The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1903-03-27
Brs1 ARP WRITES H1sToRY3 i.
For tho BENEFITS OF the Young People
ofthe Coantry.

So many young people who are
thirsting for historical knowledge
write to 0me for help that feel en-
couraged and will answer their in
quiries ns'far as can. These young
people in the country towns have
schools to 20 to, but they lack books
reading books, cyclopcdlas, biogra-
phics, and If 1 was as rich as Carnegie
would plan library Of such books
In every community. | would have a
million sets Of some standard cyclope-
dia printed for every school. even If
they cost fifty million dollars. That
would dIifuse knowledge among Il e
young people and do mOtc good than
all he is doing in the big cities. But
what we most nced in the. South are
historical books that will be standard
with us and relate the truth about
the South and secession and the Con-
fcderacy and slavery and the war and
reconstruction. had a cyclupedia
that gave Il whole column Of apology
for old John Brown and the pedigree
of every Northern race horse, and no
mention OF John Is. Gordon or Forrest
or any of our Southern poets or
authors or orators. swapped it of
ut half price for the International by
Dodd, Meade s. Co. The tributes in
that work to DR.. Davis. and Lee and
Jackson are all that could be desired
and mure 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 pcrpetuatc Southern history
and defend our fathers and grand
fathers from the ISLANDERS OF Northern
foes. T. is Northern histories, North
ern novels and Northern plays that
have already poisoned the minds of
thousands of our young people. Only
yesterday l glanced at a serial story
in an Atlat;l paper and the first thing
| saw was verse which read:
"Jobn Browns body lies moudering in
| the ground,
But his soul keeps marching Cn.''
In 4 Missouri paper I saw where a
Yankee troupe were playing "Unclc
TOMS Cabin" And now fool fell
low from Wisconsin wants to get our
Governors to appoint delegates to a
convention in a tlanta to determine
the race problem, and it is said that
that man SpOoncr is at the bottom of
it to get up Presidential boom for
himself. / suspected there was a
niggor in the woodpile, for these
Northern politicians never do any
thing from patriotic, unscltish mo-
tivcs. Hanna'S scheme fell through,
and Spooncr thought he could patch
il up. But the South never was moro
aroused and united on the negro qucs
tion and will resent all interference,
whether it comes from Washington OF
| Wisconsin. Wisconsin. What impll-
dcnce! y State whose foreign popula
tion is 62 per cent. OF the whole, and
or these there are $4,000 who can't
speak English, and only 760 negroes
In the State and three times us 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-
fcderatc flags, what were the designs
and who designed them wish that
| could sketch them and paint them
in this letter, but all l can do is to de-
4 scribe them aud give their history
I There were four in ALL but only two
lived to see the end at tAppomattoX.
/ No. l, or the STARS and Bars,
was adopted by the Confederate Con
grcss at Montgomery. Its stars were
on a blue field and its red and white
bars made IL look somewhat like the
Stars and Stripes, and sometimes was
mistaken for the United States flag
and SO General BcaurcKard designed.
| No. ., The Battle Flag" ant
General Joe K. Johnson adopted it,
and it was never changed. 1T was !;
blue cross, or rather an y studded
with stars and set on rcd field
| No. 3. In May, 1863, the Contedcr
ate Congress adopted a national flag
1t was IL miniature battle iag set OF
il white field that had Il white border
at the side and at the bottom. l;u
it proved to be 4 mistake, for il hat
too much white and afar uif was mis-
taken for flag OF truce.
And So on March, 1860, Congress
adopted No. 4 rs the national flag
This had the same battle flag on
blue field, but the white border wa
smaller and red one put OH the out
side Of that. This flag did not way,
very long, only about Il munth, bu
nevertheless it remains as the nation
al flag Of the Confederate States.
But the dear old battle flag No.
was the fighting banner Of every com
pany. Our wives and our daughter
made them for the boys in gray, ant
many OF then were smugglcd bacl
home again after the surrender ant
still kept as household treasures. Gu
boys, the Rome Light Guards, hat
one, and one night the young pcopl
gave Il tablcauX performance i'm th
city hall to raise Il little money to pu
some benches in the desccratet
CHURCHES, for all the pewS had beer
taken out and converted into horS
troughs for the staff horses. On
scene in the tableauX represented ;
battle field where women we're minis
Lcring to the wounded and the dying
and one dying soldier, the ensign, hat
this old tattcrcd and war-stained ila&
graspcd in his hand just as he held i
when he fell.
The Spanish commandant of tn
| D0St 1yac thoro >yith bic ifn an,