The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-10-21


brains backed by education, comes reason
and tolerance aud the real freedom which
allows q man 20 express his opinions, and
which supports a journal which dares to do
80. During my stay in the South 1 never
attempted TO disguise the fact that was a
Republican and an abolitionist and no
harm has ever come Of it yet
Yioksburg, with $4,000 population, has
number Of oolored policemen and two
colored aldermen, and there is among a
majority Of intelligent people a willingness
to see them fiji fair proportion Of the
offices for which they are capable. have
heard q proud Caucasian" swear by all
that was holy that no "niggor policeman
could arrest him, and then lived to see
him march gently TO the station house
beside the blnokest member Of the whole
force.
That sectional prejudices do exist in
some Of the back woods clay eating oOmmu-
mites can not be denied, but they are
dying away day by day. Each new genor-
alton brings with it less Of these prejudices
than its predecessor.
The southern people are learning that
honest labor is no disgrace, and the press
are commercially trying to impress the
people with that idea and encourage them
to industary.
As a sample Of what the papers are say
ing on this subject append the following
extract from recent editorial in the
Texarkana (Ark.) Daily States under the
caption Labor vs. Pride" It is solid
sense, and makes good reading for some Of
our Northern people, too:
"The lessons Of history are instructive,
if properly needed, it matters not whether
they speak to us from the time-worn pages
Of the past or are yet the echoes Of the
throbbing, sentient present, still there are
few who heed them in these times of hurry
after place, position and wealth. Pride,
that bane of American society, has become
leprous sore, making it hideous in its
deformity. Pride, we say, not of that
ennobling, exalting character which makes
its possessor hold his head erect and pur-
sue his allotted task in life, regardless Of
external surroundings and circumstances,
but that pride which sneers at humble and
honest toll, at those necessary, yet lowly
occupations which form the characters of
the truly noble and great man.
This false pride was once the bane Of
southern society, now nearly obliterated.
The lordly planter with his broad acres and
host of dusky laborers, neither cared for,
nor appreciated the tasks and employments
of his less fortunate and poorer fellow men,
nay even sneered at the mechanic and arti-
san, while the very slaves he owned denom-
mated them, with inexpressible Bcorn, as
poor white trash.
"Those days of false pride, born of
luxury and wealth, have been obliterated
by the iron hand of war, giving birth to,
engendering and nurturing a more healthy
sentiment, developing more stamina and
better tone of society. Labor has been
found no disgrace, but rather a specific
against many Of the ills and evils which
once existed in the South. The awaken
ing has been terrible like an island rocked
in the throes of an earthquake, but the
cure is permanent and effective. Let, then,
no branch of honest toll bring with it any
feeling of shame, Stick to your business,
whatever it may be, and you will not only
rise above want, but also be respected by
your fellow men,"
On this subject ''Bnl Arp" the Southern
humorist very sensibly remarks:
'I walked ten miles last Thursday in
plowed ground dropping corn, with a lame
back and the jerking rheumatism in my
shoulders, and when got done was all il
a sweat of Precipitation, and my neck bone
was in a twist from looking one way SC
long; but I never felt more respectable il
my life than when sat down to my turniI
green's and fried eggs for dinner. car
say emphatically that labor is Of all thing
the most respectable thing among our peO
pie. We have several able-bodied individ
uals down here who don't like to work,
Out IL is uDG boGuuhg tAAoy NoA A9npSSb -
It is because they are too lazy. They lacl
the inclination. reckon there are some
Of the same sort Everywhere, and they will
resort to most any respectable dodge tC
keep from it; even to writing lies for news.
papers. The farmers Of the South are her
Iaborers, Nine.tenths Of them work with
their hands and work every day, and worl
hard. They are the bone and sinew Of the
land. Three-fourths Of the men who
fought our battles in the late war were
working farmers, and their sons are work
ing now, and there is not considered
father in the South who would not rather
his daughter would marry one Of them thar
to wed the average young lawyer or doctor
or clerks Of our towns and cities"
As for agriculture the South is just be
ginning to realize the importance Of Othei
crops than cotton, though cotton will al
ways be the principal crop. This year thl
grangers Of the Sunny South will probably
D harvest the greatest crop Of cotton anC
p corn, wheat and oats ever yet grown. AL
] over the South the same prosperity is ap
parent Before the war the South nsve
J harvested more than A, 100, 600 bales Of cot