PUBLICATIONS OF THE Mississippi Historical Society EDITED BY FRANKLIN L. RILEY SECRETARY (_REPRINTED 1919_) By DUNBAR ROWLAND, LL. D. Secretary VOLUME I. OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY 1898 OFFICERS FOR 1898. PRESIDENT, Gen. S. D. LEE. VICE-PRESIDENT, Dr. R. W. JONES. SECRETARY AND TREASURER, FRANKLIN L. RILEY, _University P. O., Miss._ ARCHIVIST, Chancellor R. B. FULTON. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, Dr. R. W. JONES, Prof. J. W. WHITE, Supt. S. F. BOYD, Supt. A. A. KINCANNON, PROF. FRANKLIN L. RILEY. All persons interested in advancing the cause of Mississippi history are eligible for membership in the Society. There is no initiation fee. The only cost to members is annual dues, $2.00, or life dues $30.00. Members receive all publications of the Society free of charge. Single members, $2.00 a year. All communications should be addressed to FRANKLIN L. RILEY, _Secretary and Treasurer_. CONTENTS PAGE. 1. MISSISSIPPI'S "BACKWOODS POET." Dabney Lipscomb, A. M. 1 2. MISSISSIPPI AS A FIELD FOR THE STUDENT OF LITERATURE. W. L. Weber. 16 3. SUFFRAGE IN MISSISSIPPI. R. H. Thompson, LL. D. 25 4. SPANISH POLICY IN MISSISSIPPI AFTER THE TREATY OF SAN LORENZO. F. L. Riley, Ph. D. 50 5. TIME AND PLACE RELATIONS IN HISTORY WITH SOME MISSISSIPPI AND LOUISIANA APPLICATIONS. Prof. H. E. Chambers. 67 6. THE STUDY AND TEACHING OF HISTORY. Herbert B. Adams, Ph. D., LL. D. 73 7. SOME FACTS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF MISSISSIPPI. R. W. Jones, A. M., LL. D. 85 8. PRE-HISTORIC JASPER ORNAMENTS IN MISSISSIPPI. R. B. Fulton, A.M. LL. D. 91 9. SUGGESTIONS TO LOCAL HISTORIANS. Franklin L. Riley, Ph. D. 96 10. SOME INACCURACIES IN CLAIBORNE'S HISTORY IN REGARD TO TECUMSEH. H. S. Halbert. 101 11. DID JONES COUNTY SECEDE? A. L. Bondurant. 104 12. INDEX 107 PUBLICATIONS OF THE MISSISSIPPI HISTORICAL SOCIETY VOL. I. JUNE, 1898. NO. 1. MISSISSIPPI'S "BACKWOODS POET." BY DABNEY LIPSCOMB, A. M. To awaken greater interest in what, however estimated, Mississippians have accomplished in the field of literature, to provoke research into even its remote and unfrequented corners; and, chiefly, to place more prominently before the people of his much-loved State a poet too little known, is the double purpose of this essay.