The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-11-02

-. ."' american mas not, l think, q
sufficiently quick sense of his own claims
anu al The same time, AS necessary con
sequence, not sufficiently quick sense
VI thc claims OF Others-for the two traits
are organically related. observe that
you tolerate various small interferences
ana dlctatlons which Englishmen are
prone 10 resist. am told that the Eng
iish are remarked on for their tendency
10 grnm6ie in such cases and have no
doubt it is true"
DO you think i. worth while for peo.
pie to make themselves disagreeable BY
resenting every trifling aggression :?
Americans think it involves too much
pay"
Exactly. That is what mean by
character. 1t is this easy going readiness
~ permit small trespasses because it
would be troublesome or proftless or un.
popular to oppose, which leads to the
naoit or aqulescence in wrong, and the
decay OF free institutions"
HOW ONE AMERICAN TRAIT IS SHOWN.
You limited that while Americans do
not assert their own individualities sufIi.
ciently in small matters, they, recipro.
cally, DO not sufficiently respect the in.
dividuali!ies of Others"
The trait refer 10 comes out in VA.
rlous ways, small and great. 1t is shown
by the dsrespectful manner in which in
divlduals are dealt with in your Journals
the placarding of public men in sen.
satlonal headings, the dragging of pri.
yate people and their affairs into print.
!here seems to be notion that the pub.
lie nave right TO iHtrude on p-;vst, life
as far as they like; and this l take to be
a Kind of moral trespAss;ng. 1t is true
that during the last few years we have
been discredited in London by certain
weekly papers which do the like (except
IN the typographical display J but in our
daily press, metropolitan and provincial
there is nothing of the kird. Then, in
a larger way, the trait is seen in this
damaging of private property by your
elevated railways without making com.
pensation and it is again seen i'm the
doings of railway governments, not only
when overriding the rights of sharchold.
ers, but in dominating over courts of ius.
tice and State governments. The fact is
that free institutions can be properly
worked only by men each of whom is
jealous of his own rights and also symps.
thetically jealous of the rights of Others
will neither himself aggress on his
nelghbors, in small things or great, nor
tolerate aggression on them by others.
The Republican form of government is
the highest form of government; but be.
cause OF this it requires the highest type
OF human nature-a type nowhere at
present >xisting. We have not grown
up to it. nor have you"
THE FUTURE OF AMERICA.
"Do you think unfavorably of our fu-
ture 2"
mo one can form anything more than
vague and general conclusions respecting
your future. The factors are too numer.
GUS, too vast, too far beyond measure in
their quantities and intensities The
world has never before seen social phe.
nonlena at all comparably with those
presented in the United States. A soci-
ETY. spreading over enormous tracts,
while still preserving its political contin-
uity, is new thing. This progressive
incorporation Of vast bodies Of immi.
grants of various bloods has never oc-
CURED on such scale before. Large
empires composed of different peoples
have, in previous cases, been formed BY
conquest aud annexation. Then your
immense plexus of railways and tele-
graphs tends to consolidate this vast ag-
gregate of States in way that no such
aggregate he's ever before been consolida-
ted. And there are many minor coop
Grating causes unlike those hitherto
known. No one can say how it is all
going to work out. That there will come
hereafter troubles Of various kinds, and
very grave ones, seems highly probable !;
but all nations have had, and will have,
their troubles. Already you have tri.
umphed over one great trouble, and may
reasonably hope to triumph over others.
1t may, think, be reasonably held that
both because of it's size and the hetero-
geneliy of its components, the American
nation will be long time in evolving its
ultimate form; but that its ultimate form
will be high. One great result is, ]
think, tolerably clear. From biological
truths it is TO be inferred that the event.
s.a! mixture Of the allied varieties nf the
Aryan race forming the population, will
produce more powerful type Of man
than has hitherto existed, and type cf
man more plastic, more adaptable, more
capable Of undergoing The notifications
needful for complete social life. l think
tnat Whatever difficulties they may have
to surmount, ard whatever tribulntions
they may have to pass through, the
Americans may reasonably look forward
to time when they will have produced
. civilization grander than any the world
has known"
JoB.-The world has been sympathi-
zing with Job for two thousand years,
and plying his suffering and tribulations,
but hardly thought seems to have been
taken Of Mrs. Job and her trials which
must have been of no ordinary nature.