The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-26
aMEssAGEs AND PAPERS
 OF THE CONFEDERACf'

The greatest interest has been man. fested in new and most remarkable publication, compiled from the orisihal officiaI 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 compiia' tion. complete in two volumes. Is the work of the Hon. James D. Richardson late Representative from Tennessee The compilation Is entitled -Messagei and Papers of the Confederacy, ant embraces all of the annual. special ant veto messages. proclamations and or fical papers of Jefferson Davis. tnt President of the Confederate states and all of the interesting and impor' tant diplomatic correspondence between the Southern States and their commis' sioners in foreign lands
 This compilation, coming at time when all sectional bitterness ensen- 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 .neir own. will be appreciated and read with interest by the people of all sections of our country.
 It may he too early yet to write
  | and accurate history of the. great war between the States. but 1t is not too early to present to the American peo- pie a perfect compilation of the au- thentic sources of the history of those evenful times. Entertaining this de- sire. MT. Richardson a few years ago compiled. by authority of Congress. the Messages and Papers of the Prest- dents,' which comprised the State pa pers Of all the Presidents from Wash ington to Mckinley. Later he con- ceived the Idea of publishing another work as companion piece to his first great effort. Realizing the deep inter- est manifested by the people every where in reading the history of our selves, and noting especially the att tention 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. a true and authentic history of that stormy and perilous period" from a Southern standpoint. He has. therefore, now compiled, with the permission of Congress, the off cial papers of President Davis entitled Messages and Papers of the Confeder acy, including the interesting and important diplomatic correspondence The work. which in its very nature necessarily stands without predecessor, competitor or possible successor. is ad- mittedly the greatest. most exhaus- lively complete and only authentic his tory of the war between the States, containing, as it does. the State papers official utterances and other authentic information from the great fountain head, the President of the Confeder- acy, and his corps of able advisers. It may be truly said of the work that it Is the sole occupation of a new field. In addition to the rich illustrations with which the work abounds. MT. Richard son has prepared and inserted bio graphical sketches of President Davis, Vice President stephens, Gen. Robert F. Lee and the three Secretaries of State. Robert Toombs. Robert M. T, Hunter and Judah P. Benjamin. In regular analytical index which appears in the compilation, numerous encylo- pedic articles hearing upon the text l and explanatory of politico- histori- cal facts are inserted. There are also | included in this feature of the compi- | lation accurate accounts of all the leading battles of the war in which the
 armies of the North and South were en. | gagged. | This splendid set of books can be | obtained in connection with a sub l scription to The Daily and Sunday Advertiser. If you are interested fill the blank below and send to The Ad- vertiser Company. Montgomery Ala | Please inform me how to obtain
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