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YOL. 13. NO. 50.
Percy Greg’s History
Of the United States.
By C. J. SHIPP.
A nation’s history should be a
nation’s pride; the noble deeds of
those who have gone before us,
should be held up as a shining
light down the avenues of time,
as an encouragement to our youth,
and an inspiration-to the patriotic;
without a history, a people is like
an orphan without a heritage, and
the historian who would rob the
dead of justly earned laurels is
not more guiltless than he who
would rob a helpless child of his
patrimony.
A number of the so-called his
tories that are being used in our
schools have been written by the
partisans of the North, and from
the study of them the young are
taught that their fathers were
rebels and traitors fighting for an
ignoble cause, seeking to destroy
the flag of the union without just
cause or constitutional right.
The spirit of conciliation, it
strikes me, has reached abnormal
proportions in our Southland or
the teachings of such histories
would not be allowed; we are
sacrificing too much to the com
mercial spirit of the age.
The youths of our country
should be taught that the Confed
erate soldier fought for principle,
believing the states had the right
of secession from the union when
ever in their opinion certain rights
guaranteed them by the constitu
tion were being withheld, or were
in danger of being destroyed; we
should teach them these old
patriots fighting for what they
believed to be God given rights,
against overwhelming odds and
numbers,
“ Were the knightliest of
a
race
That since the days of old,
Had kept the lamps of chivalry
Alight in hearts of gold.”
Percy Greg’s history of the
United States deals fairly with the
South,it takes up the subject of
secession and treats it from a con
stitutional standpoint, and takes
the position that the war was
forced on the South by the under
hand and double dealing of the
party of Lincoln; he says that
“ Every individual Southerner in
stinctively felt that his was the
cause of law and justice, of coun
try, independence, right and man
hood : the Northern invader might
convince himself that he was in
the right, but those obvious facts
that impress the conscience and
the moral instincts of ordinary
men were all against him ; he was
an aggressor, an invader, he was
emphatically doing as he would
not be done by.” In speaking of
the numerical strength of the
two armies he says, “In mere
military arithmetic, the South
was outnumbered by four to one;
bub that was not the worst, the
material resources of the North
were‘simply infinite, while those
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of the South were limited in the
extreme ; the former could import
arms and ammunition to any ex
tent; all the factories of Europe
were as fully available as if they
had been planted on Northern
soil; for any such purpose the
wealth of the South was almost
useless.”
I have often wondered why the
Southern schools have not adopted
this history as a text book; it is
written in classical style and well
suited for the schools, and yet I
do not know even of a single copy
except the one that I own being
in the hands of any one in this
neighborhood; it seems that our
people have submitted to the errors
of Northern historians so
that they have grown apathetic on
this subject. I have somewhere
read that there was a history con
nected with the publication of this
book ; Mr. Greg, who was an En
glishman, sold the book to a Lon
don publisher, and while the book
was in press, a wealthy Northern
man was visiting Europe at
the time, came across some of the
advance sheets of this book; with
the idea of suppressing a book
that dealt so justly with the hated
South, he went to the proprietor
and offered a large sum for the
privilege of destroying the book,
the proprietor refused to allow it
to be destroyed for any price, but
nothing daunted by this refusal he
hired an agent to purchase secretly,
every copy of the book as soon as
they left the press; after purchasing
destroyed every
but one, which he took home and
placed in his library; eight or ten
years after this, the son of this
man was about to graduate at one
of the prominent Northern col
leges, when a report gained cur
rency among the students that in
his graduating speech this young
man would have a great deal to
say about the injustice done the
South; the professors hearing of
this sent for him and had him to
read his speech to them ; when the
objectioned part was reached
they asked him for Ins authority,
he replied, “ Percy Greg’s History
of the United States.” The pro
fessors told him that there was no
and to
produce it, lie stated to them that
he had lent the book to a class
mate who lived in Virginia who
had just left college for his home.
He wrote to Virginia for the book
but hi* classmate had a few days
previous to this left for the Pa
cific slope and his present address
was then unknown,
The professors commanded him
to repudiate the substance of his
speech in another speech, and
u p 0 n his refusal to do this', they
expelled him from college, deny
ln . « hml a dl l >lo ma ' At hen he .... re
turned home, his , lather s anger
Coroner Graham empanneled the
following jury: J. H. Henderson,
J. R. Carroll, W. B. Nichols, C. C.
Duncan, J. A. McLendon and J. E.
