; their flag has been
'Furlcd away forever"
their hopes are dead, but their ho-
ncsty, their fearlessness, their noble,
'heaven-born" patriotism must not
be tortured into brands of infamv
and disgrace i'll the eyes of the chill
dren of their loins. When we for
get their heroic deeds, their years OF
devotion and toll and privation, when
we teach the lips of our infants to
mllrmur their names, except in es-
TEEN and devotion, "may ourtongues
cleave to the roof Of our mouths,
may this right hand forget its cum
ming" We are disposed to do all in
onr humble power to restore our un-
fortunate country to its former hap
piness and prosperity; we are willing
to strike hands with all those of the
North, and we know, thank God,
there are many noble and glorious
spirits there, unshacklcd by bigotry,
fanaticism or prejudice, who will walk
with us to that end, but from the
malicious, fanatical, fratricidal, Pu-
ritanical, psalm-singing Appletons,
Barneses and Harpers, Good Lord
deliver u.s."
FROM THE WEsr.-Tho Memphis
Prices Current has the following,
,rhicI, will L.,