Arizona republican., 1891-07-04
THEY HURT THEMSELVES.

A REGENT issue of the Nashville Fan ner contains the following editorial in reference to matters, which the well- wishers of both sections desire should perish from the memory. Such swag. ger does more to injure the South than any other single cause, yet 1t comes from the house of pretended friends.
 The term "New soutr,' so frequently heard of late. was coined as reproach of tho peope who lived in the south prior to the war, and oi those who waged the Confederate side of 1he war. IL is used in tie SCI SC of regeneration. and multiplicity of sav,ors beyond Mason and pixon's line assume to be the regeneralors
 sordid people use the phrase in the senhe oi a material prosperity established in poverty stricken land by Northern capital The older Southrons were people lofty and honor able; they were brave enough to fight or die In order to hand down q spotless name to this generation. Is this generation vile enough to applaud the reprosch which the phrase ,n question was coined to conveyt ~ Tn. pitiable creatures who ask us 10 malign our people. to confess debt we never did contract. and to recognize an obligation that did not ex- ist, deserve only less extreme contempt than we would ourselves were we to acquissce.
 Contrast the above with the senti. ment of the beloved both North and South and lamented Hen. ry Grady. They were his last public utterances, and seem to have been bequearhes as dying legacy to his much-loved and suffering people.
 There was south Of slavery and accession hat Sau t.h ta "A S,.lIfn fff fiftfn ant freedom -that South, thank GOs, Is living, breathing. growing every hour; sueh art ,hr wonis delivered from the immortal lips oi Benjamin II, Hill m ls6j--true then, and ,ruei now; and from them take my text to night" ''The old South rested everything on slavery ani agriculture, unconcious that these could neither give nor maintain fealthy growth. The New South presents perfect democracy. The New South is enamored of her new work. Her soul IS fired with tie breath of new life, The light of grander day Is falling fair on her face Ne fought nard enough to know We were whip ped and m peril ct fraukness accept as finsl, the arbitrament of the sword to which she appealed The south found her jewel in the toau's head of defeat The shsckles that had held her in her narrow Limitations fell forever whom the shacKles of the negro slave were brJkeiL" .u.
 The difference between such men as Mir. Grady and the editor of the Nash vile Banner is the difference between real greatness and narrow earping mind. The difference likewise is the difference between desolate hours and deserted plantations, and the buy ac- tivity of jorge and foundry. The New south, made new by the awakening oi it's own people, from the fetters of the past, letters not only of the black slave, but of social system entirely ineon- sistant with q republic-is anything but q reproach to the Southern people. History never recorded more patient and heroic deed than that in which the people of the south, accepted their fate and deliberately set about to build new homes, new customs, new laws, new traditions, out of the ashes of defeat.