[435] Ibid., p. 653. The italics are supplied by the transcriber.
[436] Ibid., Vol. XXII (1857), P. 557. Criticism of Willson’s Outlines of History and his American History.
[437] Ibid., Vol. XXVIII (1860), p. 438. “Our School Books.”
[438] Ibid., Vol. XXII (1857), p. 557. Again in an article on “Southern School Books,” Vol. XXV (1858), p. 117. Geographies and readers received similar criticism, because they, too, contained “invidious” comparisons or sought to “inculcate improper precepts” in the minds of the children on the subject of slavery. In 1868 Willson’s Intermediate Readers were condemned because the fourth of the series declared: “The Great Rebellion was a war set on foot for the purpose of destroying the government of the United States.”
[439] Russell, William Howard, My Diary North and South (Boston, 1863), p. 25. “Mr. Appleton sells no less than one million and a half of Webster’s spelling-books a year; his tables are covered with a flood of pamphlets, some for, others against coercion; some for, others opposed to slavery,—but when I asked for a single solid, substantial work on the present difficulty, I was told there was not one published worth a cent.”
[440] Acts of Louisiana, 1859, No. 244, p. 190.
[441] Minutes of the Third Annual Meeting and Reunion of the Confederate Veterans ... 1892, pp. 98-99.
[442] Minutes of the Fourth Annual Meeting and Reunion of the United Confederate Veterans ... 1894, pp. 3-12.
[443] Ibid.
[444] Ibid. The meeting of the Veterans was at Birmingham, Alabama.