The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-17
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Inc True History of the Civil war
 This is a book which should DC we'U ;,,tc esl' into every home in the South, ,,. ni.U ,cr<>rv .chool The author. Professor ouS Carleton Lee. is a lecturer in Johns hop. kfns University and Is widely kho"" i'' hi& critical and historical Work' .,.. EFe has written this, his most welehty xvork. with perfect fairness anu SIC, < truthfulness It is the book that the 1,,,o South has waited for and Wan's. ot 5rnurnerable and voluminous hlstorles o, <s~ 'ssray of campaigns. of battles on lahu 2 .ns sea written by Southern, leaders anu anu rarticipants in those stirring events, "Io rf immense value but II the hutH - = t @ra anliv told these are written at F" 4. i..,s,-a rappe that they fail to give reau- ~v vrbo was not an actor in or spectator < If those scenes, any sort or perSpeOs
 Minor incidents. disputes aWons .,.en matters of magnified import al tne '. t cf fheir occurrence so crowd lhto 'he
 -..,.n,,ro of great events that the student Aha comes freshly to the task or leai IT sng inc true history of our war mus mus hiTnself sorely hampered. Out ol M Mtnese ,,,yeerous volumes and out o1 llcpI'. llc,.. = - af Epovlelge Professor Lee has "r''en ! hrieS and vet comprehensive history ol fie Civil War. wherein events slanu Ill their proper relation and sequence.
 The cause of the war he a'tilou'es tho .n.rily to that differentiation oi tne r,rserscan ,eople. marked ere the colonlsts of England had chosen thelr aoluiile z nlaces in the New World. The caTallei y, clement in Virginia and the Caroi'h"' che Puritan in New England.
 The natural removal of the slave 70 tMn' M ] lafes. where softer climate and simpler Industries made him more worthIul is re viewed, the rise of the abolition move, snent. By the way, Professor Lee ooeS mt mention. but were not the Grlmke sisters of South Carolina pioneers in that movement?
 On the subject of secession, Professor Lee quotes ex-President John Quincs Adams and other Northern members ls- suing an address, from which address is taken the following paragraph;
 we hesitate not to say that anneAa' lion effected by any act or proceeding nf the Federal Government. or any oi 3ts departments, would be identical witf dissolution. It would be violation o' x,lr national compact it's objects, designs and the great elementary principles whicr entered into its formation. of a character so deep and fundamental. and would o' an attempt to eternize an institution ant power of a nature so unjust in them selves, so injurious to the interests an' abhorrent r. the feelings of the people O Ette Tree StaIeS. as, III our opliioh' ho only inevitably to result in a dissolution or the Union, but fully to justify 1t.
 The spirit of secession was sees nown broadcast over all the North anC South. seed which was to reach fruition however, only in the hot-bed of SoutherI need and impetuosity.
 ssIn the first years of the nineteenth century New England again and agair advanced the right to secede; before th' half century mark was passed, the Soutf claimed the right, and New England de nied it. For a decade opinion was divid ed in North and South, and in 1860 thu politicians forced the war on both sec fions.
 ssf1ence we see that even in the North secession was not an idea of such strang' and horried guise as, twenty years later 1t was made to appear"
 Professor Lee shows a comprehensive grasp of the causes that led up to the @neVitable disunion of our country and tc war. He has told vividly and justly oi