Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-07-31
The SOnih.

MI Il. d. Haskell, editor OF thu Boston
Herald, has lately been on an extended tour
through tbs South. His conoIus' o1s are of
peculiar value 10 tia. they rep.es ut tie views
OF msn ct independent mind. of extended
travel, OF shreHd judgment. and of one who
wccd not be misled by appearances. lie FIRST
remarks upon the semi rural nature of southern
GILES and the tios that The South still remains
an agricultural section. Beyond The Mississippi
good horscuausbip is universal. even the ne
groes being greatly addicted TO mule lidiug.
| Athletic out door sports lave given the
men aa erect carriage aud 40 txemp-
| ton from those Optical disabilities which
place tho eyepass astride the nose of 80 many
young New Englanders. Thoueh 90 book
worms, the .u,herners have taste for read
| lnf; cut their Conservatism does not sllcw them
to take kindly to those deiioeatious of morbid
| mental phenomena or those TOO often successful
attempts 1t naturslistic nastiness which crowd
tho booksellers c.uoters and feed the iesatia
bic pairors OF our circulating libraries A fee.
lure OF southern character is the reverence
10 which The clergy are held. The respect
shown to ministers of every denomination re.
minds oDe OF the traditions ct early ccclssias!i-
cal New Eogand. when The minister was far
noIo power 10 the community than be is to-
day. The proportion of young men 10 southern
churches is greater tbao is the case 10 the
North. To have the reputation Of an iof1el or
an atheist 10 the South carries with it the
penalty Of S cial isolation. New Eogaud lib
eraisn is looked upon with suspicion, and the
Concord School of Philosophy" would com
macd no attendance in asy southern State.
The free l5vers. who hold lhpir debates and
lectures 80 publicly 10 New Eog|sud, would
6od their DrckS in immediate dagger 10 any
,owo from Virginia to Texas.
10 every southern community fenale honor
is guarded by pubic sentiment as luexorable
to offenders as The laws of Drac3. All through
the South ladies' r;de over tho lonelest roads
without fear of insul'. The tramp" that
hldeous production Of our civil zniou, is almost
uakoown in the South. 10 southero cities la
| dies can Walk tho streets uumo!ested BY we'll
dressed sc5undrels. Every wIitc MAJ in the
community considers himself the protector Of
every lady. The tone Of public sentiment 10
It'll, regard Is so heslIhy that womon tho South
has freedom recalling the chivallo days of
| old.
y certaiu sort of men who haunt tho streets
OF porIhero cities would have short shrift 10
Savannah, Fioksburg or Nav Or!eaas. The
ou.herD mau or wcmsn, not bling given over
| to newspapers. magiZ nes and books, has ra
| aued what il in many of our communities
los art-tta. Of conversation. Ole Of the
mai k Of good breeding 10 the Sauih is the
| ability To COW, re we'll. Conversation is cult
Va'ed as hns art. Almost rybJdy talks,
and talks WELL The Conversational voss bllaIy
Ct southtruers is we'll stored with good English
words. Ther1 Is q certain old fashioned way Ct
pronCuncins many words, due to the fact that
| conversation. and rot otk', gives the law
to pronuocatior. The ttfscs il sometimes
| lauShabie 10 nortderoer who hes been
drilled iuto the recognition of byperorili
o., ADD unreliable dictionary distitc:ioos.-
1t is common 10 have "Jeens" for James.
clark" FIR clerk, "syurI," for girl, "rieimeut'
for regl neDt, e!c. Sometimes words are oddly
acceute9 f,r exsmplt: "Faualio" with tic
stress laid on the fist syllable, 'emperament"
With the sc.ens 90 the 90 tho second, etc. A
sou;hcrn youoc man does not get to he Twenty
one." but 'ouo aDd twenty" II reckon"
staDds fJr the New Eogl,ud II eu:s,," At the
southern bar aud 10 tic legislative hall good
deal ct ateuion is paid to oratory. Rhetoric js
studied The s)uthtr1 orator is apt to soar into
the realms OF hightsluliu. 10 Kentucky every
other mau is atl, to tai one to death.
Contrary 10 northern opinion, the South Is
not given ever to whisky. There is less driok
Ing 10 many sou hern cities 10 proportion o the
population than 10 Boston. The wea.ers of the
blue lltb1n arc many. Among the negroes
there Is noticeable absence OF that iolity and
eayety attributed 10 them by the bowels and
tales CT sntCbellun days. Sambo has hung
up de fiddle an do bow" aud "iued de
couroh' The pcu1 negroes are as firmly Cd
posed to worldly anusemeLts, such as daucirg
and idIlug, as ever were the Puriaus. The
war; say observing sou:bernnrs, took the finn
cut OF tho colored people. The SJutb, though
cot elJslGm nor even O faint reproduction of
paradise, has many points of social excellence.
The SETS, OF "honsh." though ofteu over
strained, has made Intercourse between man
ano man Ia the South scmethiug delightful.
there IL o mum! Difference, quiet courtesy
OF manner aud an absence OF brusq1euess
even 10 BUSINESS forna!liss. which inpresses
tho observer from the North. Lifo South has
more outward hclsa aud more Inward repts,
than with u,
SHARP EYESIGHr L. takes 90 eye to see
partridge in tie woods, uotiouless upon the |
leaV.s; Ibis seusa needs to BIO as sharp as that
ct smell 10 hcuads aud pointer, and yet l |
know an uskemrs youth that seldom fails TO |
see !hs bird and shoot it before it takes wing.
thick nc sees 1t IS s1on as it secs him, and |
D:lore IT suspects itselfscen What training
10 'ne cyels buntlDR: to pick out the game
1fom It's surroundings, the grouse from the
leaves tho gray squirrel from tho messy oak
Eno It bugs so closely the red fox from the
rudy or brown or gray field. the rabbit from
The stub5le, or tho white hare from the snow
r'q1IIes the bes: powers OF this sense. A wood
chuck, moioul;ss 10 the fields or upon rock
locks very much Ike large stone or boulder
yet keen eye kuows he difference at q glance
quarter of a mile away.
A mao has sharper eye than dog, or a
tex or than any IF the Wild crea:ur.s, bu. mt
81 sharp an ear or nosc. But 10 the birds he
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