The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-05-25
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.Dispeled 6yssse Z Var The Lcurable
zFol!y of khe Cottontot-A Krqinian's
Tribute 20 South Cdrolina-TKe Vista
Cher Glorious Fixture.
MIR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF
THE PREss ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CARO-
LIMA: Permit me 10 congratulate you on
tho restoration of your State Government.
A bright day has dawned after a long and
very dark night. Much of your recent tri-
umph is due to your own stout hearts, but
much more to the disturbed condition of the
country. Had the volume of business re.
niained uubroken, as-- from '65 TO 70, you
would have been. crushed like an egg.shell,
and the negro and the carpet. bagger would
have retained power indefinitely. This is
discordant note, but it is the truth, and by
the truth we must live.
You do not want, l am sure, the decorous
namby-pamby and the job lots of damaged
advice which make up the staple of the ad-
dresses generally given on occasions like
this and fyou did, could not got them from
me, who know but little decorum and am
but poor adviser. Extend to me, there
fore, 1 pray you, forbearancc which is born
of that highbrcd courtesy for which South
OuIOhulouS HdfC CNCE UCSu
A pretty showing, indeed, should make
were 1 to preach to the text chosen for me.
Southern Journalism" Fancy me with
Richmond paper in one hand, aud the aver
age rural paper of my State in the other,
coming here to instruct the editors Of South
Carolina Comparisons are odious, and 1
will not make them. Although have been
alternately the accoucheur aud the underta-
keriof newspapers in both town and country,
and although have been the correspondent
of leading journals from Massachusetts, to
Texas. confess to you frankly that know
nothing about Southern journalism. Yes,
I do know one single thing. 1 know that if
tho money paid annually over the counters
from Baltimore to Galveston for Northern
papers which abuse or, worse still, pity the
South, were paid to us we would all bo rich.
Whereas the most of US, like English Gu
rates and American insurance agents, are
but gonteel paupers. Knowing this, lay
down the dictum that no people will ever be
free, or deserve to be free, who do not sup
port their home papers in preference and,
If need be, to tho exclusion of all other pa
pers whatsoever. How is that for sound
and high POLITICAL science. and hoysdoes4it
comport with your,ideas of free tradc2
BY your gracious leave, then, will drop
the subjtc ct of journalism and select for my
thesis "The Southern Focl." That is quite
in my line of business. am accustomed to
handle that class of goods and like good
business man [ stick TO my last Ne sutor,
you know. And it may turn out that the
Southern Fool bears, 1 will not say pater-
nal relation to, but has a connection with,
Southern journalism much less remote than
we would have the public to believe. We
shall see. But first depression.
When a boy was sent to school in
Princeton, N. j The propricty of sending
lad 400 miles away from home may we'll
be questioned. Certainly it may be doubted
when the money expended for his education
is needed in the State of his nativity. Be.
fore the war, there might have been an ex
cuse for indulging educational whins, but
what possible excuse is there now?
DIR. McCosh says, there are 80 Southern
students at Princeton; at $40O apiece, that
is, $4,000 year enough almost to sup
port the average Southern college. Are
there any fools among US for the want o
sense But We have no school equal to Mas
sau Hail. BY Northern confession We hav,
school better than that, and equal to All
OH this continent.
About my school days in Princeton I re
member many things, but this thing espe
cially-that the Southern boys there taugh
me, a lad of ten, to look down upon the boy
of the North Was that wisdom or folly
and if folly was it confined to boys alone
Are all such boys dead now?
Last fall revisited New Jersey. 1t is
lovely land. What land is not in October
"This land" said to myself, 'is not merel
tanned, it is civilized, it is enlightened in it
thorough culture" But 1 care not to liv
lin it. No. There are people who woul
leave Paradise to go to Orange Courthouse
,and am one Of them. Dwell in countr
where there are no sassafras bushes, no ST
mac, nor any briar patches? Never 81
John Malcolm tells Of the astonishmeut an
disgust of an old Persian woman at bearin
there were no date trees in England. Liv
.there2 Not she. No more could live undt
a sky without buzzard. could not ii
, would, and would not ifI could.
Yes, 'lis beautiful we'll husbanded Ian,
and tho people who dwell in it are a gre'
people, not yet in their prime, mewing sti
% mighty youth-who that visited the X,
position can doubt it and with an inco
ceivablo destiny before them. We, also
the South are great--greater in defeat,
the grandeur of self restraint, Gas you Sout
sCarolinians have just proved to the confou
ding Of your, enemies WSnUn nEeater in d
feat than in war. Why caeplSs these "
peoples come together without gush, fanfn
onade or mental reservation, and be friend
r. ~. ,.oorIa abanlu<nlv All sr,,od m.