cyclopedia Britannica as a gift, and returning thanks therefor, be and the same is hereby rescinded.

Be it further resolved, That the secretary be instructed to notify the donors that, insofar as this association is concerned, said publication awaits their pleasure.

Be it further resolved, That we unite with Camp No. 9, U. C. V. Cavalry Association, in inviting other camps interested to take similar action.

After adoption, Comrade Chas. Santana offered the following in connection with the preceding resolution, and it was adopted by a full rising vote:

Resolved, That the Association of the Army of Tennessee, Louisiana Division, United Confederate Veterans, take this occasion to express their sense of the great service rendered to the people of the South and to the cause of the truth of history by the painstaking, conscientious, patriotic manner in which General Stephen D. Lee and his associates on the United Confederate Veterans' historical committee performed the important duty with which they were charged in the preparation of the report submitted by them to the late convention at Houston. The report especially warned our people against the dissemination of books that traduce the South and malign the character of her illustrious leaders, and named the so-called R. S. Peale reprint of the Encyclopedia Britannica (now published by the Werner Company, of Chicago) as a flagrant example of that kind of literature. The committee's utterance on this subject was timely and

much needed, and it will doubtless do more than any other utterance since the war towards checking the dissemination of such literature and securing fair treatment of the South-a fair statement of the facts of history-in future editions of encyclopedias. A fair statement, a true statement, with nothing extenuated nor aught set down in malice, is all the South asks; all she needs to stand acquitted before the judgment bar of history of the charges against her civilization and her patriotism, and we would urge that the Southern press, as well as our comrade camps throughout the South, actively and earnestly co-operate with our historical committee in preventing the dissemination of books that make those charges.

A STRIKING CONTRAST.

The following quotations are taken from The International Cyclopedia (published by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York), and inserted here to show the difference between history as written in a fair, impartial, unprejudiced, enlightened spirit; and so-called history, written in exactly the contrary spirit-such as is displayed by the so-called Encyclopedia Britannica. The contrast is striking, and greatly to the credit of the International. Treating of the crisis of 1860-'61, that cyclopedia says:

"President Buchanan's administration witnessed the culmination of the conflict that had for years been waged between the free and the slave States in the political arena. The elements of disorder, of dissension, of enmity, and of hate, that seemed seething in the mind of the extremists of both sections, were now concentrated in the prelude to a still greater and more tremendous conflict. It was during this administration that the leaders of the South appear to have definitely decided that the welfare of their section could not be satisfactorily conserved while the Southern States remained a part of the Federal Union. It must be remembered that ever since the foundation of the government, the statesmen of the South had consistently maintained that theory of the Federal

Constitution which regarded the ultimate sovereignty as resting not in the nation as a whole, but rather in the individual States themselves, which this theory held to be supreme and independent commonwealths. According to the view prevalent at the South, these sovereign States had entered into a league of union with the other States for purposes of mutual advantage; and this partnership, like others, was to endure only so long as its original purpose was maintained with regard to all the States. Events seemed now to indicate that the time for the dissolution of the compact had arrived. In the first place, the balance of political power was passing rapidly into the hands of a party inimical to the interests of the South, a party pledged to the ultimate abolition of slavery, and to a commercial system of protection which was peculiarly unfavorable to an agricultural community such as the South then was. Regarding slavery, it is unfair to represent the South as, in the abstract, devoted to a servile system. The greatest statesmen of that section had always deplored the presence of the slaves as an economic and social injury; yet, inasmuch as slavery actually existed, the question was a practical one rather than a matter of speculative interest. Unmolested and unsupported by the foreign slave-trade it is likely that the gradual extinction of slavery would have been brought about through natural causes. But at this time the ill-judged zeal of Northern extremists had begun a crusade which, conducted with extreme bitterness and violence of denun

ciation, produced a most unfortunate effect. The sensitive and high-spirited people of the South heard with amazement the most indiscriminate abuse heaped upon them, because there existed among them an institution originally planted there largely through the instrumentality of the New England slave dealers and Northern traders. They heard the purest and most kindly of their leaders attacked in language that would have been harsh if applied to branded criminals. It is not remarkable, therefore, that this ill-judged vituperation led them to sink all their minor differences of opinion and united them in defiant resistance to such wholesale onslaught. Men who believed thoroughly in the abstract wrongfulness of slavery, indignantly rushed to its defense when the attack upon it took the form of an attack upon everything that the South revered. The Constitution itself distinctly recognized the existence of slavery, and the propaganda of the Abolition party began to be accompanied by open denunciations of that instrument of government. It therefore appeared to the South that political peace with the Northern States was likely to be best attained by separation."

On the subject of slavery, The International further says: "At the period of the organization of the National government the feeling of distaste for the institution of domestic slavery was strong in the Southern States themselves, and prevailed throughout the Union, though certain ship-owners of Boston and