The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-05-25


purists--thosc petite maitres of literature
with whom Shakespeare aud myself, who
closely resemble each other, never had and
never can have any patience.
! My friends, We are to win back the res
pect of the North just as the respect ofevcry
other people is won, and that is by regain.
ing our lost wealth. Less cotton aud more
meat first, aud, second, manufacturing our
own Gotten. That is the solution of the
whole difficulty. The first two pages of
Adam Smith tell what advantage there is
in manufacturing raw material, and if you
consult Col. Chiffon, at Columbus Ga, or
Col. Palmer, at Columbia, S. g., he will
give you the exact percentage in our favor
over the New England manufacturers
Against their seven months of consumption
and five months of production VIC have elcv-
Gu months of work and only one, if that, of
saRf4EsSGSS arRfss Rah if i, ~ hat
ital, the thrift, skill, energy and daring of
New England, we will be but repeating the
folly Of a certain boy at school in Princeton.
Nuttum nun,cn aJcst 81 SIT prmlentid. We
cannot possibly be too wary in this life.and-
death industrial struggle with people whose
capitalists are at this moment mapping out
cotton and iron mill sites in the South us
minutcly as the Prussians mapped out
France previous to the late war. But sup
posing we get rich, enormously rich, as we
ought to do, and in time most certainly will
what then? Why every man of us will pull
up stakes as soon as the S lmmer begins and
spend every Surplus cent in New York, Sa-
ratoga, Long Branch and Newport And
who shall blame us, seeing how frightfully
dull our own watering places arc? Never
thclcss, nothing is more certain than that
Georgia and South Carolina are destined to
be enormously rich. 1t is wrtton in the
book Of fate that this noble commonwealth h
shall have rccompensc for her unparalleled
Affections. And when you get rich want
you to come to Virginia. Do you ever think
Of the good old State hope so. Your
brothers sleep under her sod, and from that
sod many Of you that arc now living have
looked up night after night to the unan-
swcrns stars, wondering where you would
be on the morrow. Yes, you remember
| Virginia; you can never forget her. Her
men arc much too prone to claim all glory
for themselves and their State; but her wo-
men, have you no tender rccollcctions of
them in the hospital and the home? We'll,
then, get rich quick and como back to old
| Virginia's shore. We have got there the
prctticst and sweetest girls in the habitablo
world. This | say in n tone so low that
only the long male cars of this audience can
hear me But it is So We have got also
Il full line Of the most bcwtching widows
IL lIishtanGd ..s:" 81 and and ...1at s. NO
not so pretty. We do nothing by halves in
Virginia, aud when we set about producing
an ugly woman VIC put upon the market an
acute, penetrating, diifusivc, pervasive, acrid
and altogether ammoniacal variety of hid
eousness that nothing earthly can touch
But for pretty girls and widows you cant
90 amiss. They are so thick in Richmond
that if you venture on the street with an
umbrella under your arm, and turn around
suddenly, you will knock down two OF three
of them They have been waiting with the
sweetest patience for the kings and princes
of Europe to come over and marry them,
but the fools over there have gone to fight
ing, and am afraid their patience and their
few good clothes will wear out together
And when | think of their bright eyes dim
ming, and the roses in their checks fading
in old maidenhood, it almost kills me.
can't marry them all-would to goodness
that could have done all that the law
allowed me to do in this matter, and now |
want you to quit playing Cottontot, get rich
quick, and come to Old Virginia and help
me out in the matrimonial line. We have
fine set Of young men growing up and al
ready grown, plenty old enough to marry
bloodcd fcllows--that have gone to work
and, like racchorscs at the plough intend to
break the traces, burst their hearts or make
a deep turrow in this hard old work day
world. They would not object to marrying
any mans rich sister, but of all mems they
would prefer South Carolinian's. Come
then, to the Old DOminon-a fair exchange
is no robbcry-and, by the & ds the nex
generation or two will see race of mer
compared with whom Washington and Cal
houn, Jefferson and Pinckney were but tee
totums and mumble-pegs.
There is one other wcakling to whom
would like to pay my respects. | mean the
Southern politician, VIII. fancics he can be
come statesman by rejecting the acquisi
tions Of modern science, the application par
ticularly of biology to social problems, and
confining himself to the old ruts, hopes tt
make little ill-digcsted history and the
speeches of few eminent men of 4 bvgont
age serve in the stead of those general laws
which, embracing matter and mind alike
enable us to forecast the future and to fore
sec not what We think we ought to be, bu
what in the nature Of things must inevit
ably be- Time will not permit me to d,
more than aludc to this subject but, com
!, ing down to immediate matters, | shoulC