The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-04
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET.
FOR PREST-
WILLIAM ]. BRYAN.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
ADlAI E. STEVENSON.
SUGGESTED BY THE G.. A. II. RES
OLUTION.

1t is a notorious fact that no north
ern writer has ever been able to so di-
vest himself of his Unborn. hereditary
and acquired prejudices n hatreds
as to tell the truth as to the south be-
fore the war, during the war and since
the war. a large Boston publishing
house wrote to know how we would
like to receive a copy of JOIN Fiske's
history concerning Virginia, etc., and
review it. We had not seen the work
but had seen the action OF the Vir-
ginia confederates, who Indignantly
repudiated 1t as unworthy. We wrote
that John P. Ropes was the only can-
England. and that Ffske was one-sid-
ed. and unfair. and would not do.
So far back as 1874 and rs we exam
ined northern school histories and
found them full of lies. We have not
concerned ourselves with those of the
last decade or so. They may i've i'm
proved. for there was much room for
It Some continued, as we have now
and then read, to hold up the illustri-
Gus Lee and the other most prominent
commanders as traitors. We can say
on the authority Of one of the foremost
ministers in North Carolina. who COM
mandS the highest respect and venera-
ton of all, that even so broad and lib
r a man as the late Bishop Phillips
Brooks was thought to be, in the pull
pit of his splendid church in Boston,
spoke of Robert E. Lee. that traitor"
1t will be seen how far gone Yankee
doodleism is from the paths Of right
ousness and and truth when the
south is to be dealt with or her great
est son.
1t appeared some six on eight years
ago hat it was high time to give up
northern books teeming with false
hoods and suppression of truth as to
the great war. Several southern pens
have been engaged upon histories of the
war we believe. Vice President Alex
ander H. Stephens, of Georgia, made a
valuable contribution soon after the
war. Mrs. Lee, of Virginia, whose
husband is a first cousin of the peer
1853 1sODCII T. LCCr Ids loo pLCpdACu
a history of merit and while southern
is true, we believe.
We are reminded of these things by
the resolution adopted on he 29th Of
August at Chicago by the Grand Army
of the Republic. That body was pleas
ed to censure the south and to de-
nounce the southern histories of the
war:
Resolutions were adopted calling on
h public, in the name of the Grand
Army, to Danish the BOOKS from the
schools of the country and a committee
was appointed to carry out the protest.
The aid of publishers and historical
writers will be solicited"
That tells the story. There have
been far too much cringing and crying
by southern men over a restored
union" and 1--WE are brothers" and
other meaningless stuff the, nearest
rot, for good morals and healthy stom-
achs. The north has not forgiven u
south. 1t had to send over 2. 100000
men into the south in armies to fight
but 900, 600, and it tool -four years to
finish the job. If e could nave had
1000 men he would lave taken
Washington and captured Philadelphia
and New York City. Grant and the
over-rated soldiers would have never
been heard of, and great Southern
C~onfederacy with 30 900, 900 of people
would be today the grande>< republic
OF the ages. The north will nSSer for
give the south. Get the IVA Records
published in Washington by the fed
eral government, land learn the truth
Exclusive OF the huge navy the north
had in it's armies more tina $1,000
men. 1t was the greatest war Of tn
world. and the south showed fighting
qualities not yet equalled as a who'll
among modern nations.
One more remark Are not those reSo
buttons of the G. A. r. a little bit i'm
pudent? What business has it to b
meddling with southern histories
Their writer's have had thirty years o
unbridled license and unmitigated ly
ing against southern manhood AM
southern rights. 1t. a filled tn
whole land with hundreds of thousand
Of histories that branded the south a
traitors, lied as to results of battles
and DETAINED generally. And now tina
the south says We have had quit
enough of all this d~espicaple trearmen
and we will write our own histories
then this great G.. A. r. sets up
mighty howl of indignation n put
its brand of censure upo the books
southern production. LET the he
then rage and imagine a vain thing
No true man in all southland VIII cal
a fig. The men who wore the era
will no longer submit to be called ira
%ors and rebels. and to be paraded