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Index to the Old Confederate Veteran from 1893 to 1932
The following is a partial listing of the following: major racist articles, racism against both African Americans and non-Anglo-Saxon white immigrants; defense or praise of the Ku Klux Klan; and praises for slavery. I am not including the endless "faithful slave" and "black mammy" articles.
Some of these articles are online and are underlined where linked. Some of the articles are online, to see them click here. --- All the references regarding the Ku Klux Klan and S.E.F. Rose can be seen in one article, click here.
Vol. 1
March 1893 pp. 66 Confederate Veteran selling book on the Ku Klux Klan. The publisher of the Confederate Veteran, founding editor has taken special effort to track down some booklets about the KKK.
April 1893 pp. 98 Selling same Ku Klux Klan booklet.
June 1893 pp. 171 "Something of Slavery as it existed" A defense of slavery with statements like, "We may dwell on the horrors of the voyage in the slave-ship until we forget that it was thus the poor savages were providentially rescued from the worse fate of being roasted to feast their cannibal conquerors."
Sept. 1893 pp. 285 Praise for the books of a Miss Keller's. One is titled, "Love and Rebellion" which is particularly liked since it vindicates the Ku Klux Klan as being necessary to maintain white supremacy.
Vol. 2
Oct. 1894 pp. 313 Books supplied by the Veteran section. A Boston Herald review of Miss M.C. Keller's "Love and Rebellion" is printed with the same theme of the Ku Klux Klan as heroes. The Boston Herald is a pro-Confederate paper which publishes even to this day.
Vol. 3
Vol. 4
Dec. 1896 - pp. 420 Attack on the Lodge bill, a bill for fair elections in the south and prevention of elections from being decided by violence.
Vol. 5
Oct. 1897 - pp. 507 "Placing Principle Above Policy" Cause of the War, states rights etc. Comments about Abolitionists. Comments about Race, slavery, and negroes. Gen. Bradley Johnson of Baltimore. The white supremacist section is on page 509 with statements like, "the crime of the century was the emancipation of the negroes."
Vol. 6
Sept. 1898 - pp. 413 Nordic - Aryan theory of white Southerners.
Vol. 7
Vol. 8
July 1900 - pp. 323 "In the Wake of War" by Verne S. Pease praised. It is a book about Reconstruction in which evidently the Ku Klux Klan saves the day.
Sept. 1900 - pp. 395 A selection from the Official Journal of the Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Louisiana, Feb. 8, 1898. The purpose of this convention was to deprive African Americans of the vote. This selection is a resolution interpreting that large groups can be deprived of the right to vote as long as it is within the technicalities of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
Nov. 1900 - pp. 480 "Pleas for Unity of Action in the South" for reason given that "Race issues demand this."
Vol. 9
Vol. 10
Dec. 1902 -pp. 557 discussion about "foreigners" in the Union armies. This is an ongoing them in the Confederate Veteran, antipathy to non-British immigrants.
Vol. 11
Jan. 1903 - pp. 4 White supremacy editorial by Cunningham, titled, "McKinley, Roosevelt, and the Negro." A comment about race and odor. Cunningham is concerned that public sympathy over McKinley's assasination will make people forget that McKinley didnd't support white supremacy as Cunningham would have him do. Cunningham was also upset over Booker T. Washington being invited to the White House to dine.
Feb 1903 - pp. 53 Senator McLaurin, Mississippi, Indianola Post Office. In 1902 Minnie Cox, a black woman was made postmaster of the town of Indianola, Mississippi. The whites in that town protested her appointment and she offered to resign. President Theodore Roosevelt refused to accept her resignation and suspended postal service to the town. This essay in the Confederate Veteran applauds racist Mississippians who lead the campaign against Minnie Cox. [From "Black Saga" by Charles M. Christian, Houghton Mifflin Co. 1995.]
June 1903 - pp. 285 racist stereotype joke.
Sept. 1903 - pp. 407 Faithful Old Slaves, Degenerated Progeny. This article shows the real meaning of all the "faithful slave" stories. pp. 411 Racist joke.
Vol. 12
Feb. 1904 pp. 68 faithful slaves. "A Black Skin, but white soul."
