The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-05-08
WHY HISTORY CONFEDERlCY
SHOULD BE "kEPI ALIVE

| (PapeC Te3Q Oy MIS-. II. w. lOyU al
the meeting Of the DraytOn Ruther-
ford Chapter Daughters OF the Con-
| federacy at the meeting held at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas W.
Keitt May l, 1919
1t has been said, with great deal
of truth, that the South has been So
busy in the making Of history that
she has not had the time to write
! it. It has been a surprise to many
that a people so proud of its ances-
try, so assertive of it's rights, so
jealous of it's reputation should be
so Indifferent to the preservation OF
its history.
Southern young men and Southern
young women are teaching in South
ern schools the things unjust to the
South and do not know it. Why
Because they were taught from
Northern textbooks. How can we
expect the writer's of Northern text
books to know what we do not kno"
ourselves. The North is right to
place before her young people the
] heroism, the fortitude, and the valor
of the great men Of the North, their
deeds have been and will be always
/ well recorded in history, and sO
should We of the South place before
our young people the her0sm. the
jTortitude and the valor OF the South.
| 1t has been said that books are
the only things that live forever
and very certain it is that imDres-
F.! sions made on the minds Of our boys
and girls in their school days are
rarely, if ever, eradicated. How I'M
portant it Is then to know what these
F., books they are studying contain. SO
with this end in view, the United
DAUGHTERS of the Confederacy,
| through their State superintendent
of education. are getting the names
! of histories and readers being taught
in the schools, examining them care
fully and seeing If they were fair TO
the South, and truthfully presenting
the issues and incidents of the War
Between the States. The history OF
this struggle and of these sacrifices
has not been fully written. The u
D. C. are sometimes accused OF
'.stressing dead issues" but we stano
: for the truth-past, present and Ia-
! ture. The principle for which our
fathers fought was States rlgnls'
the right of each State or sovereign
ty to govern itself according to the
! demands growing out OF cond1tlons
J OF each section-the most reliable
historians of after years have declar-
ed that this view Of the South was
! correct and was the intention OF the
: men who framed the constitution.
Nothing so arouses the Indignation
of a just man as injustice and lmpo-
sition. Most of the Confederate SOL
diers enlisted in the beginning OF the
war because they felt the injustice
and imposition Of the federal govern
ment and were better soldiers 1or
, it. They did not come like DUMP
driven cattle" but for reasons which
we're higher than a mere call from
their Confederate leaders. This spr-
it in itself gave to the Confederacy
the finest war record known 70 MS
tory. All weuinformed and fair
minded persons in every section OF
our country now know, and a great
manv admit. the truth OF the princl-
pIes for which the Southern people
fought in the sixties, but there are
clear signs that if our young people
are not faithfully taught in this gen
! Grafton in ten or twenty years .1om
! now they will be found apologizins
for our part in the war and our
Grand children will be found con-
demning it. Is the South to go down
j in history with a blotted escutcheon
She need not if only her daughters
will he true. Until We have fulnllec
the duty OF teaching this principle
! to our children in the school foon
and through the press, We snail mo-
have done the first duty to our deao
There was a strong editorial IN ons
Of our Southern papers several years
ago emphasizing the Importance o.
akeeping alive the history OF The
CONFERENCE.-The incident that occa
' stoned this editorial was an un9us
= and false criticism of the only prea
dent Of the Confederacy by the sol
of a veteran. ,,.,.
From a recent edition OF Solilef
weekly we read this false statement
benjamin Ryan Tillman is Vetef.
an of the Confederacy and IN nh
first contest for the United states
senate defeated General Ben Butler
carpetbagger. This was a sad bu'
unintentional reflection upon the Ia
mented n. C. Butler. And again tne
Literary Digest quotes from the Wall
Street Journal, Germans say tne
enslaved Belgians are happy, an0
they can get similar arguments from
the South before the Civil War"
And this from reviews of ne"
books, "Thaddeus Stevens Place IN
Civil War and Reconstruction HIS
tory by James Albert Woodoum'
the biographer writes that the dras-
tic procedures for which Stevens Is
contended during the four years o.
sighting Were wise and lawful, tha'
the efforts of Lincoln to MAINTAIN
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