Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-10-15

"a CHCIIS C1-'10~J ,,oor
vi their heads are maoe 10 "'"'
hats On, and not to think.
There is another phrase very popu'
lar now a.days, whose echo -, Is never e1
allowed to die away; The New
South" 1t is dinned into our ears
day by day, and stares us IN the lace
from the columns OF every newspaper
YOU pick up. l have peered through,
the gloom Of gathering poverty and
commercial sersitude which slowly
enehrouds us, for sight OF this be-
| attic vision; but have failed to see =:
it. Ii there be a New South 1t
lives only in our cities. The assump-
tion which the very name implies Is
a slander upon the memory OF our
fathers, unworthy the sons OF men
who were the peers OF any man; while
this fastening to worship at the shrine
Of Northern utilitarianism, this con-
fession Of inferiority to those who'
though four to one, required four years
to overthrow that same old South IS
uDspeakably disgusting. The only
attributes we profess as people, whlcn
are at all admirable, we inherit from
those same grand old Shareholders
and though I would have our people
initiate and adopt the good Qualities
, and they are many, which Northern
oo,ooo lot ma not claim, at leas
not vet, that we are superior to ou'
ancestry; for it is an infamous lie
! beg YOUR pardon for this depression
! but TT / could not refrain from express
inc NV sentiments emphatically con
i. cerning r. these twin pets OF our friends
the Editors and Reporters.
8 will now say few words on tn
. 4th Resolution. l want it distinctl,
{ understood that I have no quarre
J. with our State Board Of Agriculture
!. ! feel that their sins Of omission ma
!, be forgiven them, even though the
!. NAV not be ready to acknowledge ths
}. the duties imposed upon them are
J. complex, too muItifarioue, too onerot
d Yin fact, to permit proper dlschaIrt
!. Of them. And all must agree th'
\. LAWYERS and merchants would see
,. 10 have no business on that Board,
If least until the available supply
sr farmers ie exhausted. In Gods nam
g, cannot the Legislature allow the farI
4
N ers to run some one thing without q
n | rJ snnervjsion OF an Attorney Do th'
10 put farmers on the Judiciary ool
9. ,nittee. and have they any bus'ne
,g there? The mere idea is absurd; al
70. Of Agriculture composed as ours
ae ! have no desire to wound any on
gas' a feelings; am con.ending Tor pr
a ciple, and hope that no umbrage W
ID, be taken at anything I have ga
sh Cop6ne its work solely to the prot'
Of ton. advancement and encourageme
ee Of our benighted and poverty str,e tr,
in. en- farming. Let it turn the pm
US. uhate royalty business over to
lg, Comptroller Generals Office, where
tie properly belongs; and keep the 1 ~h
I'll. Of the privilege tax on g1lanos ioI
ur- own specific use: Even double T. I.
in tax if need be, for we farmers pay
for and We alone; and l feel wa!raD
ops in saying the distant !as mu'terlnga :sr !sa
OF gathering discomfort WITH W,tn ita Go -
,ps, iines will die away. Why, s'r' IL
led an outrage to take the funds nee
for the Agricultural Department,
ose apply them to the expenses OF con- III
we. ing the phosphate royalty An ,
i've il is but considered for mom'nt ., It
, a. three Of the FIVE members OF the Be
,rp. hold other most responsible ohces'
or ore are members of this Commission,
sre, m that Board Of Trustees, and to,
iu the mething else, who wonders that !.
lone have not made Of the Agrlcul.t
a ,, to Department what the intelligent ia
% o,,,. y. era of the State have had rlgt
Wv 70 bouo lono known that