April 1904 - pp. 159 "For The Truth of History" Recommendation of a certain book on slavery by Mrs. Sophie Fox, "Review of Slavery in the United States."
May 1904 - pp. 231 Racist poem.
Sept. 1904 - pp. 427 Reconstruction story of shooting a negro by a Confederate Veteran and the use of violence to avoid a trial.
Vol. 13
Jan. 1905 - pp. 5 Racism tied to defending the Lost Cause. In regards to histories which they don't like, "With such misrepresentations as quoted it is hardly tobe wondered at that charitably disposed people at the North give so lavishly, and all to one side of the race issue, against their own blood." pp. 10 "Limits to Negro troops" The Confederate Veteran would like to have all African American troops eliminated entirely from the army.
March 1905 - pp. 124 "Coon" stereotypical story about a black person.
May 1905 - pp. 227 Reprint from the New York Times a rebuttal by Thomas Dixon to his critics. Thomas Dixon a nortorious racist novelist is allowed slightly over a page to respond to the critics of his novel, "The Clansman." This is a novel which glorifies the Ku Klux Klan and later became the movie "Birth of a Nation." pp. 240v Upset that the Grand Army of the Republic, GAR, will have a "negro commander" at their Denver Convention. The Confederate Veteran says that visiting Confederate veterans at this function "will doubtless flinch."
Sept. 1905 - pp. 421 Two race articles. "White people and Negroes" Quoting: "The Veteran for September has much about the 'old-time darkies.' There ought to be a lesson in it for young negroes. Their aspirations for social equality will ever be their calamity." pp. 421 "A Republican on the Race Problem." A Republican who shares their racist views. pp. 423 Faithful slave. Comment on race relations. Classic statement. in 2nd column.
Vol. 14
March 1906 - pp. 143 Full page ad for E.W.R. Ewing book, "The Dred Scott Decision: Vindicated by History and Modern Judicial Law."
April 1906 - pp. 162 "Howard Weeden, Poetess and Artist." does pictures of African Americans. A lot of commentary on the issue of race.
July 1906 - pp. 330 Thomas Dixon book announced.
August 1906 -pp. 357 "Judge Wofford's Consideration for a Poor Negro."
Dec. 1906 - pp. 545 "Wise Counsel to Negroes." continued on page 546. pp. 546 "Northern View of Race Troubles."
Vol. 15
Jan. 1907 - pp. 8 "The Problem of the Negroes." S.A. Cunningham really shows his hostility to African Americans. One of his many racist comments while still claiming to be sympathetic to African Americans, "No more negroes should be admitted to the army, and the amendment to the Constitution giving negroes the ballot should be repealed."
July 1907 - pp. 315 United Confederate Veterans defend Alexander Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederacy. 2nd colum. Quote, "Now it will be observed in the first place that Mr. Stephens said the 'corner-stone' of the Confederacy 'rests upon the great truth that the negro is not the euqal of the white man.' And isn't this fact recongized as true to-day in every part of this land?"
August 1907 - pp. 367 "The Negro and the South: Review of Race Relationship and Conditions." by E.H. Hinton, Atlanta, GA. It concerns the notorious race riot of Sept. 22, 1906. A real racist essay. pp. 369 "The Racial Integrity of the Negro" An extract from the Methodist Quarterly Review.
Nov. 1907 - pp. 552 "Racial Integrity: And Other Features of the Negro Problem" by Prof. A. H. Shannon. Being sold by the Confederate Veteran with article endorsing it.
Vol. 16
April 1908 - pp. 185 "The Beginning of the End: Carpetbag and Negro Rule in Montgomery County, Alabama."
June 1908 - pp. 294 "Anguish of Reconstruction in Cuba" mentions KKK. The Confederate Veteran is upset seeing Afro-Cubans voting and holding office. A quote, "That the spirit of the Kuklux, who redeemed the Southern states from the shadow of Africa forty years ago, is not personified by clans in Cuba to-day, is due perhaps to tempermental differences of Anglo-Saxon and Latin nations, but mainly to the unwelcome intervention of the United States."
