The age-herald., 1897-10-03
COLD, HARD, BALD FACT.
A "Dspassionate and TruthfuI' History of the
 War For Southern Schools.

Dallas, Tex, Sept. 23.-One of the 8ead- ing ex-confederalte camps in the south IS Camp Sterling Price of Dallas At it's regular weekly meeting on September 20 tine camp received a. report from a special committee recently appointed to look into the southern school history subject. Col. James B. Simpson, Dr. s. H. Stout. and Judge A. T. Watts were the committee, and their report, written in Colonel Simpsons most vigorous style, was submitted. It follows:
 ''To our Comrades of the United Confed-
 crate Veterans throughout Texas:
 'It is apparent to Camp Sterling Price of Dallas that if the self-respect of the living, the honored memory of the dead, and the truths of history are to be vin- dicated and matlntadnsd, the histories taught in cur public schools should fairly and dispagsionaltely speak the truth. It has been we'll said that history, as now written, if accepted in future years, will consign the south to infsmy. If we were in fact and in truth traitors; if we pro- voked and attempted dishonorable, bloody and lawlesa rebellion, our acts would be fatal to horror, and our memo
  dren. A distinguished writer has we'll said that one of the most singular illustrations was presented of the power of literature to conceal and pervert the truth, to modify and falsify history, to transfer odium from the guilty to, the innocent, fs to be found i'm the fact that tht reproach of the disunon Gras been slipped from 11.o T Q 4I south. It is a singular political Meme sis that nullification and rebellion as terms of reproach should attach to the south while the north has escaped any odium attached ito these terms, although she openly and successfully nulllfied the constitution and the flag of rebellion against the federal compact and federal laws ficated over half (her capitals.
 That the north incessantly, flaSrantly and defiantly advocated and threatened secession, and am annullment of federal Jaw and a violation of the costitution, which was declared to be a covenant with death and in league with hsll,' are unquestioned and >inilsputable historical facts. That slavery was advocated, sus- tained and fostared largely by the north, and, oftentimes, over the protests of the states of the south, ds an estab- lished historical fact. That the Puritans
  children by the pounl. as other merchan- disc was bought and sold, and hsr church deacons and elders, when sraveas, load- ed with the human cargoes, returned from Africa, were in the habit on the next Sabbath to give the Almighty thanks, because a gracious, everything Providence had been pleased to bring to this land of freedom another cargo of benighted heathens, to enjoy ths bIess- ings of gospel dispensation, are also historical facts,
 But 1t is upon Ghe vltal point of the right of withdrawal from the federal comDsut-ln frank terms, of the right of s c csski on-t'hat history most imperiously requires to be recas. i'm the interese of horior, of justice and of truth.
 Without recurring to the mass of his torlc testimony amply available, since to recite references would require a, vol rfne and possibly trespas5 upon your patience, it will suffice for us to assert that the power to withdraw from the federal comp1ct was never denied to the states, and the power to prohibit i, ever delega;ed to the federal government by the conslt.tutiom This. among other eraDsceEdaHt rights, was reserved to the states. Before the dangerous and de- splcabls doc'tr3ms originated by the no tn. of a higher law than the constitution no man ever dreamed of so offensive a solec-sm as that a sovereign s ate could rebel. The very idea, that a sovereign SldI6 COuIU 1SDGl dRalnSt IuSSIf, IS a blatant absurdity.
 If state had a right 10 sscede, she had "a right to resume cortrol of her forts and arsenals ceded to qhe federal government flor its use during the ex- Astence of the compac.. If a state, G1s the rightful exercise of gts auth orf.y, had the right to secede, it did not commit rebellion, and tits sons and daughters were not rebels and traitors.
 "fo attack a state for the exercise of that right, to ridge it's lands over with graves, to ravage 1t with fire and bathe it with the blood of its bravest and b4st, to Impose upon it as @ conquered prov 1nce taxes and burdens so nnontstrolts and exacting as to cause Fthe one thousand millions paid to Germany by France to sink into utter inSf gn,ficsmce, and firai- ly, with bitterness as intense as the human tongue could utter, ito de.6ame the living and the dead, ard to forever write US down as traitors and murderers. and hrEfdlollsly impose upon arld instMl into our children these fmonStrous peryer- stons of truth, we here eolemnly affirm should be no longer toleraaei.
 9l'SThe south ruled this government for sixty of the seventy years of it's exist efice, and it can meyer be fprgotter-fc must not be forgotten for it is wrftetn on the brightess pages of bfstory-that we surrendered it into the keeping of the north without stain upon it's honor; 'boundless in is proseprily, Incalculable fin it's strength, the wonder and the ad- miration of the world. It is net just. It is treason to ourselves, to our mat ch1sss tradBtionss, to our honor, that the last thirty years of national life should riot OpSly, boastfully and malicjousfy pervert history, and attempt to cast eternal re- proach upon the southern people. To the end that you may aid us in re-esablieh. ing the truthfulnass of history, and vim dtcahing and maintaining cur honor, we most earnestly invite your co-opers ton in placing before elhe coming gen sraf on, and especially in the schools of our state. disnassionate and truthful History"
 IThls report was unanfmously adopted by the camp and a resolution pesssd tihat printed copies be sent t, a'l other camps in the state, with the ,tvg nt rn- quest that they use their fnGus~ee to l have the s'tate school board a7opl a proper United Sta~es history to b. rsei | in the public schools of Texas.
 This school history question bids fair 1 to got more aIte-tfon throughou- T xns | in the immediate future than any other l e5"raio-ial question since the close of the 1