Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-04-28
SOUTHERN ACHIEVEMENT.

under the above heading, in which
it truly says that it is one of the best
indications of the loyalty of the
Southern people to the traditions
and principles of their past history
that the Southern press, an institu-
ton dependent upon the goodwill
of a local public, never suffers any
attack upon this section, either as it
is now, or ss it was before the war,
to pass without resentment.
Occasionally there starts up some
individual in the North States, an
from the South, who seeks
to recommend himself to his pro-
fessional constituency just as Rev.
Thomas Dixon, Jr., did d few t'avs
ago by assailing the motieys q Ia.
native section Or depreciating the
glorious part which it has played in
the history OF the republic. Or some
Southern writer launches a book
which has to rely for success upon
Northern patronage, and he leans
away from the principles which
have given strength and character
to his environment in order that
thrift may follow his conscious fawn-
ing.
Happily both types are very rare.
The true son Of the South regards
her deficiencies in the present and
her error in the past as the true
son regards the deficiencies and er-
rors of the mother who bore him.
He does not go about proclaiming
his superiority over the father who
contended in the legislatiy e chamber
or fought and probably died on tie
battlefield for those vital principles
which were involved in the bloody
struggle of the late war.
The Southerner of the future
may well congratulate himself if his
section shall accomplish as much in
a century Of free institutions as it
accomplished in a century of slave
institutions. That record IS full of
achievements of the highest interest
not only to the people of the Union,
but to all mankind. The Atlanta
Constitution sums up only a few Of
the material achievements of the
South when it declared that "the
old Southerners who have good
memories and some knowledge Of
history laugh at the current talk
about the progressive North and the
non-progressive South. In matters
of ideas the South has always been
active enough, but she has sometimes
delayed putting them into execution.
cit is known that Morse perfected
the telegraph after getting the the
DRY Of it from a Georgian. The first
steamboat was experimental with
by a Georgian at Augusta. DR.. N.
r. Golden constructed a sewing ma
chine long years before any one else
attempted it.
"The idea of independence was
conceived and carried out by the
people of Mecklenburg, N. c., a
| year before the declaration at Phila-
delphia.
"Even the abolition of slavery was
a fayorite Southern project before
| the anti-slavery movement was or
ganized in the North.
sin these days a good deal is said
about the intensive farming and di.
versifed agriculture of the North.
mad some people think that we are
all the time borrowing Northern
ideas and methods. A glance owe,
the bound volumes of De Bows Re.
view will explode this notion. The
thinkers of the old South were mer
of culture and travel. They stud
led every phase of agriculture il
every country, and their forgotten
essays on the subject advanced every
essential idea now set forth as some.
thing new or as the discovery Of an.
other section.
prohibition was first tried in
Southern colony, Georgia, which wa
also the free labor. colony. Com
munism was also first tried ant
found to be improbable and i'm
practicable in Virginia. Public fire.
education found in a Southern
MISUNDERSTANDING first advo
cate in this country of any promi
nence and influence