August 1908 - pp. 402 "Foreigners Against the Confederacy"
Oct. 1908 - pp. 536 review of E.R.W. Ewing's book on the Dred Scott Decision.
Nov. 1908 - pp. 580 Racist lecture by Dr. J.F. Spence. A lot of comments about Anglo-Saxon blood. pp. 599 Dred Scott book by E.R.W. Ewing.
Vol. 17
Feb. 1909 - pp. 54 "Should the Solid South Be Broken" Very interesting essay on Taft and the Solid South. pp. 93 E.R.W. Ewing's book, "Dred Scott".
March 1909 - pp. 141 Solid South. Race issue brought up. Quote, "The negroes truest friends are in the South and will treat them right, but will not make them equal politically, socially, nor will they worship with them." pp. 183 "Dred Scott Decision"
May 1909 - pp. 203 "The South and the National Government" President Taft speaks on the situation of African Americans in the South. pp. 209 "A Mean Report of Our Negro Problem." Upset over article in the Literary Digest by Sir Harry Johnson.
July 1909 - pp. 313 Anti-immigrant discussion of the Civil War.
Sept. 1909 - pp. 476 S.E.F. Rose's book on the KKK announced and praised.
Vol. 18
March 1910 - pp. 120 "Payment for Negroes Suggested" Victimhood and request for payment for emancipate slaves. pp. 121 Victimhood essay. pp. 139 Books offered by the Neale publishing co. praised. One race book in particular. "Race Adjustment" by Kelly Miller. Compares Frederick Douglass to Booker T. Washington. ***
April 1910 - pp. 189 First S.E.F. Rose Ku Klux Klan ad.
May 1910 pp. 232 "Tote the negro Babies"
July 1910 - pp. 307 S.E.F. Rose Work of the Mississippian Historian general is praised by the UDC president general.
Nov. 1910 - pp. 523 "Heyburn Howls At 'Dixie'" Some racist comments.
Vol. 19
Jan 1911 - pp. 4 S.E.F. Rose and her KKK paper. UDC convention. pp. 8 Comment about Southern Unity.
April 1911 - pp. 167 "Happy Cal Wagner Defied 'Civil Rights'"
May 1911 - pp. 209 S.E.F. Rose and her KKK book. pp. 229 "Civilization of Negroes in the South" Quote, "It is a deplorable fact that after forty years of civil liberty by the Africans in America so many of them are untrustworthy. .... Mr. Tom's sons are terrors to the Anglo-Saxon woman."
July 1911 - pp. 326 "Honest Confession Good for the Country" by the son of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles E. Stowe. The Veteran is very happy with this speech on race.
Dec. 1911 - pp. 579 "All Men Created Free and Equal" author of article is upset with this idea, that some might extend it to African Americans.
Vol. 20
March 1912 - pp. 134 S.E.F. Rose and her KKK book. Praised.
June 1912 - pp. 298 Review of a book of speeches by the late Senator J.W. Daniels. Interesting comment on race and why the Civil War was fought, "racial integrity."
Sept. 1912 - pp. 413 S.E.F. Rose at the Mississippi UDC convention. She is praised.
Dec. 1912 - pp. 568 "Vivid Reminiscences of the Old Plantation"
Vol. 21
Jan 1913 - pp. 16 Condemnation of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Feb. 1913 - pp. 65 "Declaration of Independence Perverted" author upset that "All men are created equal" is perverted to mean "negroes". pp. 74 "A Vindication of the Ku-Klux Klan" by Robert L. Preston, Washington D.C. Defends the KKK.
Nov. 1913 - pp. 518 "Worthy U.D.C. Worker in Mississippi" about S.E.F. Rose and her KKK, Ku Klux Klan book. Talks about getting it into the schools.
Vol. 22
Aug. 1914 - pp. 339 Anglo-Saxonist article. pp. 379 notice of book, "A Dead Issue and a Live One" by B.F. Van Meter. A book justifying slavery and advancing racist ideology. pp. 380 Article on the book by Van Meter. Quote from the review, "His argument is that slavery was the only way to prevent the labor question and that had it continued would have had no labor strikes, because labor would have been a part of capital." Van Meter also has an idea that the world would have been a much better place is the Eskimos had been enslaved. Also, Ku Klux Klan (KKK) book by S.E.F. Rose notice.
