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the last thirty-five years, as they did the first seventy years of its existence, and, in our opinion, both the country and the South would have been benefited by that domination and control.

Again, think of the difference between the South being made to pay the war debt, and pensions of the North, and the latter having to pay those of the former. And again, we reason, that if the South, in all the serfdom and oppression in which she was left by the results of the war, has accomplished what she has (she has made greater material advances in proportion than any other section) what could she not have done, if she had been the conqueror instead of the conquered ?

We simply allude to these material facts, with the hope that these, and every consideration dictated by self-respect, love of, and loyalty to, a sacred and glorious past, will prevent a repetition of the expres- sions of which we, as representatives of the Confederate cause and people, justly complain, and against which we earnestly protest.

Committee on Publishing a School History for Use in Our Public and Private Schools.

GEO. L. CHRISTIAN, Acting Chairman, R. T. BARTON, CARTER R. BISHOP, R. A. BROCK,

Rev. B. D. TUCKER, JOHN W. DANIEL, JAMES MANN, R. S. B. SMITH, T. H. EDWARDS, W. H. HURKAMP,

JOHN W. FULTON, M. W. HAZELWOOD, MICAJAH WOODS, THOMAS ELLETT, Secretary.