Blit still Miss Boggs may have gleaned the
true history of the cotton gin, which Ma
caulay said.“did more for the power and
progress of the United States than Peter
the Great did for Russia.” If Mrs. Greene
was really the genius who suggested it and
the patron whose means perfected it, then
let the monument be built to her, as Miss
Boggs suggests. Then let the truth come
to light. Our great historian, C. C. Jones,
is dead, but Judge Richard H. ''lark still
lives. BILL ARP.
The following is the letter:
“Major Charles H. Smith, Cartersville, Ga.
—Dear Major: Born and bred in Georgia,
your contributions to literature have been a
source of pride as well as pleasure. I re
cently obtained from the publishers, a copy
of your ‘History of Georgia.’ While I heart
ily join your effort to have our children
taught our own history as seen by ourselves
anil wish that other southern states would
follow your example, you must excuse me
lor objecting to this sentence in paragraph
6, page 46: ‘Eli Whitney, who lived near
Savannah, invented the cotton gm. I'or
many years 1 have lived under the impres
sion that’Georgia always denied Whitneys
maim. My impressions are somewhat as
follows: Whitney, like many other men
of New England, came south for the pur
pose of teaching, while he acquired a pro
fession to some more lucrative occupation.
