The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-07-10
CHE lemnrrM- Star
1.-THE GEORGIA CRACKER"
What He Has Dsne for His State and
His Country.
Atlanta Constitution.

There was once a Georgia Crack
or. and we are his descendants
FROM the blended strains Of En-
gIish, Salzburger and Scolch-Irisi
which came 10 this country anC
settled over the Savannah from
Namacraw TO Petersburg there
WAS evolved Il ~cosmopolile who
LETT his print upon history
lie has carved out what Gen
Toombs used TO cal! 1.-The State of
Georgy." lie grew tobacco and
indigo; he traded with the Indian
Tor his peliry; he beat back the
Spanish INTO Florida and kept the
savagcs off his claim. He stoutly
fought The British in The revolu.
ton, and under Troup and the
treaty he opposed old JohnAdams
and the general government. lie
helped 10 build The steamboat and
invent the cotton gin ; he reclaim
I'd the swamps aud dug gold OF
of the hills; he drilled in the mill.
tia aid pulled the gander's neck
ON holidays; he bated everything
wrong and burned up the records
of The YaZoo frauds he paid hi,
just debts and rounded the water
melon into perfection; he led the
way 10 secession with his pike aud
furnished more TROOPS than any
other State he was the first one
10 revive after The war, retaining
the State and making tie best OF a
bad bargain. He builds up his
cities, digs out his rivers and ca
mails; leafs the UNION in railway
construction and spins more cot
ton than any other Southern com.
monweallh. lie j. religious, pa
%triotlc, public spirited; believes IN
prayer and keeps the powder dry
in fact, he is the brother germane
TO Uncle Jonathan.
He is called the Southern Yam.
kee, The hope Of The new South,
The hope of the nation Is This Geor-
gia Cracker. Judge LCngstreel
wrote %humoronSly but tenderIy Of
him IN those incompatible Geor-
gia scenes. Colonel Thompson
pictured him gallant and pictur-
esque in that Undesirable "Court-
ship of Mayor Jones'" Ready for
Il fight or IA footrace, heightened
and reflective, full Of provincial.
ism, but never dominated by pref
dice: loSpilable, helpful, tender,
quaint and true, the Georgia
Cracker stands the peer of the
kmckerbocker OH the Hudson or
CAROLS on The Chesapeake.
The GeorgiaClacker was shrewd
but lull OF principle. lie could
coin money ont Of the sunshine
and tan riches from the fur of the
gopher. He was not melancholy
or Bourbonish, but full of the now.
He didn't watch his roof thaich
rot, like the Arkansas settler, he
went to work and repaired il. He
was willing to work his lands with
or without slaves. His first char
ter prohibited serldOm, as it barred
out ruin. He took his horn on
Michaelmas with the lorJly air of
Il Peter Stuyvesant, and kept the
pledge all The rest of the year
with the stern stoiclsm of a Spar
tan. He worShiped Andrew Jack
son and yet believed in TrOup.
lie was a Democrat by conviction,
"a Wing only by %perverSion.
lie regarded Henry Clay'S party
a : an aristocratic concern. lie
~boycotted Lafayette for meddling
with our institutions, just as he
snubbed Jay Gould when he rode
through the South IN his palace
car. Troup was a Georgia "Crack-
err" 80 was Alexander Stephens,
with his pale face aud bright eve
10 vas Ben Hill, as he left The
pillow handles in Jasper county TO
20 TO The Stale University so was
Sam VhurmOnd, of Watkinsville.
as lie sturIily fed the forge with
one hand and turned the pages OF
Blackstone with The other; so are
we all Georgia "Crsckers"-de-
scendants of Gods people-the
plain yeomanry of an empire, the
ihrlftiest, kindest, most helpful
folks OH earth.
Sherman cut a swath 40 miles
wide and 800 miles long right in
the heart of The Georgia'Cracker."
One hundred millions of property
was wiped out in eight months.
Now the whole State from Dalton
10 Waycross blossoms like n rose.
Iron, coal and granite are quarried
the base of The Kenesaw, and
The railroads which have given us
Cordele and Americas and Bruins
wick have llgatured the last
wounds of the war. France has
not leaped into luxuriance more
swiftly Than has south Georgia
from pillage and devastation.
Look what The Georgia Cracker"
is doing! There Is 100000 o.
him. He is at work. His children
are a; school. He lives well, reads
the papers and thinks for himself.
lie is building an empire. There
Is nothing halt so sweet to him as
the old red hills of Georgia. Long
may he live! May his tribe in
crease and his shadow eye grow