The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-02-02
J.: D. c. RESENT
THRUST At LEE
Will Censure Committee
Which Awarded Prize
MAY DEMAND EXPLANATION
Mrs. Randolph Declares That Miss
BOyson's Paper for Which She Was
Awarded 500 Prize by a Commit
tee for the Best Essay on the Con-
~federacy. is Unjust and Unfair.
(Richmond Times-Dispatch.)


(Richmond Times-Dispatch.)
Resolutions c~ensuring DR.. f. A. Al
derman, president of the University OF
Virginia; DR.. c. Alphonos Smith, pro-
fessor of history at the University of
North Carolina, and DIR. Finley, presi-
dent of the New York City College,
for their action in awarding the prize
of 500, offered by the United Daugn-
ters of the Confederacy to the students
Of Columbia University for the best
historic essay on the South and its
people, to Miss Christine Boyson. OF
Minnesota. on & paper in which She
characterized General Robert f. Lee
rs a traitor will be adopted by the
Richmond Chapter, United Daughters
OF the C~onfederacy, this morning at its
annual meeting il Lee Camp Hall.
will Ask for Explanation.
These reSOlutiOnS have been drafted
by a special committee appointed al
the last meeting of the chapter, and
1t is understood that they will embody
a demand that the three judges OF
wards make public their reasons fo1
giving the prize to Miss Boyson.
The action of the Judges has been
severely criticised throughout the
South, and in some sections of the
MI II CeStIdi Vi Ite cIdpJcrS OF the
Daughters Of the Confederacy in Nortf
Carolina and other States have adopt
ed resolutions c~enSuring the Judges
and it is certain that The matter viii
be taken up at the next annual meet
ing of the United Daughters of the
C~onfederacy.
The members of the local chapter
are very much exercised about the az
fair, II no doubt some rather harsh
criticisms Will be heard at the meeting
Of the chapter today.
When seen by a Times-Dispatch re-
porter at her home last night Mrs
Norman Y. Randolph, president of the
Richmond Chapter. spoke very freely
regarding the matter. She declared
that she could not understand how
such eminent scholars as DIR Alder
man, DR.. Smith and DIR. Finley could
have awarded the prize on an essay
that contained so little historical truth
as that written by Miss BOyson.
DR.. Finley. she said, might possibly
be excused. but DR.. Alderman and DR.
smith, both being Southern men
must have known that the essay was
historically incorrect.
Give Aldermen to North Carolina.
North Carolina has been claiming
DR.. Alderman, along with many other
things, for some time. ana 7 think VIC
should readily surrender him TO tina
State now" said Mrs. Randolph.
Two years ago this same commit
tee awarded the prize offered by the
Daughters of the C~onfederacy on a
very complimentary article on the
South, and Dir. Alderman called espe-
claI attention to the statement in that
essay that Of the six colleges in the
United States at the time with which
the essay dealt. five of them We're
located ii the South.
Now. in her essay, Miss Boyson
says that during the period leading
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intellectually dead. Surely that is
not an historical fact. and it was
stipulated that this essay should be
a historical one, and should be
judged for its truthfulness to history
rather thar for it's literary merits.
"Of course. we do not blame Miss
Boyson for anything she wrote about
General Lee. She has studied the per-
Verted histories Nv NG~+h~~~ n"t"~~~
and therefore knows very little OF the
true history OF the South.
we certainly do blame DIR. Alderman
Tor giving away our prize on an ar
dele that our beloved gen
cral. / do not believe hat he could
have read that essay. .
The young lady said In her paper
that Genera Lee was better known
and more universally loved for his
life after the war than for his repu-
tatiOn as a general during the war.
why, every knows that such is
not the case. The highest military au-
thorities of the United States and Eng
land ever now regard General Lee as
one of the ablest generals the United
States has e produced
When asked what action would be
taken today by the Richmond Chapter,
Mrs. Randolph said that it Would
adopt resolutions reprifnanding DR..
Alderman, DR.. Smith and DIR. Finley
for their action and probably would