Sept. 1914 -- pp. 427 "Race Orthodoxy in the South" by Thomas Pearce Baily, is given a full column. Neale publishers.
Oct. 1914 - pp. 445 S.E.F. Rose's book on the KKK is endorse by the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Nov. 1914 - pp. 523 Photo of the cover of S.E.F. Rose's book, a mounted Klansman.
Vol. 23
March 1915 - pp. 105 "The Inferiority of the Negro" Editorial in rebuttal to an article in Life Magazine. A speech against emancipation and freeing African Americans by a African American preach of Little Rock, AK named Dr. Wilkins. A sort of Walter Williams of his time. Also appended an Uncle Remus story with bad racial stereotypes, quote "Whut a negro gwineter learn outen books?"
April 1915 - pp. 178 Obituary for a Col. Robert G. Shaver who among the items credited to him, is that he was the highest ranking officer of the Ku Klux Klan in Arkansas and later he was the Commander-in-Chief of the United Confederate Veterans in Arkansas.
June 1915 - pp. 278 S.E.F. Rose praised as a historian and nominated to be the next Historian General.
Aug. 1915 - pp. 347 S.E.F. Rose nominated. Quote: "Mrs. Rose has written a number of valuable historical articles, and recently she has prepared the only school history of the Ku-Klux Klan, which bears the indorsement of Confederate organizations and leading educators."
Sept. 1915 - pp. 397 Happy slaves on the plantation.
Oct. 1915 - pp. 443 Historian General's page, Mildred Rutherford on slavery.
Nov. 1915 - pp. 498 "The Anglo-Israelite Theory" This is the ideology of the Christian Identity movement.
Dec. 1915 - pp. 566 "Our Racial Heritage: Growth and Development of Institutional Self-Government" by Lloyd T. Everett.
Vol. 24
Jan. 1916 - pp. 38 Historian General's page. pp. 39 Mildred Rutherford. U.D.C. Program Feb. 1916. "Reconstruction Days in the South" Topics: "The Unconstitutionality of the Fifteenth Amendment" and "The Necessity of the Ku-Klux Klan" using S.E.F. Rose's book. KKK
Feb. 1916 - pp. 65 "The Failure of the Confederacy, Was It a Blessing?" Defends slavery with racist ideas. on page 67-68, quote, "Admitted to equal political privledges, they would not only threaten the supremacy of the white race in the government, but they would imperil the civilization and the material profess of the country."
March 1916 -pp. 141 "Birth of a Nation" the movie, is reviewed by Rev. A.J. Emerson and praised.
April 1916 -pp. 157 "The Ku-Klux Klan and the 'Birth of a Nation'" by S.E.F. Rose. KKK . Major article. pp. 159 "The Old-Time negro" Faithful slave article. pp. 189 KKK S.E.F. Rose book notice.
May 1916 - Inside front cover, "Birth of a Nation" full page ad for the Birmingham Reunion. pp. 200 "Knights of the White Camellia" pp. 237 "The Birth of a Nation" article about the movie which will be shown during the Birmingham Reunion. ***
June 1916 - pp. 246 KKK participates in the Birmingham Reunion parade, and "Birth of a Nation" movie star, Henry B. Walthall is very popular at the convention. pp. 308 "A Carpetbagger's View of the Ku-Klux Klan"
Aug. 1916 - pp. 360 "A Carpetbagger's View of the Ku-Klux Klan" reader comments. pp. 371 Endorsement of S.E.F. Rose for Historian General. Her KKK book is mentioned.
Oct. 1916 - pp. 454 "Judge Tourgee and the Ku-Klux Klan" Defense of the KKK.
Nov. 1916 - pp. 484 Anglo-Saxonist article, quote, "Mr. Calloway comments thus: 'Think of it! 'Foreign-looking children in the streets of Boston are as numberless as bees, all of extreme Southern European type.' .... With us the Anglo-Saxon predominates."
