The weekly intelligencer., 1898-03-26

the southern people Among those
no AT acked ha mI~chi-yoti, monster.
Mr. Clay deserves Il high place oi
honor. Il l. unfortunate tiaJ every
one who dill au2ht against tha b,ntal
institution Vas upt fire from uta.a.1,y.
M"re than once Mr.. Giag aa~ oN-
pressed himself abouI hi, la'a marriage
III d. vay mat III suits oaa ,gho H-.asJ
ID destroy slavery lie calls Jae v3uIa @
he married p 'spensaut." l'-a-aut
sImr1- means one who lives ia The
conncrr and ri'ls the soil. or y7orks
otherwise. Careful study wlil show
that ar.Stocracy originates in the fact
! that long time ago very large men
! from the north of Europe went south
and west and conquered and enslaVed
men who were smaller and therefore
no match for them in fight. Then
those who first learned to make armnr
| Overcame those who had none. Romans
! took the children of Gaals and made
/ slaves of them. Franks took the
noblest Roman knights and mobiles and
made slaves of them and put them at
the most menial ~mployments; and
made cOncubInes OF their wives and
! daughters. "furn, fortune, turn thy
wheel, and lower the proud has been
| sung and put into action many times
| III the worlds history. The sages of
! the Norsemon tell of the purchase of q
! slave, on the Baltic, who had been a
queen in her day. Among persons of
pure Aryan blood, today we have no
way of telling which ones have the
nf fnI nf L
their veins Vanderbilt, who today
says haughtiIy''the people be damned"
bears a name that shows that ho is
descended from a serf who titled the
fields of his master; for 1t is from Van
de Velde, Dutch name meaning s'of
the field" and was gwen to tell him
from brother serf who was called
Van den Hof, of the court yard, or
stable serf. His coachman may be
descended from kings TO call the
woman peasant might be excused In
as old man; but 1t tells of the aristo-
cratic fUllies of the society in which he
spent his earlier days.
L suppose few men have lived an
eventful life, especially on the frontier,
who have not had disagreeable occur
rences with other men and wished to
Kill certain ones. Many man doubt
less has been restrained from killing
another from fear of the distress It
would bring on those near and dear to !
the doer of the deed, however justId- !
able. julius Caesar thought the death |
penalty too light a punishment for |
some crimes; for he said so far us we |
know, whatever we may believe about |
nd 80
ever wants to be sure that his enemy
will suffer will wish 10 see him live
long. He knows that sorrow, anxiety,
disease, grief, pains of many kinds,
hopes-a long train Of
mental and bodily suffering will rack
and torture him. Whoever hates map (
thoroughly ought to wish that he may
have very long life; for the chances are
that he will suffer much more than if
cut off. There Is no philosophy in kill-
ing your enemy, however much you
may be justified in doing it-unless he |
De some monster who ought to bs |
removed from field 10 which he can |
do mischief and harm.
Many and many man has done his |
share towards keeping up Kentucky's |
right to the name of ''rhe Dark aud |
Bloody Ground - How very few of |
her sons names are ON the roll of honor |
as dignity ing and honnrInS mankind !
by their helpful dIScoverl-sl Yet il Is
not for want of ability. A physician |
who once lived here tOld me thar the |
discovery OF the fact known as the cor
relation of forces; that heat, light, |
motion. electricity, magnetism aud !
cn-mieal affinity are fOi ms of the Same |
force aud are Iransmiiabls INTO each |
ot her-a discovery that has made |
famous the names of Helnholrz, !
MaSc julie and Others-wus anIicI-
pated by doctor prHctIcIng on
country circuit III kentucky But sucn
mnn in that community al thai uue
might s5 well have been in desert, 30
far as finding cungenIal minds wllh
whom he could exchange ideas on
dead scientific subject went.
1t is common TO excuse the many
personal encounters among the edu-
Gated men OF the south by saying ii Is
due 10 ''hot southern blood" Bat in
point of fact the soul hern people are
mainly of northern descent IN Europe
Most of the Historical suruameS in
LuSItI VII * IIllb aIS NOIWtRldhs -NOTlO !
Scotch: Mary land and Della
ware, Welsh and Swedish Even the
French stock in South Carolina WAS
largely of Huguenot which was Ger
manic blood. The true explanation is
4 very different Que, and perhaps less
to our credit Than if the cause were in
Lhe blood. In very old times in the
north of Europe there were certain
known as Berserks-a name
thought to have meant bear SKIN shirts.
In battle or in duels (and battles then
we're but a series of duels) they would
become subject To what was
called the Berserk. fury or madness.
fhey frothed at the mouth in rage, lost
all fear of death or suffering, and even
Dit the rims of their shields as they 9,
Ready to advance on an enemy. They
we're uncommOnly good swordsBen
and Injured to every hardship that man
could endure. behevo that the un-
fortunate disposition that manifests
itself among the men of the south lead
ing them into these fatal affrays tor
causes is an inheritance
from scandinavian forefathers of this
ype. The worst service that anyone
can do tho Young men of the south is
10 make them think 1t is admiral Bile. IL
IS time that we get on Il higher plane;
and it can be done without any loss ot
rue courage.