Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-25
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL So
ClETT.
It's officers, Aims ana objects.

Its Officers, Aims and objects.
We know of no organization Of more i'm
portance, or having higher and nobler OBJ
jects in view, than that of the Southern
Historical Society. The following we'll
known and distinguished gentlemen are an
nounced as its officers:
Parent Society, New Orleans, La--Rev.
B III Palmer, ID ID, President; Gen Braxton
Bragg, Vice President; Joseph Jones, NJ D,
Secretary and Treasurer.
Advisory Committee-President, Vice
President and Secretary, ex oficiO; Hon
Thomas Semmes, Gen Harry 7 Hays, J
Dickson Bruins, M ID, w s Pike.
Vice Presidents of States-Gen Robert z
Lee, Virginia; Hon s Teakle Wallis, Mary
land; Gen d H HID, North Carolina; Gen
Wade Hampton, South Carolina; Hon
Alexander II Stephens, Georgia; Admiral
r Semmes, Alabama; Gov Isham G Harris,
Tennessee; Gov Humphreys, Mississippi;
Col Ashbel Smith, Texas; Gen @ Breckin-
ridge, Kentucky; Gen Trusten Polk, Mis-
souri; Hon A H Garland. Arkansas; Hon
S r Mallory, Florida; w W Corcoran, Dis
trict of Columbia
From the above it is seen that the or
ganization is complete and permanent.
Better names than those presented as Of
ficers could not have been, and the list
shows that the society means work. There
is not man in the list who is not speci-
ally qualified for the duties assigned him
NOT one who will not take a lively and
an active interest in promoting the impor-
tant objects of the association. The need
of the society is wildly apparent. The
publications hitherto made concerning
the war have been from parti-
IAN and sectional standpoint and
are unjust to the South. Besides
this, the archives of the Confederacy
are in the hands of those controlling the
Government and those who win never
make or allow to be made proper and i'm
partial use of them. II is the imperative
duty, then, of those who made and acted
her history and Witnessed her struggle, to
preserve and furnish the society all infOr-
nation touching upon the same. The
society asks that everything, whether IN
the form of loose sheets, memoranda,
newspapers, periodicals, maps, pamphlets,
books, speeches, sermons, correspondence,
etc., elected by the war, be transmitted
through the Vice-Presidents of the several
States for preservation among the archives
of the parent society. The grand and pri-
mary object in making the collection is to
furnish future historians the material for
truthful and complete account Of Southern
operations in the late war, and for vindi-
cation Of the motives and conduct of the
Southern people against the aspersiOns Of
Northern writer's.
No fair-rninded, candid ran can find any
fault with this design, and every Southern
man should take deep interest in assist
ing, as far as may be, in its accomplish
ment A fair history of the war, from the
Southern point Of view, is due alike to the
memory of our dead, to the character of
our people, and to the truth of history it
self That the matter should receive ear
nest attention now, before the living actors
in the great drama shall have passed off
the stage forever, is too plain to require
argument or demonstration. No State is
more deeply interested than our own, and
none deserves prouder page in the his
toric annals Of the South than she. 1t will
be seen that Isham G. Harris represents
the society in Tennessee, and TO him every
record of the kind indicated should be sent,
and the same will be forwarded by hun to
the Parent Society.