Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-07-03

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when hunten roun for money Z!
don't mind goin from Maine to Mis-.
sissippi not more than we mind goin
to the post offs. Heinsinuates him
self into every land that's got:any
thing he can git. He's smart, and
he's diligent, and he's never left by
the train These is good qualities,
and I wish our peepul had en- When
clever Yank Gums down South and
mixes with our foaks, he improves
rapidly by contakt, and if. he comes
in his youth and stays long enuff and
marries in a respectable family he is
aptto make a-good citizen. 1t helps
him and helps the family, especially
if its poor and proud. This kind Of
cross generally does well and brings
good froot. The off spring is apt to
be lively and shifty and have the love
of money and the love Of honor SC,
butifully mixed up you cant tell
tother frum which. The only danger
is that the Yank may crop out occa-
sionally and produce sum morti6ca-
shun. A cross between Massachu-
setts and South Carolina does very
we'll now days One is chuck full
of money, the other of honor. The
money keeps the honor from perishin,
which is good thing, for if it amt
kept comfortable its inklined to de-
generate, and the stock runs into
skrub in two generashuns. Honor,
nor nuthin else, amt bumb proof
agin the debasin influence of an emp
ty stomak. If race hoss aih't we'll
kept his off spring will play out;
and so when a fus5 family gifts poor,
the children bekum a sekond family,
and SO on and so forth; ;,aontil you
can t tell. EN- from common stock, :.
Now my opinyun is that a State or.
a Government ought to keep up its
human stock. When man looms
up above the horizun as great man,
he ought to,be penshuned and sup.
ported so that he wouldn't hav to
think about munny: He 'ort to be.
required to marry into another pen
shuned family, and in this way keep
up family of brains to draw from
for our Presidents and Guveners and
law makers. They ort, to be paid
enuf to. keep em out of temtashun,
and then We wouldn't hav no carpet
bagers, nor Mobilliars, nor Cleweses,.-
nor pig iron Kelleys, nor lobbyin bills
through the house for pay. like to
see family of brains keepin up'the
family reputashun for generashuns TO
cum. 1 like the Adamses, and Brek-
enridges, and Lamars, and Bayrds,.
and Prestons, and all sich, and
I'm glad they was born rich. l want
all great meh to be rich as long as
they are good. TheirinAuence spreads
all over The country, and we can pint
cur children to EN- and say, there's
your mark, now shoot at it, As it
is now, the struggle seems to be who
can git the richest, and don't matter
how they git. mummy. SO. they git it,
and ain't cotch a stealth of it. Sum-
times you see the worst sort Of skrub
stock blessed with all uncommon
quantity of brains, and thenn you
may look out. You mout as well
surrender, for they are gan to hav a
slice of your property. If they can't
git it no ,o'her way they will run
Edown an offs, or a railroad or a
Michel estate. or 4alease, or git up q
warrand sneak. outof itcor gita Guv-
esment con:rak. or git snmthin that
pays without9work, A smart skrub
isia dangerous animnl: LA COW that
horns down the fence, TOR a hog that
roots open theagate,aor a hoss that
Let's down the draw bars, lisa nuisance
and >cuss. They are, skrub. u pure
Durham, or Berkshire, or Harney,
wop't, do o iiIt.u /. The '3 old, ,fashund
fpst families iIl8 wouldn't doga, mean
thing. They was above it. 1 They
wouldn't ,lose their, ,self-respek, +