The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-08-21
Dixie Darling the War as Seen by Boy.

DR.. A. ". Lamar, OF the First Bap-
tist Church, Galveston Texas, gave a
series of charming pictures Of boyhood
life on South Carolina plantation i in
his recent lecture on "Dixie Before
the War" He spoke most tenderly
of his "black NANNY that bygone
institution of Southern family life:
In describing some Of the sports and
playmates of those olden times he
presented the scenes Of a 'possum
hunt in the early days of October.
A fishing expedition as given by DIR,
Lamar was also very interesting, and
the atmosphere of which he treated
was that Of simple, natural life, full
of sweetness, the realistic scenes from
out the dim cleaning Of past now
gone forever.
DR.. Lamar's second lecture was on
"Dixie during the War as seen by a
Boy" in which he stated that boy
| in South Carolina in 1860 saw himself
launched on field of history such as
the world had never before and hardly
would see again. AS he listened to
the discussions that went on among
the older people, and heard the sounds
of rejoicing when the State seeded
| and Georgia fell into line, he wanted
to be a soldier more than anything
else in the world and when he finally
became one he was afraid the war
| would be over before he got chance
to fight. But by the time he had
been in two or three battles he was
not quite so anxious for the smell of
gunpowder. Of the social inner life
Of the South, Dir. Lamar spoke at some
length. The ports soon became closed
and prices advanced. In 1864 -four
was 81, 900 barrel, ham cost 81 900
and coffee, when it could be had at all,
was s10O a pound; but if everything
else was scarce, money was plenty.
| After the war closed whole houses
| were papered with money. The lee
turer spoke with feeling of the cour-
age and valor of the soldiers who
marched for days with only parched
corn for food, and of the time when in
1865 the army that had started out
believing that few short months
would see the end, numbering only
100, 900 from the Potomac to the Rio
Grande, it's flower and chivalry left
upon the field of battle, while that to
which it succumbed was $50, 900 strong.
DR.. Lamar also gave some touching
Incidents of the friendliness that often
showed itself between the Blues and
the Gray, as the opposing forces were
camped near each other for days at
time, and closed with tribute to the
negro race who bore the four years
struggle with such patience and 10y
atty, and were true to the homes and
the interests they had been left to
guard.
DR.. Lamar closed his course of lee
lures with one on the ''New South. "
sThirty years ago, when Lee surren-
dered," began the Doctor, "the South
gave up all she had save hope and
honor and God, and turning her face
toward the future was confronted by
problem such as had never before con-
fronted any other civilized nation.
Her territory had been under the
heels Of conflicting armies for four
long years, her homes were destroyed,
her schools shut, her banks closed and
her social life turned upside down, as
it were, and out Of this chaos she had
to rise by her own efforts. By 1876 a
change began to make itself felt, and
by 1881 confidence had begun to
come back and Northern capital
to come in. To-day a glorious
future opens up through the South
land. It is an ideal country for work,
as there is hardly day when it need
be suspended because of the weather.
The cotton crop has increased 100 per
cent. within the last ten years, and
the cereal crops even more. Her
manufacturing interests are largely
on the increase, and her growth in the
manufacture of iron has been SO rapid
as to excite universal attention. The
day is coming when Texas alone will
produce nine-tenths of all the cotton
in the world.-Philadelphia Press.