The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-09-11
Row England Thrift.
There is one thing that hasI .imbre

| There is one thing that has impressed
NE unexpectedly as 1t were, In the excus.
sions which have made fromthis lovely
little island to points of note aud interest
along the New england eocst. I knew
tho people 70 be weli.to. do, bat never
before have been so struck by Che yasi
aggregation of wealth. New England Il
three hundred years old. It's people were
not, perhaps Originally more thrifty than,
the early settlers of Virginia and tie
Carolinas. But they happened 10 pick a
hard soil end to encounter long winters.
They were obliged to work and to store
up. Thus the habit Of labor and the
process OF accumulation began. These
have continued ever since. On the
Southern seaboard short winters and ain
easy soil produced the opposite ro.
suits, and the negro greatly assisted them
Slavery being gone, and time having worn
the soil of the Sonth down To n sort Of
equality with that Of New England, VIZ
may hope that the newly developed ne.
cessities will create new character, and.
in its order, bring up the lost average Of
q once more prosperous section2 Ifear
not. The New Englender has prodiei.
ous start; and, rs John Happy used 10
say, "a starts stars." We never had n
great deal of ready money in the South,
and what We had we squandered. We
had plenty of fun, debts and niggers;
We went in for glory; and for fifty YEAR,
we. paid tribute to these people, as We are
doing now. They had no constitutional
sscruplles which stood in the way of q
lighthouse or q break-water. They sent
men to Washington who knew how to
stick their hands into Che treasury, and
if ono of them happened to get back
empty handed they set him asi3, and
sent some one else. The people en- n,asss
became q race of practical politicians.
Whilst the South was toying with the
rIuffie on its SKIRT, and whirliDg It's silver
headed cane, New England was "fizinp,
Itself. II is now ''h2ed,; it is ''finished.n
1t can afford to be complacent and hos.
pitable. 1t is so. It Is the South which
is.poor and yet refuses to learn It's lesson
which dreamily look toward the West,
when 1t ought to give its days and nights
to study of the methods of patience.
self.denial and thrift, which have made
these rocks to blossom like the rose, and,
In less than century, completely re-.
verse! The relative positions Of the sec.
tions.
Emphatically, the New Englander is
as choleric rs the Southerner. Consider
ing his advantages-.or education and
for trayel--he is less liberal aud knows
less. 1t is silly enough to hear the ay.
erage Southern notion of q Yankee. But
1t ia sillier to hear the average Yankee
notion of o Southerner. Intercourse
would mend each's estimate ofthe other.
In the meantime, L ought to asy that Ii
ls impossible to exaggernte the hearty
manliness of the genuine New England
man, or the fine and noble characteristics
of the real New England woman, or to
oyerstate the open. handed, genial hospi-
tality which prevails everywhere in this
New England country. What Is it, and
why is IL? It is, 20 begin with, robust
health, and, to end on, plenty of money.
The man who ia sick cannot be hearty.
and the man who is straitened cannot be
bospitablc. You will observe that don't
dislike the Yankees nor envy them their
prosperity. But, even IL did, should
not quarrel with them. "sYhen see e
rattlesnaik stick his head out Of q hole.n
says Josh Billings, "I sheer of, and SAYS
/ to myself that hole belongs to thet
snaik." Travers' last has it thnt there
"are but three liars in this couutry-Toln
Ochiltree Is one, and Ell; Perkins Is the
other two" Making trayersity of this,
1t seems to me there are but three pros.
porous sections of our Union-New York
is one. and New England is the other
two. Horny Watterson's, Bioek Isldnd
Letter. al, ......s.