Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-25
AND He ASKS
GEORGIA TO
SUPPORT HIM!
CLAIMS LOVE FOR STATE
Yet Sighted 1t In Every Way
In His Book


| ofGeorgia, the Democrats, to vote TO-
him on the ground that he is a Demo
crat and Southerner.
1t is acknowledged that he bolted the
national Democratic ticket once, if moi
twice, in the past twelve years.
1t is acknowledged and undeniabl=
that before the political aspiratio
seized him two years ago he had never
lifted his voice in behalf of the strug-
Cling Democracy of New Jersey, or OF
the nation.
1t is undeniable that he never
thought enough of the South to visit it
for one day in twenty years. He gave
it scant consideration and still scanter
justice, until political ambition seized
him.
He wrote History of the American
People," which signalIy and shame
fully neglected the South in every de-
partment of life.
In that History" so called, he
sneered at George Washington as 4
land grabber, at Thomas Jefferson as
an unsafe guide and unwise counsel
! lor While he belittled these two and
Madison and Monroe he elevated Alex
ander Hamilton to the position of .
demi-god, the peerless leader for all
time.
Gov. Wilson asks for the support Of
the South, and particularly of Georgia.
What did he do for Georgia and for
the South, when, in the retirement of
his study, he calmly, deliberately,
wrotehis History of the American
People" in five large volumes?
Here is what he did for Georgia for
which he now processes so much love
He does not mention Nancy Hart He
does not mention Jesse Mercer. He
does not mention Lovic Pierce, or
George Pierce.
He makes only brief reference to
Charles and John Wesley, only to
insult their memory. (See Vol. II.
page SD
He slops all over the Pilgrim Faith
ers, giving them IS pages; but he
does not even melton Daniel Marsh
all. the founder of the Baptist church
in Georgia.
He does not mention Gen. Elijah
Clarke, of Georgia, who was one o.
the commanders at the glorious and
decisive battle of King Mountain
the turning point in the Revolution
airy war.
He does not mention George NJ
Troup.
He does not mention DR.. Crawford
Long, the discoverer of anaesthesia.
He makes but the briefest mentiol
of Alexander H. Stephens.
There is picture of Robert
Toombs on page II of the fifth vol
ume; but if there is a single word
aboutthis leonine and profoundly
able Georgian, the general ndes
fails to indicate it.
Isaac Hill, of New England-the
New Hampshire editor-is given
space on two pages of volume four
but Benjamin H Hill, of Georgia,ls
not mentioned at all.
Mirabeau Lamar, of Georgia, ii
not mentioned, nor is Richard Hen
ly Wilde.
Col. William Cummings of Angus
a,Ga.,wa one of the most conspic
uously gallant soldiers of the war o
1872. He was offered the commant
of the United StatesS army at tn,
time we were about to go to wa
with Mexico. Yet Woodrow Wilso'
ignores him entirely in his volumin
Gus history.
Gen. David f. Twiggs, of Georgia
won the brilliant victory of Cerr'
Gordo. and was voted two golder
swords, one by Louisiana and one b
the United States congress, but he
ignored in Wilson's bulky volumes.
According to Wilson's history, n
suchman as Henry Grady ever lived
nOsuch man as Joel Chandler Harrl
ever lived; no such hero as BartO'
ever lived.
If Sergeant Jasper is named
Wilson'S five volumes, the inde