Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-01-16
A Bully Story"

E# CeudtOT COueS, VI NcFuuu, nus Oceu
interviewed in relation to his views con
oerning the "Solid South" Either tho
interviewer or the Senator is ga whale" on
big tales We give tho interview merely
as curiosity:
elbow do the pcop!s where you have
been, look upon tho Southern question:"
"rHE SOLID soUTn2"
~ think the general feeling throughout
the North, and extending as far as the
Pacific coast, is Indifference about the South
Our people seom to have made up their
minds that tho South has always been over
estimated and does not contain sincere
elements Of patriotism or good behavior.
dc not know that there is any bitter
ness towards them. The feeling is rather
disgust, as towards somo worthless kius
man?''
"Have you bocn through the South
reoently?"
s "Yes. / have been down during the
past year. I have somo interests in At.
lanta, Ca, and vent there and to New
Orleans, and az fur as Texas The only
portion of tho South that struck me with
much promise was Northern Texas, where
it is Inhabited by our own Northwestern
people. They will make new Kansas Of
it, with the institutions and feelings Of a
good civilization. As for the rest, think
very little of it.. l don't think | would
live in tho State of South Carolina if they
wore to give me the entire Commonwealth
for barony, 1t is impossible to g.t good
meal of viotuals in the South. They have
not learned tho first rudimcnts Of cooking
( Wherever you go you find your meats fried
in boar's fat. There is one spot, at least
wherc l am delicate, and that is in my
stomach. They have plenty of gamo in
the South, but have no conception of how
to prepare it. They gave us in Texas Gnc
prairie chicken, which had the promise of
making delicious moa, but suddenly it
would bo returned, oil baked up in sow's
fat 'For Gods sakc,' I said to the cook
at Atlanta, cant you take that and have
little butter put on it and cook it like a
Christian?"
"Auother thing struck me in almost
every part of the South-the vicious, surly
looks Of the young men. Throughout the
whole North tho young men have genial,
oousiderate, kind countcuances. In the
South the yonug men too often look at you
as if to say, 'What in the devil arc YOU
thinking about me now?' They look ready
to burst out and cut somebody for fancicd
slight. Such state of society il far from
amiable, whom at the very brink and hope.
falness of life you sec tho young men wear
ing counteuances like Absoom. I noticed,
also, that thoy have grea. numbers of mill
tary academies, whore they orc drilling
and wearing uniforms.
THE REBEL YELL. =,
"1n certain place in Texas was taking
an evening walk along the road at the out.
skrte of tho town, when heard somebody
walking behind me, and found it to be an
athletic young man. Suddenly ho raised q
yoll like an Indian, which made nv blood
run cold. | turned about to investigate
this savage, and he paid no attention to nc
until he got right up opposite to me, when,
without saying word, hc raised another
Z unoarthly yell. then turned around and
4 said, 'What do you mean, sir, raising such
/ a scream as that at my sidc?' 'By God, it
& is free country, and reckon | can yell!'
sNo, SIR replied, Il don't sec why YOU
should choose this hour of the evening
i when you come up to a person you don
know to shout like an Apaohcc.'
NOW, suppose that young creature
B was merely practising his rebel yell, as The
highest intellectual and social form Of
amusement he know anything about.
~ looked at their country, covered with
pines and occasionally showing lean; pig,
and 4 thought to myself, My Godl Did We
lesyo 500, 600 Of ouryoung men snd 5000.
sVVV, ,UUU ~ suoh q country asiinis2 !"