The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-04
"MEsSAGEs AND PAPERS
 OF THE CoNFEDERACY."

1 The greatest. interest has been man | ffested in new and most remarkapie | publication. compiled from the oriGihai | official papers of the Confederate States. | which papers were captured at Ricn- l mond at the close. of the war. ana are now in the archives of the Federal Gov ernment at Washington. This comptla~ l ton, complete in two volumes. IS the work of the Hon. James D. Richardson.
 late Representative from Tennessee. The compilation is entitled Messages ard Papers of the Confederacy, and | embraces all of the annual. special and | veto messages. proclamations and of- | fcial papers of Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States. | and all of the interesting and import ant diplomatic correspondence between | the Southern States and their comr@is- sioners in foreign lands.
 This compilation. coming at a time when all sectional bitterness engen- dered by the Civil War has subsided. l and when the participants in the bloody conflict which arrayed brother | against brother and filled the land with
 mourning. can together claim .Sn witn pride the reunited country as their own, will be appreciated and read vita 1 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 100 early to present to the American peo- pie a perfect compilation of the au- 1 thentic sources of the history of those
 eventful times Entertaining this de- sire, MT. Richardson a few years ago compiled, by authority of Congress. the | Messages and Papers of the Presi- dents" whieh comprised the State pa- pers of all the Presidents from Wash ingtoa to Mckinley. Later he con ceived the idea 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 l President Lincoln as he detailed the I events of that fearful struggle, the war between the States, Mir 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 1 period" from a Southern standpoint.
 He has, therefore, now compiled. with | the permission of Congress, the official papers of President Davis. entitled l Messages and Papers of the Confed-
 eracy. including the interesting and in- | portant diplomatic correspondence. The work which in its 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 Confederacy, and his corps of able advisers. It may be
 ti july said of the work that 1t is the
 sole occupation of a new field. In ad- dition to the rich illustrations with | which the work abounds. Mir Richardson
 has prepared and inserted biographical
 sketches of President Davis, Vice-P ident stephens. Gen. Robert K. Lee and
 the three Secretaries of State. Robert Toombs, Robert NJ. T Hunter and Ju- l dah r. Benjamin. In regular analyt- teal index which appears in the compil-
 ation, numerous encyclopedia articles | bearing upon the text and explanatory | of politico historical facts are insert 1 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.
 l This Eplenuid set of books can be
 obtained in connection with a sub | scription to The Daily and Sunday Ad-
 vertiser. If you are interested fill the blank below and send to The Adverti-
 ser Company Montgomery, Ala.
 I Please inform me Low to obtain 1 Messages and Papers of the Confed- eTacy."
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