South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1888-01-13
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What the South HIS Done.
d. B. WArd of winons, M'ss,.
writes % follows in The J aekson( Miss. }
Clarion In snswsr 10 an article in
the Cen tory: y
The South has been the lahd Of Ten
terprises of great pi,h aud moment
rather than che nursery of scribblers.
She has usds history for cthe,s TO
write and cell. ~ W.
For more than one hundred years
the grand march Of the American 10.
tellect has toen projected from soath
esn brains. So .-ass
The fine moral and intellectual Or
ganization OF Southern children has
heretofore been largely due to the fact
that their mothers we're exempt from
the hardships of physical drudgery
and the depressing effect of impend.
ing want. Fa
A Southern man led the patriotic
armies to victory and established the
possibilities of the prnudest nation
on the earth. A Southern man was
prime mover Of the convention that
framed the Constitution. When the
government Was created its organic
laws were still an unexplained cook,
o ponderous Oar in unskilled hands.
1t was left for the greatest legal
mind of the age, Southern chief JUS
tice. to analyze and stamp upon it
the construction which will be aCcep-
ted a. long as the Constitution is re
spec,ed.
A Sou' hern man framed the ordi.
nance for the organization and gov
eminent Of the great Northwestern
territory, an instrument sec'n, Ia
Importance ONLY to the Constitution
oil the United States.
A Southern man was the author Of
the republican theory of popular gov.
erDment. which prevailed during the
sixty years of our greatest pTosperi-
~, peace and happiness. Or the fif-
teen Presidents of the Continental
Congress eight were from slave
States.
Who're is there an example OF mo-
dern seamanship that will compare
with the daring and brilliant cruise
OF Admiral Semmes. who with 4 sin
gle ship swept from the seas the com.
Inerce Of great nation Who was
it that mapped the geography Of the
seas, explained their secret phenone
ma bl. zed out on the track ess ocean
the shortest and safest highways for
the commerce of the world, by his
"Wind and Current Charts and his
Sailing Directions" saving TO the
United States millions Of dollars an
nually on outgoing tonnage alone ?
MATTHEW +. Maury, a Southern man
to the core, and by common consent
Of all nations accorded the proud title
OF philosopher OF the Seas.
Where is there parallel to Audi
bon, naturalist and ornithologist Of
the world? Chloroform, that has
robbed the surgeon's knife Of all its
terrors, was first applied by South
ern physician.
The two great eras IN surgery for
the last two centuries, In fact the two
greatest in surgical history. were
marked bv two Southern physicians,
Ephraim Mcdowell. OF Kentucky
ami j. Marion Sims, of Alabama. In
their respective branches the surgery
OF the whole enlightened world re
cognizes and follows the leadership OF
these famous men.
Ben Hill was tue only man In A.
merica who ever made 81 ,0e0 900 as
the direct product of his brain, inGe-
pc 1dent of invest ment or specula =
fifteen Of his best years to active pub
lie service.
The only approximation TO his re-
cord was that of another Southern
lawyer. Judah T. Benjim n. who went
to England after the meridian of life
and became the leading jurist in that
land OF great LAWYERS.
From 1889 TO 1868 a period Of six
ty-four years. embracing eleven al =.
ministralions, the slave States Turn
isbed eight Presidents. whose terms
Of service covered fifty-tw years.
During the same time he free States
furnished three Presidents whose CON.
bined terms coveTe iwelve years.
OF the twelve V ce Presidents four
were from slave States.
Under these eleven admin STATIONS
the slave States supplied fourteen
Secretaries of State, eleven Secreta-
ries Of War. six Secretaries Gf the
Treasury, nine Secretaries Of the Ma
Wy, and eight Postmaster Generals.
OF fifty FIVE Presidents pro TEN. Of
the Senate thirty.nine were from
slave States.
or thirty Speakers Of the
House, twenty two were from slave
States.
or FIVE Chief J Justices, two, aud the
only two OF great eDinence, were
slave States.
OF twenty mine Associate Justices
seven we're from slave States
OF tn tweuty.nine Attorney Gen
erals fourteen we're from slave Statss.
OF 1s5 public ministers TO foreign
countries, ninety nine were from Save
States. Without going further into
exhaustive details for which msLerial