Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-11-29
DIR. ACQUIRES: TALK.
A BRILLIANT REVIEW OF THE SourH-
HER PAST AND pREsEHr.

WIS pfeSlucnt Ci me OcElhefH CurE
zeal and Chronological Association,
recently in session in Nashville,
Tenn. The Evening Herald reports
DR.. McGuirc's address ut length.
Among other things h. said:
at may be said with truth that
until Of late the South has not kept
pace with the North in medical pro
gress aud development. This has
arisen from variety of causes. Prior
to the late war slavery was tntagon.
istic to the development of dense
populations, fertile areas were mon
opolised by the large planter, and he
generally occupied more space than
his agricultural needs required. lie
believed in what he called plenty Of
elbow room. He was opposed to
outside intrudcrs, and desired Meth.
or the development of towns nor the
growth of cities i'll his vicinity. Cyiti
else this policy rs you may, condemn
il if YOU will. | an not engaged in
defending il, but ain merely stating
patent facts, in order TO account for
the manner iii which it retarded The
development Of medicine. While
this was truc,yct t:.is state of society
produced splendid men and women,
probably the grandcst on this cont
nent. Culture, grace, elegance. sell
reliance were Its Legitimate OFF shoots.
Orators, poets, statesmen, soldiers,
scientists, lawyers. ministers and
physicians, the first and greatest III
the whole land. came ont Of it. What
orator lave we like Henry or Yancoy.
what poet like Poe, what scientist
like Mathew II. Mauiy, what states.
imam like Jefferson, villa! jnrist like
Benjamin. what divine like IIoge,
what soldier like Stonewall Jacllson.
villa; surgeon Ike Sims And the
women-liow can describe thelu
they were as cultured rs taey were
refined, they were ms beautiful H.
they were qnecnly, the lovclicst of
swcethear;s, the noblcst of matrons.
Men of southern birth and south
ern rearing were the successful gen
erals i'll the war of 1872 and the cen.
trail figures i'll 1916. The acquisition
OF territory was made during the al
mlnstration Of southern men. Lon
isinna, Florida, Texas and California
were acquired during their terms of
office Upon the Supreme Cour!
bench OF the United States they are
to be conspicuously found. Tie
chief justiccship was held confirm
ously for sixty !hrea years by nouth
ern men. ! mood not speak of the
orators aud statesmen produced in
every State in the soutl, they are
household names.
History but repeats itself like
occasions produce like results. The
patriot Of today is but the roncx Of
the patriot of the past. In our luie
civil eontest--if it lie proper to call
1t so-for was il not rather two SOW
ereignties waging war, the one against
the other? The men of tho south
once more displayed the same great
qualities that had characterized their
ancestors il The American reyolu.
ton.
no EFFElIINANCY HERE.
Modern Europe stood aghast at
the daring OF Il people they had been
taught to regard rs cilc,ninate. They
had expected that an cphemcral
struggle would be made near akin TO
those which had frequently taken
place among the mixed Spanish pop
ulatlon to the south of US. Climate.
temperature, the pernicious effects
OF slavery were ali believed to have
had their iniluence, and to have pro
dnced a weak and vacillating people.
Had luxury enervated them. had
they become eileminate, had the in.
crease OF wealth and the impress OF
slavery rendered them physically and
intellectually inferior TO the men of
the north? Ii any so believe, let the
deeds OF arms that have passed into
history speak. Examine the details
OF the well contested battle fields
and see if such declaration is true.
jackson, Lee, Johnston, Claiborne.
Stuart and Fores What tender
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