The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-20
~MEssAGEs AND PAPERS
 OF THE CoNFEDERACY.'

The greatest interest has been man. Ifested in a new and most remarkable | 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 arc now in the archives of the Federal Gov l ernment at Washington. This compiia- | tlon, complete In two volumes, Is ths | work Of the Hon. James D. Richardsoni | late Representative from Tennessee. l The compilation Is entitled Mesa ses and Papers of the Confectionery" and embraces all of the annual. special and veto messages. proclamations and of- hcial papers of Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States. and all of the interesting and tmport- ant diplomatic correspondence between the southern States and their comneis- sloners in foreign lands.
 This compilation. coming at time when all sectional bitterness engen- dered by the Civil War has subsidized. 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 vita of our country.
 It may be too early yet to write without partisan coloring 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 or the au- thentic sources of the history or those eventful times. Entertaining this de- sire Mir Richardson e few years ago complied, by authority of Congress ths .'Messagee and Papers of the Presi- dents," which comprised the state ps@ pers of all the Presidents from Wash inrtoa to Mckinley. Later he con- ceived the ldsa of publishing another work as a companion piece to his nrst great effort Realizing the deep Inter est manifested by the people every where in reading the history or ous country, written by the Presidents
 thernseives, and noting especially the attention attracted by the papers Of President Lincoln as he detailed the evente of that fearful struggle, the war between the States. Mir. Richard son decided to compile and place be- fore inc public, in durable form and for the first time, true and authentic hiatorv of that stormy and peril0us period" from 6 Southern standpoint He has, therefore, now compiled, with the permission of Congress, the otfictal papers of President Davis, entitled Messages and Papers of the Confed- eracy, including the interesting and inc portant diplomatic correspondence. The work. which in its very nature neces- sArIIy stands without predecessor. coIt- DetitOr or pOaslblo successor, lS AuAAAt~ tedlv the greatest, most exhaustlvely complete and only authentic history of inc war between the States, contain- ing as 1t does, the State papers, ofn@ cial utterancea and other authentic in- formation from the great fountainhead. the President of the Confederacy, and his corps of able advisers. It may be truly said of the work that it Is the sole occupation of a new field. Tn ad~ dition to the rich illustrations with which the work abounds, Mir. Richardson has pr pared and inserted biographical sketches of President Davis, Vice-Pres- ldent stephens, Gen. Robert k. Lee and Toombs, Robert NJ. T. Hunter and Ju- teal index which appears in the compil- ation. 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 tho war in which the armies of the North and South were engaged.
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