I am glad to know that that is the case. and yet the very fact that it is in existence is a sufficient warrant for proposing and voting for the amendment which I have suggested. I would have been willing to accept any history for use in the Southern States if it would have been thereby agreeable to everybody that should have left out entirelyhad a blank page to alone recall the war for the Union. but that which assumes to be a history which deliberately falsifies. which is printed and published and used for the sole purpose of magnifying the cause against the Union. which characterizes the Northern armies as composed almost wholly of European immigrants. of rowdies. roughs. &c.. and has naught but contumely for the commanders and the armies under them on the Union side and a great deal worse. ought not to be used as a textbook in schools supported by moneys from the national Treasury. The Senator from Louisiana [Mr. EusTIS] asks me where it is used.
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Northern armies are characterized as being composed of 'European immigrants, of rowdies, roughs, &c.'