Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-05-29

energetic and zealous and patriotic
ana plous and consecrated the New
hngianders were, and how they spent
all their time in trying to make others
as they We're, only not so good, the
author, after some account of other
colonies, comes to the South. Let
him speak for himself:
in the Southern States there were
three classes of people-the poor
/ whites. the planters and the negroes.
They (the poor whites) lived
IN shantles, ploughed q patch of
ground with mulashnd ayeow har.
messed together, or, IL they had no
COW. the husband harnessed his wife
with the mule.''
Notice that all the poor people used
this method of ploughing Truly,
! the women then must have had more
OF the most heavenlie uualyty. of
gentienesse' than they possess now.
After making some other statements
rs reckless as this Mr.. Coffin turns to
the Southern planters. He says of
! them:
They lived in great houses with
wide halls. large square rooms, piazza
and portico. There@ere few mcchan-
les in Virginia, and there was no good
carpenter or joiner work about the
houses. There were massive beams
overhead; the wainscoting was rude;
the doors sagged; the whole establish
ment was piece Of patchwork. Near
the planters house. in rear. was the
cook house, with frying-pans and bake
ovens. The first thing the planter did
in the morning wa drink glass OF
rum and sweetenI ls.=ssz After
breakfast he rode d s.ntation
to see if the negroes. work.
AT noon he sat doNS amer OF
boiled ham. mutton ana2e. Sc.
Very few of the planters had
any books. They knew little of what
was going on in the world. They
loved hunting and kept packs OF
hounds. When the hunt was
over they sat down to grand dinners
and drank nightly of port aud ma
deira wine, rum and brandy. The one
who could drink most before he fell
dead-drunk upon the floor was the
best fellow %
Now, if this is a true picture of the
Colonial and Revolutionary South,
what must we think of the Judgment
and the patriotism OF Mr. Coffin S pious
and far-sighted New Englanders and
MIR. Collins thrifty Middle Statc-men
when we remember that they went to
this society. this ignorant. drunken,
Southern society, to get thcir leaders?
1t does seem that these model mon !
would have been afraid to trust the
formation and guidance of their loved /
young republic so largely to men
raised only .'to drink rum" and ssSnow
little OF what was going on: it does
seem that the sharpwitted Boston
merchant and the calculating Knick-
er5ocker tradesman would have been
slow in trusting 'their lives, their
liberties and their sacred l1onors' into |
the hands Of mon whose brains were
stepped in rum, and whose stomachs
were crammed with cabbage. Yet
from the time that Peyton Randolph,
u man raised in this drunken So
ciety, presided oyer the First Ameri-
can Congress till our flag had over
thirty stars upon it, these men selec-
ted Southern men, representatives OF
cabbage culture, to fill most Of the
important national offices. The Second |
Congress, famous for its Declaration.
had this same Randolph for its Presi-
dent until necessity called him else
who're. 1t was upon motion of R. II.
Lee. another gentleman from '.sagg-
ingdoor' land. that this Congress
declared that those colonies are, and
OF right ought to be. free and indepen-
dent States. ]" Another momber from
rum-land was made chairman OF the
Declaration Committee and wrr'
Declaration. When war ID,