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

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purists--thosc petite maitres of literature,
with whom Shakespeare and myself, who
closely resemble each other, never had and
never can have any patience.
My friends, we arc to win back the res
pcct of the North just rs the respect ofevcry
other people is won, and that is by regain
ing our lost wealth. Less cotton aud more
meat first, and, second, manufacturing our
own cotton. 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
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
saRf9SsGG3a ay acRssSs hut # f. as had
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.
Nu((um numcn abcst 81 SIT prudential. 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 as
minutcly as the Prussians mapped out
France previous to the late war. But sup
posing VIC 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 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 wr:ttcn in the
book of fate that this noble commonwealth
shall have rccompense 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 are now living have
looked up night after night to the unan-
swcring 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? Well,
then, get rich quick and come back to old
Nirginia's shore. We have got there the
prettcst and sweetest girls in the habitablo
world. This say in tone so low that
only the long male cars of this audience can
hear me But it is SO. We have got also
full line of the most bewitching widows
si~s i.s aso as,s and sa" .a. n" mo
not so pretty We do nothing by halves i'll
Virginia. aud when we set about producing
all ugly woman VIC put upon the market an
acute, penetrating, ditfusivc, pervasive, acrid
and altogether ammoniacal variety Of hid
cousncss that nothing earthly can touch
But for pretty girls and widows you can't
go amss. 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 dovn 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 maidenLood, 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
t fine set Of young men growing up and al
, ready grown, plenty old enough to marry
. blooded fcllows--that have gone to work
( and, like racchorscs at the plough, intend t.
. break the traces burst their hearts or make
!. deep furrow in this hard old work-da,
q world They would not object to marryin:
n any mans rich sister, but of all mems the,
l. would prefer South Carolinian's. Come
: then, to the Old Dominion-a fair cxchang
i is no robbcry-and, by the 6 ds d. the mex
:. generation or two will see race of mel
t compared with whom Washington and Cal
s houn, Jefferson and Pinckney were but tee
It totums and mumbe-pegs
It There is one other weakling to whom
: would like to pay my respects. L mean tn
D Southern politician, VIII; fancics he can be
n come statesman by rejecting the acquisi
1 tions of modern science, the application par
II ticularly of biology to social problems, and
n confning himself to the old ruts, hopes t.
d make little ill.digested history and tn
IS speeches of few eminent men Of bv-gOn
= age serve in the stead of those general law:
r, which, embracing matter and mind alike
enable us to forecast the future and to fore
h sec not what We think we ought to be, bu
,t what in the nature Of things must newt
,r ably be. Time will not permit me to
in more than alludc to this subject; but, con
,c ing down to immediate matters, | shoul