Dec. 1916 - pp. 569 "Annual Address of the Historian of Texas Division, UCV" R.E. Lee Camp, Fort Worth, Texas by C.C. Cummings. Wants to relocate African Americans back to Africa.
Vol. 25
Jan. 1917 - pp. 7 Anglo-Saxonist article.
Feb. 1917 pp. 90 Discusses S.E.F. Rose's election without opposition and mentions her KKK book.
April 1917 - pp. 181 Historical Dept. S.E.F. Rose. KKK brought up.
July 1917 - pp. 331 S.E.F. Rose Obituary. pp. 335 Major article. "Birthplace of the Ku-Klux Klan"
Sept. 1917 - pp. 425 New Historian General from Pulaski, Tenn. Kinship with S.E.F. Rose and the Ku-Klux Klan is mentioned. Mr. Newbill herself is a promoter of the KKK also.
Oct. 1917 - pp. 464 Issues of Negro troops during the Civil War. pp. 476 History Dept. Newbill, S.E.F. Rose's book on the KKK recommended. pp. 482 Books offered, including S.E.F. Rose book on the KKK.
Nov. 1917 - pp. 502 "The Mission of the Veteran" section defending the KKK pp. 522 Historical Dept. Newbill. Theme is the KKK and Reconstruction. S.E.F. Rose's book is a reference. Children of the Confederacy program. pp. 530 books offered. Including those of Thomas Dixon.
Vol. 26
April 1918 - pp. 181 Newbill Obituary. Mentions her work honoring the KKK.
May 1918 - pp. 200 "Southern Leadership" by Dr. Henry Sheppard. Vicious attack on Lincoln, and defense of the KKK. pp. 227 Mildred Rutherford. She has the volumes of history which she prepared will in office. Seventy volumes in all. They are at the Museum of the Confederacy. Vol. 25 discusses Reconstruction and the KKK
Aug. 1918 - pp. 337 "The Ku-Klux Klan In Alabama" pp. 342 "The Negro in the United States" Has sections titled "The Blessing of Slavery" and "The Shadow of Freedom."
Vol. 27
April 1919 - pp. 136 "Characteristics of the Old South"
May 1919 - pp. 166 "The Benefits of Slavery"
Vol. 28
Feb. 1920 - pp. 49 Cecil Chesterton "History of the United States" defends Southern race relations. pp. 51 "How Christianity Reached the Slaves"
July 1920 - pp. 253 "In the Days of Reconstruction" Racism and Anglo-Saxonism. Quote, "I believe the South was fighting for the true principles of constitutional government -- for liberty, righteousness, honor, truth, for racial integrity and Anglo-Saxon supremacy ..."
Aug. 1920 -pp. 296 "Religion and Reconstruction" How southern white ministers fought civil rights.
Sept. 1920 - pp. 340 "Reconstruction in Tennessee" racist, use of the term "mongrel crew"
Oct. 1920 - pp. 369 "Reconstruction in Tennessee" pp. 385 "The Spirit of the South" evidently it includes the KKK.
Nov. 1920 - pp. 409 "Results of Reconstruction" especially subtitle, "Reconstruction and the Negroes."
Vol. 29
Feb. 1921 - pp. 48 "Treatment of Slaves In The South" pp. 73 Condemnation by the Virginia UDC over any current organization using the name Ku-Klux Klan. KKK. They claim there is a good Klan and a bad Klan. Also they recommend S.E.F. Rose's KKK book in all the schools in the South.
April 1921 - pp. 142 "As to Slavery" Quotes, "The 'Passing of the White Race' notes that the Anglo-Saxon is giving place to weaker and inferior types of white men. In the United States the Anglo-Saxon is bing displaced by a horde of foreigners, utter ingorant and out of sympathy with our ideas." Slavery is defended and anti-African American racism put into a larger context of white Anglo-Supremacist ideology. Madison Grant's book, "The Rising Tide of Color" and Lathrop Stoddard, "The Passing of the White Race" is brought up.
May 1921 - pp. 193 Virginia notes. Condemn modern groups using the name Ku-Klux Klan because they are not like what they consider the good Ku Klux Klan of old.
