The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-06-14
EEEs5Ra1E' THOMPSON.


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BES5TqSE' THOMPSON.
LECTURES TO TIE YOUNG MEN or THE
SOUTH.
n. O. Times Democrat.
Bishop Thompson, of Mississippi,
spoke to the young mon of the Trini-
ty Club and a good audience in the
basement Of 'Uriuty Church last night
He said that he had promised the
young men Of the club last fall one or
possibly two lectures, which he had
already given, but that he had re-
ceived Il request for another. He was
here to fulfill that request not with a
lecture but with Il few thoughts he
had been storing together which, how
ever, he warned his audience he did
not know would be song or sermon,
as Buney had said upon one occasion.
These thoughts concerned the young
men Of the club themselves and would
make no lecture in the genealogical
sense of the term, His remarks would
apply particularly to the duties of
Young men and the duties Of young
men as they were presented by the
conditions of the South.
The duty of all young men pre-
scnted different aspect from that Of
their fathers. The future is peculiar
Iy theirs. The present generation
will not be consulted as to whether
the affairs of the coming time are
conducted right or wrong. That time
belongs to the young men, and they
occupy the position Of one who Is
looking out for his duty, rather than
of one who has duty to do. Theirs
it is to prepare to do.
This peculiar situation, is, too,
affected by circumstances of time and
place. The duties Of the young men
Of the South differed much from the
North and Northwest, and the coming
young men of the South occupied a
moro than ordinary peculiar position.
Their country had been the scat Of
war-a very different position from
that Of the country which has simply
carried on war abroad. We had seen
the battle at our homes, and in this
we differed from the North; there the
war lad been q thing ofafar of, lie
was not considering now the effect Of
the result on the South, but the effect
Of the war itself.
The result was to be considered in
that long period of misgoyemment
which had followed the conflict. 1t
had seemed that the participants in
that contest for the "lost cause" had
been punished with intention by the
living upon them of a horde Of I'M
principlcd scoundrels, for whose mis-.
deeds the South was held responsible
He was not sure that these conditions
in which the generation must grow
up, had been given sufficient weight
by our thinkers.
But now that we are beginning t.
feel again that we have a country
what are the duties ofom young mon
Those conditions, not Influenced b,
the war. should be considered. Firs
AMONG these are climate influence
| Every country produces its own type
1t is true in a certain sense that "mer
are what they eat.n Our country j.
a GREAT one, with many climates anC
active Influences, and when the Uni
ted States has two hundred million
people they will not be all cut on tn,
same pattern, but there will bd man1
types. The most distinct type, til.
speaker Thought, will be in the vale,
Of the Mississippi and between tn,
Southern and Northern Inhabitants O
This valley there would be less differ
encc than between the Northern an,
Southern of other parts of the com
try. IN the interior Of country i
always to be found its most dislinc
type. The Young man of Il grca
seaport must Ire more or less familia
with and become more OF less assimi
lated to foreigners. Thus it was il
Now York, where the policy Of on
government had resulted in Il lament
able majority Of foreign flags in tina
great port. This had given birth t
that modern creature, the dude, striy
inc after English results, but reaching
only to the nondescript. He though
no other city but New York couI,
give it birth.
Grant it that we in the South ar,
all by nature lazy it is pity, bu
we cannot all be Yankees, becaus,
we are not all born ina climate whcr
men can work II to Is hours a day
and it is great mistake to set u