The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-24
Lsftsrs to TSs Editor
THE BARBAROUs AND
 UNAPPRECIATIvE SOUTH.
Colo.el a. N. saassy.

Editor The Advertiser:
 Today 10 q marked day in the his- sno s. Is sns pss sousa ot ar.Sf in generous libAtions of heroic blood, and was really the initiation of that era of blood that scourged this country for
 True. Fort sumter and Bethel pre- cedsd First Manassas, bot the first was bloodlsss, the latter really . skirmish. sss and rsi eDasa n xHaff from s'y yaar Chicago eorrespondent of the proceed ings of c. A. R. Post at Jackson A Mrs. Myrtle Medowan made . re- dn Pors of her her .niss,9n rss dSwn soStA .ss tssr @ .c Ai instruct as naS and a sdsc:ts the ps- nighted denisens of this section In nas
 Mrs. Mcgowan had come on self. fund of $500 to expend solely for nags," 70 the legend states. end she had come South to bestow flags and
 As t is my oiicial duty to promote patriotic education. of course 1t came In my province to inquire into these ss now s.E dE.asisn asiGsssp sas then The south. she found. entirely too con servatiye largely lacking in demon
 Not only vas her mission one of pat riotio education. but she took in An- dersonville. Ca. Here let me quote her female barbarian as she found her, near this Mecca of so many of her cult the unreconstructed Georgia woman.
 This was recently manifested by the unveiltng of . statue to Wirz. the Con- federate butcher who was executed by order of the Governor of his own State, for the inhuman treatment of Ameri.
 And Mrs. Mcgowan came to the be. nighted South "to promote patriotic ed-
 MT, Editor. the writer was at the mortal by the women of Georgia to Major Wirz--plain but commanding, where Mrs: McGowan found q 'statue" to Major Wirz, was purely In her warp- ed and diseased imagination.
 If her patriotic education" is as ac- curate as her report on her Journey she should not blame the Southern peo- We learn for the first time that Major Wr. wss sf ebssusa ss p dsr rSs of ss down in her report, srle states she found some curious histories in use in and near Houston. Tex. Perhaps 1t discovered that Major wirz was "exee @ euted by order of the aovsrnor of his
 EQltOEt you nave CODY or mail 1t to Mrs. Myrtle Mcdowsn, care % ot the South Side Association c. A. R..
 Wei, we might be pardoned for not accepting her "patriotic education" and nag worship, if this is a sample of her knowledge of an historical incident In h's So eS%n1sry %a,ory wrn whssoTs wss executed by der of the Governor of his own Statew Shades of Baneroft. Goodrich. Alex Stephens and other historians!
 marble or granite-of sufficient dimen- sions. there rests a splendid statue. It only needs the skilful hand. of an ac- outer casing of stone d'i and reveal s~ii the the beauty of his conception. That Is as near as this authentic patriotic educa- tor came to seeing any statue of Major Then. again. Mrs. Myrtle McGowan has something to learn of human na- ture: There Is no small portion left of women tand men. tool. This self-inl- posed task of flag worship brought forcibly to the minds of the benighted southern the .s women. some of the incidents recollection of sherman's torchlight procession from Lookout Mountain to Savannah. And doubtless these were the hag worship and perhaps some of the delights CD of, <he reconstruction period. like BanQuo's ghost, would not 'oxn NIT. E Editor hSr dain ssE ars Mcgowan to be patient. The world was not made in a day. and she must not expect the new tenets of flag worship to be assmllat-
 If Mrs. Myrtle McGowan would read some of Southern history, cold conserv- ative facts: then try-only try,-to, put she would find human nature Is the same the world over.
 I really believe the South will ex- cuse Mrs. McGowan from another cru- her mission must discourage and de. press a bouyant spirit like hers. en- gagted, ats,,i,a in the iaadaele enterprise Of
 Let the good woman try some more sympathetic section where an appre- ciatfye population will gladden. the new religion, flag worship.
 . The writer was a guest of the na- fion point at sp its hospitable (o seaside resort
 fsd wfS one of a5 Ss a charcoal artist. inscribed in big black letters on the canvas of his tent the well known Roman motto. "Dulce ct in plain English below, But Hell to starve in prfsonv
 The patriotic education will grow, Let Mrs. McGoWan e eontain iSa her soIi'i soui in patience. and the fruits of her labors her. be patient!
 In conclusion, Mir. Editor. I would suggest that Mrs. McGO wan read Cap tain James Madison Pages True Story of Andersonville." Captain Page was one of Clusters Michigan troopers and was an inmate of Andersonville prison many months, therefore qualified to speak from the card" This work will aid Mrs. McGowan in her labor of love in patriotic education.
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 Editor The Advertiser:
 on the 20tn inst. sent you a letter,