June 1921 - pp. 202 Books that should be in every library. Thomas Dixon novels among them.
July 1921 - pp. 256 "Reconstruction Days in South Carolina" Praises the Red Shirt Brigade for re-establishing Anglo-Saxon supremacy in South Carolina.
Aug. 1921 - pp. 292 "Reconstruction and the Ku Klux Klan" by Thomas W. Gregory, who was an Attorney General under Woodrow Wilson. Very long article.
Vol. 30
March 1922 - pp. 96 "Reconstruction and the Ku-Klux" by M'Neilly.
April 1922 - pp. 127 "As to African Slavery" M'Neilly. Defense of slavery.
Sept. 1922 - pp. 325 "States Rights Renaissance" The Confederate Veteran celebrates the defeat of the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill in Congress as a triumph for States Rights.
Dec. 1922 - pp. 462 Wade Hampton commended for getting rid of "negro rule".
Vol. 31
April 1923 - pp. 132 "The Irresponsible Race."
Sept. 1923 - pp. 354 "General Notes' of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Quotes, "Long ago I made the prediction that when the All-American Anglo-Saxon last stand was made in this country, the scene of the stand would be here in the South." "All the great cities of the North have become mere swarming places of a miscellaneous horde of foreign peoples."
Nov. 1923 - pp. 402 Susan Lawrence Davis KKK book. Half page ad.
Dec. 1923 - pp. 442 Susan Lawrence Davis KKK book. Markedly different ad. The ads are changed to be more sensationalistic in the next few issues.
Vol. 32
Jan 1924 - pp. 2 Ad for S.L. Davis book on KKK.
March 1924 - pp. 118 Ad for S.L. Davis book.
April 1924 - pp. 122 S.L. Davis book. Ad even more dramatic. KKK
May 1924 - pp. 198 Two page ad for Susan Lawrence Davis book on the KKK Many endorsements and a little history of S.L. Davis. The quotation from the "Review of Reviews" in New York mentions that she is a member of the New York chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy.
June 1924 - pp. 246 Two full page ad for S.L. Davis' KKK book.
Nov. 1924 - pp. 410 The 2nd Edition of the "Authentic History of the Ku-Klux Klan" by Susan Lawrence Davis is announced as being on sale by the Confederate Veteran.
Vol. 33
March 1925 - pp. 116 "Negroes Not Citizens"
Aug. 1925 - pp. 291 "Forrest At Brice's Crossroads" A speech by John E. Rankin, member of Congress from Mississippi. Quote, "A lost cause! You have won the great cause of white supremacy, by which along our civilization can hope to endure!"
Oct. 1925 -pp. 368 "The Mother of General Forrest" Nathan Bedford's KKK involvement is mentioned.
Nov. 1925 - pp. 402 Books offered by the Veteran, including the "Leopards Spots" by Thomas Dixon, a racist novel.
Vol. 34
Jan. 1926 - pp. 5 " A Precious Heritage" discussing the movie "Birth of a Nation."
Feb. 1926 - pp. 76 Strange story about the 14th Amendment.
March 1926 - pp. obit. for Gen. James G. Holmes. formed Rifle Club in South Carolina during reconstruction.
July 1926 - pp. 244 "The Negro in the United States"
Aug. 1926 - pp. 291 "The Radical Legislature of South Carolina 1868" Breaks down the racial composition of the legislature.
Vol. 35
Jan 1927 - pp. 4 Defense of the Ku-Klux Klan, and upset with Southerners who don't like the KKK.
Feb. 1927 - pp. 46 Confederate cause was white Anglo-Saxon supremacy according to A. Farrel Chamblin. Quote, "The South stood up to a man for States rights and the sanctity of the home and the supremacy of the white Anglo-Saxon race. The cause was lost by overwhelming numbers and at a fearful cost, but the santity of the home was defended even in the face of defeat."
Vol. 36
Sept. 1928 - pp. 355 Quote by Thomas Nelson Page on the Old South Christianizing the negro.
Dec. 1928 - pp. 448 "Wade Hampton, The Cavalry Leader, And His Times" Praise for the Red Shirts.
