- Collection:
- Columbia Theological Seminary Manuscript Collection
- Title:
- Our Present Attitude Toward the Lost Cause. The so-called lost cause in our school work
- Creator:
- Laws, S. S. (Samuel Spahr), 1824-1921
- Date of Original:
- 1899
- Subject:
- Education
Enslavement
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Memorials--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century
Monuments
Presbyterians--Virginia
Slavery
Slavery--Confederate States of America
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Textbook bias
Truthfulness and falsehood
Carmichael, Hartley, 1854-1903
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889--Monuments
Davis, Varina, 1826-1906
Davis, Varina Anne, 1864-1898
Davis, Varina Anne, 1864-1898--Monuments
Fiske, John, 1842-1901
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Hoge, Moses D. (Moses Drury), 1818-1899
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863
Lee, Fitzhugh, 1835-1905
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1843-1914
Laws, S. S. (Samuel Spahr), 1824-1921--Speeches
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
McGuire, Hunter, 1835-1900
Robinson, Stuart, 1814-1881
Smith, James Power, 1837-1923
Zolnay, George Julian, 1862 or 1863-1949
Confederate States of America--Historiography
Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Va.)
Oakwood Cemetery (Richmond, Va.)
United Confederate Veterans
United Daughters of the Confederacy
United Daughters of the Confederacy. Virginia Division
Charleston (S.C.)
Louisville (Ky.)
New York (N.Y.)
Richmond (Va.)
Southern States
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Historiography
Virginia
Virginia--Newspapers
Washington (D.C.) - Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- Medium:
- notebooks
speeches (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Manuscript of a speech written by Samuel Spahr Laws in November 1899 and delivered at the Confederate Veterans’ Association in Washington, D.C., February 1900. The document contains clipping from Washington Post with description of event, February 18, 1900. The notebook cover art is taken from “The Yellow Kid” comic, designed by Richard Felton Outcault, 1896. In this speech Laws implores his audience to recognize ongoing disputed interpretations of the Civil War and the need for a faithful account of events while chastising Northern accounts of the South and the Civil War as expressed in textbooks. He informs his audience that what animated the South throughout the Civil War continues through the efforts of associations such as the United Daughters of the Confederacy and denies that enslavement was the primary concern of the Civil War. Laws also describes unveiling ceremonies of Jefferson Davis monuments, including one (the week previous to composing the speech) at the Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Va.) hosted by the United Daughters of the Confederacy on Nov. 9, 1899, as well as his witness account of Varina Anna “Winnie” Davis’s funeral procession.
Institution: C. Benton Kline, Jr. Special Collections and Archives, John Bulow Campbell Library, Columbia Theological Seminary - Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17323.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17323coll7/id/6174
- IIIF manifest:
- https://cdm17323.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/2/p17323coll7:6174/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 35 pages
- Original Collection:
- S. S. Laws papers, 1878-1917
- Holding Institution:
- Columbia Theological Seminary
- Rights:
-
