The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-09-16

alton, Charleston, District, the following
preamble and resolutions we're adopted:
Whereas, theievents Of the late war be.
tween the Confederate and United States
OF America are now fresh in the mindsof
Its survivors. and many records do now
exist which time and neglect will certainly
destroy, it .is highly desirable to have
these records and these recollections put
IN such substantial form as to resist the
ravages of time; and, whereas, we have
no government which will collect and
preserve the history of those transactions
OF which we are proud, it is, therefore,
the duty OF all South ,Carolinians to place
the history of the late war in its true light
before the world. in order that those who
fought and died for their country may
have not only the reward of their distin-
guished patriotism, but the justice which
their achievements deserve; and, whereas,
the Survivors: Association of any single
district may do much in collecting and
preserving these records, yet because of
the intimate association existing during
the war between all the troops of the
State, the work will become proportion
ally less onerous. and much more effect
i've If the survivors of the whole State
were to unite in. q common effort; there
FORE be it ..'
Resolved, That the Survivors Associa-
tlon OF Charleston District earnestly in
vite the survivors of each district in the
State, where associations of record do
not now exist, to form district associa-
tIons, composed of the survivors of the
Confederate acmy and navy, to collect
and preserve the records of the late war
That, the various district associations
be invited to send five delegates to a
convention, to meet at our hall. in
Charleston, on Thursday, November 1S,
1859, to form State survivors associa-
ton, for the purpose set forth in the
next resolution.
That the primary object of the pro.
posed State Survivors Association is the
preservation of all matters of history
connected with the late war.
Ihat the proposed means of accom-
plishing this object is the establishment
OF a State Bureau, under the control of
the State Association, where all original
matter shall be regularly and conye.
nleptly filed away for the reference of
such persons as the Association may see
fit. -i'''
That the secondary object of the pro-
posed State Association. the future de-
yeiopment of which is left to the action
OF the State Association, is the prepara-
''on u aevanuaru SouInern history and
smaller school histories, in which the
part the lGonfederacy bore in the late
war may be properly related to the
world, and that the rising generation
may be taught that their parents we're
not the vile traitors that the common
school histories now prepared by our
enemies assert.
Col Edward McCrady, Jr., President; !;
Col. @. Irvine Walker, Col. B. II. Rut,,
ledge, Major T. G. Barker, Col. j. M.
AInloch, Captain T. K. Huger, Captain
James Armstrong. Jr., Secretary, were
the subject of these resolutions, to make
all necessary arrangements for the assem-.
bling OF the convention, and to take
such measures as they may deem essen.
tlal to the full accomplishment of the
Intentions of the preamble aud resolu-
tions.- Charleston NeDs.