The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-06
pistols and Coffee.

At Vanderbilt University last week.
Mr.. Henry Wattersnn delivered an al.
dress before the literary societies. iakin-
for his subject The Homiciial side o.
Southern ! iie." a. follows:
"Mu Il Of tie il,-repute viii h i vIsi-
ted upon SOUTH i Traditional. There
was 4 time wien what VA cali
"a thu - d. Of honor , prevailed among
Us. II WAS the fashion particularly
for journalists. t. - ON and tight. II
individuals must settle their disputes by
a resort to arm, perhaps the prearrang-
Ell duel oflcr tile ialreSt mode Of adjust
meut. But the trouble about such az
fairs wa that. FL They ever we're conduc-
tel y ia 4 ~riilya4Iou, regard u the cqul-
ties Of personal combat, they ~degenera-
ted into the mcre-t ~jockeying Tor adj
want tges. Ii wa this which, ia Eu-
gland. abolished du-l'ng. II. di-use
with us maT be ascribed III art 10 the
same cause, Joined to the ABSURD figure
which the professional guell>ts o. the
South cur III the N4r between the sec
tions. One and all they made the poorest
soldiers They could not endure fatigue.
they could 0 tolerate discipline. aud in
many cases they turned out to be not
merely lazy and idle b~raggarts, but
pusitIanimous towards. To day no
Southern man of character aud respon-
sibility would send or accept a challenge.
He would shirk not so much the en-
counter as from the disgrace, and less
from the disgrace than from the contempt
which has fallen upon the bellgerent
cores ondence, the mock heroic settle
meEt on paper and the reciprocal publ
cation Of mutually satisfied honor. As
a rule. however, during the reign of the
code its vUtaries We're either very hot
headed young men or men leading loose
ami rockies. lives. The same may be
said OF thuse who too Impetuuus to
wait tur the iprmalltles OF the code. seek
the common rhGrougiarc as 4 fed o
hOnpr. aud IuprovIsc Their iu4i- wlilto Il
secbnd- or ~>arSror- pr beurLt Of Clergy
You and | aud all Of Us know that thee
-ffaIr~ are, ~ nine case. nj Of ten, the
result of the use of stimulants, and that
those who take paIt III them, so far from
being representative men and admired
OF the multitude, are generally men upon
he down grade # social consideration,
or else men entirely outlawed from decent,
Christian Brotherhood
CARRYING OF CONCEALED WEAPONS.
Yet il cannot be disguised, and there
is no need to deny that the carrying of
concealed weapons and the use of them
on slight provocation an offspring of
the war b1th West and South is too
frequent with TIE class specified, and
that the public condemnation of this,
which is universal, fails to make itself
oln,,atolu fnlf h. 10, ,Io -. 60.
of the evil. All of us admit that he
who goes about with a weapon, if not a
coward, is a BLACKBOARD. Ali of US ad-
nit that the violation of law should be
punished. Yet non of our Legislatures
have been able to formulate an act sub
stantially obllterating the practice of
carrying concealed weapons, and no con
munity has worked itself to the moral
courage and specific value of the old
fashioned peace warrant. We leave our
DULLES to fight it out, forgetting that it
is a part of our duty as citizens to see
that the public peace is not broken. and
to prevent no less than to punish the
violation of law. Every age, | suppose,
has its spirit. There are among US pio-
neers who can remember when the shot
gun and the rifle were primal necess ties
of every day life. 1t is not surprising
that the spirit of that age was fighting.
Hardly had its exigencies ceased to press
upon the people than 4 new battle called
them to arms. Thus for City or sixty
years physical proves was the standard
of manly measurement at the South.
Necessarily this carried with it certain
disadvantages and a certain demoraliza-
ton. The country has not yet wholly
cmancipated itself from its antecedents
and its traditions. But this great uni
versity is one of many evidences that it
is making sure and rapid progress.
CHANGES SINCE THE WAR.
we have not yet reached the mile
MUM of the South. No more have the
people of the North. But the fighters
have had their day. just after our
great war there va a childish effort
made in certain quarters to revive the
1t was a dismal failure. The
spirit of chiyalry was met BY the genius |
Gf labor, and the struggle was for an In
slant only. Work won it, and SO the
heroes of our time are ,ast be :oming the
Vi tors Ia mans and woman's fight for
human freedom aud intellectual, moral
aid physical de- eiopment. In The poi-
luIdS ludllOu Aiddi Il lCpIdCtu DS
science our troubadour is the trumpet
call for religion. and the music of the
iute is hushed forever by the deeper mu-
SIC Of the loom. Even among warrior.
it is not the bloody butchers of old who
are held up as m del capita Us, but the
tiavelocks and The L,ts the Stone
vail Jack ,ons aud the Garnet
Wol,elcys-men who have Joined
to soldler>hip schol .rship and to
both re lie manhood ard simple
truth. Everywhere the world is seeking
40 rescue itself from teudal darkness At
e nth the man Is saying to the woman,
: ilyip me- and 10! the woman-no
.uuAcr ii hanimallen is taking her
place by the side If her comrade-not
her ord and, heart 10 heart. the two
are Eewing gu, of lie larger and richer
field, of happiness and u~seIulsess. The
spirit OF the age Is movement aud mo-
where in the world is il more earnest or
more active than 1t is at this at
the South
In closing hi. address the speaker
said =
II do protest against the effort to single
the South out from all the world and to
fence US round with black purgatorial
lines, as q culprit whose redemption shall
wait upon the caprice of strangers alike
to the good aud iii within US.