Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-05-25
WANT TRUE HISTORY
Strong Paper on This Subject by Mr..
Oslsby, Of Atlanta.
HOW THE SOUTH IS TRADUCED.
Facts Of the Civil War So Perverted That
Confederatcs' Grandchildren May be-
lieve Their Ancestors Traitors.

The need OF true history-one that
pictures the civil war In its true light
and does exact justice to both sides In
that great confiict-has long been felt
In the South, and both the United Con-
federate Veterans. embracing all the
Southern States, and the Grand Camp of
Virginia have. for several years been
bending TIER energies toward securing
the preparation of such work for use
in our schools.
At the meeting Of the Historical Com
mittee OF the United Veterans. held In
Birmingham the day before the recent
reunion, Mr.. T. X. Oglesby. Of Atlanta,
Ga, read strong paper In behalf OF
true history. and setting forth how the
South Is misreprese nted by alleged his
torians. Air. Oglesby's paper opens by
quoting several statements from the
Encyclopedia Britannica--which is being
advertised in southern papers and com
mended by some Of them as an absolutely
reliable authority on all subjects-to show
that the South is placed In an entirely
false light. 1.-The statements quoted" he
says, ARE illustrative Of the spirit per-
vading that work in its articles touching
the history Of the United States, the
whole tenor OF which Is to hold the south
ern people up to the view of mankind as
originally n race of brutal slave-drivers,
semi-savages. conspirators, and traitors,
whose posterity Is indebted to the North
for what civilization they do pos
Sess"
EFFECT UPON THE CHILDREN.
Glow are the children (of southern
men)when they read in that book about
the blighting of the spirit OF enterprise
in the South-to know the fact that the
magniicence OF the American Union Is
due TO the spirit of enterprise and martial
daring of southern men? How are they
10 know the falseness Of the statement
that the South's moral sense was blight
ed? When they read the statement about
the slave-trade how are they to know
the fact that every one Of the American
vessels referred to as being engaged in
that trade was built In a northern port,
and armed and manned by northern men,
and that the negroes with which they
were filled on the African coast were
carried chiefly 10 Brazil and other foreign
countries? How are they to know the
fact that, from August. 1912, TO the win
ter OF 1853, there was but one importa-
and that the vessel which brought that
cargo was made by northern hands with
northern wood. fitted out in one northern
port. and cleared from another northern
port; that the captain was q northern
man, who was afterward an officer in the
northern army In the late war, and that
all but one Of the men who went with
him to Africa on the slave-hunt were
northern men? How are they 10 know
the fact that thu last slave-ship captured
by vessel Of the United States navy
lin the summer of 1900 was commanded
by a northern man, and that ii was
southern man afterwards a Confederate
soldier who. at the imminent peril of
his life. took that slave-ship in mid
ocean, and carried IT back TO Africa and
there liberated its 200 captive negroes
that the only southerner who had any
thing to do with that slave-ship was the
one who captured 1t and liberated the
slaves?'