Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-10-30
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shareholders was expected that
This middle clsss would be felt III
~arrestiig che mbvemeint 81 secession
FL 1851. But With the exception Of
West Virginia Ssnd the stubborn loys
atty 81 the moAntain populations 81
the central Soath this expectation
was Disappointed, We met thsge.
people on the battlestield through,
four dismal yeaA where they earned
4 reputation fora gcod fighting which
has madesthe name Of All American
soldier inustsious. sss,&
aGBut now,likaa mighty apparition
across the Southein horizon, has
risen the hops Tor poitent Of the.
Soath--tbe third estate Ito chal-
lenge the authority Of the old ialipg
GLASS and plaoa itself where the
|tplain people, Of every No,she,n
State was long ago established, as q
decisive infi1enSe IN our political
affairs, South Carolina, the head
and front Of the old South, is now
swept by a political revolution as
radical as the emancipation of the
slaves III: 1865.
"The wise observer Of Southern
affairs win greatly mistake if he
insists on the exclusive observation
Of the old conflict Of races and the
political condition of the negfo.
For the coming decade the place to
watch the South s in the movement
Of the rising third estate. What
it demands, what it can achieve il
political, social and industrial affairs;
what changes eau be Rsalahhty;r ~
tass'tafuy1s nter great uplifting forces Of
American civilization-by education,
including the influence Of tho family,
the church and the sohool-m these
things win depend the fate Of this
Important section Of the count y for
years to come. In the European
sense there never was a Southern
a,istocracy. But in the American
sense there was and has been up to
the present time q dominant class in
this portion of the country more
power full for all the, issues of public
life than any order of nobility il
Europe since the French Revolution.
"This POLITICAL missionary IN aN
vital affairs governed the Republic
til it was moved TO rise up aud
divide the nation in 1861. 1t, ;nsti.
gated and brought OH the condition
Of war against tho Indians, Great
Britain and Mexico. It was the
author Of the magnificent scheme Of
the expansion of tel iitory which
gave us the empire of Louisiana
Florida, Texas, the Pao'fo coast IA
the additions of u territory except
the latest purchase, Alaska. 1t lee
in the settlement of tho West, and
Tennessee and Kentucky were in {
blaze of border war, while tho North.
west slumbered almost undisturbed
"The world has acknowledged the
prodieious ability and matchlesi
devotion with which this dominant
class went through the desperate
programme to the terrible end of it,
own destruction. It's craftsmanship
now d~isparaged, was probably a.
competent as a cause 30. at odds will
the trend of modern civilization
would admit. But we do not yet
recognize fairly the great ser vices
rendered the South and the natiof
later on by this GLASS of men in thu
~demoralized state in which it was left
by the war, where not one in ton o.
It's families was found upon or has
since stood on a solid financial foot,
ing. Its young men scattered to the
Southwest, to the Northwest, to the
growing cities, leaving the oper
country in charge of a class that in
the old time had little influence il
affairs. Its women gathered up the
wreck Of great destruction in true
American style; and to-day the
young women of the better sort OF
Southern families are the hope OF
the country, rehabilitating the towns,
the soul Of the church, the best
school teachers, on the lookout fol
all industrial opportunities that can
be used. @
"But it was inevitable that this
long lease Of power by the Southern
dominant class should como to an
end In Now England and New
York, the aristocratic Sta ses Of the
old North, this change ww5as gradually