The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-04-16
MONTGOMERY's HISTORY.
Some of the Misrepresentation It
% Contains-Effect Upon
Children.
The State.

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! southern schools of education should
deem it wise, expedient or something
S$%else to go beyond our southern climate
( and enter the city Of Boston, state Of
Massachusetts, to obtain for our
schools the most important of all
books taught our children, that is
n history of our common country. I
Il propose to review the above work, so
q adopted by our boards of education,
and lay bare some Of its misleading
and untruthful statements and must
say a history should deal only in
facts as written by an impartial writ
er He has no right, it appears to
me, to express his individual opin-
ion on questions Of state while possib-
ly whole nation might differfrom
him, as. for instance, in the right or
Y wrong Of the course the south pur-
&sued in 1861.
h On page 274, speaking Of Calhoun
and Webster, on the great question Of
notification, state rights, etc, it is
made to appear Calhoun was de-
structionist, traitor, ETC., while Web
ster was the very incarnation Of
truly loyal patriot. He quotes Web
ster as saying, i'm reply to Calhoun's
<'There can be no secession without
revolution, and we owe an immense
debt of gratitude to Webster i'll MAX
ing the American people realize the
inestimable value of this union, as
never before. We honor Webster for
his services.'
This surely implied Calhoun should
be dishonored for upholding state
rights, doctrines and multiplying an
act of congress to our detriment,
even should dismemberment follow.
Some of the wisest men Of the ma
ton, even Lincoln himself, doubted
the constitution gave him the right
to use the army and navy to coerce a
state back into the union.
After several states had seeded
from the union, Horace Greeley, Of
the New York Tribune, the republi-
can mounthpice and the most bitter
against the south, said in his paper
T just before the firing on Sumter:
1--WE have no constitutional right to
!, Pcoerce a state back into the union,
D and let the wayward sisters depart
4 in peace"
S~s'ssss,,e = 275. in speaking of the
laaagHf sSfsiave law, William H. Sc
ssip II Who afterward became secre-
llgs4I.gff:y Of state in Lincoln's cabinet
8ySwhile in the senate from New York
is quoted as saying: "Above the con-
stitution and the acts of congress,
there is a higher law, a divine law,
of justice and freedom, not to return
the fugitive slave to his owner -
What is this but multiplying law
made by congress and in which the
supreme court had Just held slaves
were property and one feeling to a
non-slavc state should be returned to
his owner9 This was the Dred Scott
decision.
1t is well known the north first
enslaved the negro and finding them
!. not adapted to their climate sold
8 them to the southern planters, plac-
q ing their money so obtained into fac
AStories, passing high protective laws
pn their manufactured goods, COM
.Aelling the south to buy from them
hd in after years waging war for
Me oblitcrament Of this same proper
"Uncle Toms Cabin" written
4 1853 by Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Eopuo OF suaes 4ooq s!V1-oMo1S
file it villificd and abused, the
bthern planter, pontraying slavery
it's worst form, .inflaming, as it
4, the minds Of the people north
inst the south and it's institution
he than any book ever written on
American continent.
9s,ais history styles the caneing Of
b. Sumner by Preston s. Brooks
The year 1856 as a "brutal as
E.'' "Summer was unable to oc-
his seat, in congress for the bal
of his term Of four years." The
is Sumner was. pretty we'll
he'd with small rattan cane.
er physically was Brooks su-
+; but made no resistance like
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