The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-12

Miro grass region, II Is pointed out that in
FcntuckY we lnd nnnrly pure English blood
Hcrc. according to Prof. Shalcr is tho largest
body of pure English folk that has bean sena-
rnivd from tho mother country Tor 100 Years.
mhe blue grass Konturkans are .hc descend
ants Of those hardy. high-sp!ritcd Eng
lishmon, largely of tho squire and ycoman
class. whose absorbing passion was not rcg-
ious disputution. nor the political purpose
OF founding n state, but tho ownership
Of land and tho pursuits and pleas.
ures of rural life. They keep to this day
In remarkable degree tho race qualities OF
their English ancestry anil Tho tastes and
habits of their forcfUthcrs IL Is question
whether the Kcntuckan is not more like his
English progentor than is his New England
contemporary: and this Will soon cease
20 he a question II tho inflow Of French Cana.
dams into thu Northeastern States continues.
In blue grass kentucky families may be
found living exactly whore their pioneer an
ccstors made settlement and constituting q
landed nristocracy If there be such in Amer
lea Ono great honored namc will do nearly
as much in kentucky rs in England to keep
u family In peculiar respect after the reason
for il has ceased. Then. again. with tho up
per class OF kentucky with the English
sjuirarchy tho rural keynote Of life is still
the sweetest. Now after tho lapse of moro
than century tho most populous town
IN the blue grass region contains loss
than thirty thousand white inhabitants. Along
with tn, iovc of land has gone comparative
content with tho annual increase OF flock and
field No man among the blue grass Ken
tuckians has ever acquired INN anse wealth.
On the other hand. this would havo been a
denscly peoped country and the farms
would have been infinitely subdvided
had sons asked and received permission
to settle on parts OF the ancestral cs-
tate But this parcellntion of land and
resultant closeness OF personal contact
would have satisfied neither father nor
child. so that the one has generally kept his
ucres intact. and the other. impeei by the
same land hunger that brought his pioneer
foretather hither. has gone hence into the
younger West. Here survives finally the old
idea, still current in the rural PARTS of England.
that the highest mark OF n gentleman is not
cultivation Of the mind. not intellect or knowl-
edge. but elegant living.
Yet while the typical Kentuckian is an Eng
lshman without knowing it. he would no more
try to initiate the English than he would to
initiate the Jutes. In nothing is he more
like his transatlantic ancestry than in his I'M
shakable seli-contcnt lie sits on his farm
rs though it were the pole OF the heavens-a
manly man with Il heart in him. He Is usually
az the blond type. robust, well formed. with
clear fair complexion that grows iudiier with
aye and stomachc acknowledgements full neck and
IN open. kind. untroubled countenance. He is
frank. but not familiar: laxative. but not gar
iulous: full OF the genial humor OF local hints
and illusions. but without any subtle nirl ble-
ness OF wit; induIgent toward purely mascu-
line vices. but intolerant of petty crimes: no
reader OF books nor master in religious de-
bate faith coming to him rs naturally as his
hphet0e' anu growing WIN WHAT II leeus
upon loving MS grass not because IL Is
"eau'''ui W. because II Is iresh anu green
anu "our's"'ns' III me- penee'u' man
WIN, WIN e'lons p"ss'ons' "nu 30 70 pe he"''i'y
'''eo anu tespecteu' VI ne"r''is na'eo anu
Iespee'en' out never desplseu or tr'heu WIN
An occasional barbecue Ill 'he WOODS. "here
eeuu'es VI mutton are ioas.eu ' s!''ts am
""sho. uo"n WIN o'ausn'S Vi ""'7"c' s'e".
ns''cu', u'"' MRS race courses county c'u''
Gays. "here nc meets MS helh'h'"rs upon Tue
pup''c "u"u'eot inc no'''s' OWL H"'''' 'uh-
ohy mornings when 10 meets 'neia as"'h loT
.'n's 1T ,',e oooi W 'ne no'u
tne'' anu MS own '''eS'4' "'i''' III"
's.,c p'ehsufes'
i"e women oi hch'"'h' ''"No 'o,'H huo ="
h"'''""t ,ei"'"'''' wv "I""''' -i'' 'Ni'' .t.'s
~ ',''. Wv "'''"-' - 10 20 ''''''''"' -" NV
i"hs"sn p.','uc' r'SScSS'''t' "o"e'"', Eie',"f
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"'. y, o"n' "' ''o'u''. o'o"I'' W ''i VI "h'cn
az VI i.'''''''''h'.
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~. =" 'nono"' y. 'u'po'eu '"l' ,nr.o "te h''
'''"' H'"''n''' ""' "'"''n III ho"'u'N''
lt VIII be remembered by the readers OF
unclo Tom Cabin that Mrs. Stow" depicts
thr typo OF slavery prevalent in hontncky rs
inc m'lhcst form OF mo institution. Mr. Allen
mas somo interesting remarks upon IN" sub
loct. II Is mistake. no says. TO suppose that
negroes IN hontucNy were deliberately bred
ana reared ior inc southern marker. Ihey
were sometimes soia 10 buyers from me south
~ they proved intrhctnpie'' or ny the opera
''oh OF inc Ia" o. Par'iol" 'hhoritahce or "s
was mo case w!th MIS- stowe " c'e lohi'
under constralht or death. tut IL was not
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