The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-28
BIG DAY AT MUNCIE.
Concluded from First Pagc)

the committee quotes the statement: The
South was eager to repel INVASION Ss;s me me
aggressors by. firing upon Sumter and
selZing federal property. Quoting again
North" the committee points out the con-
tradction therein to the statement on page
that In Mhe bref b1t glowing descrp
ton of Pickett'S charge at Gettysburg is
gyen nan E the
committee asks the reader to compare this
admiration of Confederate valor with the
why asks the committee. Should an
gallant, difficult and successful charges
ever made by any army in the world,
Rage up the face of 81 and o
brilliant success and yet stop to praise
P.cketts rash and fatal assault at Gettys-
After going through the Montgomery book
above indicated, the committee falls
riddles it. 1t quotes. giving the page, that
the slave States believed that the cleo
that that they. the southern states, had other
complaints; that the child must remem-
ar or Which ann
member could Withdraw. 1t is also quoted
that among the secessionists were num--
bered some of the most skilled soldiers and
statesmen of the age" but there is
word of similar praise for any Union states
man or soldier. Attention is called to the
fact that a picture is printed showing the
federal army in disgracefu rout at Bull
ates could not be conquered until destroyed
but not told of any corresponding valor
OF the other side h Thus a the r,os com I'M
claring that Barnes's school history is
equally objectionable. To bring the mat
above named presented the following pre-
anible and resolutions to the encampment:
Whereas, under the providence of God.
to make treason odious Lincoln and Grant
lived, and hundreds of thousands of lives
and millions of treasure were sacrificed by
an earnest and patriotic people: and where
as in all lands and in al time, love of
country and patriotic devotion to its insti-
tutions have ever been recognized as the
true gauges of pure and perfect citizen
ship; and whereas, the broken crowns and
wrecked monuments of the, ages are the
legiance; and whereas, the safety and per-
petuity of a country depends upon the
properly directed intellect of its youth and
whereas. youth is SO much the season or
Impressions, and impressions the basis of
belief leading up to a convection, that Il
the facts of history to be suppressed
distorted as they are conveyed through edu-
histories read and taught in the schools of
Indiana, notably Montgomerys, Barnes's
and Ellis's tend to pervert or change the
truths stamped ON the pages of time from
1861 to 1ooo; to measure by a common stand
ard and from the same level the traitors
and Grant; to justify the promptings and
first steps of treason. and to belittle the
deeds ana prOWeSS OF the Union army by
giving undue prominence to momentary sue
cesses of the traitors; therefore be it
Resolved, That we, the surviving soldiers
of the war for the Union, declare that the
treason of those long past years had no
justification in theory or in fact: that the
leaders In that unholy cause were not alone
branded by overt acts of treason, but by
perjury and other crimes, and that the
place in history of such traitors as Davis
and Lee Is below that of Benedict Arnold;
that in comparison with the work of the
traitor army, the grand achievements and
heroic deeds of the patriouc sons of the
North are the glow of the morning to
the shades of evening and that these facts
should be taught to and impressed upon the
minds of the youth OF the land; that his
tory which does not mention treason or
traitors in connection with those days is I'M
worthy place in any educational system.
'sResolyed, That the so-caIled histories of
Montgomery, Barnes and Ellis are mere
caricatures, and that they pervert the facts
of history, pander to the opinions and feel
ings of traitors, mslead the youth of the
land tend to create a sentiment OF dis
loyalty, IL not to encourage treason, and
are unworthy place in our public schools,
and should be suppressed.
Resolved, That the department COM
mander appoint q permanent committee of
five. whose duty It shall be to bring about
the adoption and teaching In our public
schools OF a just and patriotic history
one that shall embody all OF treason and
ali Of patriotism. and SHAH hold UP for the