Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-05-21
Alefanorla 6ax&tte
MONDAY, MAY q, 1877.
..Thc Southern Fool"

| 1.-The Southern fOOl.'
Under this startling head (which may make
man mad before lie reads what it is about
DR.. George W. Bagby. Of Virginia. last We'd
nesday delivered All address before the South
Carolina Press Association, at Columbia. lie
boldly took the text aad went ia The Charles
ton News aud Courier heads the address Tho
Southern Fool-A Tough Subject Treated in
| Tender Way" I should think 50. Still there
is much in the address that is not tender.
There is an occasional burst OF what might be
called bald headed rhetoric.
DR.. Bagby was educated at Princeton, New
jersey He says:
| About my school days 10 Princeton l re-
member maoy things, but this thing especially
that the Southern boys there taught me,
lad of ten, to look down upon the boys OF the
| North Was that wisdom or fov and il folly,
was it confined to boys alone? Are all such
| boys dead now?
Last fall l revisited New Jersey. 1t is Z
lovely land. What land is not in October
This land, said to myself 'is not merely
tanned, it is civilized it is enlightened in It's
| thoroug gh culture ~
And makes this application
when the war broke out the Southern fool
began by undertaking the strength OF his enc
nv. by looking down upon the Yankees as the
| Southern boys had done at Princeton. Coming
| to Richmond after the battle OF Manassas, with
the body of dead comrade, was told that
great Southern statesman was IN town. hast
ened to him at once. for wanted to see ahead
Mr.. N.,' said |, the papers tell US that Lilo.
coin has called for 200, 600 men. tie laughed
low laugh, leaned back little. and said
cheery: oh, yes; the Chinese raised a mil
lion, with gongs and stink pots accordingly
and ten thousand allies marched straight to Re
kio.' I was greatly comiortcd.
War proved to be WORK. d. Bagby con-
tinues
1T vas fatal mistake, the cardinal error OF
the whole struggle. War-ninc tenths OF il,
at least as Alex. II. Stephens said at tho
time-is business, the painest possible matter
of fact business, Just such business as is done
eycry day here on your wharvcs and streets,
onlv with more energy. Did any OF you enter
the Yankee lines at the close oil the war? did,
and what did see ? / saw in succession team
Of mouse coored mules, a team Of crcam-col-
orcd mules, and team of snowwhte mules
six TO team, and all seal fat, Specimens OF
the trsin,) the wagons brand new, and the Wag'
on cloths q deal cleaner than the shirt was
then wearing. A little further on l saw corps
of q, GOO negroes, whose camp was Ike May
ground when Merrie England was 10 Its prime.
Why, gentlemen, war 10 this people was
pastme, it was esthetics and poetry.
OF the way tcr the Nouthcrn sec''ou 10 op''
como rich, he says.
INV friends, We arc to win back the respect
of the North Just as the respect OF every other
peoplo is Won, and that is by regaInlng our lost
wealth. Less cotton and more meat lrst, and,
second, manufacturing our oWo cotton. Inat
| is the solution OF the whole difficulty. Ibe
first two pages Of Adam Smith tell what ad'
vantage there is 10 manufacturing raw material,
and # vou consul. Colone! Chiffon, at Colum'
hus. Georgia, or Colonel Palmer, at Columbia,
South Carolina, he will give you !hc exact per
| centapo in our favor over the New England
| manufacturers. Against their seven months OF
| consumption and i've months of production we
| havo eleven months OF work and only onc'
| that, of enforced idieuos.; but II, on that 40
| count, We underrate the power OF accumulated
| capital, the thrift, skill. cnerGy anu daring o.
| New England, we shall be but repeating Toe
| Iollv Of q certain boy at school 10 Princeton.
| But Of what is 10 become OF our money after
| we arc rich, he says: ,,rr
| eve cannot possibly be TOO wary in this lille
| and death industrial struggle with people
whose capitalists are at this moment mapping
ont cotton and iron mill sites at the south as
minutcIy as the Prussians mapped out france
previous to the late war But suppose VIC gel
rich, enormously rich, IS we ought to DO, and
in time most certainly will, what then? Why
every man Of us will pull up stakes as soon AZ
the summer begins, aud spend every surplus
! cont in New York, Saratoga, Long Branch and
New Newport. And who shall blame us, seeing
how frightfuy dull our own watering places
are2'' 49,, r.
For Press Association address, this OF DR.;
newsnapers, and went into fields and pastures
fresh, delivering an entirely new and ontertan,
inc % topic, beginning with Brethren of the
Craft,S and ending with Now is the time to
subscribe e'-s somewhat worn by much use
DR.. Bagby took a new departure. .-DF' he''
field IN Cincinnati Commercial.
THE WIFE of w. S. Robinson t"Warrini
ton" the we'll knows newspaper correspond
on, IL hpr biography Of him says "A few