Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1870-09-15
1.-THE War Between the States, its
Causes Character, Conduct and
RcSnIfS.,
BY HON. A. H. STEPHENS.

by HON. A. H. STEPHENS.
Three years ago the announcement by
the National Publishing Company of, At
lanta, Ga. of the speedy publication of this
great work, created a profound sensation
throughout the county. The press of both
sections hailed the appearance of the book
with delight, for it was admitted by all
that the task of transmitting to posterity
the Southern version of the history of our
great civil war could not have been con-
fded to an ADLER pen than that of Mr..
STEPHENS. the greatest living statesman
of the South. The colleague and friend
of Clay, Calhoun and Webster, he is a
connecting link between the present and
the glorious past, and as VicePresident of
of the late Southern Confederacy he is
peculiarly fitted for the task by his oppor-
~tunities of knowing the most secret details
of the history of the War. Above all his
high character as a man, which has always
won him the respect of his political enc
mics, enables US rely upon his statements
with an absolute certainty. In the first
volume of his work, Mr.. STEPHENS con-
fined himself exclusively to the causes of
the War. reserving the narrative of the
actual struggle for the second and con-
Guiding volume. The success of the for
mer volume was extraordinary, reaching
a sale of over 10000 copies.
If then that portion of the work which
of necessity was the dryest-if any part
of this magnificent production can be
called dry-has met with such a wonder
full and rapid sale, what are we not war
ranted in predicting for the second, in
which the thrilling story of the most ter
rible and destructive war of modern
times, is told with all the fascination of
romance and all the sublimity of truth
Mr., STEPHENS sights no feature of the
War, and his work reveals a particularly
interesting and facinating portion of its
history, which has never been made public
until now. He goes to the bottom of the
secession movement, and gives the conf
Dental history of the Convention which
formed the C~onfederacy. The vexed
of war has much new light shed upon it,
and this alone ought to commend the book
to every one who saw the inside of a North
ern or Southern prison,
What will strike the practiced reader
most favorably, however. if the fact that
Mr.. Stephens narrative is free from Bit
terness and sectional feeling. He writes
with that calm dignity which is always
the historians most effective weapon,
weighing facts according to their merits,
and arriving at conclusions with a clear
ness of Judgment which is, to say the least,
remarkable in one who was himself so
important an actor in the events narrated.
1t is this fact which will make his book so
welcome to those who are seeking substan-
tial information upon the subject treated
of. and who prefer clear and straight
forward statements of ahut ertts done, to
find theories as to what might hare Jeen
accomplished. Having been compelled
by i'll health, since the war, to remain al
most entirely in the privacy Of his home,
and to take no part in the questions of the
day, Mr.. Stephens has been enabled to
look back over his long and honorable
career with the calmness of one whose
record is completed, and to produce, as
his most valuable service to the country,
the magnificent history which lies before
us. The book is sold by subscription
only. and agents are wanted in every
county.
VIM. A. SPARKS, is the Agent for the
sale of the above named work, in Wash
ing County. The Book is sold only by
subscription.