Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-04-21

has returned. Tt is appropriate that
the aftermath of the march to the sea
be recorded in the pages of a maya
zine of national standing, such as
Harper's but it is of vital Importance
that the situation be stated Justly and
lmpartially and not colored with the
imagination of a prejudiced writer.
Sucn a statement as the one made by
Mr. Graham that the legislature was
not even in session at the time. Con-
trary to the statement made bv the
writer, the general astonishment''
was not SO great that no show of re-
slstance was made, for the two college
boys saw the remains of breastworks
that We're thrown up to oppose the
march of the Union Army
Allowing for the possibility of typo
praphcaI error, except for the fact
that it appeared four times in Mr..
Grahan's article is the word "Rincom"
the name of the town, which is nat
urally taken to mean "Rincon." as
there is no town by the first name in
the state. The oversight is small
enough in itself, but it might be taken
as an evidence of the inaccuracies of
the writer, which in other things are
not so unimportant
OuS VI the witnesses called up by
Mr. Graham to testify to the condition
OF the ''despised and rejected" among
Georg1a's poor, was found by the two
southern boys to be harmless luna
tic. As to the elaborate reception"
accorded Sherman's army by the peo-
PIE, as so amply described in the two
articles on Marching Through Geor-
gla," there is no ground for such a
statement. There is one case linper
ing in the memory of one of the grew
haired fathers of the SOS of recen-
ton planned by Union officers, who
sent out invitations to the ladies of
the best families. One young Iadv
receiving large bouquet of flowers,
tore the flowers to pieces
and sent the fragments back, accom- /
panied by note written in terms far
from friendly.
1t seems that Mr.. Graham has writ
ten some books on Russia, which have
not been taken seriously, and it seems
that his articles on Georgia deserve
no serious consideration. Mr.. Ora
ham recently published volume
which he entitled, "The Soul of John
Brown" in which he attempts to tell
what he heard, saw, and as a Chris t
tlan, humanitarian, pondered." The
reviewer of this book in the ''New Re- +
puDllc OF February 8, 1921, says ave
realize as we get on that the writer
OF these articles is very simple per
son. without much by way of theories. /
preJudlces or constructive ideas. Per-
naps the publishers 'Chritian HUMANE
tarianism' is one way of putting it:
whatever else it might mean, it i'm .
plies vaguely good Intentions"
Stephen Graham is an Englishman.
and IS as far removed from American
race problems as England is from
A merica. Instead of coming with
what should, he sees through glasses
strongly tinted with prejudice. Going
from Richmond, where he noticed the
state of the colored population, he
progressed to Lynchburg, where he
noted conditions in the tobacco fac
tories. A race-riot at Knoxville oc-
cupled his attention, where he noted
he attitude of, the Tennesseans to
matters of this kind From a white
Librarian, he learned that negroes have
not access to the Carnegie libraries in
ne south, where as in the north tbev
go to the extent of crowdin.g white
people out. From the negroes ability
% laugh at the mournful and sad in