The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-05-25
VOL, IX,-NEw SERIES.
81 - WAY.


Aaaress Iy Or, George ". Baa5x dstpn
the South Caroline Press 4ssocs csssi6aed
Ho,o the Delusions of our Boyhood ,cer
,Dispe2ed 6yst9e War-THe McuraJI
: Folly of the Cottontot-A Niryinian'
Tribute 10 South Caroiina-7 TIE Nsto
other Glorious Fixture
MIR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OIL
THE Press ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CARO-
LIMA: Permit me to congratulate you or
the restoration of your State Government
A bright day has dawned after long and
very dark night. Much Of your recent tri
umph is due to your own stout hearts, but
much more to tho disturbed condition of the
country. Had the volume of business re.
-n,aincd- uubroke~, 60 from '65- to- rs, you
would have been. crushed like an egg.shell,
and the negro and the carpet-bagger would
have retained power indefinitely. This is q
discordant note, but it is the truth, and by
the truth we must live.
You do not want, 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 get them from
me, who know but little dccorum and nal
but poor adviser. Extend to me, the J.
fore, pray you, forbearancc which is born
of that highbrcd courtesy for which South
Carolinians have ever been distinguished.
A pretty showing, indeed, 1 should make
were [ to preach to the text chosen for me.
Southern Journalism" Fancy me with a
Richmond paper in one hand, aud tho 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-
keHof newspapers in both town and country,
and although have been the correspondent
of leading journals from Massachusetts, to
Texas. 1 confess to you frankly that know
nothing about Southern journalism. Yes,
do know one single thing. know that if
the 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 be rich.
Whereas the most of us, like English Gu
rates and American insurance agents, are
but gcntecl paupcrs. Knowing this, l lay
down the dictum that no people will ever be
port their home papers in preference and,
if need be, to the exclusion of all other pa
pcrs whatsoever. How is that for sound
and high political science. and hoYsloesit
comport with your ideas of free trade Z
BY your gracious leave, then, / will drop
the subject of journalism and select for my
thesis "The Southern Fool" 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. Nc sutor,
YOU know. And it may turn out that the
Southern Fool bears, 1 will not say patcr-
nal relation to, but has a connection with,
Southern journalism much less remote than
we would have the public to believe. We
shall sce But first DEPRESSION.
When 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-
cusc for ;ndulgin educational whims, but
what possible excuse is there now?
DR.. McCosh says, there are 80 Southern
students at Princeton at S4O0 apiece, that
is, So, 1000 year enough almost to sup.
port the average Southern college. Are
there any fools among us for the want OF
sense ? But We have no school equal to Mas
sau Hall. BY Northern confession we have
school better than that and equal to any
OH this continent.
About my school days in Princeton | re-
member many things, but this thing cspe
cially--that the Southern boys there taught
me, a lad Of ten, to look down upon the boys
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 lan.i is not in October
"Tnis land" said I to myself, "is not merel,
tanned, it is civilized, it is enlightened in it
:thoroug gh culture" But care not to liv,
in it, No. There are people who woult
leave Paradise to so to Orange Courthouse
and am one of them. Dwell in countr,
where there are no sassafras bushes, no su
mac, nor any briar patches? Never! ST
John Malcolm tells Of the astonishmeut ant
disgust of an old Persian woman at hearin.
there were no date trees in England. Liv'
there? Not She No more could live unde
a sky without buzzard. | could not if
would, and would not if could.
Yes, It's beautiful well husbandcd land
and tho people who dwell in it are q grea
people, not yet in their prime, mcwing sti
a mighty youth-who that visited the Elk
position can doubt it and with an incor
ccivablc destiny before them. We also q
the South are great-greatcr In defeat, i
the grandeur of selfrestraint, Gas you Sout
Carolinians have just proved to the contour
ding of your enemies, } wesss,srsater in d,