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WHY 1 CANNOT FORGIVE
d WILSON

First: He claims to have lived in the
city of Augusta, Georgia, and to have a
tender memory for it, yet in his tive-fol'
ume history Of the American people, he
not only fails to mention George McDuff1e,
and the Revolutionary hero, Wade Hamp-
ton, but he makes no mention OF Lien.
Clement A. Evans, Col. VIM. Cumming,
Richard Henry Wilde, Judge Iongstreet,
Chas. G.. Jones, nor the victor at he bril-
liant battle Of Cerro Gordo, Gen. David E.
Twiggs.
Second: Claiming our support as Geor-
CLANS, he makes NJ mention Of Cen. John
B. Gordon, BENZ. H. Hill, Gen. James Long
street, nor Robert Toombs.
Third He does not name jesse Mercer
nor Daniel Z. Marshal; and the great
work Of our Baptist church is utterly ig-
nored.
Fourth: He does not describe the dy-
manic growth OF Methodism; and he
mentions John Wesley and his brother,
Charles, only to slight them and insult
them.
Fifth: He has no word Of recognition
for the great Presbyterian leaders, and
you would never have known from Wood
row Wilson's history that such men as
Moses Waddell and John Blair or AleXan-
der Cambell had ever lived and yet there
went forth from the tuition and inspira-
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OF thoroughly equipped workers in church
and State than ever were moulded by any
other individual instructor in this repub'
lie.
Sixth: In his five volume history,
Woodrow Wilson makes only the most
casual reference to VIM. 81. Crawford and
Alexander. H. Stephens, and yet he is
claiming our support on the ground that
he was once identified with Georgia.
Seventh He not only falls to mention
Geo. NJ. Troupe, Or. Lowe Pierce, the
fist, DR.. Crawford W. Long, the founder OF
modern medicine, DR.. Linday Durhilm, but
he has no mention Of Gen. Elijah Clark
and those other heroes, who, voluntarily
concentrating at what is now Bristol, in
Tennessee, galloped night AID day,
through flood and through forest, to meet
the British army on Kings Mountain, and
with their rebel yell and shriekjng rifles,
turn the tide of the Revolutionary War.
God THAT any Southern Man should
compose a Koluminous history OF his coun.
try and'omit that most glorious incident
Eighth: I cannot forgive WOODROW
Wilson for clarifying every local happen
ing In New England and every local nota.
hility, and. st,idiously ignoring such great
characteristics the Rutledges of South Car
DINA, Chas. Carroll Of C%arrollton, Gems
Pickett, and t.Ranse" Wright, and such
a wonderful soldier as N. B. Forrest.
1t seems TO me that Indignation blood
should be fired in the veins, Of every true
Southern min when he realizes with what
scorn Woodrow Wilson, the historian
passed by the glories Of Southern men anc
Southern measures. :,
From Woodrow Wilson's book, five vol
umes, mind you, you would never know
how the Mirabeau-like eloquence OF
Toombs she. ok the old capitol at Washing
ton; how the pen of Grady flashed Its
lightning cburse over the horizon OF jour
nalism: how Ben Hill, facing the hayonets
of NortherII soldiers, sounded the TRUMP
of. Southern resurrection in Davis hall
Atlanta; and how Hampton and Butler o.
South Carolina, together with Lamar anC
Gordon, compelled Rutherford B: Hayes
the fraudulent president. to call IVA!
from the South, for all time to come, the
soldiers whose support upheld the carpet
Dagger and the niger.
In his book, Woodrow Wilson glorifiec
New England. He neglected and spa
upon the .South-let New England make
him Presid ent, if she AN; let the South
stand by hur own son.-The JeffersoAian.