glimpse of it before it passed away forever, like the enchanting vision of childhood's joyous dream. But there came, erstwhile, to the city of Atlanta, one who knew that Old South well, because he was part and parcel of it; one who, though on his head there rests a crown as white as Hecla's snow, bears yet within his soul the fires of patriotism that glow like Hecla's flame, and whose tongue is attuned to notes of surpassing eloquence.1 He came from his home in that other Georgian city-the beautiful "Forest City"to tell the young men of Atlanta of that Old South which, he said, though it is so much misunderstood, so greatly maligned, so much belied, must forever remain, for those who knew it best, the golden age of American history; and I accept, with all my heart, his testimony that "the stern glory of Sparta, the rich beauty of Athens, the splendors of imperial Rome, the brilliancy of ancient Carthage, all pale before the glories of the Old South, the sunny South of our forefathers, of Washington, of Jefferson, of Madison, and last, but not least, of Lee"; and his avowal that, let the truth of history prevail, and each youth who first sees the light in this sunny clime will, wherever his wanderings may have carried him, proudly exclaim: "Thank God, I belong to the blood and lineage of the South!"

1. Gen. Henry R. Jackson.

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[From The Times-Democrat (New Orleans), July 2, 1895.] THE "ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA"

́AS PUBLISHED BY THE WERNER COMPANY, OF CHICAGO.”

CONFEDERATE VETERANS DENOUNCE IT AND REFUSE TO ALLOW IT TO REMAIN IN THEIR HALL.

Last night at the Memorial Hall the Cavalry Association Camp No. 9 held a regular monthly meeting, with President G. H. Tichenor in the chair. In the absence of the secretary, Mr. Charles H. Bailey acted. The meeting was opened with prayer by Chaplain Purser. * The following report upon the Encyclopedia Britannica was adopted:

*

To the President and Members of Camp No. 9, U. C. V. Cavalry Association:

Comrades-Your committee appointed to investigate the charges against the Peale reprint of the Encyclopedia Britannica, published by the Werner Company, of Chicago, beg leave to report:

1. That the chief object of the United Confederate Veteran Association, and of all Confederate associations since 1865, is to gather together and preserve the material for a true and fair history of the Southern States, and their soldiers, statesmen and people, and especially of the causes of the civil war of 18611865, and the conduct of that war; and to denounce

all books and publications which traduce the Southern States, and belie or belittle their achievements, and which are unfair and unjust to the people.

We have personally examined the R. S. Peale reprint of the Encyclopedia Britannica, published and sold by the "Werner Company," of Chicago. It is not a fac simile of the ninth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica of Edinburgh and revised to date. The Edinburgh edition (the ninth) was unfair and unjust to the South, and the writers and editors were ignorant of the facts of history and of the lives, writings and character of Southern soldiers, statesmen, poets, novelists and historians.

They apparently

thought that the whole of the intellectual, moral and patriotic life of the United States had its centre in New England, and was somewhat diffused through the North. But the editors of the R. S. Peale reprint, published and sold by the Werner Company, of Chicago, in having a number of articles rewritten -notably the one on the United States have been much more offensive to the South than was the original Edinburgh edition. The publishers have been extensively advertising and selling in the South what they claim to be a specially revised edition, in which justice is done to the South. We find that a few of the most offensive paragraphs have been cut out and substitute pages pasted in the volumes sold in the South, a copy of which pasted volume is in Memorial Hall, and for which the Cavalry Association, without

examination, and on the representation of the agent of the Werner Company, passed a vote of thanks.

Simply as samples of the tone of this work, as sold in the North, shown by copies of the same and later date than those sold here, unfair and unjust to the South, we submit a few extracts:

(Here followed a number of passages from the work showing its unfair and slanderous character.)

The Dick Dowling Camp, in June, 1894, passed the following resolutions, and after a careful examination of the Peale reprint we concur :

"Headquarters Dick Dowling Camp, No. 197, "United Confederate Veterans,

"HOUSTON, TEX., July 1, 1894. "Comrades-At a recent meeting of the Dick Dowling Camp of United Confederate Veterans, of this city, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:

"Whereas, the members of the Dick Dowling Camp of the United Confederate Veterans, here assembled, do most heartily subscribe to the words of our great captain, Robert E. Lee, that 'every one should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth (as to the war between the States) in the hope that it may find a place in history and descend to posterity.'

"And whereas, one of the objects of the organization of the body known as the United Confederate Veterans was to see to it, so far as in their power lay, that those words shall be faithfully carried out,

to the end that history shall transmit to posterity a truthful representation of the South and a true account of the war between the States, such an account as shall show that the South, to quote again the words of Lee, 'had no other object than the defense of those principles of American liberty upon which the Constitutions of the several States were originally founded;'

"And whereas, a Northern publishing firm, styled the Werner Company, of Chicago, is now circulating an edition of the R. S. Peale reprint of the Encyclopedia Britannica that falsifies history by stigmatizing the people of the South as being a people deficient in civilization and moral sense, and untrue to their obligations under the Constitution, by charging them with having brought on the war in violation of those principles, the defense of which the illustrious Lee declared was his and the South's only object; therefore

"Resolved, That we hereby condemn as utterly false, slanderous and misleading the statements of the encyclopedia alluded to, which show unmistakable evidence of having been inspired by a combination of malice and ignorance, and we would impress upon all who want the truth concerning American history the necessity of seeking it elsewhere than in the pages of that encyclopedia. Especially do we urge Southern parents not to point their children to it for that truth.

"Resolved further, That the camps throughout the South be requested to take proper action in this matter, and the Southern press generally be requested