The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-02
The Principles Of Lee and Jacksol
For the use of Schools.

The Principles of Lee and Jackson
For the use of Schools.
We have on our table "NeN
School History of the United Stats
of America" by j. S. Blackburf.
Principal of Potomac Academys
Alexandria, Virginia, and w NJ
Mcdonald, A. NJ, Principal of the
Male High School of Louisville,
Kentucky. 1t is published by VIM
J. G. Dulany & Co., Baltimore. 4The
copy before us is dated 1880. and pun
ports to be of the eleventh edition
revised" We may fairly assume,
therefore, that it enjoys an extelsiye
circulation IN the region for which y
is manifestlv written and that itlsets
forth the latest yearnings for frater-
nifty and conciliaticn. Tlia autllpts
believe that theirs Is the onfy schsss5i'
history of the United States " hichi
meets 1.-The demands of the present
OCCASION"
Their object was not merely to
furnish Southern schools with book
in which the gaIlantry Of Southern
soldiers should receive its due recog-
milton, but to teach the young that
the Southern cause was eternally
right, and that the Southern people
are now crushed under a vile despo-
tism. The South was beaten by a
variety of errors and accidents; but
nothing whatever has been settled
by the war; not slavery not even
secession. Such history can have
no other tendency, of course, than to
encourage the next generation to try
the Lost Cause again ; and that we do
not doubt is what the teachers all
over the South who have distributed
ten editions, and now call for an
eleventh, hope and expect from it..
Messrs. Blackburn and Mcdonald
begin with jealous defence of slav-
cry in colonial days, as the "natural
condition of the African" and a
"means Of spreading the blessings of
Christianity" 1t is true that there
was in some places sentimental
prejudice and Oglethorpe, in his
Georgia plantation, prohibited slavery
and rum. Under this policy, how.
ever, "the colony languished," and
there was no prosperity in Georgia
till the restrictions were repealed
''and. the inhabitants were permitted
to enjoy all the rights and privileges
pertaining to the citizens of theother
colonies" Virginia was settled by
gentlemen /; the Puritan colonists of
New England, on the contrary, be-
lenged to the lower classes hated
their ''social and official superiors :"
and provoked the severity of the
English Government by "their open
defiance of all legitimate authority"
In the framing of the Constitution,
the South waived her right to a full
representation of her slaves" agree
ing that only three-ffths of them
should be counted, though none of
them were allowed to vote and she
consented to enter Government in
which the North had controlling
majority" only because she expected
soon to Outstrip the North. The
notification measures of 1882 would
have led to "civil war between South
Carolina and the General Govern
ment," if Mr.. Clay had not carried
compromise measure, which "was
accepted by Mr.. Calhoun" The
North, however, after persuading
South Carolina not to fight, soon
violated her pledge" If General
Jackson should hear this he would
turn over in his grave. The history
of the struggle for the extension of
slavery is told briefly. but with the
set purpose of showing, in defiance
of facts, that the North was perpetu-
ally breaking pledg and invading
Southern right. The Missouri Conn
promise was "clearly unconstitution-
al" and therefore it was rightly re.
pealed-as soon as the South had got
all she could out of it.
The Republican party "was entire
ly sectional in its principles, and had
no adherents in the slaye States"
The assent of the South to the exclu-
sion of slavery frorI the Northwest
Territory was a great mistake. since
that developed sectional antagon-
ism" We ought to have had slavery
everywhere, and then there would
haye been no sectionalsm. "The
politicians, "thirsting for distinction
at any price," sought that eminenee
which they had failed to get in an
honorable way, by appealing to the
more selfish and more violent pas
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