The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-06-24

1t has been the habit of many writer's to abuse
the native Floridians debased set, incapable OF
receiving instruction or preftng in any way by the
improvement going on around them. Now we
have been in close connection with these people for
many years, meeting them in public and at their
own homes, and we must say that a more hospitable
class of people we have never met, if they are only
treated politely. They most anxious to have
their children educated, and go to much trouble
and expense in erecting school houses and churches
near their settlements for such purposes They are
great traders and keen at making bargains so much
that they can be called the Yankees of the South
They have some peculiarities which have arisen
from the lonely life they were obliged to lead in the
oldcn times, and they sometimes take too much
nglefOot when from home; but that is seldom the
case, not more than three or four times year at
the most, and they will 90 for months without tast-
ing drop, and only when numbers of them meet
together that they exceed. Most of them have
money which they have saved up and although
they make no parade of 1t, they can bring it forth
when needed for the purchase of horse or a piece
of land they may fancy. We have always found
them honest, and they have SO much confidence in
one another that they can borrow money from each
other without note being given, and will be sure
to repay the debt. They have in them the Anglo
Saxon blood, which will be sure to develop in the
new generation now growing, with proper educa-
ton. Don't abuse tbem.-FOridd Agric,tlturia.
1t is not in every issue of his paper that
Editor Codrington furnishes the readers
Of the handsome and widely circulated
AgriculturiSt with leading article"
and therefore they are the more indebted
to him for the above from his issue of the
18th instant We may say that native
Floridlans are under especial obliga-
tons to him for his volunteer defence,
and the discriminative intelligence which
enables him to concede that we are en-
titled to classification among civilized
peoples, and that our Anglo-Saxon
blood" is guaranty for development that
may eventually raise us to place among
the enlightened of the earth-the English,
for instance. The generous pathos of his
plea, "Don't abuse them," will not be
forgotten; and if native finds Editor
Codrington lost in swamp and stuck in
the mud he has only to "name his name"
and he will be pulled out and scraped off,
as humble installment of the debt of
gratitude due. Col. Codrington is, we
understand, an Englishman-at least, was
born under the British flag in West
Indian Island, and it is somewhat natural
to infer that as foreign missionary of
civilization he supposes that most of the
enlightened people in Florida came into
the State from abroad, as he did. In his
capacity of an editorial elevator, however,
he really should post himself in some
simple statistics of the people among
whom he has come to labor-get the GEN.
sus report and see the proportion of ma
tives to the whole population of Florida
and then he should look up list of
prominent citizens, beginning with the
Governor, and ask some we'll informed
person to tell him how many are native.
This may tend to eradicate from his |
brain an idea that may possibly have
found Judgment there, that Florida is J