Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1872-08-14
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EaVnaI sSouIhcTns farmers Need, :, ls
1.-The heading ofSa selected peice in the
ORANGEbtRe TIMES, and under it5are
words of w. 1. Sykes, Esq, of the Mem
Ephis Chamber Of Commerce to this effect
II will tell you what we Southern peo-
Iple need. we want Yankee enterprise"
EI aw the same piece Of: SANDER in the
Rural Carolinian, some months ago.
Iscall it SANDER because we have shown
as much enterprise, energy and pcrse-
Yerancc as the Yankee or any other peo-
! lple, who have been robbed plundercd
and oppressed as We have been.
The Southern press and speeches are
full Of the like slanders. Isuppose some
stump orator to fill q vacant place gave
litutterance, and it has been seized upon
lasa wise saying, and yclped from Dan
Ito Bershcba. il
It seems that because we were over
come by four times our number, with the
whole world to back the Yankees, we
are ever to be vilified and ridicucd, and
they are even to be lauded and held up
for our imitation. And what is Yankee
enterprise. rs we of South Carolina have
seen it, but robbery cheating and steal
I ing and | suppose that is making an
honest living, and We arc called upon to
follow their example.
for one protest against the abuse of
Einy fellow countrymcn. God knows we
have had enough Of Yankee enterprise
i'll our State Government to forever ab-
hor and avoid them, and their enterprise.
Let us alone. We have enterprise
and energy enough Of our own to create
capital, and develop the resources of our
country. We want neither their capital
or enterprise. Our lands, and climate,
and water power, and forest, are capital
|fsenough. Were it not for this Yankee
enterprise backed by United States bay
oncts, which is treating us worse than the
devil treated Job when .he Lord deliver
ed him up to be tried, our State and pco
pie individually would be prosperous and
contcntcd.
AT the end of the war when all produ-
cling capital, even our stock was taken
away or destroyed, the planters of South
Carolina or more properly the eoplc Of
the whole South, men who never worked
in the field, men who had been raised
SSand.liyed i'll luxury all their lives before.
with ohc accord pulled off their cvats and
rolled UP their sleeves, and went to NC rlv
with Il good will and stuck to it, and are
ut it yet, and with the good prices of pro-
ducc would by now have had competence,
had not Yankee enterprise backed by
national bayoncts taken it f,.tcr than
we made it. If either party is to be
hcldup for imitation, l think Southern
honesty and Southern enterprise, should
be.
AS w;,srcmarlcd to me, if Southcrner
does anything laudnble he considers it as
only his duty, and goes along and says
nothing about it, but if Yankee does
the least thing he jumps around and
calls up his friends, and they make n big
fuss over it, and that is oncof differences
between them.
That same commercial man speaking
for the Southern planter says, "The
Southern man sells all he can't cat and
the Northern man ca;s all he can't sell ,"
Thank God that is so. Thank God we
don't make money our God, and sacrifice
to it the comforts Of ourselves and our
wives, and our children. Yes, I admit
it, we cat the best at home, we wear the
best at home and use the best for those
who are nearest and dearest to us, and
ior one only want money to procure the
best for me and mine. 1t is an old adaco
that every body offers drowning dog
water, and since the war we have not re-
cicved good word even by onr own cdi-
tors and speakers. | hardly ever take
up Southern paper but that my blood
is made to boil by such abuse, such un-
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