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the debt of $1,997.57 ought to be promptly met by special donations, so that the Papers may not longer have to carry this burden.
In conclusion, we would express our growing conviction of the importance of an enterprise which has for its object the vindication of as pure a cause as was ever submitted to the arbitrament of the sword, and the furnishing of the material for a true history of as noble a band of patriot heroes as ever marched or fought “in all the tide of time.”
By order of the Executive Committee.
J. William Jones, Secretary Southern Historical Society.