The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-04-01
Svnlhcru Historical Society.

In our Issue of yesterday We pcb
li>hed full and uhle statement 0
the o'gin, oi jcct aud successful opc
ration of the Southern Historical
Socic,y.
We trust this statement has beer
carefully rerused, as the subject o.
which il treats is Que that oAnuot fail
"hen clearly apprehcnded; to com.
nand the emphatic approval and .tc
enlist the hearty aid and co.opera-
ton Of every true man and true woman
in those States of the Union wh'cl,
| were once confederate in II noble, il
vain struggle to make truth victori
OnS.
Disclaimirg at The outset both dc
sire and iutcution to rckindlc tho
dead fires tf sectional prejudice aud
partisan animosity, this Society has
been organized and is now extending
its efforts 10 rescue from oblivion, and
to chryslalizc into historic truth,
those facts Of the past which, as "the
truth. the, whole truth, and nothing
but the TRUTH" southern honor ana
Southern intelligence impeIativcly
demand Shall become IL living and
eternal record, from which appeal
shalt Lc impossible.
Already record that is not the
truth is iusidiously claiming accep.
tance at the hands of those whom it
accuses and convicts-ju judiciousiy
sentences and magnanimousiy par
Il
arc multiplied to convict Of moral
weakness cause that failed of Veto
ry only because its logical power was
ovc:hor,le and crushed by an antaeo-
nlsm too wcighty in gun metal and
too vast in its physical proportion
tc abidc the issue on tho dangerous
ground Of right and truth.
But it is not by the political phi
lo>uphy OILY that logic is tortured
in'o acqnicsccncc with the popular
d"Ena that mi ght makes right the
press of the victorious contest teens
with novels and novclyttes, one and
all glowing with the heroism, devo-
tion and patriotism CT the soldier Of
the "Union" and of the saGag."
1t is with n literature such as this
that the South IS now flooded. Can't
we provide no Hntiaotc for the moral
malaria it is engcmdcring Is truth
Il shadow, its impress upon civilian
tion vain Imagination lf so, then
let Us abandon To decaying dissou-
tlon the truth of the past and boldly
face that inevitable uLliouy and that
scorn which History Of the South,
acith huN clim'rMcd, has III store for
us. The f.lth aud purity Of our fu-
tnrc civilization dep"nd in no meas
urcd degree upon the tenaclry with
which we regard end preserve the
trnth Of the past. Ia the name Of the
sncred dead, in the name Of the
maimed, Impoverished and suffering
living. In the name Of those "womcn
OF lbc Suuth' whose sublime record
no E,man ma,rons or Spalt,n moth
ers ever paraIlclcd, let the truth that
is yet ours he woven iuto "housc.
ho'd words,' to become for all future
generations of Southern men and
Gpn,h2rn "omcn significant mc,Acn.
to"s of an honorable past.
The Chairman Of the Executive
Cnnmittrc OF the Southern Historical
) nicty, Gen. d. II. M.ury, in the
communication puLlsshcd in .cur
columns yesterday, gives 60 full Il
Ntatement If thA Object ut this :},cio-
~, and OF h" ,nanAc' of it's operation,
tnat we need not extend, his article
further than 70 remark that it is inn
r"sSib!c 'Eat Sny oae having read
tt.J Communication will fail to
share with us the conviction Of the
supreme Importance of this enterprise,
which has clicitcd this earnest appeal
in ita behalf.---1uyus!a Constitution.
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