The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1902-05-16

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southern man was the inventor of the
Gatling gun; the Inventor of the ma
machinery that first propelled boat
by steam was a Southern man, James
Rumsey; the first steamship that
crossed the Atlantic went from a
southern city, Savannah, Ca, whose
name it bore and whose citizens had
it built, and its engine was construct
ed by southern man, Daniel Dodd.
The inventor Of ihe first comprehen-
sive system of ciphers used by the
Associated press, Alexander Jones',
and the first pyrotechnic system of
signals in the United States, Henry
L. Rogers; and the author of interna-
tional fog signals, Samuel P. Griffin;
each of these was soutern man.
That which has been pronounced
the most original discovery ever made
in physical science by an American
was made by southern man, Henry
Draper, discoVerer of oxygen in the
sun. by photography; the physician
who first used sulphuric ether to pro-
duce anaesthesia for surgical opera
tions, Crawford W. Long, the success
full performer Of the operation for ex-
tlrpatiOn Of the OVary on record, the
father of ovariotomy, Ephriden Nc
Dowell; the man distinguished as the
greatest lithOt0mist of the nineteen
eth century, and the worlds greatest
gynecOlogist, j. Marion Sims, were
all southern men.
The most learned American miner
ologist, John Lawrence Smith, the
greatest American naturalist, Audu-
bon; the most famous American mu-
sician, Gottschalk, the artist known
as the American Titan" AllStOn,
the greatest American architect, Har-
ry H. Richardson, and the worlds
greatest chess player, Paml Morphy
were all southern men, as are the
greatest American tragedian, Edwin
Booth, and the most noted American
.dramatist, Augustus DAILY.
In the revolutionary war the deeds
and sacrifices Of the south were'@un=
surpassed, and all the colonies did
their part, the facts as to the south
are presented without any intention
Of minimising the patriotic and noble
efforts Of the other colonies. The
object now is to get justice for the
south in these days when full credit
is sometimes denied. maryland,
Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia
in supply of nen, money and muni-
tion were as prompt and liberal as
we're their confederates. 1t might be
easily shown even with SCant memo
randa that the south in expense and
battles and soldiers bore her full
share in the struggle for indepen-
denee In Baltimore the first CTuiS'
erS were fitted out, which were the
pioneers Of the American navy, and
Maryland furnished more than twen-
ty thousand men to the revolutionary
army. In 1890 the white male popu-
latiOn over 16 years of age in Penn
Sylvania and Virginia was about the
same, the former being 1IO,7S and
the latter 10, 1874, and yet in the
official record presented to the first
congress by the secretary of war, Gen.
Henry Knox, Of Mass, Pennsylvania
furnished "a, $50 soldiers and Virgin
ia Sc, 72I; New Hampshire had mil
itary population 513 larger than
South Carolina, and she contributed
IA, 9O6 soldiers and South Carolina
13. 131. The latter quota is nearly
equal to that of Pennsylvania, which
had triple the military population
and twice the total population, free
and slave. South Carolina outnum-
bered New York troops 20, 1886, altho'
New York had more thnn forty per
cent. more of total population; Con
necticut and Massachusetts did more
than any other state (not southern),
and yet South Carolina sent to its
armies 81 out Of every 42 citizens Ca
pable of bearing arms, Massaceu-
setts sent 80: Connecticut sent 30;
Naw HamnChira 18 At the north