The National tribune., 1888-07-19
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HEADQ'Rs WoMAN's RELIEF CORPS,
AUXILIARY To THE GAR,
DETROIT, MICH, July, 1885

hEADQ KS WOMAN RELIEF CoRPSg
AUXILIARY To THE GAR,
DETROIT, MICH, July, 1888, }
TRUE HISTORY OR NoNE-A PROBLEM FOR
THE GAR. AND w.R.C.
The Department of Wisconsin, GAR, has
taken the initiative in the movement to secure
correct school history for the tens of thousands
of youths and children North and South who
on the one hand are supplied with next to
nothing, and on the other with the perniciOus
doctrines of secession and rebellion.
A committee having thoroughly examined
the school histories, North and South, laid the
result of their researches before the 22d annual
Encampment at Milwaukee, when the report
was adopted and ordered published, copies to
be sent to all Departments GAR and Teachers
Associations in the United States commit
tee, consisting of Lucius Fairchild, e. B. Gray,
Philip Cheek, Z. L. Shores and John Meehan,
was appointed to bring the subject to the at
tention of the National Encampment at Column
bus o.
SAMPLES FROM SOUTHERN HISTORIES.
In their report the committee, consisting of
John Hancock, A. o. Wright and H. C. Curtis,
make extended quotations from Southern his
tories, of which the following are samples:
From DaTidson's School History of South Caro-
lima, Chapter 1876: The cause of secession, which
was the cause of the war; was very much the same
thing that caused notification in 1882. Congress
Kept passing laws which il had right to pass,
Chapter 1876: Whatever may have been the
that brought the State to that decision South
Carolina did decide TO withdraw from the Union of
the States. She had a right do this; that is if
the States Rights party of the South correct in
its doctrine.'
From Southern History, by J. s. Blackb burn,
Principal Potomac Academy, Alexandria, and
w. n. Mcdonald, A. NJ. Principal of Male High
School, Louisville, KY. Twelfth edition, revised:
Page 404 Col Ellsworth is styled famous
and mir rtl If
jackson, his slayer, at the South tears were shed
for him, and he was ranked among the patriotic
martyrs of history"
Page 427: THE second year of the war now
commenced; il found each section preparing with
terrible earnestness for the conflict. The South
was straining every nerve to resist the Northern
multitudes; her Congress passed a law conscribing
all men under IS years of age. To fill her armies
the North had a better and more successful mode;
she offered immense bounties and high pay. In
duced by these, thousands of European mercenaries
enlisted. The South had nothing but her gallant
children TO put in the field, and thus she con-
demned to stake her most precious jewels against
the trash Of Europe"
CONCLUSIONS OF REPORT.
These Southern histories do not fail to make
known their side ofthis question. They full oft
There is no disguise on their part. What we deem
treason is there made respectable. While our his
tories the subject comparatively silent,
indeed are so amentably deficient upon this ques-
ton that it were far better TO discard all history Of
country during the epoch of 1860 65 than to adj
init them to our schools now compiled. 1t
is time that broad, comprehensive Constitutional,
Unionloying patriotism should be taught in our
common schools We have had one epoch of
supiueness and apathy upon this question, and the
result that Wisconsin had to send 80 600 of her
best citizens to the field, of whom 1900 never re-
| turned.
While it may be useless to critlcse this Southern
| method, under present lack of a national
| system Of education we have no remedy, except
so far as we can influence public opinion in the
South by expression of our sentiment. should
not fail in or be deferred from doing duty.
snOUi6 be
| the strongest incentive to educate own chill
dFen In that sturdy loyalty that places the Union
| Is in the people of the United States, not in
! the people of single State, and that nuIlif-
cation and secession are treason. And we would
appeal to the ex-soldiers of the COnfederacy whose
| bravery on many well-fought field we can amply
| attest, having honestly surrendered they did,
| and protesting to love the Union as they now do
! urging that they use their influence against the
doctrine OF State rights, which the chief cause
of sad fraternal strife and which, if continued
to be taught, may again BIO the cause Of another
| civil war.
Comrades, you know of It, The badges you
wear upon your breasts, which entitle you to a
/ seat IN this Eneampment, evidence that you met
and throttled this heresy the batteiields oil
your country, and now it is in your hands TO re.
solve whether or not you will so far as your inffu-
ence extends, see to il that your children sup
| piled with School History from which they can
learn the reasons why their fathers went forth 10
battle for the unity of the States for the Constitu
! ton and for the supremacy of law.
WELCOME TO JESSIE FREMONT.
Jessie Benton Fremont has become member oil
| Frank Bartlett Corps Los Angeles, Cal. As the
| daughter of the Hon. Thomas Benton, of the
| iilustrious men who gave to the American Repub-
ne the impress OF rugged craftsmanship and intel
| lectual ponderosity; as the wife of Gen John O.
Fremont, the PathFinde of the Rockies" who
! opened up the great West to the gold-digger and
| the hOmesteader, and for herself and ali that she
represents of magnificent American womanhood
we welcome her to the ranks of the Woman's Re.
lief Corps.
| Mrs. Fremont has been an industrious contribu.
| tor to the newspapers and magazines for many
years. Her tribute TO Zagonyi and the - Old
| Guard" who distinguished themselves under
Gen. Fremont in the early part of the war in Mis-
| souri,, Is one Of the best works of the war.
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