Vol. 37 -
Sept. 1929 - pp. 330 UDC Prize winning essay concluding on a declaration of Anglo-Saxonism. 2nd column on page 332, quote, "In late years the trend of immigration has shifted from Northrn Europe to Southern Euorpe, and the North has been flooded with a low type of immigrants. Intermarriage has lowered the quality of the population of the North. .... has protect the South from the influx of low-type immigrants, and the South retains her Anglo-Saxon population."
Dec. 1929 - pp. 444 "The Negro in the South"
Vol. 38
Jan. 1930 - pp. 40 "Books for the Confederate Library" Includes Thomas Dixon's "The Southerner" and "The Leopard's Spots".
Aug. 1930 - pp. 292 "The Negro in Liberia" Quote, "many of those who went to Liberia came back after a sad experience. What a blessing to the South if they could have been disposed of in that way!"
Nov. 1930 - pp. 416 "A Genuine Ku-Klux".
Dec. 1930 - pp. "Realizing the Blessings of Slavery"
Vol. 39
March 1931 - pp. 120 books offered. One titled "Slavery and the Race Problem."
April 1931 - pp. 127 "The Last Ride of the Ku-Klux Klan" KKK pp. 140 "Old Time Slavery At The South" defense of slavery as beneficial to Africans.
June 1931 - pp. 240 Disposing of some books of a subscriber. J.H. Van Evrie's book "White Supremacy or Negro Subordination"
Oct. 1931 - pp. 377 Defense of Taney decision.
Vol. 40
Jan. 1932 - pp. 8 "The Cause Was Not Entirely Lost' speech by U.S. Senator Duncan U. Fletcher at UDC convention in 1931. Seems the cause was white supremacy. On page 11, quotes, "The South fought to preserve race integrity. Did we lose that? We fought to maintain free white dominion. Did we lose that?" Repeats sentiment on page 12.
Feb. 1932 - pp. 65 "General Wade Hampton" His life including his establishing white supremacy with violence. Quotes, "Is it any wonder then, the Ku-Klux Klan began to ride -- and no doubt Hampton was riding with them." and "'Hurrah for Hampton' was the battle-cry of the white people of South Carolina in the fitht to rid the state of negro rule!"
With the depression and the declining number of Confederate Veterans, the Confederate Veteran magazine had its last issue in Dec. 1932. The United Daughters of the Confederacy also decided not to support the magazine anymore.
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Robert E. Lee's Attitudes Towards
African Americans
As Revealed by His Son, Robert E. Lee Jr.
(Other Documents about Robert E. Lee)
"Recollections and Letters of General Lee," by R.E. Lee, Jr. was published by Doubleday, Page & Company in 1904. There are a couple parts which show clearly Robert E. Lee Sr.'s hostile and hypocritical attitude towards African Americans. The pages are for the 1988 reprint by Broadfoot Publishing Co. I learned about these two passages from Alan Nolan's book, "Lee Considered" which exposes the whole Lee myth. The titled of Nolan's book is not "Lee Reconsidered," since Nolan view is that there hasn't been a professional history of R.E. Lee, as opposed to a hagiography, so there is nothing to "Reconsider." These sections were also avoided in future books about Robert E. Lee and Nolan explains how they were carefully avoided and selectively quoted.
I have highlighted in red the text of relevance. The hypocrisy of the second highlighted section is phenomenal.
From page is a section about R.E. Lee Sr. visiting "Corbin Braxton's widow" for dinner with some friends and his son gives an account. pp. 168
?. a repast composed of all the good things for which that country was famous. John and I did not seem to think there was too much in sight-at any rate, it did not daunt us, and we did our best to lessen the quantity, consuming, I think, our share and more ! We had been for so many years in the habit of being hungry that it was not strange we continued to be so awhile yet. But my father took a different view of the abundance displayed, and, during his drive back, said to Colonel Carter:
" Thomas, there was enough dinner toÃÂday for twenty people. All this will now have to be changed; you cannot afford it; we shall have to practice economy."
