Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-05-16
Southern Thinkers

"since the Revolution days the few thinkers
of America born south Of Mason Dixon's
line are outnumbered by those belonging 70 the
single State Of Massachusetts,; nor Is II too much
20 say that mainly by their connection with tho
North the Carolinas have been saved from sink
ing 10 the level Of Mexico or the Antilles.-Eney-
eLOpedfa britannica.
In repelling this asperson, Mr.. T. X.
OGLEsBY some months ago wrote for the
Montgomery alabama Advertiser a series
of articles showing what southern think
ers had accomplished. These articles he
has lately revised and grouped into PAM
phlet of sixty pages.
Mr.. OdLEsBY has done the South a great
service. He has not only undermined q
SANDER, but has brought to the surface
facts Of which 800 persons out of every
1000 are ignorant OF forgetful
II is not only with statesmen, jurists, and
soldiers that ne deals, but he shows that
"MAUBY who first gave complete descrip-
ton of the Gulf Stream-who first marked
out specific routes TO be followed in cross
ing the Atlantlc-who first instituted the
system of deep-sea sounding-who first
suggested the establishment of teleGraphic
communication between the continents by
cable on the bed Of the ocean, and who in
dicated the line along which the existing
cable was laid, was o southern man."
and il was q southern man" CDR. j. c.
PALMER, of Maryland who originated the
plan for splicing the cable IN mid-ocean.
1T was southern man GO. II. McCoR-
McK) who was declared by tho French
Academy of Sciences to have done more
for the cause of agriculture than any
other living man; q southern man" Ga
North Carolinian), twas the inventor
Of the Calling gun; the inventor
of the machinery that first propelled o
boat by steam was southern man, JAMES
RUMsEY the first steamship that crossed
the Atlantic won't from a southern city,
whose name il bore (Savsnnah), and whose
citizens had it built, and its engine was
constructed by southern man DANIEL
Don. Of Virginia.. The inventor
(ALFxANDER JONES. of North Carolina of
the first comprehensive system of ciphers
used by the Associated Press and Of the
first pyrotechnic system of signals in the
United States Oh. j. Rogers, of Mary
land,) and the author Is. p. griffin, of
Georgia. of international fog-siGnals-
each of these was q southern man."
The discovery of oxygen in the sun
THAT which has been pronounced the
most original discovery ever made in ply
steal science by an American" he says.
1 10 hxy ham II
DRAPER, of Virginia. The physician who
" first used sulphuric ether to produce
anesthesia for surgical operations" was
CRAWFORD w. LONG. of Georgia.
The most learned American mineralo-
gist, (JoHN LAWRENCE SMITH, of South
Carolina,) the greatest American natural
lst (AUDUBoN), the most famous American
musician (GoTTscHALK), the artist known
rs the American Titan" (ALLsroN), the
greatest American architect, Of. II. RICH
ARDsoN. of louisiana and the worlds
greatest chess-player paul MoBPHY) were,
he says, all southern men, as are the great
est American tragedian EDWIN BooTH) and
the most noted American dramatist (AUGUs-
TIN DAILY.
This is a sample OF the information con-
tanned in Mr.. OGLEsBY's pamphlet, but he
broadens his field of inquiry as he ad-
vances and produces many cognate facts
showing the southern people in their true
light and in comparison with inhabitants
of some other sections of this Union. One
chapter is devoted to the LEES of Vir-
gina.
Altogether he furnishes a very readable
little book, for which any man or woman
who loves the South can well afford to
pay the half dollar charged per copy.
The Alabama Printing Company, Of
MONTGOMERY, are the publishers.