The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-04-23
S. r. Mallory Kennedy
Cites Some History

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as do the pages in Woodrow Wilson's
history of the American people, and
when we look to see what mention this
Georgia historian has made on Benja-
min H. Hill, of the Deaths column
of daily newspaper-not even a fair
obituary notice.
Mr.. Watson complains that Mira
beau Lamar of Georgia, is not men
toned, nor is Richard Henry Wilde.
And when We look these two distin-
guished Georgians up in Alexander H.
Stephens history he tells us that La
man was the third president of Texas
that's all-and fails to mention Wilde
at all. / had to look Wilde up else
where and found by referring to the
| Encyclopedia Americana that Mr..
Wilde was Attorney General of the
state of Georgia and was once a mem
Der of Congress. Mr.. Wilson's history
would have been indeed volumnious
had he mentioned all of the Attorney
Generals and members of Congress
from the different states of the
union.
Mr.. Watson again says Colonel
William Cunning, of Augusta, Ga,
(please note where he came FROM was
one of the most conspicuously gallant
soldiers of the war of 1912. Yet Wood
row Wilson ignores him entirely in his
voluminous history Neither does Mr..
Alexander H. Stephens, of Crawford
vile, Ga, in his most voluminous his
tory mention him, nor could | find him
m two American Encyclopedia.
Now to return to General Twiggs, of
Georgia, whose name Mr.. Watson
tells us Alexander H. Stephens hands
down to posterity. / was anxious to
learn something of this great Geor-
g!an and the manner IN which Alex
ander II. Stephens handed him down
to posterity. 1t seems to me that if l
were in the handing down poster
ity businss, I could have found some
thing more to say about my fellow
statesman than he said on page 49O
of his bulky volume. This is the way
he did it. ION the Sth of April General
| Twiggs was sent forward toward the
city of Mexico That is all. He could
have told more, and Mr.. Watson could
| probably have enlightened us if he
! had chosen to do so, but as they both
| failed, and as | was yet not willing
| to leave the study of this noble GeOr-
| gian went on until found the reason
| why both Stephens and Watson failed
| to tell us more. In 1861, while in
| command of the Department Of Texas
| Gen. Twiggs INTERESTINGLY surrendered
~ the Concentrates the CIliltu SldAOs
| property entrusted to his care and was
| In consequence dismissed from the
army. See Twiggs, Encyclopedia
| AN ericana
Mr.. Watson complains that Mr.. VII
| son does not mention Nancy Hart
| Jesse Mercer, Lowe Pierce. or Geor-
| gia F. Pierce. If Mr.. Stephens in his
| history thought it necessary to men
! ton these celebrities, he failed to put
| them in his index. After looking
| through many histories l found that
/ George and Lovic Pierce were Metho-
| dist Ministers and were connected
with the formation of the NJ. +
| Church South. Mr.. Wilson made nc
| pretense of writing a history of the
| Methodist Church. The other two
/ above mentioned 1 could not find.
After reading what Mr.. Wilson has
| to say about Charles and John Wesley
! CNolume ?. page 6T) I fail to see thai
he in any way insults their memory.
| might add that other historians agree
| with Mr.. Watson's views of these
two men.
In reply to the charge that Mr.. VIII
/ son Stops all over the Pilgrim fathers
| but fails to mention Daniel Marshall
! the founder of the Baptist Church II
| Georgia. l must say, that | can nardlA
sec how any historian can write
history of the American people with
out giving considerable space to tha'
| sturdy flock that were unfortunate
enough to land in New England dur
! inG the month of November, 1870
/ They were makers of history, but Il
Daniel Marshall, the founder of the
/ Baptist Church in Georgia. ever lived
)! Stephens failed to mention it, MOI
I could I find his name in some tight Of
ten histories and encyclopedias when
i searched in vain. must conclude ina
Mr.. Watson is pulling hard for th'
Methodist and Baptist vote. Even th'
historian of the Baptist Church, Henry
Cay Nedder. professor at Crosel
Seminary, a Baptist theological school
failed in his article Gu the Baptists II
America, produced IN the Encyc;cEsdis