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Editorial paragraphs.
Our March number has excited great interest, and has received the warmest commendation from the press generally throughout the
South.
Some of the
Northern papers have contained very kindly notices.
We have seen no attempt to refute the points made; and we would esteem it a favor if our friends would forward us anything of the kind which they may observe.
We have letters from leading Confederates warmly endorsing our array of documents and facts, and have reason to feel that in defending the Confederate Government from the charge of systematic cruelty to prisoners, we have rendered a service highly appreciated by our Southern people.
Our subscription list is steadily increasing; but we can find room for other names, and beg our friends to help us swell the number of our readers.
valuable contributions to our archives are constantly coming in. A patriotic lady of this city (
Mrs. Catharine P. Graham) has recently presented us with war files of several Richmond papers.
She refused to sell them for a large price, and insisted on giving them to our Society.
John McRae,
Esq., of
Camden, S. C., has placed us under the highest obligations by presenting the following newspaper files:
Charleston Courier from May 1856 to February 1865.
Richmond Dispatch from April 1861 to April 1864.
Charleston Mercury from July 1859 to February 1865 and from November 1866 to November 1868.
Columbia Daily Carolinian from 1855 to October 1864.
Charleston Daily News and “
News and Courier” from June 1866 to this date.
Camden Journal from January 1856 to this date.
Southern Presbyterian from June 1858 to this date.
And
Dr. J. Dickson Bruns, of New Orleans, has sent us a bound volume of the
Charleston Mercury for 1862.
We have received recently other valuable contributions, which we have not space even to mention.
Our present number has been delayed by causes over which we have had no control; but we think that we can promise that hereafter our Papers will appear promptly near the latter part of each month.
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A Confederate Roster has been a desideratum exceedingly difficult to supply.
The capture, or destruction, of so large a part of our records has rendered a compilation of a full and correct Roster a work of almost insuperable difficulty.
We are happy to announce, however, that
Colonel Charles C. Jones, Jr., of New York (formerly of
Savannah), who has been for some ten years patiently at work on such a Roster, has brought his labors to a conclusion, and has generously placed his Mss. at the disposal of the Society.
It shows the marks of patient and laborious investigation, and (so far as we are able to judge) is much more accurate and complete than could have been expected.
We propose to begin its publication in our next number, and to have it stereotyped, and so arranged that it can be bound, when completed, into a neat volume, which will be a most valuable addition to our War History.
we desire that each and all of our readers should keep before them the fact that there is an Association incorporated by the
State of Virginia.
whose trust it is to obtain funds for a monument to be erected at
Richmond in memory of
General Robert E. Lee.
We will not offend good taste by offering a word in commendation of this effort to do honor to the great captain; we the rather assume that every reader of these Papers will gladly and promptly forward a liberal contribution to the
Treasurer at
Richmond.
The Association is administered by a Board of Managers composed of the
Governor of
Virginia, the
Auditor and the
Treasurer.
The Hon. R. M. T. Hanter is the treasurer, and
Col. S. Bassett French is the secretary of the Board.
Address,
Richmond, Va.
the “
Lee memorial Association,” with headquarters at
Lexington, Va., has been quietly working for its simple object, which is to decorate the tomb of
Lee. Having secured
Valentine's splendid recumbent figure of
Lee — which is, beyond all question, one of the most superb works of art on the continent — they are now raising funds with which to build the
Mausoleum which is to contain it. Surely the admirers of our great chieftain ought to supply at once the means necessary for this noble object.
Send contributions to the
Treasurer,
C. M. Figgatt,
Lexington, Virginia.