Quattlebaum. After hearing the
evidence they brought in a verdict
of justifiable homicide. It was a
plain case of kill or be killed.
Money to Loan.
We are headquarters for loans on
improved farm lands in Dooly county,
payable in 5 years time, 7 per cent, in
terest. No 10 per cent commission,
only loan. small fee for abstract and closing
call Money J. obtained H. promptly. Write
to or on Woodward – Son,
Lawyers, Vienna, Ga.
CORDELE, GA., FIMDAY, JUNE 14, 1901.
knew no bounds, ho disinherited
him ns being a disgrace to his
country; the book that was in
the hands of the Virginia friend
was afterwards republished, but it.
has been so poorly advertised that
there are a" great many people who
do not even know of its existenc *.
This story which I understand
is a true one, seems to illustrate
the persistency of the North in
suppressing anything like a fair
and true account of the civil
struggle and the causes that led up
to it, and I fear that if the South
continues to ignore this matter
much longer that the truth of his
tory will be very much clouded in
a few
In a fair history, the South has
nothing to be ashamed of ; much
to be proud of, and God grant that
the time is not far distant when
truth shall prevail and when jus
tice shall hold the scales, then will
the names of our Confederate
heroes be sounded among those
of the “choice and master spirits
of this world.”
Opera House Building
. To Be Torn Down.
The committee from the City Council, consisting
Messrs R, B. Scarborough, S. C. Weisiger and J. A.
Lasseter, according to instructions from council, have
inspected the Opera House building and will recommend
to the council next "Wednesday at the regular meeting,
that the building be torn down at once. It is both, says
committee, a menace to health and dangerous to pedes
trians.
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You Are interested. k
Judge U. V. W hippie will offer through the colums
of this paper next week some suggestions on a matter
that is of vital importance to every citizen of this
Watch for the article.
Will flove to Valdosta.
While one of the
representatives was seeking
this week lie was informed that Mr.
Asa M. Bailey and family would
soon move from Cordele to Valdos
ta where they will make their future
home.
Mr. Bailey has decided that Val
dosta will be a better point for him
in his business, besides he will be
connected with a large lumber con
cern which have established head
quarters there.
We exceedingly regret to give this
family up. but wish them
success in their new
Bullet Crushed Negro’s Brain.
Constable W. W. Barlow
Town Marshal W. E. Barker arrest
ed a negro, Fred Tooraer,
under a warrant for robbery. The
officers disarmed him of bis winches
ter and pistol, after which he quitely
submitted and was carried to the
city lockup. Mr. Barker bad the
negro’s pistol in his hand, and as
he went to unlock the cell door the
negro grabbed the pistol and placed
it to Mr. Barlow’s breast and made
every effort to shoot, but from some
unknown cause the pistol failed to
fire. This delay gave Mr. Barlow
time to ‘‘unlimber his artillery,”
which he was slow in doing, and he
sent a bullet crashing through the
brain of the prisoner. He ran about
twenty steps and fell dead . He
was a negro that had a shady reputa
tion and there were no tears shed at
his demise.
' WROTE WORTHLESS CHECKS.
I O. E. Heath Arrested in Alacon—
Cordele Peoples’ Experience.
] On Thursday night of last week
City Detective Jenkins, of Macon,
arrested 0. E. Death, pursuant to
instruct cuts from the sheriff of
Lowndes county, for passing three
worthless ch-cks. It seems that
Heath had passed several worth
less checks in Valdostn. He also
passed some checks in Macon and
several other towns. He has been |
arrested several times, and escaped j
each time some means.
It, will he remembered that
Heath came to Cordele some time
ago and a few days after he arrived
here he was arrested by Chief of
Police Morris, upon instructions
from an Albany firm, but he ar
ranged the matter some way, and
soon left, leaving his wife and
child at the Central Hotel in this
place. Ilis wife remained here tor
a month, when board bill became
due, and she, not having heard
from her husband, could not meet
the bill, and she was compelled to
secure aid from her brother-in
law in Augusta, who sent her a
P 09tal ordt)r for enough to pay her
fare to that city, and she left im-
mediately, but the board bill still
remains unsettled.
