The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-06-20
AN ATTEMPTED SUPPRESSION
OF AN HISTORICAL FACT.

AN ATTEMPTED SUPPRESSION
OF AN HISTORICAL FACT.
At the reunion of Confederate Veter
ans held in Louisville there was for tn
moment a successful effort to suppress
an historical fact which will not dowr
but must ever be alive, as Truth is, al
though crushed and mangled or misin
terpreted and misrepresented. The eft
fort is more glazing, surprising and hui
initiating because the attempted Sup
preston of this fact was dictated b,
Southern men, gathered as Confederat
soldiers, who, while they live, must win
dictate the truth in opposition to the de
hberate, sectional and partisan falsehoot
of the North. If the facts of histor.
must be suppressed at the reunions O.
Confederates because some individual:
- or some interests may except to the
truth, it were best that the u. c. v Or
CARNATIONS be disbanded forever.
Why should any Southern man, par
ticularly Veteran of Lee, or of Stone
wall Jackson, or of Johnson, or of any
of the leaders of the Confederacy, hest
tate to stand for the truth?
Is there anything in the record of the
South, in the glorious history of the
Confederacy, for which apology or re-
greet should be offered the North by any
Confederate soldier, tried and true?
1t would seem as if the spirit of COM
mercialism has had the effect of sup
pressing the ardor of 81 in the heart
Of the few, who, seemingly, would, in
their conservativeness rather a false
hood should live than truth be main
tanned, at the risk of increasing the dis
pleasure of some influential men who
were on the Federal side Of the great
conflict, "
The refusal of the Association OF
Confederate War Surgeons to permit
the reading of a paper by DR.. c. H. Te-
bault on .trhe Prison Life of Jefferson
Davis was as surprising as it was re-
markable, and equally astounding was
sasiAe silnpression in the convention of the
Confederate Veterans of any reference
which may have been disagreeable to the
North which was excluded on the plea
Of being political However, on this
score is reproduced two comments as
follows:
DIR. TEBAULT's PAPER.
New Orleans States: At the Confed-
crate reunion on Friday it seems that
Surgeon General Tebault's paper on the
facts connected with the imprisonment
of Jefferson Davis raised hornets nest
for q while. One member objected to
it on the ground that the time had
passed to stir up strife, and be distaste-
ful to certain citizens of Louisville, the
host Of the reunion.
II seems to us that if the Confeder-
ate Veterans organization has any pur-
pose whatever to snbserve, that purpose
is to sift out fact from fable in connec-
tion with the questions clustering about
he war ana = .aet.hI;sh the tr,,t, ~
I;s,orv reo.rlless q u,h,t ,r,t. NOV,
r. nr Tsh.,,,t,s n.,,sr .hc,,,,5a.
a,,the,,t;ca,aa h;stor;e.l f,.ts c,,1,sd froa,
var;o,,s so,,rces ,,,on. wh;ch Voc 49,
Records 81 the War Is The spehe,1;o, 4
nr;nted ~ st,e uovern,,,a,t aud tha f,.ts
Il nrese,,,ed were cert.;n,,, s,t;tlaa -
Be heard
sThe time w;,, we hone ,e,sr co,,,.
- 1850.
scendant Of ! Confederate solder will
be afraid 10 hear the firth
In An editorial. the CANTON of which
il AN Imnroper Sunnress;on of His
tory The Picayune saws: ii
~ AS General Miles has himself lately
gone into print on the subject Of an act
which has left an indelible stain on his
military career. and Of which, he is evi-
IDENTIFY heartily ashamed, il IS difficult to |
ice why he deserves any special tender
aess, but as the most serious reflection
ns,st fall on the Federal government,