The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-12

pair of pants to match and white
Marsailles swaistcoat. When these were
set off with silk beaver hat, a ruf1ed
shirt and bandana handkerchief the
visible makeup of the gentleman was
complete.
The invisible sign was generally 3
mortgage on his farm for few hun-
dred dollars, but he had a rich MACS
ways, even though he was financially
embarrassed.
His name was in the grand jury.
box-neyer in the petit jury box. That
would have been an indignity that he
would have resented. There was no.
line of demarcation between the COM
mon people and the aristocraey that
was more rigidiy drawn than the one:
that separated the grand jury from the.
petit jury.
The aristocrats held all the promi-
nent Offices, and they were the gem
erals, colonels, and majors of the mill
| tia. Most of the professional gentle
men came from this aristocratic stock.
They were generally wings in politics
and were the patrons of high schools
and colleges, and stocked the learned
professions with an annual crop of
/ graduates who were loyal to Henry
Clay and Fillmore and Stephens and
Toombs and John Bell and the code of
honor. They had wealth and dignity
AID abundant leisure, and Solomon
says that in leisure there is wisdom,
| and so these men became our law
makers and jurists and statesmen and
they were the shining lights in the
councils of the nation.
Ofcourse, they were not all Bhigss
There were many distinguished excep-
tions such as the Jacksons and Cobbs
and CoIquits and Lumpkins who were
| Democrats though ofaristocratic birth.
Governor Brown was, perhaps, the
first illustrious Georgia statesman TO
come up from among the common peo-
pie and stay with them and lead them
as Moses led the children OF Israel.
His whole political life has been fight
against the power and oppression that
comes from wealth and monopoly.
The results Of the war was a fearful
fall to the aristocracy of Georgia. They
lost many Of their noble sons in the
army. They lost their property soon
after. The extent of their misfortunes
no one will ever know, for the heart
enIy knoweth its own bitterness.
Many of them suffered and were strong
but the majority gave up to despon
dency and their abildren were left to
seufie for themselves. The collapse TO-.
them was awful. They had not been
raised to exercise seIf-dsnial orecono-:
my and it was humilating in tfeeyes
treme for them to have todescend to
the level of the common people. But
they did it and, did it itheroically. And
SO in course of time this line Of demar-
eatien between the common people
and the old aristocracy began to. fade,
j and finally it passed away just as the
old aristoeracy passed away. a ne8
4 and harder stock came to the front,
that class which, before the war, was
under cloud. The results of the war
made an opening for them and deye-
loped their latent energies. With no
high degree Of culture t.ey neyerthe-
less proved equal to the struggle up
the rough hill of life and began to build
up what the war had pulled down.
They began at the bottom just where
the%war found them and where it left
them. They had been raised to work
and their practical energy was soon
followed by thrift and general re-
covery ofwasted fields and fenceless
farms. These men now constitute in
the main the solid men of the State
and have contributed largely to the
building up of schools and churches
and factories and railroads. They are
modern self-made Southerners, class
that forms a striking contrast to the
dignity and the repose of the old patri-
arches whose beautiful homes adorned
the hills and groves of the South be-
fore the war.
But the children Of those old patri-
archs had to come down some and the
children Of the common people came
up some, aud they have met uponsa
common plain and are now working
happily together both in social and in
business life. Spirit and blood have
united with energy and muscle, and II
makes splendid team--the best all
round team the South has ever had.
BILLARP.