The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-02-03
FOOLS ERRANDS.

Scctionalism is an ahsurdity, as
it is crime. 1t is not ut all remark
able that among the rustics Of Iowa
and Minnesota, remote from the
south wish no special tie to it, the
bloody shirt should feat in grand
triumph but it is somewhat puZZling
to us that that those who spin our
cotton. make our shoes and hats
and prepare our paper upon which
we write, who travel with as much
ease through our orange groves in
winter, and among whom we travel
in the summer, should be so anN-
ious to draw and keep distinct the
lines of separation, When it is re
mcinbered that the sceptre is de
parting from your Judah, and that
the West, the great ally of new
Enuland now, must become her
GREAT antagonist in time to come, it
seems a sad folly for her to t"rn
her face against that section where
her natural allies are found The
West will make wagons and win
dow sash for the present, but the
South is learning to make every
thino. Is it well to build up and
at the same time emhitter 50
threatening arrival? The paper on
which | write, once bought at Fall
River. is now made in Baltimore.
The cashmere Of my pants is made
in Mississippi, and my undercloth-
inc woven in Georgia mills. AS 1t
is impossible to break down the
south, is it we'll to antagonize her?
The solid South is no figment.
There never was concoctcd more
ingenious and skllful play to make
her so than that winch aimed to
keep power in the North. In
scarcely a decade of years from re
construction the South only needs
the help of a few voters in New
York to say who shall preside over
this government. Yon can never
divide the South by assailing her.
The more the bloody shirt flies the
closer she will cling together; and
vet she can be divided. When
New England ceases to be solld,
when the South is no longer threat
cned by the Republican party, when
the policy of the New York Times,
is adopted, then we may look ior
diyision in the South. But the pol
lev never will he adopted as long as
the South is so generally misunder-
stood. The errors about the South
are the more dangerous in that they
are nearly all of them truths put
in a false light. I have OILY seen a
review of Judge Tourgcr 5 work,
"a FOOLS Errand," AMI cannot
speak of that, but can tell him OF
sundrv fools who have come on er-
rands to the South to 80 back sadly
anoercd by an utter failure TO 90
what they wished.
Here was the brave farmer lie
never planted a bale of cotton IN
his life never managed a negro,
never knew anything of a mule; but
having a few thousand dollars, he
concluded to come to Georgia to
show these ignorant people how to
farm. He was going to get
rich He went to Baker or Lee
county. He found Col. Thompson, a
plain, apparently nntraveled' %, old
planter, very ready to rent. The
Colonel began to suggest, but nc
found Hezekiah knew more than nc
did. So Hezelliah ordered out his
bio plows, got his bell and helfry
and made his labor rules, called the
negroes "My gentle friends tol(
them he wanted their labor an'
they wanted his protection, bought
some clover seed and timothy, sewe'
lin the sand and began his WORK
Old Colonel r. with a merry twin
kle in his eye, put Hezehiah's ren
money in his l,i9 pocket and stoo'
off to see. Well, IIczrkiah found
New Enoland lal,orcr and Samh
athcr different, and to manage