The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-19
~MEssAGES AND PAPERS
 OF THE CONFEDERACY.r

The greatest interest has been man. ifested In a new and most remarkaois publication. compiled from the original official papers of the Confederate States which papers were captured at Rich- mond at the close of the war, and are now In the archives of the Federal Gov ernment at Washington. This compila- ton, complete in two volumes, is the work of the Hon. James D. Richardson, late Representative from Tennessee. The compilation is entitled Messages and Papers of the Confederacy," and embraces all of the annual. special and veto messages, proclamations and of ficial papers of Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States. and ali of the interesting and import ant diplomatic correspondence between the Southern States and their comrAis- sioners in foreign lands.
 This compilation, coming at a time when all sectional bitterness eneen- dered by the Civil War has subsided, and when the participants in the bloody conflict which arrayed brother against brother and filled the land with mourning. can together claim with pride the reunited country as their own, will be appreciated and read. with interest by the people of all sections of our country.
 It may be too early yet to write without partisan coloring a correct and accurate history of the great war between. the States, but 1t is not LOO early to present to the American peo- pie perfect compilation of the au- thentic sources of the history of those 'eventful times. Entertaining this de- sire, Mir. Richardson a few years ago compiled. by authority of Congress, the Messages and Papers of the Presi- dents." which comprised the State pa pers of all the Presidents from Wash ingtoa to Mckinley. Later he con- ceived the ldea of publishing another work as a companion piece to his first great effort. Realizing the deep inter est manifested by the people every where in reading the history of our country, written by the Presidents themselves. and noting especially the attention attracted by the papers of President Lincoln as he detailed the events of that fearful struggle, the war between the States, MT. Richard son decided to compile and place be- fore the public. in durable form and for the first time. true and authentic history of that stormy and rerilous period" from a Southern standpoint. He has, therefore, now compiled. with the permission of Congress, the official papers. of President Davis, entitled Messages and Papers of the Confed- eracy, including the interesting and im- portant diplomatic correspondence. The work, which in it's very nature neces- sarily stands without predecessor, com petitor or possible successor. is admit tedly the greatest, most exhaustively complete and only authentic history of the war between the States, contain, ing. as 1t does,, the State papers, off, cial utterances and other authentic in- formation from the great fountainhead, the President of the Confcderacy, and his corps of able advisers. It may be tluly said of the work that it is the sole occupation of a new field. In ad- dition to the rich illustrations with which the work abounds. MT. Richardson has prepared and inserted biographical sketches of President Davis, Vice-Pres- ldent Stephens. Gen. Robert E.. Lee and the three Secretaries of State. Robert Toombs, Robert M. T. Hunter and Ju- dah r. Benjamin. In regular analyt- ical index which appears in the compll
 alton. numerous encyclopedia articles bearing upon the text and explanatory of politico- historical facts are insert ed. There are also included in this feature of the compilation accurate ac- counts of all the leading battles of the war in which the armies of the North and South were engaged.
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