Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-05-24
5}li5ttllaneous Grading,
"THE SOUTHERN FOOL"
Address by DR.. George W. Ba=by before the
South Carolina Press Association.

lr. PreSi1eHt amt Gentlemen Of the IfcSS
.lssyciutiou OF S0uih (urolinu - Permit me to
congratulate Won on the restoration of your
State government u hri. .ht day has dawncd
after long and very dark night. Much "I
your recent triumph is due {" your own stout
hearts, but much more to the disturbed con-
diliun Of the country. Had the volume OF
business remained unhrokcn. as from 6j to
Is. YOU would have been crushed like an egg
SHE'LL and the negro and the carprt-baggcr
would have retained power indefinitely. This
is Il ,i>roldanl note, but it is the truth, and
hy the truth We must live.
You do moi want, am sure, the drcornu>
namby. pamby and the job lots of damaged
advice which make up the slapl le Of the ad
dresses generally given on occasions like this
and if You did, could not get them from me,
who know but little drcorum and am but Il
poor adviser Extend 10 me, therefore, | pray
YOU, the iorhrarancc which is born of that
highbrcd courtesy for which South Carolin.
ialI> have been distinguished
\ pretty showing, indeed, | should make
were to preach to the text chosen for me,
"Soulhcrn Journalism.' Fancy me with a
Richmond paper in one hand, and the aver
aye rural paper of my State in the other, com
ing here to Instruct the editors of South Car.
olina. Comparisons are odiouS, and | will
not make them. Although have been al
lrrlatciy the accouchrur and the undertaken
of newspapers in both town and country, and
although have been the correspondent OF
leading journals from Massachusetts to Texas
| confess to you trankl ~ that | know nothing
about southern journalism Yes, do know
one single thing. know that if the money
paid annually over the counters from Balll-
more to Galveston for Northern papers which
abuse or worse still, pity the South were paid
to Us we would all he rich. Whereas the most
of u<, like English curateS and American III
surancc agents, are but grneel pauprrS.
Knowing this, lay down the dictum that no
people will ever be free, or deserve to be free
who do not support their home papers III pre-
ference, and if nrrd be, TO the exclusion of al!
other papers Whatsoever. How is that for
sound and high political science, and how
does it c"mport with your ideas Of free trade =:
by your gracious leave, then, | will drop
the subject of journalism and select for my
thesis "Thr Southern Fool" That is quite i'll
my line Oh UuSlHcSS. iill "CC"et'HcN "
handle that class Of goods, and like Il good
business man stick to my last. Ne sutor
vuu know. And it may turn out that th,
Southern Fool bears, will not say paternnl
relation to, but has Il connection with South
,rn Journalism much less remote than we
would have the public to believe We shall
see But first digrrSsion.
When Il boy | WAS sent to school III Prince
tom, y. J. The proprirty Of sending Il Iad
400 miles away from home may we'll he qurs
lon,d Certainly it may be doubted when
the money expendcd for his education is need
cd in the State of his nativity. Before .h'
war; there might have been an excuse for III
iuIsins educational whmS, but what possible
excuse L. there now?
DR.. McC,,Sh says there are so Southern
>tuIrnt> ut Princeton; at SlUO apiece, that Is
SD 600 Il year enough almost t" support the
average Southern college, Are there any
fools among lis for the want of >cn>c? But
w,. have un school equal 10 Nassau Hail. BY
Nrrrhrrn confession We have Il school better
than tI';t and equal to any on this continent
about my school days in Princeton, re
rr.nbcr many Things, but this thing c>pc
rially--ihat the Southern boys there taught
me, il lad of ten, To look down upon the boys
O! the North. Was that wisdom or folly
and if folly, was it confined to boys alone:
Are ali such BOYS dead now?
Last fail revisited New Jersey. 1t is q
lovely land What land is not in October
"Tni- lari," said TO myself, "iS not merely
tanned, it is rivlizvd il is enlightened IN H.
H., r,r,,h ,uI,ur,. ltut | tur,. NOT In live in