The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-08-11
lFrom the Atlanta Constitution ]
Card From General Gordon.

OSIu ErVm dcAcr2 GOr0Ons
Editor Of Consultation: am told
that during my absence, an article
was transferred to your columns, re-
hectsng upon me personally and upon
the University Publishing Company,
and paid for by a rival enterprise.
OF the allusion to myself / shall take
no notice. ] have something to say.
however, of this company with which
l am associated, and as you have unin-
tentionally, doubtless, done the long
list of Southern Gentlemen interested
IN this company the wrong of giving
circulation to such an article. / trust
you will perceive the justice Of MAX
ing equally public the statements I
give below. - :
| Fhst-This movement has been in
d0fsed by our people. from Gen. Lee
down, with q unanimity and an en-
thusiasm never before equaled proha-
bly,, saye by that created by the war.
1 1t would be strange if 1t were other.
! wise. eis .1}aers s'aifl e.
Second-The stockholders number
at present, l believe. about 800. or
these all are representative men of the
South, except thirteen and among
these thirteen are Cyrus II. McCor-
mick, Virginian, now of New York,
who SO literally el1dowed Gen. Lees
college, and several others of Southern
birth and education. Among the 300
| Southern stockholders are Ex-Presi-
dent Davis, General Joseph i. John
ston, General Beauregard, General
Ewell, General Hood, General Hays,
General Buckner, General Taylor,
General Lee, eldest son of r. e. Lee,
General Lawton, General Gilmer,
General Colquitt, General Wilcox,
General Bate, General Jno. c. Brown,
Governor elect of Tennessee, General
Nancy, General Lucius e. Polk, Gen.
eral Sorrel, General Clanton, Mr.. Sed-
den, late Secretary of War of the Con-
federate States, and many of the most
prominent Ex-Governors and Gov
ernors of the South, Bishops, Railroad
and Bank Presidents, clergy, teachers,
physicians, &C., &c. -. f-, !,
Third-The object OF the Organiza-
ton is to rid the South of the school
books which are obnoxious to Southern
sentiment, and to cooperate with all
efforts in that direction, and to furnish,
as it has succeeded in doing, books of
the highest merit. l""
Fourth-The authors of the books,
are Profs. John and Joseph LeConte,
formerly of the Universities of GeOr-
gia and South Carolina; Colonel Rich.
ard Johnston, one of GeOrgia's most
distinguished teachers, now at the
head of Penn Lucy Institute, near Bal.
timore; Col. Charles Venable, Profes.
sor of Mathematics in the University
of Virginia, and during the war Gene
raj Lees staff officer; Pref. Glider
sleeve, Professor of Greek in the Uni
versity Of Virginia, and who during |
the war was severely wounded while |
serving upon my staff; DR.. Holmes,
of the University of Virginia, Profess
sor Of Literature and history; Prof. /
Sachtleben, of the University of South |
Carolina, and Commodore M. f.
Maury, the greatest probably of living
Geographers, and during the war of |
the Confederate Navy, and recently
elected President of the University Of
Alabama.
So much for its status as a Southern
Institution. |
The company owns no publishing
house, no presses or binding establish
ment. 1t prints and binds 6y contract,
the work being done wherever it is
done cheapest and best. As the lowest
bids are by. New York, and as that
city. furnishes superior facilities to any
other, the books are printed:and bound
there at present, Gs arc nearly all our
Southern books.
1t is the purpose of the company
eventually to build up its own publish
ing house in some Southern city,
which is to be done as soon as practi-
cable; but it would require to do this
on scale to meet the demand already
created for these books, a vast amount
of capital, endanger the success of the
enterprise, and make the books
higher priced. True political economy,
as we'll as patriotism, demands that
the books be published SO as to make
them cheapest for the thousands of
Southern children who consume them.
They are the many-the manufactures
are the few. The true interests, there
fore, of the company, and of the coun-
try, so far as the country Is interested
in it, is to continue for the present the
contract plan of publishing. |
Ols houSo NAS H1eshCJ Va ASoA IAAAOAO1
well known to the country, is presi-
dent Of the company. Mr.. c. B.
Richardson, Of New York, and myself
are Vice-presidents. The authors had
arranged with Mr. Richardson for the
publication of their works, and from
him and his associates the company
purchased herights, plates, sterotypes,
etci, etc. The company needs and re-
tains his practical skill in supervising
the publication of these books.
These are facts as to the company,
its stockholders, its purposes, books,
authors, mode of publication, etc., and
are made public only in answer to at
tacks made upon it. The company
prefers tn cooperate with all similar |
efforts, and put in collision with such,
it will be only in defense. .-..f
Its success is without a parallel in |
this country. The hearts of the peo- |
pie are in it, and public opinion can
not he diverted from the patriotic pur-
poses in view, by attacks ltpoa indirid- |
uats or the place of publishing. The
boOks-their effects upon the minds
and hearts and characters of Southern
children-this is the great question.
The efforts to raise other Issues are
puerile, weak and frivolous. As we'll
oppose upon similar grounds, the
works of John G. Calhoun or the great
history of Alexander H. Stephens.
Respectfully, j. B. GORDON.
Cure for Anger.
Two little girls, one seven and the
other five years old, were playing to-