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Show TO 1TI1I1I, 1111 lit Utt.N lllsTO... The Unite I Confederate Veterans la thu Damn of a (Southern toclety whose object Is Hie er eluatlon of tho history of the Houth from that ilJo of tho line. A meeting of the society wai recently held In IS'ew Orleans and an adjournment adjourn-ment taken to Hlrmlueham, Alabama, In July, at which time the historian will bo chenen. It waa also decided that each "camp," ur division, ahould pjiolutaapuolati-ecritary whom duty It would hu to takecaruof historical patera and dociimeula. Lieutenant Uoneral i:. Klrby Hmlth presided, .N'lrhulsou.ol thu IjnuslanaHtatu Uni versity, acted as secretary, an 1 I'm!, Aloi tt Illll, of Tuscaloosa, and Uen. li. H. Ijce, of Mlsalaslppl, were the other tntnibora prtteut. Ily tpeclal Invitation Colonel William 1'reaton Jobnajn, ol Tulaue university, par tlclpatud In thu deliberations. The defecla or rtccnt hlstorlea of thu United ritales wcro pointed out and tho following fol-lowing resolutions, explaining thu object ob-ject of the work, weru then adnjted. riret To devlso ami suggest tho best Llau of ociiriiu n general History of the ruled KutCN, which an ill bo non-partisan, butehatlglvoapecUl prommeiico to suillliern lluraturoaiid thoiiiusea which led lo tho war lelweeil tho mates, tho war luelf and Iho perlil sluro the war. Hecoml lo select audi of existing school histories ns nro Ituthfutaud Just In ihetr atatcuif nla In refrronco to tho catlsee nnil facte nf the laio war, and rocomnieiid tho eaiuo for ue In all our schools lu ordor of preference If ostl-bleaiid ostl-bleaiid poetical. Thlnl To iloslgnato auch existing text books uf the hUtury ni aro ntiectlunatilo In tho auuso of their being unfair an 1 un Just In thctrslatomeut In rifereiice to the istisea and facia of tho ialo war. It aleo decide! that hlftorlea and ulhtr school bo ka that deal fairly with all iUctlloLS North nnd South Le usedlnplacis of Instruction, that the achievements anl motives of tho southern ooplo be maju known and rietutol, I'roni all thli It stems that thu exCou(ederatet, while will lug that both sides have a hearing, am Imprettol with the Idea that they enn and will tell thu story of tho Houth better lhau others havu told It for them. |