The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-08-22

male citizen south ,of Mason and Dixon's
line WAS memSer of' that oiganfzation,
and only acquired o standing in the COM
manity by performing that feat. When
inf3f lied that I belonged to one of those
.hortshla ssrife Climb, ~ - the females of an
other family gazed on me with apparent
lYths same feelings as those with which
they would contemplate Gagged cannibal
Z in acircus. I fear that the sAzor's pas
ssengers, having such sympathetic listen
'ers, viii tell some terrible "yarns." -,All
this is the more surprising from the fact
that most Of the more wealthy citizens
have travelled. ..That iis one, feature of
Libesian life worthy of connie endation.
As soon as they acquire means, they
seem generally to go out to enlarge their
ideas by travel and observation. Many
:cf those whom met had been to, and
generally through, England and Amer
tcae and several lover, the Continent of
Europe q It is hard to imagine how any
one could 90 to Europe, and be con-
tented to corae back and live in Liberia.
It is said, however, that "the Laplander
loves lis 6ome,n for that reason 1 have
always regarded the Laplander as an ass
None of tie younger men seem ever to
have gone down South :mpch..l This is
natural, as they have no tics there to in.
dncs them to- brave the dangers which
they believe beset-the path of every col
ored man who sgetsayoUr side of Balt-
more. Beaideas sthis,I they have sa.social
recognition and associations, in England
and in places on the Continent and in
toe United States, which they certainly
could not expect in the South. One or
two who have been there expressed them
salves SAAhhch. disguised and disappoipt1
I'd by the general poverty and ignorance
Of their race.
THE GENERAL LIFE
ofthe older and wealthier planters along
the st. PauPs resembles in many par
ticaisrsc 56st Of the Southern planter3in
thelseood ioId days. Having a-good
brick house built, and his coffee, or sugar
plantation we'll under weigh, the tiller of
the soil generally takes his ease, wears
good clothes, and smokes, only exercising
a supervision of his affairs. The spirit
or wine decanter is alrnost invariably at
the service Of his guests, and when he
goes visiting or to Monrovia, he steps
into his canoe, calls his crew together,
and travels comfortably and sedately.
As the. present generation is growing old,
the children fake charge after the return
of the heir from Ills schooling and "fin-
ishing tour" In view of all this, it is
ridiculous to suppose that the Liberians
are relapsing into. barbarism. On. the
contrary, il Is s;apparent thateaeh genera
tion is 6rihghtg 1iens steadily ned;sr to per.
feet civilization. While these old lords
Of the soil in their conscious or uncon:
scious aping of their former masters
former lives, present occasionally ludi-
croua contrasts to their models by igno-
rance aud lack of culture, their sons and
daughters are growing up better edu-
Gated, trained and supplied with the re-
ouirements of intelligent men end wo-
men. saw the Liberians Especially
the younger ones) brought into contact,
and consequently contrast, with the
TAur's Immigrants. 1t showed there and
then that whether. the negro is capable
Of attaining the white mans level or not,
me ii capable oil: becoming much nearer a