The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-08-27
oLp-FAsHIoKED souTHERx.
Frs.


II wss my fortune, not long since.
to spend fortnight In the centre OF
one of these isolated districts. Tbs
family with whom l boarded seemed |
curious reproduction OF colonial
life. IL consisted of father. mother,
and two daughters they were peo-
pie of marked intelligence. but their
habits and modes OF thought were
those of Revolutionary times. The
father, 8 fine specimen OF hale age,
called himself jestlngly "b!ue light
fedaralist.'' Their stock quotations
were from Boswell and Pepys. and
although they were familiar with
literature up to the beginning OF the
century they seemed quite unaware
that anything had BEEN written since.
happened one day to speak of DOM
[ hey and Con, when Mrs. - said
that she chad heard it vas very well
written" After that / confined my
self 10 Shakes peare and Dr. johnson.
SIR. assured me that be and
his friends had been vehemently OPP
posed TO the ordinance of secession,
but had been carried away by the
ide. II We can trust evidence of this
kind there we're no original secession
lists 10 the south, but each man was
hurried along against Ms judgment
by the pressure of all the rest.
/ have no doubt, though, that my
friend spoke the truth, for he is 3
brave, simple soul. Ia all matters OF
political history his knowledge was
accurate and his generallzstions
broad. | do not know that | ever
heard man talk as well on the sub.
let. On everything connected with
physical science his ideas were those
OF a child He accounted for heavy
rain by saying that "a cloud struck
the side OF the mountain and bursted. "
| noticed that any attempt to explain
natural phenomena was distssteiul tC
him as bordering on irreverence. he
had in his employ number OF ne.
Kreos as farm hands, and told me be
Was convinced that, from an ecouomi
csl point of view, tree labor wa
much TO be preferred to slave. Tht
, war had ruined him, bat 10 the las
two years be had begun to recover
and in ten years be hoped to be mucl
| better off than ever. This from I
man OF "a! Modern degenerscl
had not reached him." Fortunately
Sherman's advance guard had no
reached him, either, before the re-
scindipg OF the order for subsistipg OIL
the country. 30 the old houss anC
! irregular out-buildipgs stood ~ the
4 had been butt sixty years ago. Ihi
house was a hideoua ractaugula
, brick structure, with Greoian portic'
i, in front and Ttar. But il had sucl
; en- air of being firmly rooted in tn
> ground, its original incongrnIties bal
! been so harmonized by time aud b.
Z the vines and struggling TCse-bushe
growing on it, it had so mucl
bonestg and 30 little eeniimeLt.iism
+ that is ugliness was pCt displeaeing
a Within, not d bit of modern furni
, ture or modern ornamentetion, or
O modern book or magazine, was 10 b
\ seen. SCOTS novels we're apparently
the last thing out. Mr.. - toll
: me that be had resd them aloud t
I his family ak times.
: The young ladies we're rather NOR
than pretty, and they and their lathe
would have appeared to marked 40
vantage in any society. 10 thei
manners there was no resllessnes
e and no effort, but a mixture Of dig
9 nifty and careless 6Onhonlie that /
2 quite iLdescritabls end al,0sStbe
: charming The perfection of thei
+; physical health. which made a rid
of twenty miles On horseback a matte
, of Indifference. was apparent 10 ever,
free, natural movement, Fin
: health, which 10 the north giTcs ris
4; to exuberans animal spirits and f;
desire for bodily exertion, in tn
) south seems to result in a wellbsl
arced nervous oFgsLiZaIion and 1
soand physical basis, quite supeEio
: to the necessity for caliy exercise
g These people were entirely difieren
] from the conventional Ssa~of south
erners, and l instance them to shoV
D ths. there are here and there iamille
in the south in which The old type @
life and the o'd-iashioned love OF tn
county uryiyes.-Septembar Allan