The Butler weekly times., 1897-05-06
An Impartial History Desired.

The United Confederate Veterans
will hold perhaps the largest and
most important meeting the organi
zation has ever held since its forma
ton in Nashville, Tenn, on June.
%, % and "a Referring to the
gathering, the Baltimore American |
says: Many matters of interest to
the survivors of the Southern army
will be considered, such as the care
of disabled, destitute and aged vet
erans and the widows and orphans
of fallen comrades, the formation of
a united Confederate Veteran Benev-
olent Aid association, the promotion
and completion Of the proposed
battle abbey, the best methods of
securing impartial history and the
compilation and preservation by each
State of the history of its citizen
soldiery. These are all subjects of
importance to the Southern people,
especially the necessity of securing
an impartial history Of the war be
tween the states, which is of graver
concern than the establishment OF q
battle abbey of or the rearing OF
monuments to Confederate soldiers
and statesmen
Many histories of the war have
been written by Northern meo, but
with ons or two exceptions,the later
histories have not been fair or judi
cial, the purpose of the writer's evi
dently being to show that in al
the causes leading up to the grea
conflict the South was wholly In th
wrong, that it was sole ly respor sibl
for the war and that it actually an,
is, eagerly preferred blood shed to
of peceful settlement of the issues a
N, stake. In fact, the farther we leav
the war period behind us the NOR
n4yf unfair and one sided the historic
of seem to become until at last til, Gu
the the mlnating point is reached in a r.
,on $ a ported arrangement by the Gran
aid Army of the Republic to secure
nn in textbook for use in the schools wi
eet be of such a nature that no Soutl
ent ern boy could read it without infe
rt- .st ring that the Confederate lead !
ing and soldiers were traitors of th
" deepest dye. Such a history ms
,est sht suit the purposes of those who al
un- anxious to perpetuate sectional fee
gun gun ing or who may honestly-but ma
lntSyj rowly, Observation-Disclosures thel
the was only ore side to the question
'1hr 9he at issue, but it should not be allo'
to ed to go unchallenged by the poop
r Of of tie South, who still cherish the
es- faith in the honor and patriotism
ore the men who wore the gray.
sper A, Confederate history is not wal
Mis-, Mis-, ed any more than Grand Army
the the Republic history What
true wanted is an honest, unprejudic
said statement of the constitutional d
r W on ferences which led up to the war
fair exposition of the views held
*. both parties to the contention;
. unvarpished account OF all the
currences which ultimated in sec
sion, and then the true story OF
ouri, war. Such a history is not Of
e a q 3 needed for the youth of the Sou
,e of but in broader sense for the p
i"i de- pie of the world. The final verd
has not yet been passed upon
in by merits of that stupendous conf
TX the pe but if the South has not compl
her her history, which shall present only
Com great truths and facts that are
Sana: Ssr, yond dispute. the final judgmeht
'ubli the world will be based upon
object ex parte works of Northern his
the ians aud the South will suffer G,
ggre- iniustice.-Kapsas CITY Times