The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-12-02
I. Rev. Mr. Jones saws j:

the seeding States seized most of the forts,
arsenals, cllstom-hollSes, ships, and other
Federal property within their boundaries,
and are left to infer that our people were
simply band OF plundererS, without being
told that we had contributed these forts, &C.,
to the General Government, and simply took
back ,rhat belonged TO as, that they might
not De used for our OppresstOa."
1t Is difficult to answer seriously such an
objection so framed. Every man of intelli-
| gencc knows that Mr.. Swinton has here
stated the literal fact. Rev. Mr.. Jones's
"infcrence must shake the readers faith in
the value of his criticism. But let lis sec how
| Professor Holmes treats the same event, this
being the history which Rev. Mr.. Jones az
raigns the Board for not prcterring to Swin-
ton. quote from Holiness School History,
page 2Gj. all he says about it.: "Siy other
States followed the example of South Caro-
| lima. Their representatives and senators
Withdrew from Congress, and The forts,
orseaafs, and other Federal property ,cithin
| their limits ,rere Scized."
What inference does Rev. Mr.. Jones draw
from these lines? And in what respect or
| degree is one statement more insulting TO
the southern people than the other?
| ,. Rev. Mr.. Jones's next charge is in these
| words:
ION page 2li hccaIs the patriotic citizens
| of Baltimore who rose to resist the violation
| of their neutrality by the passage OF Il Mas
| sachusetts regiment through their streets a
| mob."
If Rev. Mr.. Jones will turn TO Blackburn
IL McDOnad's history, one of those he
commcnds lis to substitute for Swinton, he
| will find, OH page 400, this same incident de-
| Scribcd as "TuE MOB IN BALTIMORE" in
what the printers call small capitals, as here
printed.
| Holmes styles the assaIants "a crowd ga
| thcred i'll the streets page 2T4. Pollard, in
| the Lost Cause, page 12J, calls it the Balti-
more riot, and SO on.
3. Rev. MIR. Jones continues:
| ION page 24j he says of Maryland, Della
ware, Kentucky, and Missouri: In these
States secession had to encounter Il powerful
| opposition. The result was that they were
| held i'll the Union lie does not give the
| pupil the slightest intimatiOn Of how these
gallant States were 'hcld in by Federal
| bayoncts welded by dcSpotic power"
| Rev. Mr.. Jones cUnceucS that SWintoI has
here stated the simple fact, and / submit that
| he acted wisely in cOnlining himself thereto.
| iniSmuch aS no point is much more cOntrO-
| rerted than the one Rev. Mr.. Jones raises. In
| Missouri, is is Well known, the convention
| refused to pass the ordinance of secession.
| In Delaware no prrtcncG was made of join
| ing lis and the General Assembly ol Ken
.tucky deliberately refused to take any step
| towards acccdn. to the Conlcdcracy, and re-
solved on the tluiXUlic policy of remaining
| neutral Indeed, the Legislature elected in
| August, 1861, aud elected without Federal
armed intervention, was largely Union.
| 4. The next charge is as follows
| Page 243: In his description Of the move
| mcnls that brought on the battle of MAJ
nilSSils he speaks of the battle of the 18th of
| July, in which the Fedcras were SO badly
rcpul>cd lis to change McDowelrS plan Of ac-
tack, rs simply preliminary skirmishins.'"
| And i'll his account Of the battle of the 2lst
| he SAYS: 1t seemed that the Union army
would carry the field, but in the afternoon
| the CuntcdcIltcS, reinforced bv Johllstons
| column from the Shenandoah valley, fell on
! the right flank of the Union army, which
was thrown into great disorder, &c.-t. c.,
| the child would learn that as long rs the con-
| test was ut all equal the Union troops
were victorious, but being oyerpowered by
numbers they were driven back. Now, the
| truth is that we had only 10000 troops OF all
arms opposed to McDowcll'S 5000, and OF
| these only $4,000 were actually engaged"
| Rev. Mr.. Jones'S first complaint is that
Swnton bcllttlcs the affair Of The 18th OF
July by calling it "prclimnary skirmish-
ing" Let lis see what Holmes says OF it. ]
quote from page PIG:
Gcucral Tyler. passing through Centre
vile, had made Il demonstration against the
Confederate centre, but had been driven
back ut Bull Run QSth July)."
member that the total number of killed Oh
| both sides did not amount TO tuurscOrC, tb,
term skrmish cannot be objected TO. As tC
The remainder Of the charge" that 4 chllC
wcuIu inter that the forces were equal al
first, and that SO long us the equality existed
the Union troops triumphcd u have no
thing to say. Perhaps very young chile
would so infer.
). Rev. Mr.. Joncs's next objection is this
Again, on PIP. 2i9-2j0 he says the Fedc
raj army in the fall numbered over one
| hundred and fifty thousand men, aud thai
the southern army also received large re
inrorccments' but he takes good care moi
TO let the pupil know that our army after
| its rcuIorcemcnts only numbered forty
seven thousand men,"
| If have not already sufficiently yindi-
|
| the North at the cXpcrlsu of the South,
despair of cllcctinS it. That host of things
are omitted in il history of Il four years WA /
which is compressed into thirty-SiX du0deci-
| mo pages Gun surprise no one. and it may recon
ellie Rev. Mr. Jones to SWinton's failure tO
| state the amount OF southern rclni0rccmcntS
to turn to Holiness account of the same
period, page ~, where we are Informed
that 100000 new troops were ordered by
the United States Congress for the prosecll-
ton of the war, but We hear nothing of
| Confederate reIniorccmcnS ut all.
| 6. Rev. Mr. Jones next complains that
| Mr.. SWintOn gives Us the reason why Ma
son aud Sidell were given up that "thc
United States had all along, and especially
during the war of 1872, taken position
respecting the rights of neutral ships that
| did not Justify Captain Wilkes in taking the
| Confederate commissioners from the Trent
| Aud such was the precise reason assigned
| by Mr.. Seward in his letter OF December ~,
| 1861, surrcndcrlDg them.
| :. Ills next complaint is this: "Passins
| by i number of other false statements, we
lind on page 25J that he claims Williams
burg lis Federal victory"
| think the candid reader will agree that
| it would be difficult to compress into as few
words a more truthful account of the most
unsatisfactory battle Of Seven Pines that we
"retired" in the night Of June lSt crede
| erperto.
Edward a. Pollard, who cannot be Sus'
prctcd of pariaiily for the fcderal>, says ol
| this battc---Lost Cause, p. Isl:
"lt was splendid feat of arms, but 1t ac-
complishcd no important results, and the
ground which it gained WAS unimporI.ni
and was speedily Abandoned"
Again:
| .rhis artiou rC0iiY of no consequence