In talking with Colonel Carter about the situation of farmers at that time in the South, and of their prospects for the future, he urged him to get rid of the negroes left on the farm-some ninetyÃÂodd in number, principally women and children, with a few old men-saying the government would provide for them, and advised him to secure white labour. The Colonel told him he had to use, for immediate needs, such force as he had, being unable at thatÃÂtime to get the whites. Wereupon General Lee remarked:
" I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving."
He was thinking strongly of taking a house in the country for himself and family, and asked the Colonel whether he could not suggest some part of the State that might suit him. Colonel Carter mentioned Clarke County as representing the naturalÃÂgrass section of Virginia, and Gloucester County the saltÃÂwater. My father unhesitatingly pronounced in favour of the grassÃÂgrowing country. He told Mrs. Carter how pleased he was to hear that she ?.
From page 307 to 309 of the same book. A letter to Robert E. Lee Jr. from Robert E. Lee Sr.
LEXINGTON, Virginia, March 12, 1868.
" My Dear Rob: I am sorry to learn from your letter of the 1st that the winter has been so hard on your wheat. I hope, however, the present good weather is shedding its influence upon it, and that it will turn out better than it promises. You must, however, take a lesson from the last season. What you do cultivate, do well. Improve and prepare the land in the best manner; your labour will be less, and your profits more. Your flat lands were always uncertain in wet winters. The uplands were more sure. Is it not possible that some unbidden guest may have been feasting on your corn? Six hundred bushels are a large deficit in casting up your account for the year. But you must make it up by economy and good management. A farmer's motto should be toil and trust. I am glad that you have got your lime and sown your oats and clover. Do you use the drill or sow broadcast ? I shall try to get down to see you if I go to Richmond, for I am anxious to know how you are progressing and to see if in any way I can aid you. Whenever I can, you must let me know. You must still think about your house and
make up your mind as to the site and kind, and collect the material. I can help you to any kind of plan, and with some ready money to pay the mechanics. I have recently had a visit from Dr. Oliver, of Scotland, who is examining lands for immigrants from his country. He seems to be a sensible and judicious man. From his account, I do not think the Scotch and English would suit your part of the country. It would require time for them to become acclimated, and they would probably get dissatisfied, especially as there is so much mountainous region where they could be accommodated. I think you will have to look to the Germans; perhaps the Hollanders, as a class, would be the most useful. When the railroad shall have been completed to West Point, I think there will be no difficulty in getting the whites among you. I would try to get some of our own young men in your employ. I rode out the other day to Mr. Andrew Cameron's and went into the field where he was plowing. I took great pleasure in following the plows around the circuit. He had four in operation. Three of them were held by his former comrades in the army, who are regularly employed by him, and, he says, much to his satisfaction and profit. People have got to work now. It is creditable to them to do so; their bodies and their minds are benefited by it, and those who can and will work will be advanced by it. You will never prosper with the blacks, and it is abhorrent to a reflecting mind to be supporting and cherishing those who are plotting and working for your injury, and all of whose sympathies and associations are antagonistic to yours. I wish them no evil in the world-on the contrary, will do them every good in my power, and know that they are misled by those to whom they have given their confidence; but our material, social, and political interests are naturally with the whites. Mr. Davis's trial was fixed for the last of this month. If Judge Chase's presence is essential, I do not see how it can take place, unless that of Mr. Johnson is to be postponed. I suppose that will be decided toÃÂday or toÃÂmorrow, and then I shall
know what to expect. I shall not go to Richmond unless necessary, as it is always inconvenient for me to leave home, and I am not at all well. Your poor mother is also more ailing than she is ordinarily, in consequence of a cold she has taken. But it is passing away, I trust. I must leave you to her and Mildred for all local and domestic news. Custis and the boys are well, and 'Powhattie,' I hope, has got rid of the chills. We hear regularly from Mary and Agnes, who seem to be enjoying themselves, and I do not think from their programme that they will get back to us till summer. All unite in much love, and I am always,
Your father,
" R. E. LEE."
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2003-01-15 00:53 | User Profile
This is worth reading
2003-01-16 03:27 | User Profile
:D My day has come!
Thanks for this- I printed it out.
I have about 20 volumes worth- 1892-1933, great reading.