The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-05
THE SOUTH'S SCANT JUSTICE.
Dr.. ]. William Jones On "SIudy oil Amtrl-
can History in Southern Colleges
ISLANDER Ard MISREPRESENTATION"
Has Been the Portion of the South ns Re-
suit OF Allowing Others to Write Our
History-1he south Made Large
Part of American Bistory-ihe
Remedy.


Southern Colleges" was discussed in a
paper prepared by Or. j. William Jones'
chaplain OI the Miller Manual-LabOf
School, Albcmarle county Virginia, and
read before the department OF hIgher
Education" at the recent session OF
the Southern Educational Association at
Hot Springs, Ark.
After bringing out the fact that In
most of the colleges OF the South some
attention is now given 10 the study OF
American history, and in some cases
tolerably fair course is provided, though
only one college has chair devoted ex-
cluslvely to This subject, Dr. Jones ar
gued the necessity and Importance or
the study Of American history IN our
schools, colleges. and uniyersiues-
l. Because America has his
tory worth studying. lie gave brief
outline of the salient points I'M the coionl-
cation, development, progress, present
! status, and future outlook OF this great
! country OF ours, and argued that FOR US
| the study Of its history should be OF FAR
more interest and importance than that
Of ancient empires or modern instltu-
/ tons.
| .. But ne insisted that the study Of
| American history was of the greater i'm
/ portance ln Southern colieges-(D be-
| cause the South was made so large
/ part of American history. This ne IL
/ Illustrated ly reference TO facts IN Colo
/ NAL, revolutionary, and civil history
/ showing that the South bore tho hrnht
/ of the Revolutionary war, the war Oh
/ 1912. and tho Mexican war; that during
q period Of eighty years, from Washing
ton TO Grant, Southern-born men flled
the presidency of the United States for
/ nfty-seven years, and NOrthern-born men
] .r.fer q hire
ern men led and ruled the country
! through OIL OF the years Of prosperity
I and happiness up 20 1867 that every FOOT
| Of territory ever added 10 the pubic
domain, from Virginia. princely gift or
/ her northwestern territory 10 the pur-
{ chase OF Alaska. was under the ADMIN
/ istrati0n of a Southern-DOrn President
/ and usually against the bitter opposition
/ OF the Northern States. that in 1850 there
was more money invested I'm and more
students attending Southern than North
/ ern COLLEGES: that we had the only real
I university. and the highest standard OF
scholarship in the land. and that the
South was the Conservative balance-wheel
of the country Ia politics, education ana
religion.
THE sCANTEST JUSTICE.
But he specially argued the necessity OK
the study of American history IN aoulh-
ern colleges from the fact that the South
has done $50 little towards writing the
history sho has made. and has lett IL 80
entirely in the hands of Northern ae-
thors and publishers. that our section
has had but the scantcst justice ana
often the basest SANDERS and our schools
and colleges have been using TEXTBOOKS
which are O. libel upon the history OF
our people Or. Jones illustrated TINS
from colonial revolutionary and ciVll
history. and then gives the following IN
reference TO tho best OF these TEXTBOOKS
which Northern authors prepare ana
enterprlsing publishers put INTO our
schools and colleges
They relate the history OF slavery as
If inc south was alone responsible for IT,
ignoring the historic facts that after the
FIRST twenty slaves which the colonists
at jamestown bought from the Dut1h
| shin no negro was ever landed ON THESE
shores which was not brought in a snip
of either old England or New Ehsianu
that Nirginia and Georgia made repeated
| nrotests against the Introduction anu
perpetuation Of slavery; that one OF tNe
counts against England when JeheIso"
had i'm the original draft OF the beoiai"
ion of Independence was that she had
forced slavery on the colonies as@ii,9'
their will. that slavery existed IN the
Northern states un. they found that IN
thefr climate and among manulaclul-
inc people il would not pay ana lhty
abolished &c. not on moral, but on purely
! commercial grounds, and, instead oi
concentrating the negroes, so'd theh
south nut the money in their pockets
and then began TO repent Oh our 'iii
| in holding slaves; that by the ac'iOI "a
the convention of 1lSl the slave uaue ""7
confined for twenty years by the votes
lnrN
| rnonou0lizlng the lucrative Duslllosal' anu
against the earnest protest and votes Oh
NToryland Delaware. and virginia anu
tbet the slave trade was hnaiIy auoi-
| t.b.d bv state action of Genisld, VIZ
,int. ana other Southern States mat
! slavery was SO distinctly recoshlAou ~
| me Constitution of the United states anu
the right of each state 10 equine 10
own domestic affairs, so PLAINLY "li''0''
| that Congress Noiateu l"o a.,
| o.b.p n leeislated against slavery as
',D.~i,, ae A. il had passed laws against
| ~ f9cforv labor OF New Ensiahd' OF
ne emnlovment OF white .aDor IN lhe
| s-orth,vest and this was 50 dlsuhcuy
| .,.o,,,,iyed by the leaders or the Anol-
| tn Marty that they denounced lhe
| Constitution as "a league Win ne" 49,
| n covenant with death ana prol e1Seu ="
! Ia GOVERNED by a higher law IMAM 'io
| Constitution ana laws Oh 'A4 '""-'t' . o.
49, when they finally succeeded IN auol-
,shtre. slavery. il was the triumph OF
br,te force over justice and right ana
| 49,. ,,lea of military necessity was oIly
| tne Mica of tho freebooter through the
ccrfllrics Mr. Lincoln having SAID III
bts inaugural address That no had no
r,-bt under the Constitution, 10 interfere
win slavery in the states, ana no us
nosition TO do So II he had the risht' ana
III Emancfpauon Proclamation pelhs'
,herafore q plain violation OF ms oh'l
80 sunnort the Constitution, ana hnai'
tbat after all that has been said ABOUT
tn "crime." cruelty" and "degraaa-
,ionn of slavery no laboring people III
~ world were ever better fed. better
ciotbed or better provided for than the
,,,.,,,.oes ~ the South, and Southern mas
ters had so FAR met their oplsation 70
their. slaves that they remained laiuli III
through the four years Of war, ana "hoh
e,ancipated. in 1855, over eoo,OO OF them
,yere members OF evangelical churches'
ond the heather savages when Ne"
Eneland greed had brought from africa
,,,ara 90 far Christianized and eie' ated
nat our Northern brethren deemed them
a. FOR the ballot, and 10 hold ofnce-lN
THE SOUTH.
CRIME or QUALIFICATION.
These histories speak Of the great crime
~ qualification" in South Carolina, ou
give no hint that this doctrine originate
in New England whose states steaahl
"nuUiaed" every law passed by Congress
for raising men on money TO pIoseeut'