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ew home of the Myrtilla Miner Normal School of Washington is named in honor of the same noble woman. It stands on a site formerly owned by the University and looks upon Miner Hall several hundred yards away across the campus. [225] Much credit for the skillful financial management of the institution during these critical times is due to the secretary and treasurer, Mr. James B. Johnson, who was a potent factor in the early struggles of the institution. He was secretary and treasurer for many years, dying while still in service in 1898. [226] William M. Patton, _The History of Howard University_, 1896, pp. 21, 22. MORE ABOUT THE HISTORICAL ERRORS OF JAMES FORD RHODES In its issue of October, 1917, THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY published an article of which I am the author, pointing out some of the historical errors made by Mr. Rhodes in his "_History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the Final Restoration of Home Rule at the South in 1877_." Since it appears that Mr. Rhodes has no personal knowledge of the important historical events referred to, he sent a copy of the journal containing the article to a friend who was presumed to be better informed along those lines. Mr. Rhodes referred to him as an expert, with the request that he make a careful examination of the article and write a reply to the same, or perhaps to make such comments as would furnish Mr. Rhodes with the information desired. I have been favored, through a mutual friend, with a copy of that reply, which is now before me and to which I shall now proceed to make a reply. In a labored effort to weaken the force of what I have written, this expert in his opening generalization made several observations which may be classed under three different heads: first, if the white men referred to by me were of such a high character, why should the acts accredited to them have been of such a low character? second, that I am influenced in what I write about that period by racial bias and the fact that I was an active participant in the events referred to; third, that what I write is based upon my own experience and memory, much of which is liable to be inaccurate through the treachery of memory, the same not being fortified by references to other historical works. This expert says: An obvious general comment on the article is that if the Reconstruction period throughout the South and in Mississippi in particular
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