Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-12-23
Henry WATTRRSON.
FHE GREAT SOUTHERN JOURNALISTS RE-
SPoNSR TO TEE TOAST.
aThs Puritan and TIE Cavalier Before the
New England Soeis,y a. The Annual Dinner
At Dslmonieo's Last Night


Georgian, who, not without reason,
recognized the "signiicance" Of his
presence hers-"the first SOutherner TO
speak ct this board"-a circumstance,
let me add. not very crsditable TO any
Of us-and who, in words whose elo-
Quence l can not hope to recall, ap-
pealsd ffom the New South to New
England for united country.
He was my disciple, my prOtege, my
friend. he came To me from the South
srn schools, where be had persued the
arr OF oratory and letters, TO get few
hints 10 journalism, as be said; needing
so few, Indeed, that but a little later,
/ sent him TO one OF the foremost jour
nalists OF this foremost city, bearing 3
letter OF Introduction, which described
him as "the greatest boyever born In
Dixie, or anywhere else.
he is gone now. But, short as MS
life was, It's Heaven-0Orn mission was
fulfilled; the dream Of its childhood was
realized; for be had been appointed oy
God 10 carry a message OF peace on
earth, good will to men, and, this done,
be vanished from the sight OF mortal
eyes, even as the
DOVE FROM Tue ARK
mean to take up the word where
Grady left il of; but / shall continue
the sentence with a somewhat larger
confidence, and, perhaps with some
what fuller meaning; because, not"lth-
standing the Puritan trapplngs, Tadl-
tlons and associations which surround
. me-vlsibls illustration OF the SELF
denvlng fortitude Of the Puritan char
acter ani the somber simplicity OF tho
Puritan taste and habit never felt
less out OF place in all my life.
To tell you the truth, am afraid
that have gained access here on false
pretenses; for am no Cavalier at all;
Just plain Scotch-Irish, one or those
Scotch-Irlsh SOutherners who ate no
fire in the green leaf and has eaten no
diet In the brOwU, and who, accepting,
for the moment, the terms Puritan aud
Cavalier In the sense an eifste sectional
ism once sought 70 ascrIbe 10 them
descriptive labels at once classifying
aud separating North and South-ver-
bal red0ubts along that mythical line
called Mason and Dixon over which
there were supposed oy the extremists
OF other DAYS 10 be no BRIDGES am
much disposed TO say, "a plague o
both your hOuseS"
Each was good enough and bad
enough, In its way, whilst they lasted;
each in It's turn filed the English
speaking world with mourning; aud
each, II either could have resisted the
infection OF the soil and climate they
found here, would be to-day striving at
the swords point 10 square lie by the
iron-rule Of ThsOcraey, or TO round It
by the
DIZZY wHIRL OF A PETTICOATl
It is very pretty to read about the
Maypole In Virginia and very edifying
and Inspiring 20 celebrate the deeds Of
OF the Pilgrim Fathers. But there Is
mot CsmAfeS blood enough left 10 the
hinion TO produce single crop |
ofHrst families, whilst, out 10 Neoras-
ka and Iowa, they claim that they nave |
so stripped New England OF her Puri- !
tau stock as TO spare her hardly enough |
for iarm-Gands. This do know, from |
personal experience, that il is
impossible for the stranger-guest, |
si,tiug beneath q bower OF roses |
in TIE Palmetto Club st Charles |
ton, or by mimic lOg-heap 10 the /
Algonquin CLUB at Boston, to tell the |
assembled company apart, particularly |
after 10 O'Clock In the evening! Why, |
ia that great. final struggle between the |
Puritans aud the Cavaiiers-whtch We /
still hear sometimes casually mentioned |
although it ended nearly thirty years |
agO-there had been such mixing up |
OF Puritan babies and Cavalier babies |
during the two or three generations |
preceding it-that the surviving grand |
mothers OF the cOmbatants could not, |
EXCEPT for their uniforms have picked |
out their own on any field o. battle!
Turning to the Encyclopedia OF |
American Biography, lind that Web |
Ater had all she vices that Ere supposed !
to have signalzed the Cavalier,
AND CALHOUN ALL THE VIRTUES
that are claimed for the Puritan. Dur
ing twenty years three statesmen Of |
Puritan origin were the chosen party |
leaders Of Cavalier Mississippi: Robert |
J. Walker, born and reared Ia Pennsyl- !
vania; John A. Quitman, born and !
reared 10 New York, and Sargent ). |
Prentiss, born and reared In the good !
old State of Maine. Thai sturdy Puri- |
tan, John Slideli, never saw Louisiana |
until he was old enough TO vote /
land TO fight; native here-an alum
has OF Columbia COllege-out sprung /
from New England ancestors. Albert /
SidnAY Johnston, the most reSplendant |
of modern Cavaliers trig 10 toe q /
type Oh the species-the very rose and !
expectancy OF the young Confed- !
ac7-did not have a drop OF |
Southern blood IN his veins; Yankee |
on both sides Of the house, though born |
in Kentucky q little while after his |
father and mother arrived there from |
Connecticut The Ambassador, who |
serves our Government near the French |
Republic was a gallant Confederate sol. |
der and is q representative Southern !
statesman, but he owns the estate in /
Massachusetts, where his father was |
born, and where his fathers fathers |
lived through many generations.
And the Cavaliers, who missed their
stirrups. somehow, and got into Yam
kee saddles? Tue woods were full OF /
them. If Custer was not a Cavalier, !
Rupert was u Puritan. Aud Sherwood |
and WsdswOrth and keArney, aud Nc !
Pherson ADD their dGshing companions |
and ieloWsl The one typical Puritan |
soldier OF the war-marE YOu!-was q !
Southern, and not q Northero, soldier; |
StOnewall jackson, Of the Virginia line. !
And. II we should care to pursue the |
subject further back, what about Ethan /
Allen aud John Stark and Mad Anthony /