The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1889-04-06
HE WAS A SOUTHERN MAN.
SOME INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
FACTS

I COhG A-NAEISEo4lSO BIOGhAIlliCAL
FACTS.
Appleton's Cyclopedia Of American
Biography shows that no section oI
: this country has contributed to il
grander statesmen or soldiers, ADLER
jnrists or more eloquent orators, purer
; patriots OR profounder scholars and
thinkers, greater divines, lawyers,
physicians, inventors and artists than
the South:
1t shows:
That eleven Of the twenty-five presi-
] dents of the United States were men
OF Southern birth.
That the greatest American orator
was Southern man.
That the author OF the Declaration
of Independence was Southern man.
That the author Of the Emancipation
! Proclamation was a man of Southern
birth and lineage.
That the author Of our national an
them, "The Star Spang!ed Banner was
Sourthen man
That the most jllustrious American
the "father of his country
man first in war, first in peace, first in
the heart of his countrymen-was
Southern man.
That the "father of the constitution"
was Southern man.
That the greatest American iurist
was a Southern man.
That of the trio OF greatest Ameri-
can statesmen-Calhoun, Clay, Web
ster (the order in which they were
named by Edward Everett two were
Southern men.
That the man distinguished as the
'Bayard of the Revolutian" was
Southern man.
That the three most successful and
distinguished soldiers of the second
war with England were Southern men.
That the most overwhelming defeat
that any English army has ever suffer
ed was inflicted by Southern soldiers
commanded by a Southern man.
That the most distinguished soldiers
in the war with Mexico were Southern
men.
That the most distinguished officer
IN the history of the American navy
prior to the late war between the States
was q Southern man.
That the most Distinguishes naval
commander who fought on the Union
side during the late war was a South
ern man.
That many of the most distinguish
officers of the Union army in the late
war were Southern men, including
Geo. ii. Thomas and F. P. Blair.
That what the great English admi-
raj, Nelson, pronounced ''the most
daring act of the age" was perform
ed by Southern man.
That the man who was first to give
a complete description Of the Gulf
Stream was a Southern man.
That the man who was first to mark
out specific routes to be followed in
crossing the Atlantic was Southern
man.
That the man who instituted the
system of deep-sea sounding was
Southern man.
That the man who was first to sug-
gest the establishment of telegraphic
communication between the continents
by cable on the bed of the ocean was
1 Southern man.
That the line along which the ex- s
sting cable was laid was indicated by
I Southern man.
That the plan for splicing the cable t
n mid-ocean was originated by a |
Southern man. f
That the inventor who was declared /
'y the French Academy of Science to q
nave done more for the cause Of agri- |
culture than any other living man
vas Southern man.
That the man whose discovery has
lone more to alliviate human suffering O
han any other was Southern man. q
That the most original discovery ever e
nade in PHYSICAL science by an Amer
can was made by a Southern man.
That the worlds most distinguished
was Southern man.
That the artist known as 'the /
American Titan" was Southern man. -
That the first discovery and an .
louncement of the use of steam as a =
power came from the South \
from q citizen Of Augusta, Ga. o
These are a few Of the facts that +
hat will challenge the attention of all y
tudents of American history in the +
lagnificent volumes Of this Cyclopa- ~
ia. They make, indeed, brilliant
howing for the South.