Manager Pierce endeavored to
locate Heath but could not. Mrs.
Heath was a modest, unassuming
lady, and the sympathy of the
public was with her. It is said
that, just before Heath left he had
a worthless check cashed by a
party here. It seems that he
worked this scheme wherever he
went, and now that he has been
placed behind the bars it is hoped
that he will get his just deserts.
Unadilla Notes.
Mr. J. A, Etheridge of Cordele,
was in the city on businass Mon
day.
Messrs. R. P. Ketchum and J.
H. Dow, representing the New
York Life Insurance Company,
day were looking in the city business. Monday and Tues
for
W. E. Read left for Palatka
Tuesday, where he goes to relieve
one of the clerks in the G. S. and
F. railroad office for a few days.
Miss Carrie Denmark left for
her home in Quitman last week.
Miss Nellie Thorpe is visiting
friends at Arabi this week.
A surprise party consisting of
about fifteen young ladies and
gentlemen was made up and went
to the home of Mr. and Mrs. II.
W. Baird on last Friday night.
Various games and music was in
dulged in and every one present
had a most delightful time.
At a special meeting of the board
of trustees of the Unadilla public
schools Monday Professor Powers,
of Culloden, Ga., was appointed
teacher principal, Miss Nellie Thorpe
intermediate department,
and Miss Louise Herndon teacher
of music. II. W. B.
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: Sandy Mount.
! Last Friday was a great day at
i Sandy Mount, five miles East of
Vienna. It is a lovely spot with
beautiful oak shades which added
to the inspiration of the occasion,
The occasion was the closing exer
C1S0S °* F'-of. J. S. Cook’s school,
" Itich by tile way, can not he sur
passed by any other school in the
county. The patrons are delight
' <1 with what their children have
learned, and should be, for despite
the fact that the school h«.s a to
Dii enrollment ol 05 pupils, Prof,
Cook, handed and
advanced each pupil marvel
ously ; an illustration of this fact
came from the mouth of one of
j llle most mlluencial patrons when
i he said, “I have a child in school
' vll ° did not more than know the
alphabet last tall and can i now
read in the third reader.”
This good people fully sustained
themselves in spreading one of the
most bountiful dinners ever spread
on a similar or any other occasion
more l han twice the quantity
necessary to feed the immense
crowd
From early morn until late
night the pupils were speaking,
and reciting,standing oral examinations
and every pupil did self, teacher
school great credit.
Col. J. T. Hill, of Cordele, was
the orator of the occasion, and he
was never better at himself than
here He was among homefolk
and at home among the audience
present. He devoted his speech
to practical education, to the
present public school system and
the methods of taxation for schools,
how it should be remedied and
what remedies to his mind should
be applied. The entire speech
Colonel Hill and every
he made was apparently
by all who heard it, and the
only regrets that a more complete
limited synopsis can not be given in
space.
In the afternoon Mr. W. F.
Hall, of Vienna, made a short
speech, and at the close introduced
Mr. Walter George, who at one
time lived in Dooly and who is
known all over the state for hav
ing won recently the inter-colle
giate oratorical contest and who
had arrived at Vienna the night
before, where he will locate to
practice law. Mr. George made
an eloquent, logical speech, along
educational lines, which gained
much praise from all who heard it.
All in all it was a great day for
Sandy Mount and surrounding
community.
Sunday school Picnic.
The Methodist, Baptist and Pres
byterian Sundayschools will picnic
at Beech Haven on Friday, June
21st.
The committee on arrangements
endeavored to secure Friday of
this week, but the date was en
gaged, and the committee was com
pelled to accept Friday the 21st.
The railroad has promised four
passenger and one baggage coach,
which insures ample accommoda
tion for all who go.
It is hoped that everyone who
can, will go, and spend a day at
this splendid park.
The fare will be 50 cents for
grown children, people and 85 cents for
round
Pinehurst, (ja.
Dear Editor Sentinel:
the epistle was too late last week.
I will be in the “swim” in the fu
ture. I have no important news
to communicate, except that Pine
hurst is on a “boom” We are
likely to have a new brick depot
to take the place of the one de
stroyed by fire.
