Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-20
SOU I HERN ANGER
United Confederate Veterans Feel
That They Are Wronged.
THEY CONDEMN CERTAIN TEXT BOOKS

THEY CONDEMN CERTAIN TEXT BOOKS
Report of Committee Read at Re.
cent Reunion of the Organization
Touching on the Matter-Feeling of
Hostility Still Exists.
Capt. George H. Wheelock, of this
city but now temporarily resident OF
New Orleans, La, sends the Courier a
copy of the New Orleans Times-Dem
ocrat, of recent date, referring to the
election of Leon Jastremski to the of,
flee of major general commanding the
Louisiana division of the United States
Confederate Veterans, and the reun,
ion of that organization held at Baton
Rouge a short time ago. ,.
Important Report.
The most important action of the
convention, so far as the import of the
affair as a whole.is concerned. was the
report of the committee, appointed
some months ago to examine into the
character of the histories being used
as text books in the public schools.
Lewis Guion, the chairman made re
port on the matter at the reunion, part
of which is as follows:
Committees Report.
81 report that the following
books have been found to be unfair to
the South and in favor of the North;
Montgomery History of the Uni
ted States" DR.. w. P. Brewer
John Laird Wilson's Story of the
War and Coffin's Building the Nation
Gen. J. A. Chalaron.
''Judson's The Young Americans
and Grifin's 'Civics for Young Amer
leans, Hon. r. H. Browne.
"Young's Government Class Book.
Dawes How We Are Governed,
Col. j. D. Hill.
"Pierson's History of the United
States in One Syllable Col. A. B.
Booth. l also file, in addition, the fol
lowing critiques."
History of the United States, by
Barnes; History of the United States
and Its People, EggIeston; Grammar
School History of the United States
Field; A First Book in American His
tory, Eggleston; The Beginners Amer
lean History, Montgomery; History Of
the United States, Fiske; Introduction
to American Literature, Matthews;
Studies in American Literature, No
BILE
used in State Normal .School-The
Children's Third Reader, CHM & Co.
Williams Choice Literature, Book 2
intermediate, Butler, Sheldon & Co.;
New Century Fourth Reader, Rand
Mentally & Co.; Light to Literature
book 4, Rand, McNally & Co.; Brum
baugh's Standard Reader, Christopher
Sewer Company.
The Readers.
'In the readers reviewed, there are
sins of omission as well as commits
sion. No period of life should be 81
closely watched and guided as that O
childhood, and that fact has been APP
preciated and taken advantage of by
men who are hostile to us and oul
people. We have allowed them, sys
tematically, to warp and distort the
minds of our children, and we the1
wonder that the young people of thu
South look on their fathers as rebels
on slavery as a sin, exclusively inau
gurated and kept up by the South
that in the New England States tn,
cradle of liberty was rocked; that TIL
hardy pilgrim fathers were the onl,
colonizers of this country; that sloth
fitness, love of ease and slavery wen
hand in hand; and our children
through their love, are forced to apollo
gize for their fathers. We have lii
erature of our own; and while we ar
not SO narrow minded as to claim tina
selections in readers shall be exclu
sively from southern authors, we d.
say that the total exclusion would lea
young child to believe that the onl
American literature can be found i
the north. But these readers do NO
content themselves with ignoring tn
South. They hold UP to their admire
tion Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stove
whose picture is given with sketch
and this woman, who did more tina
any one person in the United State
to bring on the war, in which so muc
southern blood was shed, and SO niue
poverty and misery caused, is prom
nently placed before our children, VIII
imbibe the idea that the picture of Ur
Gle Tom is a general one, instead O
an exception.
Feeling Still Exists.
The sentiments expressed in this re
port show that the old antipathy o
the Southerners for those who live il
the North has not subsidized. Will
their position, that the trouble is no,
all over, is correct, true Northerner
maintain that this fact does not bio
out the errors made by the Confedel
ates at the time of the unpleasant
ness" However, the spirit of hosti
ity is dying with those who took pal
in the war, in a great measure, and i
the next generation, or the next, tina
hostility will be a thing of the pas
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