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DID WOODROW WILSON SLIGHT
THE SOUTH IN HIS HISTORY?

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somewhat of an historian, having
written a history of France, which
is reported to be the best that has
ever been written OF that country.
Mr. Watson has also written a his
tory of Napoleon, history of Andrew
Jackson and a history of Thomas JEFF
ferson.
Mr.. Woodrow Wilson is also an his
torian, having written history of
the United States in FIVE large vol
umes. So when his name became
prominently mentioned for the demo-
cratic presidential nomination, as
birds of a feather flock together"
Mr.. Watson Immediately began an
examination of Mr.. Wilson's history.
We print below the result of Mr..
Watson's examination:
There is picture of Robert
Toombs on page II of the 5th volume;
but if there is single word about
this leonine and profoundly able Geor-
gia statesman, the General Index
fails to indicate it.
Isaac Hill of New England-the
New Hampshire editor-is given
space on two pages of volume 4, but
Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia is not
named at all.
"Mirabeau Lamar of Georgia, is not
mentioned, nor is Richard Henry
Wilde.
Colonel William Cumming of Au
gusta, Ca, was one of the most con
spicuously gallant soldiers of the war
of 1912. He was offered the com
mand of the U. S. Army at the time
We were about to go to war with
Mexico. Yet Woodrow Wilson ig-
nores him entirely in his voluminous
history
Gen. David E. Twiggs of Georgia
won the brilliant victory of Cerro
Gordo, and was voted two golden
swords, one by Louisiana, and one by
the United States congress.
But he is not even mentioned in
Wilson's bulky volumes!
Alexander H. Stephens wrote a
small, one-volume history of the Unit
ed States, and he hands down to pos
terity the name of General Twiggs,
and those of other Georgians who fail
ed to attract the attention of Wood
row Wilson.
Judged by his book, Wilson had no
love for Georgia. Judged by his book,
the north was his love, not the south.
You cannot name single down
easter of any local prominence, who
is not glorified in Wilson's history
HE does not mention Nancy Hart.
He does not mention Jesse Mercer.
He does not mention Lovic Pierce, or
George F. Pierce.
''He makes brief reference to
Charles and John Wesley, only to in
suit their memory. (See VOL II,
page go
"He Stops all over the Pilgrim
Fathers, giving them 10 pages: but
he does not even mention Daniel Mar
shall, the founder of the Baptist
church in Georgia.
He does not name Gen. Elijah
Clarke of Georgia, who was one OF
the commanders at the glorious and
decisive battle of Kings Mountain
the turning point in the revolutionary
war.
"He does not mention George NJ.
Troup.
He does not mention DR.. Crawford
w. Long, the discoverer of anesthe-
STA.
He makes but the briefest mention
of Alexander H. Stephens.
Not a single New England author
of any pretension fails of recognition
in this five-volume history, but the
southern authors are left out. Paul
Hayne, John Esten Cooke, DIR. Frank
Ticknor, John R. Thompson, Henry
Timrod, Charles c. Jones, John With
erspoon DuBose, Judge Longstreet,
Thomas Nelson Page, Will Harlem,
Helen Glasgow, Mary Johnston, Mrs
E. Henry-Ruffin, Father Ryan, and
even Sidney Lanier, are all ignored,
while Holmes, Longfellow, Lowell
Hawthorne, etc., are niched for i'm
mortality.
And this is the historian who is
now candidate for the presidency,
and for whom the vote of Georgia is
claimed, as though it were his, by
right!
According to Wilson's History no
such man as Henry Grady ever lived;
no such man as Joel Chandler Harris
ever lived; no such man as DR.. Bat
tey ever lived; no such man as John
B. Gordon ever lived; no such heroes