The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-11-11
HISTORICAL SIDE

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coming year, and for the benefit Of
those who are interested in the his
torical side of the q. D. c. work The
Journal publishes the following re-
port made by the historian of the w.
7. Weeks Chapter q. D. c. of Brad
ford, Fla:
Among the regulations of the his
tory contest, conducted by the his
torian of w. T. Weeks Chapter U. D.
c., was the following:
The use of tle expression
"Civil War" will take ten off the
final count.
Some discussion has arisen in re-
gard to that statement.
So for the benefit of the mothers
who "have called it Civil War all
their lives" and the children who have
been taught by their text books and
teachers to continually make this err
ror, the historian takes pleasure in
explaining the stand taken by the
Daughters of the Confederacy, and
some Southern authors, on this sub
ject:
The United States was republic
of sovereign states.
We were not nation until the SUR
render left it impossible for a state
to secede.
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tween two parties in that state. If
we acknowledge that ours was a civil
war we acknowledge we were a ma
ton, or one state in 1861, and not a
republic of sovereign states, and
therefore had no right to secede.
Neither was it War of Secession,
as it is sometimes called.
The Southern states seeded with
no thought of war.
They simply wished to have a gov
eminent where their rights, reserved
by the constitution, should be re-
spected.
The war was caused by the non-se-
cessionists trying to coerce the seced-
ing states back into the Union.
Nor was it War of Rebellion, for
sovereign states cannot rebel, nor was
ita War of Sections. The North did
not fight the South, for brothers were
arrayed against brothers. There were
many men of the South who enlisted
on the Union side, and vice versa.
Both North and South were con
tending for a principles, and not be-
cause they hated each other.
Hence, the conflict of the sixties
was War Between the States, for
the non-seceding states of the United
States made war upon the seeding
states of the United States to force
them back into the Union.
It is the object of the Daughters
of the Confederacy to right some if
not all the wrongs done the South,
not only by Northern writer's but
ignorant writer's of the South And
at the same time to rule out of our
text books anything that is unjust to
the North, for such wrongs have at
times entered Southern text books.
AS we demand justice, that must we
give.
As true an account of the causes
leading to the War Between the
States as any Southerner would ask
for is found in ''The Origin of the
Late War;" by George Liant, of Bos-
ton, Mass.
Dan Voorhees,, of Indiana, in his
speeches has righted the South in re-
construction history.
Charles Francis Adams has tried to
do US justice in regard to our consti-
tuition rights.
Hamilton Mabie has done much tc
right the injustice to the South ir
literature.
It was a Northern historian who
said: Eliminate the achievement:
of Virginia's great men and you near,
ly unmake American history"
These fair minded Northern mer
have taken the trouble to investigate
the truth concerning US. So in oul
search for truth in regard to South
ern history let us be fair, free from
bitterness and narrowness, for toda,
we stand and desire to stand a unitet
people; all sections happy at peaci
and united in energies, in common
interests, in resources, in courage an,
; in patriotism. Historian,
w. w. Weeks Chapter.
! With acknowledgements to Historian
General.