The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-01-04
A FALSE THEORY.

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the south and her people, but under
the pilotage of w. G. liraun, the real
live Yankee" and republican, it goes
out of the way to sneer n. and dispar
age everything and everybody in the
south Of the less, prominence A few
weeks past, it had column snd half
of sneer; and dispara 90 men,s Of the
south and of southern men, and even
was absurd enough to assert, that
brains were dependent mainly on lati.
tude, and that southern countries
were barren Of great men L. dipped
into ancient history, after its pervert.
ing fashion, to prove is own theory,
but its citations cut the throat of its
daring theory. Brsnn placed Rome
in latitude so or, as he said the same
latitude of New York, whereas 1t is
in latitude ~ He ascribed the con
quest of Greece by the Romans, to
the fact, that Rome was further North
and for that reason was superior.
Now, Egypt Is below his line Of
of demarcation, still it was the cradle
and nursery of civilization, arts and
sciences Greece borrowed all her
civiliz alton and learning from Egypt,
and Rome was indebted to Greece for
all her civilization and learning.
Athens and Corinth are about latitude
37-below Branu's latitude for genius,
yet New England has never produced
the equals of Homer; Sophodes,
Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, So.
crates, Aristotle, Apelles, Pnidias,
and Demos,henes. These men have
been the IN odels Of all succeeding
ages in their several deparIm MS.
They have been more than models
they have been the granaries from
which the world has drawn its mental
food, and their Influence is still potent
in the world
In the article in question, Brann
applies his Procrustean theory OF
Latitude, to the United States, and dis
parages all Southern men, in the
gross, in order to cxalt his oyn race
the Yankee THE News will meet
him on his own chosen ground and
put him to flight. What contempt
raneous Yankee will he compare with
George Washington? He towers
above all Of them rs the cedars OF
Lebanon tower above the plains, in
fitness for the work he wrought He
was not profound philosopher, an
erudite scholar, al eloquent writer, or
a brilliant orator, but he was endued
with the combination of qualities and
traits necessary to accomplish the
work he was appointed to perform.
He was, a. times, a Fabius, avoiding
a litched battle as too hazardous,
and at others as impetuous as Marcel.
lus in attacking the enemy. New
England has never produced Wash
ington nor any man approaching him
in the blended qualities of Washing
ton, but it was the birthplace of Ber-
edict Arnold and Of the traitorous
Hartford convention during ths war
with England in 1912. Jefferson,
Madison, Marshall, Pinckney and
Lowndes were the peers in intellect OF
any of their New England contempor-
aries. In the war Of 1872 SCOTT
Jackson and Gaines were the heroes,
and all from the south, Clay, CAL
houn, Benton, McDuf, Hayne and
Tszewell had no superiors among
their New England contemporaries.
Marshall and fancy, from the south :,
have been the greatest jlrists on Il e
supreme court. since its organization.
The south has no cause to shirk a
comparison with New England, in the
number o. able men she has contrib
uted.