The Brookhaven leader., 1890-07-31
THE NEW SOUTH.
HER VAST PRESENT AND FUTURE
REsoUCEs AN INSPIRATION TO
HER PEOPLE.
jefferson Davis and fienry GRADY one y
Type of the old the other
Of the New FRA.
The Day for Idle Dreamcrs, Male or Fe-
male, Forever Past.

! AN ESSAY-Read by Miss Marie Menger lie.
fore the AlumnP Association Of Central Fc-
male Institute, Clinton, Miss, June -, 1890.
The history of our country is famil-
lar to all men of intelligence. From
q small colony it has grown to II vast
republic. When we speak of Ameri-
ca, the extent of her domain and the
glory of her civilization, all sectional
prejudice is buried and forgotten.
National pride rises above local pre-
deliction and all hearts kindlc at the
thought of the vastness and the grand
eur of our common country. While
this is true, there yet dwells in every
Southern heart loting attachment
for his own bright skies and flower
crowned hills; and about his own Sun
ny South cluster the purest and fond
est affections of his patriot heart.
The progress of the South, rising
PhGuix-like from the ashes of buried
hopes, and clothing herself with rich
er beauty and vaster power, is the
striking and inspiring picture | would
have you recognize to-day. South
ern enterprises, Southern institutions
and industries are revolutionizing our
history's pages and making our peo-
pie to value more highly their Anglo
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Prejudices are being displaced by
principle, and love that aforetime
only meant to many Southerner but
love to the South, now broadens out
and means love to North and South,
love of America, of our mother cOun-
try, love beyond the seas, love to the
uttermOst parts of the earth and be-
yond, and where may it stopq The
Southern heart is growing. Men and
women have shaken off the shackels
of unpromising case and graceless in
difference and, all unaided by foreign
capital, the South is building up her
waste places and making her wilder
nesses ring with the advancing music
of the oneoming march of progress.
Worthy sons of worthy sires are far
in advance of some of the old lines
drawn by the hating hands of a shad-
owed past; and new South Of inter
est, of industry and importance chal-
lenges the admiration of the whole
world.
Dixie bids fair to become the Mecca
of the western continent. Northern
ers aud Westerners with brawny arm
and steady purpose are journeying
thither and becoming good citizens of
our commemorative. Our iron ores
are passing from their crude condi-
ton, where they so long lay uncared
for and even unknown and are now a
finished product in our own fouildries
and shops. Products of the soil that
formerly were wasted are now utilized
i'll such Il way that would astOniSh and
does surprise some of our grandfath-
ers. Increase of commerce is declar-
ed from every Southern port and the
awakening to a realization of our own
unprecedented resources is but fairly
begun.
What does the future hold9 What,
do you ask? In a few words | can
answer. 1t holds just what the men
and women of today determine it
shall hold. Is not this true? Men re-
alize this or why do they as pOliti-
clans, as editors, as leaders of thought,
as legislators if you please, seek so
earnestly to carry into effect their
varying views? And women too are
looking steadfastly into the future
that future that their children must
occupy-and filled with an enthusiasm
| that nothing can dampcn are inspir-
ing with their faith, their prayers and
| their heroic deeds the husbands, faith
crS and sons of our country; and to-
day, together, both men and women
look with straining eyes toward the
dawning of day brighter than any
that has yet dawned upon the jungles
of barbarism or upon the arid plains
of languishing indifference.
The women of our Southland are
proving themselves Gas brave as
Sparta's daughters, as noble as old
Rome's." Woman is truly the keeper
of the hearts and homes of her coun-
try; and shall we not say that the no.
blest woman is she who rears the no.
blest sons and daughters and makes
smoother and more free of tempta-
tons for them their future paths in
life? No "sculptured art nor storied
nrn" will be needed to perpetuate the
memory of the women of day, for
they will live and breathe in future
generations who will call them thrice
blessed as they recount through his
he