The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-04-10
TRUTHFUL BOOKS ARE MUCH NEEDLD
The Rising Generation ls Becoming
Poisoned In Mind Through Read.
INF Biased Llterature-A Call.
down for Wisconsin.
-Four Confederate
Flags.

write to me for help that feel encOur-
aged and will answer their inquiries as
far as ! can. These young people in
the country towns have schools to go
to, but they lack books-reading
books, cyclopedlas, biographies, and,
II | was as rich as Carnegie, | would
plant library Of such books in every
community. / would have a million
sets of some standard cyclopedia print
ed for every school, even ii they cost
fifty million dollars. That would diff
fuse knowledge among the young peo-
pie and do more good than all he Is
doing in the big cities. But what we
most need In the south are historical
books that will be standard with us
and relate the truth about the south
and secession and the confederaey and
slavery and the war and reconstruc-
ton. had a cyclopedia that gave a
whole column Of apology for old John
Brown and the pedigree Of every
northern race horse, and no mention
Of John B. Gordon, or Forrest or any
Of our southern poets or authors or
orators. l snapped 1t off at half price
for the international by Dodd, Meade
G. Co. The tributes in that work to
Mr.. Davis and Lee and Jackson are all
that could be desired and more than
was expected.
wonder what has become of that
great southern publishing house that
was projected in Atlanta some time
ago. That is what we want and must
have to perpetuate southern history
and defend our fathers and grandfath-
ers from the ISLANDERS Oh northern foes.
1t is northern histories, northern nov
els and nothern plays that have al
ready poisoned the minds Of thousands
Of young people. Only yesterday |
glanced at a serial story in an Atlanta
paper, and the first thing l saw was a
verse which read:
John Browns ba1y lies Wondering
in the ground,
But his soul keeps marching On"
In a Missouri paper l saw where a
yankee troupe were playing Uncle
4 Toms Cabin" And now a fool fell
Y low from Wisconsin wants to get our
= governors to appoint delegates to a
convention in Atlanta to determine the
race problem, and it is said that that
man Spooner is at the bottom of it to
get up a presidential loom for himself.
| suspected there was a mig er II the
woodpile, for these northern polite
ians never 90 anything from patriotic,
unselfsh motives. Hanna's scheme
fell through and Spooner thought he
could patch it up But the south new
er was more aroused and unitef on Tue
negro question and will resent all in
reference whether it comes from
\ Washington or Wisconsin. Wisconsin!
.s.What impudence! q state whose for
ieign population is 62 per cent OF the
. whole, and of these there are $4,000
who can't speak English, and only 760
negroes in the state and three times as
many Indians. What does Wisconsin
know or care about our race problem
In the last few days / have received
three letters from young people want
ing to know something about the con.
federate flags, what were the designs
and who designed them. l wish that
I could sketch them and paint them in
this letter, but all l can do is to de-
scribe them and give their history
There were four in all but only two
lived to see the end at AppomattoX
No /, or the STARS and Bars" was
\ adopted by the confederate congress at
Montgomery. It's stars were on a blue
S<feld and its red and white bars made
it look somewhat like the Stars and
Stripes, and sometimes was mistaken
for the United States flag, and SC
General Beauregard designed
/No. 2, 1.-THE Battle Hlag," and Gen
eral Joe e. Johnston adopted 1t, ano
it, was never changed. 1t was a Ulue
7 cross, or rather an X studded witt
u stars and set on red field.
No. 3. In May, 1863, the confederate
congress adopted a national flag. i
was a miniature battle flag set on {
white field that had a VIII te border a
the side and afar off was mistaken fol-
flag Of truce. And so, in March
> 1865, congress adopted No. as the ma
tional flag. This had the same battle
flag on a blue field, but the white Dor
der was smaller and a red one put or
the outside Of that This flag did no
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