The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-09-11

inc down the South" The author. lot in-
aptly. refers to the fact that the story Oh
Troy has held the worlds attention LOT
th;rtv centuries. and he intimates. and
might have stated in terms. that there Is
matter in the past thirty years OF the oou'a
that will engage the sympathetic interest
and attention of the world for many gener-
ot;ons IN come as deeply as Troy's story has
engaged them.
The writer remarks on tho fact that an
army. all of whose enlistments amounted 10
only COO. 600 men, withstood for four years
the persistent attacks of an army whose en-
listments went up to 1890 900 and in almost
'everv encounter decorated its banners with
n record of triumphant victories over its as
sailants. He refers also to the fact that TINS
army came from an agricultural population
sbut off from the rest Of the world by block
aiding fleets. and he might have added that
il WAS without arms or military stores. with
ont manufactures in which either could DO
made. and without skilled workmen 10
work in them IL there had been manufac-
tories. He then we'll says that these
amazing facts astound the world and excite
its most eager curiosity. The world wants
to know all about and be intimate with
people capable of this prodigious manites-
tation of every element that makes nation
great and he mildly censures the writer's Oh
the South for presenting their people IN
aspects which are far from doing justice TO
their great and heroic traits. The censure
is deserved. and we shall speak our MIND
freely upon the point.
Southern writer's since the war may be
divided into three classes. The first IS that
represented by Mr.. George w. Cable. This
man simply ISLANDERS his own people, and
seems TO take pleasure in trying 10 make
the world believe that simple, gentle, re-
ieious people are a great community OF
cut-throats. banditti and ssssssins. Inc
mans efforts are 80 distorted and grotesque
that they utterly fail TO inJure us through
their own sbsurdity.
The most conspicuous apostle of the sec
ond class is the late Henry W. Grady. This
gentleman preached doctrines to willing
ears that did the people of the South very
great Injustice and a decided injury. lie
invented the idea of the New South"
Following Senator Ben Hills unfortunate
Standardization that we we're again II our
fathers house." he set the fashion OF rep
resentlng the Southern people as somewhat
ashamed of their past lives and determined
to do better IN the future, and he lowered
the worlds esteem for US when he did 1t.
and somewhat hurt the morale OF our own
people.
The third class, knowing the sentimental
interest that such books as Uncle Toms
Cabin have aroused in the negro through.
out the North, addresses its writings to
these. Catering to the preconceptions OF
those readers they paint the negro as ne Is
not; they ondow him with characteristics
that he does not possess; they give him on
elevation aud nobleness of mind that he
is far from having, and they always manage
10 present him in a comparison with the
white people that puts the white people at
a disadvantage.
The South IS unfortunate in being pre-
sented by any one of these three classes OF
whites TO the world-more unfortunate IL
being presented by the two latter than by
the first. Mr. Cables ISLANDERS fall HARM
less, but the other two pictures are insid-
GUS while absolutely unjust. There is
no New South. We are exactly the
same men that our fathers were
and our children are being raised to
be exactly the same men that we are. We
glory in the past of our ancestors. Those of
us who were old enough to be in the late
war glory in the part that we took in it,
and we are rearing our children to feel more
pride in what the Confederate soldiers did
than in any other thing that was ever per-
formed by man on earth. Not only SO, but
that child which will not respond to his In
SEPARATIONS and his teachings we will count
as an outcast.
There is no New South" We want no
New South" and we will have no New
South" 1t is the same "Old South" and
we intend that it shall remain so. AS
our ancestors lived, SO will we live, and
30 shall our children live.
We have surrendered the cause of quarrel
with our Northern brethren. and we are
now as true and loyal to the Union Of the
States as any man north of the Potomac can
be. But we are proud of our past. We
glory in the patience, courage and devotion of
our people. Wewould not have one of their
impulses or characteristics changed, and we
pray over the cradles of our children that
they may be the same manner of men as
their ancestors were before them.
When Southern writers present us In this
light they will do us justice. When they
present as ~ any other light, they are in
turing us and misleading the world.