The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-05

quircd on the part OF tho historian!
'R." II Is the best we can do.
Then you must be bold and fearless.
daring to tell the truth even II ad-
verse criticism comes to YOU for doing
IL But while bold and fearless DO
tactful. be broad and be liberal mi nded
An historian should have with her
the elements OF the philosopher
must need be that you are required to
deal with the social. the economic and
the political questions OF tho day. and
you must be prepared TO discuss them
without passion. You must learn to
hold yourself within yourself in dis
GUESSING all questions OF that kind.
You must have enthusiasm, also
that enthusiasm which will carry all
with you; but. here. again. your en-
thusiasm must be tempered with good
will and with fairness. Then you
must be n patrlot--bccauBe the Con-
federatc soldier was the highest type
Il patriot lapplause). and when you
are writing OF him you must know
what patriotism means.
And you must be loyal to tho truth
not with regard to Confederate his
tory only. but loyal to the truth of all
history. (Applause)
What is history? | would shy that
1t liz not dates chronologically ar
nor is 1t descriptions of battles only.
All OF these things may enter into
history. but l think history centres
around some human event, some social
movement And to write history one
must know human nature. Not only
must we know tho event. but we must
know what caused 1t and all the cir
cumstancos attending it, and tho mo-
tives OF all the people connected
with It
Tho field OF history is as broad az
human life; tho qualities of history
should be truth and wisdom; the aim
of history should BIO to find the truth:
the methods Of the historian should be
to pursue truth and weigh It, then
publish II after il is weighed In n
word. II you ask mo What is history"
would answer. at is tho getting
truth" Tho sources OF history are oral
or written. We have. Daughters. an
opportunity to-day to get much OF our
history from oral testimony. Shall We
neglect to do tho thing which in
few years we cannot do?
DO you know that the South has had
a great part in the building of the
nation? If YOU examine those text
books your children are studying you
would never think It. Gaughter). And
from them they Will never discover
IL. Our institutions are very often
unjustly--I should not have said un-
Justly. for we ourselves have never
put them justly before the worid-but
as history stands now II is unjust to
the institutions OF the South.
DO you know that in the books your
children are studying and reading the
institution of slavery is said TO have
weakened the mental faculties OF the
men and women of the South. making
them lazy and inert? Laughter). But
history unjustly as 1t has been writ
ten Will by the lives of these men dis
prove that very statement.
Not only were we the irst perma-
nent colony that came TO these shores.
but more than that. for 1t Is stated
upon good authority that one OF our
jamestown colonies was instrumental
in inducing the Pilgrim Fathers to
come to Plymouth Rock. and yet you
and your children know all about that
Plymouth Rock colony. and can answer
without moments hesitation that
1t was the Maynower that brought
over the Pilgrim Fathers to this coun-
try. and few can give the names of the
Good Speed. the Discovery and the
Susan Constant, the three vessels that
brought the members OF the James
! town colony first 20 these shores.
! GauRhter)
Why? I will tell YOU why. Tho
preserve its history carefully, and we
have not thought II worth while to
have our history written. In other
words. your children are studying what
the North says and not what the South
should say.
DO you know that most of the men
who took part-a prominent part--in
the building OF the nation were the
sla veh holders that have been so ma
her
u president of the first Continental
Congress why did they go to Peyton
Randolph. of Virginia, n STAKEHOLDER,
to be at the head OF that body? Gap
plause). And why, when resolution
had to BIO drawn that these colonies
must be free and independent States,
did Richard Henry Lee, another slave
holder. have TO write it? (Applause).
Why was IL when they were seeking
for some ono TO write the Declaration
of Independence they chose Thomas
Jefferson. Shareholder? tApplause).
The British Encyclopedia, which is 40
unjust to the South. says il was be-
cause he was ready writer. Compli-
,nent No. /. that this encyclopedia,
found in every Southern library, has
paid to the South
Did not our George Mason, of Vir-
ginia, give the first Declaration OF
Rights ever passed on this continent?
Then when they were looking for a
communicative chief of the army. did
they not choose another Shareholder,
George Washington? (Applausc). And
when they were looking for COM
mander -in-chief of the navy. was it
not our James Nicholson. OF Virginia?
And was 1t not John Marshalrs pom
that welded the States into a union?
And when they were looking for men
to write paper stronger than the
Articles Of the Confederation. did not
they first choose our James Madison
TO write it--that is our Constitution
before amended since the war? And
when they needed Chief Justices for
the government. did not our Marshall
Of Virginia, and fancy, of Maryland.
for over sixty years hold that office?
And wasn't II a southern man that WAS
made the first President of the United
States? Was ii not Thomas Jefferson
that added the Louisiana Purchase
millions OF miles of territory-to the
Enlted States. apd not Inrneg