The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-05-13
THE SISTER CAROLINAS.
NORTH HCAROLINA'S FINFRECORD
IN GENERAL PROSPERITY.
Col. A. X. Mcclure Thinks North Caro-
lima Has Attained Higher Degree of

We have Just finished an interested pc
rusal Of Col. \ X. McClure's new book -
The South-its Industrial, Financial and
Political Condition. : recently issued from
the presses Of J. b. Lippincott K Co, of
Philadelphia 1t is sold at the low price
Of one dollar and ought 70 have IA wide
sale in the South as we'll as throughout the
entire Union, because it is written by the
accomplished editor Of the Philadelphia
Times, who has made several tours through
the South and writes in spirit of fairness
and appreciation and admiration He
predicts that the day is near at hand when
the tide of immigration will SOuthward
take its way He is especially complimen-
tary in his chapter on the 1.-TWO Carroll
mas" which we copy in full because it
mainly treats of North Carolina 1t will
be good reading to those of US who believe
that the old North State is the ''fairest
and best of all lands, if not the wealth
lest and most progressive. He says as
many good things-they are among the
pleasantest words that ever blotted paper
about North Carolina people and North
Carolina as Re says uncOmplimentary and
harsh things about Virginia In this
chapter he incidentally touches upon Nir
ginias debt rcpudiation, but in another
chapter he is severe in his denunciatiOn of
this act by the mother of States and calls
it "a sweeping plunge into dishonor," and
''the great stain on Virginia to day"
This book, the author says, is presented
without any pretence to literary merritt
is but the result of several recent journeys
through the South, told in charming
way that will serve to please many readers
| and give to the people of the North a
| higher appreciation of Southern men and
| Southern manners and a better knowledge
of the wonderful recuperatiOn of the
| South. The aim of the book, says Col
Mcclure, is ''To hasten the complete res
toration of fraternal and business inter
course between the North and South, and
thereby enlarge the prosperity of both "
| 1t will, the CHRONICLE believes, have the
desired effect wherever read.
The article on ''The Sister Carolinas' is
as follows:
The New South We have heard that
expression many times during the last
twenty years, but it never had the mean
| ing that it has to-day. We had a New
South when the war closed, "a South with
slavery violently abolished, and with pov-
erty, desolation, and widespread despair
the heritage Of her people, and South
unschooled in progress, save as the severe
necessities Of war had impressed their les
sons We talked Of the New South again
when reconstruction had completed its
/ NOIh III tuc pest VI )tI llStu ttuu ScC-
tional passion, but was the greater sweep
of desolation of peace that followed the
desoIation of war. Then came the New
South, when intelligence, Integrity, and
property gained the mastery in local gov
ernment. 1t was achieved only after many
years of bewidering debauchery and
waste III authority, and of wantOn humll-
iation to all who refused homage to ignor-
ance and theft; but it came with the first
bright silver lining to the dark clouds of
war and reconstruction, and it dated the
beginning of the dcliverance of the South
from the fearfully retributivc fruits of
civil war. The South is often censured for
its ready submission to the memorable
electoral crime of 1915; but had all the
| interests of home, of property, of peace
and self-respect appealed to the North as
they appealed to the South, when the State
governments Of South Carolina, Florida,
Louisiana trembled in the balance of fraud,
there would have been quite as prompt
| submission to q fraudulent presidential
title north Of the Potomac as there was
south of its historic banks. That
monstrous electoral fraud fixed its own in
fanny indelibly in the annals of the nation,
by recognizing the Democratic Governors
elected on the same ticket with Tilden in
the three States that were despoifed OF
their electoral votes, and there is a meas
ure Of historic justice in the reelection OF
| Vice President Hendricks that would have
been rounded out in the grandeSt com
pleteness, had not the infrmities of time
dimmed the lustre of achievements in the
life of Samuel j. Tilden.
There are few, even among the more in
teligent people of the North, who car
justly appreciate the New South of to-day
Only those who have freely mingled with
the Southern people during the last ffteer
years, and carefully noted their condition
and the restraints and obstacles which
confronted them in every effort at manly
progress, can understand the full meaning
of the words, the New South, as they are
understood to- day. They have a practica
meaning that only the South can under
stand, and yet they inspire no single hope
or wish to undo that which has been done
The Southern eye brightens, and the South
erd face beams with hope, as the future
of the South is discussed, but there is NJ
turning with wistful eyes to the theories
of the past. The Old South is dead /
has passed away; it is Buried it is forgot
ten, save as old memories and old pride
cast their fitting shadows over the bette
present and brighter future. | hav'
heard no Southern man talk of the past a
,, a guide for the future. A new generation
, has come from the cradle to manhood sine.
Sumpter was fired upon, and they Will
, the surviving Southern soldiery, under
stand the irrevocable arbitrament of th
sword. And they understand, also, tha
: It would be midsummer madness to turl
back to the theories of the Old South, if i
were within the limits of possibility to d.
so. Even South Carolina would not nov
return to slavery if it could A large ma
! jority of her white leaders, and an over
: : whelming majority of the white people
would vote and battle against the restor
alton of the black bondage. They woul,
be glad to limit their prerogativeS of cit
izenship as would the people of Pennsy]
r vania under like circumstances; but thei
f inherent pride of State forbids it, althoug
0 fully possessing the power, because
would dwarf the Commonwealth in tn
r councils of the nation and rank her wit
: the insignificant States of the Union
h the free mingling with the Representative
. men of the Carolinas, including white an
d black, | have heard no hope or wish c
. fear expressed as to reactionary movement
; in those States In South Carolina, whel
5 secession was part of school educatio
e more than half a century ago, and whel
!, the stern patriotism of Jackson ws
J; needed to prevent notification from breet
/ ing sectional war before many of the a.
e tors of the late war were born, there IS I
o shade of a shadow of reactionary NOV
d ment and the man who attempted 1t Woul
It be hopelessly overthrown. To assume tn;
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