The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-11-29

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velopment Of the natural resources Of
each State of this great commonwealth,
imposing cheek on the concentration
of capital, can our nation attain its high.
est possible destiny. When the general
government, under the specious pretoxt
of retaining the ihsubordination Of your
citizens, established military encamp-
ment of armed soldiery upon the campus
of your State capitol, every Other State
must have recoiled beneath the stigma
and humiliation of the outrage.
Already indications are clearly discern
able that brighter era of industrial pro-
gress will eventually dispel the etagna-
ton and financial gloom that, like the
shadows of dark eclipse, seems to have
settled down upon your honored State.
The change in your political system,
forced upon you by the reconstruction
measures, afforded some compensation in
the change that became necessity in
your industrial system. Before the war,
the lands of the cotton States belonged
almost exclusively TO an aristecracy of
wealth. One reservation after another
was cultivated, until tho last elements OF
fertility we're exhausted in the production
of cotton, which was exchanged for for
eign gold. The ambition of planters 70
cultivate large estates, under which
method impoverishment of the soil with
out restitution was continually occurring,
placed them in circumstances that they
had only time to SOW aud gather up the
harvest. That system Of agriculture,
then so prevalent, growing out of the
possession of large estates, and conse-
quently hurried industry, iguored every
principle of agricultural economy. The
land is as honest thing as there is In
nature. If you keep it hungry, then
poverty and destitution, like famished
wolves, will be in wait at your own doors.
The highest eulogy that could be posi-
bly, scuiptured in marble. in commemo-
ration of the labors of the husbandmen,
is "He has left his farm better than he
found it." 1t was Virgil, whoee classic
genius in the conception of the Eneid il
Illuminated the reign of Augustus, who
uttered this impoverished maxim:
Praise large farms, but cultivate email
ones"
1t was grand old Homer who sang OF
the gardens of Alconious
"Four acres was the allotted piece Of grol J.
Hemmed by green enclosure all around
We have no right to cultivate more
iauu than wo eau preserve in lts original
fertility. We are imposing heavy bur-
den on posterity in the impoverishment
of our rich alluvial lands, in the removal
Of their most available elements by O
system of surface culture, making them
articles of commerce, while we return
nothing in exchange.
Citizens of South Carolina-In the di-
versification Of your industries, in the in
crease of your commerce, in the more
equal distribution Of your landed estates,
institut;Hg e Nora thorough system OF
culture, and securing o greater diffusion
of capital, lie the possibilities of your
| future progress and prosperity.
You belong to proud and honored
lineage. The people who originally fixed
| their hSbitations in the warm latitudes OF
| the sunny South possessed moro culture
and greater chiyalry end cch:i:ty c:
| character than the Puritans, who sought
an asylum on the barren and storm beaten
coast of New England. Those noble and
hospitable traits of character, ever fos=
tered by an aristncracy Of wealth and
transmitted from an aristocracy ofgenius,
! are conspicuous in the Southern charac.
ter to-day. If the memory of my school
| days has not failed me, / think it was
| that gallant knight, Sir Walter Raleigh,
| who first nevigated your shores and
| awakened the s0litudes of your wilder.
| nesses with the quiet accents of our
mother tongue. He was succeeded by
that heroic adventurer, James Edward
Oglethorpe, clothed with the powers to
exercise the functions of q Governor, who
sailed into Charleston harbor in the good
ship Anne, with n colouy of la persons,
i'll January, 1898.
The address of Lnmochichi, one Of the
| principal orators of the Creeks. upon the
conclusion of the treaty with Oglethorpe
/ regard as one of the finest passages Of
aboriginal e;o2:ia.:eee.
Here 10 present." said the chief; 81
give you q buffalo's skin adorned on the
inside with the head and feathers of an
eagle, which I desire you to accept, be-
csuse the eagle Is al emblem of 5Ptsii
and the buffalo of strength. The Eng
lish are swift SIS the bird aud strong as
the beast; since like the former, they
flew over vast seas to the uttermost parts
of the earth, and like the latter, they are
40 strong nothing can withstand them
! The feathers of the eagle are soft and
signify love the bufalO's skin is warm
and signifies protection; therefore, ]
hope the English will protect their little
families"
wish more of that untutored savage.
benevolent temper and magnaDimity
might pervade the radical sentiment O.
the North. Recently perusing tho fol
lowing vivid and picturesque description
of your State, written by the poet Waller
full century and o half ago, g migratory
feeling came over me. and concluded u
join the fight of our Northern birds 4
test the beauty Of your scenery and tht
salnhrity Of your climate:
"rhe spring which but salutcs US hero
| Inhabits there aud courts them all tho year;
Ripe fruits and blossoms on the Same tree live;
Al once they promise what Mt once thoy give;
30 sweet the air, so moderate the cline,
Nome aicl,ly liyea or dies before his time.
Heaven sure has kept this spot OF earth uncursed
To show how all things were created hrst."
From that primitive period the history
of South Carolina is illuminated by a.
bright q galaxy of orators and statesmen
who have reflected honor upon thei
country as any other State eau boast
Her Calbouns, her Haynes, her McDuf
fies, her Marions and her HamptonD, en-
dowed with the highest gifts Of states
manship, have justly earned their Inn
mortality. In the annals Of our country
their public services and private virtue
vii; &c a.a1d t;ass;;.. tiiiio osia,
BE- no longer. There are other charac
teristics which have ever distinguishes
the citizens Of your State, upon which n,
iKpntation of reproaeh has ever rested
and those are your honor, yonr heroisn
and your hospitality. It is my highes
aspiration that South Carolina may ye
rise from the Gethsemane of her sorrow
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