The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-12-03
\ MOST SURPRISING ARTICLE FROM
TIM NATION.

The New York Nation for November
2lst contains review OF Mrs. Susan
Pendleton Lees school History of the
United States" which is so venomous.
so false in its ISLANDERS of the people
OF the South. and 50 saturated with
prejudice against and hatred of them
that we are simply amazed to find 1t in
the columns of the Nation. which is
really the weekly edition Of the Evening
Post. We should no. have been sur
prised at the publication of this article
i'm the New York Commercial Advertiser
while il was controlled by that renegade
southerner. John \. Cockeril IL would
have been a choice morceau, contributed
by him 10 the palates of those who had
been spurning him while he pretended
10 be a souiherner and of the South.
But 10 find 30 in The weekly edition OF
the Post grieves as almost as much
"a II astonishes us.
In noticing this article. We pass by
what the writer insinuates against the
value Of Mrs. Lees history. by reason
of it's being written by a Southerner.
from a Southern standpoint The writer
Of the article has received his impress
slons of the war and It's mighty events
from the false accounts Of them that
Northern historians have published, and
we OF the South must patiently walt
until time has overthIown their false
hoods and forced the truth into the
places they once held. That day Is
fast approaching and our unparalleled
fight will shortly be known OF and under
stood by all men. What we shall say
will be limited 10 the vile SANDER OF the
Southern people In their mental and
moral characteristics which the writer
OF this article has put out.
lie says II is time the cant Of charging
Uncle Toms Cabin" with being the
medium OF ISLANDERS" and "overdrawn
statements" and "caricatures OF South
ern life," was ended. Mrs. Lee. says
he although Nirglnian. would not dare
TO print in an appendix Jererson's ar
raignment OF slavery in his Notes on
Virginia" and ne continues thus:
"Stin less would she make room for
the following authentic narrative of
the awful atrocity perpetrated by one
Lilburn Lewis. a son of Jefferson's sis
ter The place was Livingston county,
KY. near the mouth OF the Cumberland;
the date, December It, 1911. the mar
rator clergyman, who related the
story 10 Rev. John Rankin, native Of
Tennessee. who published II in his let
tiers addressed 10 slave-holdng brother.
in 1924 Lewis was hard master,
whose slaves frequently ran away. one.
an ul-grown boy of seventeen, just
returned from "A skulkng spell had the
misfortune 10 break valuable pitcher at
the spring. His master thereupon at
night summoned all the slaves into the
most rOomy negro-house. built a rousing
fire. and barred the door. Then calling
up George
"'Hc hound him with cords and. by
the assistance OF his younger brother.
laid him on broad bench or meat
block. lie next proceeded TO whack off
George by the ankles. IL was with the
brad-axe, In vain did the unhappy
victim scream and roar. He was com
pletely in his masters power. Not a
hand amongst so many burst interfere
tCasting the feet into the IRE. he lee
tured them at some length. He whack-
ed him of below the knees. George roar
ing out. and praying his master 10 be-
gin at the other end, He admonshed
them again. tossing the joints into the
fre. lie again lectured them al leisure.
and cut on the arms. head. and
trunk. until all was in the fire; stil pro-
tracing the intervals with lectures. and
threatenInRs 0. like punishment In case
Of disobediencc and running away, or
disclosure OF this tragedy
The Nations reviewer then says. lest
this may be thought incredible. he will
quote from the New York Herald. ac-
counts OF two lyn\ings that have taken
naece In TIA South very recently. that