The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-07-01

your mother Will De ANXIOUS Walten
for you. Dis train is late "Why,
Daddy Jimmy. why didn't father
Gomez" "What's de matter, chile,
cant the old man take ,are of your [
been dom for you chillum since the
night you was born" And sure
enough the old mar was the truest and
best Of guides and friends. How in
oorporated into our lives these people
we're. They nursed US when we were
born, they taught US to row and ride
and drive, they made the music for us
at our Christmas dances, they were so
knowing about our love affairs, they
surrounded us when we were married,
they wept for us when We died. They
we're the very kindliest, most child
like, most faithful and most imperson-
al of races. As slaves crime was un-
known amongst them. The future
alone can say whether they will rise
higher in the scale OF civilization as
the world grows older than when they
were ours, and we were responsible to
God and man for them. No man was
held 10 greater contempt in our land
by his fellow men than a cruel master.
We were exclusively an agricultural
people, our climate along the vast ex-
tent Of coast, where the lands are rich
est, is fatal to the white man during
the summer season, only the negro
can live in it the whole year, and but
for these people the factories of the
world would lose the feeoy staple,
which feeds thousands Of them.
Only the education, which for gen.
erations we have given the negro, has
made him the laborer Of to-day. AS
savages, just from their African jun
giles, entire subsection was the first alb
solutely necessary step in his civiliza-
ton. We will never feel that in keep
ing them az slaves we have done any
thing "for which our conscience needs
a corner" nor will we ever assume the
tone apologize for u past.
We were the most contented, happy
people with none of the restless spirit
which characterized our Northern
brother. We did not envy him his
immense material development, and
only asked to reap the fruit of our own
hands. We did not love the great ag-
gressive American people, and scarce
ly regarded ourselves as Of them. The
sovereign State was our mistress and
for her and our original conception of
her We were ready to lay down life
and all things.
All our sentiment was for the moth
err country, our homes were filled with
the solid old mahogany furniture
which our fathers had brought to this
new world, our cupboards reflected
the crown stamped silver service Of
old England, our children's minds
were saturated with the nursery
rhymes and ballads of the Old World.
English editions of English classics,
English reviews, the English Church
and English thoughts filled our homes
and minds.
Today we read with amusement the
impression left on the mind of the
English traveller when visiting this
great conglomeration Of peoples.
Mathew Arnold and Hamilton Aide
do not describe the Southerner.
1t was over this abundant, happy,
blessed country the dark war cloud
now settled. I have not the heart
to go in retrospect within its shadow.
We owed it to our manhood to fight
that awful war. If it was. as Mr..
Bryce thinks it was, for an ideal form
of government the Southerner fought,
still it was our original conception;
we never meant our voluntary union
with other States to be indissoluble.
We see very clearly now that our
great content with our Southern coun-
try as it was hindered the full devel-
opment of it's inexhaustible resources.
We must cease to be exclusively agri-
cultural. We must become more like
our Northern neighbors. We must
mine and manufacture and build and
get gain. W. must give our. youth
the motto of the willy Iago, "Put
money in thy purse, and again, put
money in thy purse but oh. It's
hard, and while saying it, we fall on
our knees and pray, Oh, God, keep bis
heart pure and his ideals high; and
we fill the shelves in his room with
the lives of England's heroes, and we
hang around the walls portraits of Lee
and Stonewall Jackson and Davis and
Maury and Hampton and Irgraham;
and we teach him, while acknowledge
ing the mightiness of this wonderful
country, to love with a great love, and
teach his children's children, the
story Of the "Lost Cause" Of his own
heroic Southern land.