Evening star., 1922-07-07
North and South Unite In Tributes
to Lincoln.

Popular opinion in the south. as
expressed in southern papers, does
not support tho United Confederate
Veterans In their convention indorse-
ment Of tho southern historians
declaration that 'the war between the
states was deliberately and personally
conceived and its Inauguration made
by Abraham Lincoln and he was per-
sonally responsible for forcing the
war upon the south" While there is
some resentment in northern papers
against what is to them an attack on
tho Great Emancipator. most OF them
feel with the Cincinnati Times-Star
that abraham Lincoln's reputation
can stand it."
in which city the Confederate reunion
was held. essays an explanation Of the
apparent unanimity with which the
historical treatise was tndorsed.
are not nts6 Soas says
Meeting usnally in q vast hall, they
find debate impossible. Formal re-
ports, read usually in q monotonous
voice, are audible only to those close
to the rostrum. Recommendations
orally are pro lorna in character.
When q session has adjourned not ono
delegate in ten has anything more
than the haziest idea Of the lu-
tions that have been adopted.
veterans that they had indicted
Abraham Lincoln as personally re-
sponsible for forcing tho war on the
south"
Calling attention to the subsequent
statement Of two Of the veterans
the resolution was adopted in some
confusion" and that in their opinion
Abraham Lincoln had no moro re-
sponsibility in bringing on the war
than had Jefferson Davis for the senti-
ment Of southern people in resisting
clares that this statement more fairly
represents the sentiment Of the south
ern people as a whole than did the
resolution OF the conference.
Nevertheless. ''the Confederate Vet
that the ideal for which they fought
80 valiantly has not received sympa:
thetic treatment in some Of the school
histories" the Asheville IN. c. Times
asserts. That time, however, has
passed. the Norfolk Norfolk, virsinian.Pilott ,s1.i ct
the United Confederate Veterans to
which was delegated the task OF
combing school histories for uncom-
plimentary illusions to tho lost cause
had a mission in life when historians,
mostly northern bred. were writing OF
the war between the states with pens
still warm from the fires Of war. But
what mission has it now?' the Vir-
Tinian-Pilot asks. '.The damyankee
histories that lied about us are all
out Of print" and there has even
grown up generation OF fluent MS
No aouthern school that prefers itS
history fiavored with magnolia need
NOW 20 without" At the same time,
however, the writer continues, II It
is r,1ht TO protect our young against
histories prejudiced against the south;
It Is wrong s to - give S,sssd snsm axainst a tbs
Therefn. in the opinion Of some
northern editors, lies the danger OF
such q revision Of history as the o!o
Confederates are advocating: TO
teach the children OF +hae the srs sogsn saw say.
the ChicaEo News. would be to do z
great wrong to their intelligence"
worse, adds the Minneapolis Tribune.
II would "inflict q wrong on tne ris-
ing generations OF the southNtne
q kindlier atmosphere" for already
"this Richmond libel Is
dash Of cold water on an all-Amer-
loan spirit that has grown stronger
and warmer and more pervasfve as
the animosities Of the war so1tenea.
The south does not need q new MS
tory that will "set 1t right before the
world" the Jacksonville (Fia) jour
nal declares, for ''the south stands
right before the world today. and 1t
is guarding its golden heritage by
developine It's resources. by teaching
its Younger generation the pure ana
undefiied principles Of Americanism,
by thinking in thoughts as broad as
the nation" for $50 far a. the great
majortties go. and these me'orlsaes a.'a LIE
the spirit Of sectionalism ts as dead
as the question Of slavery.
with the norfolk Ledger-Dispatch
Asserting that the historical pamphlet
in Question 'wfll hardly be accepted
in the soutf,'s schools, even though
it como with the high recommenda- a.
tion Of the Confederate Veterans os,
nn nd doubt fee, justified in its position
that when southern school boards
indorse it. It win be time to get
excited." for, as tho Parkersburg
Nv. Va,) News says, nobody who
knows history will take this dec-
laration seriously. TT must be rec
ognized," tho Norfolk paper con-
tinues, sthat the causes OF the CON
fiict We're too deep-seated ana too
farsraaching and too numerous to
have had their origin in the mind
of any one man or to owe their
anal fraeedy to, his single efforts, =
sinoe. the Baltimore Sun adds, "the
war had been in The making for
ysasa. bo1crs Lncoln came "a the