The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-08-10
MANS PEDIGREE.


MANS PEDIGREE.
1911 Arp Discour.rs OF the Family Ire"
| From Ms fiN'rHto, und Uirir Fdrmrr
| "iIonor and sham" fam no condition ri,.
| A"i well your lart--thcrc all the honor lirs.
Pride Of ancestry is II good thing !,
young man has right To be proud Of [;
noble father, but the danger il he gcner
ally leans on him too strong and don't d,
anything for himself. 1t is very seldom
indeed that great man has Il great son
old John adams did and so did John
Quincy Adams. but Henry Clay didn't
nor Calhoun. nor Webster, nor Tom jeff:
erson, nor Patrick Henry, nor any.nf oul
nOtablcs. wonder why it is? Thor.
oughbrctl horses keep on getting better
and better and faster and fastcr and they
hold up their heads and look proud and
step with dsdainlul spring, like
the ground wasn't good enough for 'cm
but the son OF Il great man ain't much
| account and just lays around and talks
about pap. always feel sorry for Il young
man who has TO bank on his ,lad,iy's fame
lie gets attention and is considered bon
ton and oil that, but everybody talks pitt.
iul about him and says, well, he is a
clever boy but llo will never make the
man his father is" There is too much
contrast 10 be comfortable. a great
mans son is in u delicate position, but ho
can get along very well if he amt
biggoty.
| Great lncn'S children arc very much
like rich mt MS schildrcn--:hcre is nothing
for 'em to do -no,hng behind 'cm to
spun 'em up, no motive, no ambition, no
| trar of want. But of nll the fools in the
world, deliver me from these stuck ups
| who claim to be bl0odcd stock, decen.
| dants Of tho +. L. VS. or the +. rs Of
| any other State, and who put on airs of
| condcccnsion when they mix with com
mon people. They are not the sort to
| reply OH when war or trouble comes
They will run from danger on the first
alarm. Pedigree is good thing among
horses, but man had better not investi-
gate his own ancestry with too much
confidence. lie will ruin up against n
scrnb on one side or the other I've got
nothing agin scrubs, some Of the best
people know are mighty common stock,
but they are honest, true and humble.
The war tried men, and the scrubs held
on, and held out IA good ms anybody
The scrubs are not always hunting round
Tor Office and IN easy way to live without
work. These chronic office hunters talk
mighty sweet and get around lively when
they arc lectioneerng, hut they nre not
the best people III u community. One
time tho king took II journey with all his
attendants, and boy, who was sitting on
the fence, told him he had better stop
awhile aud get under the wagon shed,
for it was going TO rain like blazes before
he could get to the next house. The king
didn't believe him and went on, aud
shore enough thunder storm came UP
in hurry and it rained tremendous,
and the king went back to find out how
the boy know it was comin.' Why"
said he, "daddy's old jack was brayin,'
and he always braysjust hefire . rain"
So the king bought the jack and took him
to his royal stables and set him up as a
weather prophet, and had him fed high,
and groomed, and made much of him,
and now, they say. that ever since then
every jackass in the country wants an
office. Jesse!
II amt o1o man in thousand that
knows his own pedigree for three genera
tons back, for ho has got four grand pa
rents, and eigh: great grandparents, a;id
s'x!ete en- great-gr.at-g o d.parents, q! d
30 or doubling eva.yti:ue and so!me of
EN- were mean stock, and the meanness
will crop out away down the l:ne in spite
ofprayers and preachin' and abundance of
punishment Scrubs como from great
men and great men come from scrubs, and
there's nothing for a man to be proud of
but his own conduct. Let every tub
stand on it's own bottom. There are two
pitiful sights in human nature, one is n
proud old aristocratic family, broken
down in purse and position, and the other
is to sec the children of scrub who has
got rich, putting ON hristocratic airs, and
strut;ing around like they were better
than anybody. The first set back too
much on breeding aud the last too ti,',ch
Oh money. Tom Perry was the best
specimen of scrub ever saw. Tom was
bound out, when boy, aud worked baro
footed all the winter, and he was pigeon.
toed, and tongue tied, and bushr- haired,
and pop.eyed, but he had big heart in
him, and n powerful will, and ne never
got tired of work. Tom Perry was al.
ways doing something for somebody.
He was the best friend the widow and
tho orphan had in that community. He
was the most unselfish citizen of his town,
and done moro for it than any hody accor.
dingto his means and his capacity.
Old DR.. Benkman said to me ono day,
"mine friend, let every man work up to
his capacity In dis life and he will be
prince in heaven" Well, Tom Perry
did that. He had but little leafning and
less manners, but he made the.yery best
Use Of his limited capital for he lived TO
do good and he died slamented Rome
never had a sbette friend nor n. more
useful ciiizsns Dbl laon ssaa d sSrub;
Dick used haul wood 10 Sssiisssisle and
wore one gall1s and no shoes, and the
end of his shirt hung out, but he worked
hard to support his poor old parents, ard
one day Cincinnatus Peoples picked hlnA
up and sent him to school and lhirod a boy
to work IN his place, and Dick roso for.
ward and upward, and noY he owns two,
or three railroads and lise5 III. New York
like prince, but he never; was ashamed
of his raising and took good care of 'hisi
parents, and helped ou. his poor kin, and
that's the kind ofa scrub like, and
they are the best hope Of thee country.
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