ern Senator, in the Senate Chamber, simply because that Senator had "dared to criticise the unjust and one-sided proceedings of border ruffians in Kansas," how is he to know that this is a total distortion of the facts, or escape being forced to the conclusion that he is indeed descended from a breed of ruffians?

It was one of the quotations I have given from this encyclopedia that was cited by Mr. Thomas Nelson Page in an address at Roanoke, Va., nearly two years ago, as the most impressive proof of the need for the South to awake and be doing in the matter of having herself truthfully represented in history. It is indeed time for the survivors of the generation that is passing away to be looking to the books from whose pages their children are taught. It is indeed time for them to be encouraging with all their might the writing and the circulation of books that represent them truthfully, if they wish to be respected by the generation coming after.

Surely, the publishers of the Southern newspapers to which I have referred would not, for the sake of a few paltry dollars, knowingly enlist those papers in the work of circulating a book that slanders and villifies the South. Surely, when they are made aware of the fact that they are engaged in circulating such a book, they will not permit themselves longer to be used for such a purpose.

Our Northern neighbors know the power of books. They know that Voltaire said truly when he said that all the world, except savage nations, is governed by

books. Hence, as they sent army after army from their inexhaustible human hives to overcome the South on the battle-field, so they are now sending book after book from their multitudinous presses to overcome her in the mental arena-to educate her children to believe that they are the children of parents whose moral sense was blighted and who to-day would be in a condition of semi-barbarism but for the civilizing influence of the North.

Shall we be mentally subjugated? Shall the Northern idea become the Southern idea? Shall they triumph in the intellectual as well as in the physical forum? If yea, complete, indeed, would then be their triumph; complete, indeed, would then be our overthrow, our humiliation, our degradation. The South yielded in the contest with the sword, but not until after a struggle against overwhelming odds that excited the wonder and admiration of the world. Shall we now, without a struggle worthy of the name, surrender that mightier weapon, the pen? To answer this momentous question, or rather, to avert such a catastrophe, is, as I understand it, one of the objects of this organization of Confederate veterans. They, the fastfading remnant of that army which for four long years filled the world with the fame of its heroic deeds, and which surrendered not until it was annihilated— they, who are proud to be numbered among those who followed that glorious chieftain whose sword was sheathed and whose heart was broken at Appomattox -they are here, as I understand it, to urge their

fellow-countrymen to see to it that there shall be no Appomattox for the Southern pen, and no instruction of Southern youth as to the history of this country from sources which tell them that they are the descendants of ancestors bereft of moral sense and all spirit of enterprise; ancestors who held labor to be degrading, who were ruffians, conspirators and traitors, and who were saved from barbarism mainly by the civilizing influence exerted upon them by the people of the North.

Gentlemen, is it true, as has been alleged, that there has been a decadence in the spirit of our people, that there is a less strong feeling of the sanctity of both public and private obligations, a less firm devotion to principle as principle than there used to be? That the corner-lot principle, the wild booming of towns and hastening to be rich is destroying the true spirit of our race? Is it to this corner-lot principle that we must attribute the wild booming by Southern papers of a book that traduces the fathers from whose loins we sprung and the mothers who gave us birth? In the words of one of the truest sons of the South, I ask— "Are the Southern people prepared, are they preparing to surrender their past? To surrender the 'Old South' as it stands in the truth of history, and to accept a new South that shall deny, or adulterate, or mutilate it?"

Mr. Chairman, of that "Old South" I am not competent, from personal knowledge, to speak in fitting terms. It was given to me to have but one brief

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.

[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