The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-11-18
ROOSEVELT SCORED
Sherman's Character and Talents
shelled Warmly by Dr.. Jones

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shelled Warmly by Dr.. Jones.
ABOUT THE BATTLE ABBEY
DR.. Jones Explains the Object o.
the Cause and What VIII be
Done With the Institution
When Completed.
In an address Wednesday in Au,
gusta, Ca, before the Confederate
convention Of Georgia DR.. J. William
Jones, chaplain commander Of the
general .. c. Y. organization, and
at the head Of the movement for the
erection Of battle abbey in the
South, scored President Roosevelt in
the harshest terms for his praise OF
General Sherman and a wilful distor.
tion OF the facts Of history. TIE ad-
dress produced the widest enthusiasm
among the old veterans Of the lost
cause and was cheered to the echo.
DR.. Jones said:
DR.. JonEs' SPEECH.
Through the slacknesS Of the peo-
pie in the South there has been allow
ed to stand as undisputed history
statements that are absolutely and
entirely untrue. This extends not
only to the ignorant, but to the
leaders Of the land. The president
(Voice: I didn't know We had one)
in his speech, made at the unvelling
Of Sherman's monument. spoke Of him
as the greatest leader in the civil war.
Sherman, who was routed at Manas-
sas, at Shiloh, so badly defeated by
Stephen D. Lee at Vicksburg that he
was forced to board bis transports and
return to Memphis; Sherman, who
was outgeneraled and defeated by the
noble Forest, who, with much
smaller force, time and again sent
him flying. Sherman, who never
waged successful warfare until with
overwhelming numbers he forced his
way South and made through Georgia,
leaving smoking ruins in his rear.
(Voice-Yes, waging war on women
and children). Gentlemen, this is the
man that Theodore Roosevelt, presi-
dent of the United States, character
ICES as a brave and brilliant man.
Roosevelt has written history Of the
West, but when he comes to the story
of the great conflict between the
North and the South his knowledge
is sadly deficient.
A veteran in the crowd mentioned
Booker Washington's name and DR..
Jones replied: Booker Washington
is a saint compared With him.
FALSE HISTORIES.
Comrades, think of this man Sher-
man, who lied on Wade Hampton in
bis official report to the government
about the burning Of Columbia, and
who, in a history written some years
after the war, which I always keep
handy, for it is to me an exemplifca-
tion Of that old proverb, oh that
mine enemy would write book ac-
knowledges that he lied, and said
that Hampton was a braggart, and
that he wished to injure him with
his own people.
II saw a history written by a
Northern man which stated that
there were 100000 men in the Con-
federate army, when, as matter of
fact, there were only 100000. won't
say where, Sbut at Southern uniVer-
sity, there was a professor Of history
who made this statement, and l said
to him: II we had had 1000, 900 men
we would have run the Northern ar
mics beyond the Arctic Ocean. We
only had a small number to fight our
battles and against them were array
ed mercenaries of the world and the
negroes, who in the bloody crater at
Petersburg, were sacrificed by their
Northern friends"
BATTLE ABBEY.
Dr.. Jones opened his address in be-
half Of the Confederate Memorial AS
ISOLATION by paying magnificent
tribute to Georgia Confederate SOL
diers, relating many instances Of valor
that came to his notice during the
sixties. To the convention be brought
the greetings Of Virginia veterans to
the Georgia reunion.
As the representative Of the Con-
federate Memorial Association, better
known as the Battle Abbey movement,
DR.. Jones entered into concise state
ment of it's affairs. Charles Broad
way Rouse, a private in the Confeder-
ate army, decided 100000 for the
erection of a Confederate memorial
hall, the proviso being that the U. q.
Y. supplement it by an equal amount,
they to select the site OF the Battle
Abbey.
DR.. Jones announced that already
more than the required 100000 had
been raised. The city Of Richmond
contributed $50, 900 to the fund. The
aim is to greatly augment the present
amount on hand and build the Battle
Abbey on a more magnificent scale
than at first planned. He wanted
Georgia to take a part in the erection
Of the abbey.
The idea is to establish a great IL
brary "a library Of true American
history. In the building will be pre-
served all the historic records OF the
Confederacy, where it can be consult
ed by the world in the generations to
come.
In passing DR.. Jones scored the
public schools Of Augusta for using
what he termed an infamous, lying
text book, Eggleston .. S. History.
The movement for the erection OF the
Battle Abbey was endorsed amid the
widest enthusiasm, and a large num-
Der present pressed forward to con-
tribute to the fund. Cards were dis