The paint brush will be applied
vigorously, ringing and shortly, the wedding bells
will be and some
body will claim one of our charm
maids or widows.
Mr. John Harvard and Miss
Nora West, and Mr, Flinell and
Miss Kinsey were reported to have
joined their hearts and hands in
the holy bonds of wedlock last
Sabbath at Mount Olive church.
The remains of Mrs. Sulivan,
mother of our neighbors, John
and Norman Sulivan, was taken
from the north-bound passenger
Tuesday and intered at Snow
Spings Cemetery.
It is raining again but the seasons
are all O K and the farmers are
wearing a broad smile.
The oat crops is fine. Wheat
fairly good, cotton growing, corn
is being laid by.
“General Green,” still at the
front, but, like the “Savage Fil
lipinos,” he is some what under
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Our school closed Monday night
Our beloved pastor, Bro. Adkins
preached for us on Monday at
eleven o’clock a. in., and service
began at 8 o'clock p. m. A large
crowd gathered, and by 8:80 about.
500 people were gathered, the
house was taxed t<> its seating cap
acity but all present heard, and
enjoyed themselves as best thev
could under the circumstances, it
being very warm. Some of the
boys said they were just “gradua
ly melting away.”
The exercises were perfect, and
a credit to our principle, Miss
Cora Anthony. And by the way,
I would like to say the best of or
thing nothing lacking, to make it
to he desired.
Several came up from Vienna,
them were Col. Watt Pow
Dr. Mobley and Mr. Paul
Unadilla was also represented.
Blufftown Breezes.
Well, its a little dry this time.
If the farmers don’t kill the Green
General now, they ought to be cap
tured themselves.
Our Sunday school is one of the
most prosperous in the country
right at the present.
Rev. Bass filled his regular ap
pointment at the First Congrega
tional Church Saturday and bun
day, assisted by Rev. Charlie
Berryhill.
John B. Cason, the clever and
handsome marshal of Seville, was
circulating among our “fairest”
Mr. Frank Quattlebaum, of
Sunday. Kramer, ^ attended chureh here
W. J. Johnson went to Cordele
Tuesday.
Bill David Conner went to Cobb
Creek Sunday.
Miss Belle Fairoloth was at
church Sunday, and so was Archie
Conner.
One of tlie hands at Henderson
– Bruic’s shingle mill was cut by
the drag saw Monday morning.
Miss Sarah J. Wright returned
home last week from an extended
visit to friends at McVille, Ga.
Neil Conner and Dan Xmas are
going to church next Sunday if
they can borrow Lam’s mule
buggy to drive their calves to.
done to Rest.
Little Ethel, the two-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. M.
Bailey, died last Monday morning
at 4:80 o’clock.
It had been an inyalid all its
life very nearly, and was unable
to stand the last sickness.
Many, beautiful flowers were
placed upon the coffin before
it w^.s conveyed to the cemetery
by loving friends,
The funeral services were con
ducted by Rev. J, C. Brewton, of
the Our Baptist church.
tended deepest sympathy is ex
to the bereaved.
Father of Mrs. C. J. Shipp Dead.
Mrs. C. J. Shipp, of this city,
received a telegram Monday an
nouncing the death of her father,
Judge B. H. Zelluer, of Forsyth,
which occurred on the afternoon
of that day
Judge Zellner was 81 years of
age at the time of his death. He
was a prominent citizen of the
county, all who knew and highly respected by
him.
Mrs. Shipp was sick at the time
she received the telegram and
We not go to Forsyth.
extend our sympathy to her
the hour of affliction.
$2,000 A Year.
Postmaster M. G. Hall has re
ceived notification from the post
office authorities at Washington
that on account of the increase in
the amount of business, done here
in this office, he is entitled to a
raise of $200.00 in his yearly
salary,.which has been up to date
$1,800 per year.
For every $1,000 increase the
salary is increased $100.00, and
for every $1,000 decrease the salary
is decreased $100.00. So it will
be seen that the Cordele offco has
increased in business. during the
last year $2,000.00.
Major Hall has given splendid
satisfaction to the public and 1
handles the affairs in the offic *
highly satisfactory.