The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-06-29
BILL ARP SAYS IT'S SAD
That Picture Painted Of the New
England People
BY ONE OF THEIR PREACHERS
Who Tells the MaSSsohuseis FOLKS nov
Wicked and Utterly Deprsvss The, Ap-
pear.
''Ill fares the land. to Fastening ills

Where wealth aecumulates aud men
decay"
How doth history repeat itself IL
Goldsmith had have lived 90 our day
he might have written those lines
about New England. Was there ever
such . sad and pitlful picture drawn OF
any people as that New England
preacher has drawn of the country
people Of Massachusetts, and has pub
lished In the Arena We wonder that
the editor Of that high-toncd IN magazine
would dare to expose the descendants
OF the Puritans in all their hideous
deformity and 70 broadcast il among
the citizens Of cultured Boston. The |
story of their degradation physically |
is worse than what We read abont Of |
the goitre districts OF Switzerland. |
Six fingers on each hand, ak
toes on each foot, cross-eyes,
hare-lips, club-feet, muf,ie chopa,
mntes. dwarfs and idiots seem TO be
common in every rural community.
But the degeneracy morally is still
worse for this preacher says when
there is a gathering from neih hboring
towns at cattle chow or other attrac-
ton you will see as wicked O throng OF
human creatures as ever gathered at
White Chapel CT the Five Points, and
that the pens or prisons built for
drunken rowdies are filed before g
o'clock in the morning and these hood
lums insult every woman they meet.
and when night comes both men and
women revel in the wild orgies of
promiscuous dance. And yet some OF
those Boston editors are still crying
stop thief" to distract public atten.
ton from their own shame. Once be-
fore have alluded to Mr.. Stetson's
statement that the marriage relation in
Massachusetts is almost a nullity, and
that separations are more common
than legal divorces. Not long since
another New England writer astound-
cd the public by declaring that in
| many towns and villeges the sound of
the Sabbath bell was never heard, nor
the church door ever opened and re-
dgion was going rapidly into disuse
and innocuous desuetude.
What does all this mean? Has the
Almighty God turned His back upon
that historic ground and given the
devil free reign over its people? Has
it come to this that q man who preachec
holiness or sanctifications is Iynched
with tar and feathers and made to leave
the country. If a negro commits an
outrage in that once holy land does il
take guards and police and the militia
to keep the mob off of him? And yet
the Boston Transcript say 5 that Georgia
is several generations behind New Eng.
land dinrefinement and morals. "How are
the mighty fallen" When We find that
in The Arena q preacher is allowed to
take for his text, 'The Degeneracy
and Decay of Rural New England"
Their condition is amazing, pathetic,
helpless Tie land of Webster, Choate.
Pierce and Hawthorne is now ito
Fastening ills prey" for as wealth &C.
cumulates in Boston men decay around
it. This preacher says 'the mills are
built, but the farms are all mortgsged." "
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, Gallo.
way, of The Macon Telegraph, and be
talked in raptures abont a new book
an EDglishmau's history of the United
States. Percy Greg bas written two
volumes about us, and it is q mastery
production-no nothing SO thorough, &c
philosophic, SO just to all the factors.
old England, New England snd the
south, has ever been written. The
author is an Englishman, noted
traveller, q scholar high-toned. un
prejudiced and as entertaining as Ma
cauley. I sent to Richmond for it tc
the Everett Waddey Company, who
published the American edition. AND
eagerly have perused and enjoyed it.
: This edition has an admirable prefsc,
: by General Wade Hampton. TLis bool
is two comprehensive fox the schools
but every man of leisure should have
copy in his house to feed upon-t,
feed mind and memory, and be estab
lished IN the faith of our fathers. Fror
my Utmost heart, thank Mr.. Gre
for writing this history while I still
live, for feel that at last the eouth hs
been vindicated tJ q master mind
Every page gives comfort, and tha
portion about our civil war and il
causes and consequences makes th
. southern spirit burn within you and
y feeling of thankful pride is revived
J. the southern breast. Yes, it makes m
. feel calm and serene.
Here is another book that the -uthG
has just sent me through the mail. II
70 title is ''The Case of the South Again
the North, by Hon. B. F. Grady,
h cultured son of North Carolina sn
v late q member of congress from th'
state-and q confederate veteran {
:. four years soldier service. ha,
:, only had time to glance over its col
. tents, but have read enough TO kno
y that 1t will be another valuable educ
- tor in our schools, and will estsblif
the truth in the minds Of our your
10 people. The long be!ated south
or making her own literature now. thar
10 the Lord for His mercies. Here is
70 beautiful little book Of poems by Re
ie Ii. 4, Wingard. Of Columbia. S.
ed Nv friend, E. 4. Aull. of The Ne,
d berry News, published it and sent
re COPY to me- This Lutheran preach
is no mere rhymer; he is true poe
b. and many of his poems are as perfe
gems as ever Hsyne or Timrod wro,
O. some of them remind one of Cowp
<. and Goldsmith. They are as tend
:. and true as classic. Tho verses g.
cross, no crown" are exquisite, and
pc are the lines in memorism of WinE
.te Davis.
II And here have some numbers
- The Midland Monthly, of st. Lou
Fs' that is an admirable magazine, q
at one entirely fsir and iust to the sou'
he Ny fried, Berianin T.. Green,
M Laltoni was sent on q secret mission
:. Cuba aid St Domingo. in 1S48.
- P1esidd' Taylor and recently