The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-29
The Peoples Journal.
PICkENS s. g.
WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN?
RIIL ARP SAYS IT'S SAD.

a Picture of tho New EhRHaho ooPio
nv Ono of Their Preachcrs-S0me
Recent Books OF Southern Authors.
"Jl fares the land, to fastening ills
prey, ,. 1900, ~ u,
Where wealth accumuia'cS "'o HUI oo-
cay"
How doth history repeat itself. Ii
Goldsmith had have lived to our day
he might have written those lines
about Now England. Was there ever
such sad and pitiful picture drawn OF
any people as that New England
preacher has drawn of the country peO
pic OF Massachusetts and has published
in The Arena. We wonder that the
editor of that high-toned magazine
would dare to expose the descendants
of the Puritans in all thoir hideous
deformity and to broadcast it among
the citizens of cultured Boston. The
story of their degradation physically
Ia worse than what we read about OF
the goitre districts Of Switzerland.
Six fingers on each hand, six toes on
each foot, crOss-eycs, haro-lips, cluS-
feet, mutlle chops, mntcs, dwarls anu
Idiots seem to be common In every
rural community. But the dcgeneracy
morally is still worse, for this preacher
says when there is q gathering from
other attraction you will sec Rs wicked
q throng OF human creatures DIS ever
gathered at White Chapel or the Five
Points, and that the pens or prisons
built for drunken rowdics arc tillc0
before 9 O'Clock in the morning anu
these hoodlums insult evcry woman
they meet, and when night comes both
men and women rcvcl In the wild
orgies of q prOmiscuOus dance. And
yet some Of those Boston editors are
still crying "Stop thief :" to distract
public attention from their own shame.
Once before | have alluded to MIR.
Stcts On's statement that the marriage
relation in massachusetts is almost Il
nulllty, and thnt separations are more
common t an legal divorces. Not long
since another New England writer
astounded the public by declaring that
in many towns and villages tho sound
Of the Sabbath bell was never heard,
nor the church door ever opened and
religion was going rapidly into disuse
and lnnOCuOuS dCSuctudc.
What does all This mean? Has the
Almighty God turned His back upon
that historic ground and given the
devil free -ciGn over It's people? Has
1t come to this that man who breaches
holiness or sauctiication is lynched
with tar and feathers and made to
leave the country. If q negro commits
an outrage in that once holy lard docs
it take guards and police and the
militia to keep the mob of of him ?
And yet The Boston Transcript says
that Georgia Is several generations
behind New England in refinement and
morals. How arc the mighty fallen :"
when We find that in The Arena q
preacher is allowed to take his text,
" The Degeneracy and Decay Of Rural
New England" Their condition is
amazing, pathetic, helpless. The land
OF Webster, Choate, Pierce and Haw-
thorne is now to hastening ills q
prey,' for as wealth accumulatcs in
Boston men decay around it. This
preacher says "the mills arc built, but
the farms are ali mortgaged." Then,
what Will become Of the factory girls
when the mills are all moved South to
the cotton, where they are obliged to
come, or close? Not long ago Travelled
with my good friend, Galloway, OF The
Macon Telegraph, and he talked in
rapturcs about a new boOk-an English
mans history OF the United States.
Percy Greg has written two volumes
about us, and it is Il mastery produc.
tlon-nothing so thorough, SO phjloso-
phic, SO just to all the factors, old Eng
land, New England and the South, has
ever been written. The author is an
Eng llshman, a noted traveller, scholar,
hlgh-toned, unprcjudiced and as enter
talnlng as Macaulay. | sent to Rich
mond for it to the Everett Waddcy
Company, who published the Ameri-
can edition, and eagerly have pcrused
and enjoyed it. This edition has an
admirable preface by General Wade
Hampton. This book is too conpre-
hensive for the schools, but every man
OF leisure should have q copy in his
house to feed upon-to feed mind and
memory, and be established in the faith
Of our fathers. From my inmost heart,
thank MIR. Greg for writing this his
tory while | still live, for feel that at
last the South has been indicated by
master mind. Every page gives
comfort, and that portion about our civil
war and it's causes and consequences
makes the Southern spirit burn within
you and feeling Of thankful pride is
revived in the Southern breast. Yes,
1T makes me feel calm and serene.
Here is another book that the author
mas just sent me through tho mail.
us Title Is "Ihe Case OF the South
Against the North," by Hon. b. f..
lima and late d member Of Congress
from that State-and a Confederate
veteran OF four years soldier service.
L have onl y had time to glance over its
contents, but have read enough to
know that it will be another valuable
educator in our schools, and will cstab
lish the truth in The minds Of our
young people. The long bclated South
ls making her own literature now,
thank the Lord for His mcrcies. Here
ls q beautiful little book OF poems by
tey. e. A. Wingard, OF Columbia, S. !
G. My friond, T.. A. Aull, of The New
berry News, published it and sent IL
copy to me. These poets seem to come
up in night. This Lutheran preacher
ls no mere rhymcr; he is Il true poet. |
and many Of his poems arc as perfect |
gems as ever II yno or Timrod wrote ;
some OF them remind one OF Cowpcr |
and Goldsmith. They are as tender
and true as classic. The verses mo |
cross, no crown" are exquisite, and
50 are the lines in memoriam OF Winnie |
Davis.
And here l have some numbers of |
The Midland Monthly, OF ST. Louis,
that is an admirable magazine, and |