Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-10-30

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South. = i onee hh!9h ouch d grave
social question iii the very bosom 81
the Southern society, and the yessayist
Of this occasioa, the Rev. ID.
Mayo, must be permitted to speak
for himself az to the opportunities
he has enjoyed for foiming sound
opinions on SO Grave q subject rs
we'll as the wholesome spirit OF hon
est inquiry Into the real facts Of the
lcase which he would bling to bear
On the solemn social problem he
undertakes to discuss.
The great Northern apostle in the
cause Of Southern ducation says OF
himself aud his essay:
aThe present essay-eThe Third
Estate Of the South is an honest
attempt to give my own opinions
concerning this n of the most
important movements in the history.
Of the Republic. The assumption
of infal'ible wisdom aud the yentila-
ton Of wholesale theories, Nolth
and South, il the discussion of,
Southern Affairs, is the misery of our
political Efe. A Virtual. residence Of
ten years in this region, including all.
the sixteen Southern States, With
good opportunities for obsel %vation,
has deeponed the impression. that Ssi
all SODA anti CIVIC puzzles that con-
front the American social scientist
and statesman, no knot is so tangled,
so difficult to be undone, so. danger
GUS to be cut by the sword as this.
To-day the South as q section has
passed into a pei manent minority Of
sixteen Of the fol ty-four States.
But it is still possible to al,fay these
States again in a conflict that would
infict a wound on the Southern
members through which the Repub-
lie would bleed to death. tits easy
rs preaching to embroil and exas-
perate whole commonwealths, great
GLASSES and races in a permanent
misunderstanding that not even
another Washing ton orLinco)n could
reconcile. Even as concerns the
South the question is one Of Vital
interest. The spectacle of five hun
dred thousand white people of South
Carolina split into hostile clans by a
political campaign now foaming on
the ragged reef Of violence is luck
pressibly painful and d~iscouraging,
| shall not try to deal with this ques-
tion by the ambitious methods OF
grand analysis, abstract t~heorjzinig
or inflated prophecy. If I can cast
a little side light upon this process
sion, as it moves on its twilight path,
it may not be in vain that I occupy
the time of the reader"
We go back now to let the Bostou
educator state his case, and b, ing
forward on the stage of action this
"Third Estate of the South, to which
our attention is Invited. We shall
not stop here to dispute the essay
lists propositions-some of which
are undoubtedly inaccurate-as out
purpose is to- let him tell his story az
he soes it and from his own stand.
point Of an earnest, honest Boston
evangelist And this for the reason
that we sometimes fear that our mis-
take has been at tho South to shut
off the free discussion of grave sub
jeots which concern our Southern
society as something which is our
own matter and not to be inte,med-
died with by outsiders.
But we live in an age of free
thought and are q part Of a great
country from which we cannot shake
our destinies free, nor can 1t free
itself from our embarrassing pro
blems. What hurts us must hurt it,
and what hurts it must hurt us.
Hence it is lido to dismiss the hon.
cstly entertained views of thought
full mon of the North as without con-
trolling force and legitimate applica-
ton TO N affairs.
Mr.. Mayo introduces the subject
he treats thus: 4
"From the beginning Of the Euro
pean settlement even TO the present
year of our Lord 10 most promi-
nent object of in, cst and observa.
ton in what we used to call tho
Southern States Of this Republic has
been the relation of the upper and
under classes Of Southern society
the slaveholding Anglo Saxon and
the lately emancipatedynegro.
"Not only abroad, but at home, it
has scarcely entered into tho oalcala-
tions of statesmen and scientists
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