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

fGlUpIucuG VI VIC hNouAoA NOeASSS W
each State of this great commonwealth
imposing check on the concentration
of capital, can our nation attain its high,
est possible destiny. When the genera
government, under the specious prete1t
of retaining the insubordination 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 stigms
and humiliation of the outrage.
Already indications are clearly discern
able that a brighter era of industrial pro-
gress will eventually dispel the stsgna
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 a necessity In
your industrial system. Before the war
the lands of the cotton States belonged
almost exclusively to an aristOcracy o.
wealth. One reservation after another
was cultivated, until the last elements o.
fertility were exhausted in the production
of cotton, which was exchanged for for,
eign gold. The ambition of planters te
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 and gather up the
harvest. That system of agriculture
then so prevalent, growing out of the
possession of large estates. and conse'
quently q hurried industry, ignored every
principle of agricultural economy. The
land is as honest a 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, sculptured in marble, in commemo.
ration of the labors of, the husbandman,
is "He has left. his farm better than be
found it." 1t was Virgil. whose classic
genius in the conception of the Eneid il.
Illuminated the reign of Augustus, who
utter I'd this impoverished maxim:
"Praise large farms, but cultivate small
ones" ~
1t was grand old Homer who sang oi
the gardens of Alconious
"Four acres was the allotted piece Of ground,
Hemmed ~ green enclosure all around"
We have no right to cultivate more
land than we can preserve in its 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-
versifcation of your industries, ir he IN
crease of your commerce, in the more
equal distribution ofyour landed estates,
instituting more thorough system OF
culture, and securing 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 habitations in the warm latitudes OF
the sunny South possessed more culture
and greater chivalry and nobility OF
character than the Puritans, who sought
an asylum on the barren andstorm-beaten
coast of New England. Those noble and
hospitable traits of character, ever fos;
tered by an aristocracy 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, I think it was
that gallant knight, Sir Walter Raleigh,
who first navigated your shores and
awakened the solitudes of your wider
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 a Governor, who
sailed into Charleston. harbor in the good
ship Anne, with COLONY of ia persons,
in January, l733.
The address of Lomochichi, one of the
principal orators of the Creeks, upon the
conclusion of the treaty with Oglethorpe
I regard as one of the finest passages of
aboriginal eloquence.
"Here is a present." said the chief; II
give you buffalo's skin adorned on the
inside with the head and feathers of an
eagle, which I desire you to accept, be-
cause the eagle is an emblem of speed
and the buffalo of strength. The Eng
lish are swift as the bird and 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
so strong nothing can Withstand them.
The feathers of the eagle are soft and
signify love; the buffalo's skin is warm
and signifies protection; therefore, /
hope the English will protect their little
families"
I wish more of that untutored savage's
benevolent temper and magnanimity
might pervade the radical sentiment Of
the North. Recently perusing the fol-
lowing vivid and picturesque description
of your State, written by the poet Waller,
full century and half ago, migratory
feeling came over me. and I concluded to
join the fight of our Northern birds to
test the beauty of your scenery and the
salubrity of your climate:
1.-THE spring which but salutcs us here
Inhabits there aud courts them all the year;
Ripe fruits and blossoms on the same tree live;
At once they promise what at once they give;
So sweet the air, so moderate the CLINE,
None sickly lives 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 as
bright galaxy of orators and statesmen
who have reflected honor upon theil
country as any other State can boast
Her Calhouns, her Haynes, her McDuf
fies, her Marions and her Hamptons, en-.
dowed with the highest gifts of states.
manship, have justly earned their i'm
mortality. In the annals of our country,
their public services and private virtues
will be commemorated until time shall
be no longer. There are other charac.
teristics which have ever distinguished
the citizens of your State, upon which nc
imputation of reproach has ever rested
and those are your honor, your heroism
and your hospitality. 1t is my highest
aspiration that South Carolina may yet
rise from the Gethsemane of her sorrows
and her sacrifices more fair and beautiful
than Aphrodite when she rose from the