The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-22

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the ostentation of the vulgar rich.
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In this connection we cannot for
bear quoting from an editorial pub
lished in the New York Outlook just
after the opening of the Exposition
last December. Speaking of Char
lesion, the editor said:
"Like some other smaller cities, it
impresses the Imagination far more
powerfully than most of the great
metro polises of the world. It's foun-
dations were laid by as fine a group
of men and women as any which
came from the Old World TO the
New. The French Huguenot brought
with him an enthusiasm for religion,
a sincerity of purpose, a passion of
conviction, quite as notable as his
brother colonists brought to New
England, with the grace of manner
and refinement of life which were,
in a peculiar sense, the possession of
the France of the seventeenth CEN
fury. This tradition of social grace
and dignity of life has been pre-.
served intact TO the present time.
Never Indifferent TO commercial suc-
cess, and rarely without commercial
commerce, Charleston has always
kept her ideals distinct from her
business, and has treated life as if
commerce were it's tributary and not
it's highest activity. To our great
and tumultuous civilization she has
contributed a note of idealism which
has been of high Importance. Some
times mistaken in fundamental mat
tiers, she has espoused every cause
with passionate ardor, and has poured
herself out with lavish generosity
for the principles in which she be-
lieves. Such a community may
make serious political blunders it
may not always read the signs of the
times Alright; but it oan never be
otherwise than interesting"
And Charleston and vicinity
abound in historic landmarks, chief
of which, of course, is Fort Su inter-,
where on April IL, 1851, was fred the
first gun of the greatest war of mod
ern times. In this city too, less than
four months before the representa-.
tives of the State of South Carolina
had met and formally seeded from
the Union-the first of the States to
take this action. And no one ever
leaves the CITY without seeing old st.
Miohael's Church, from whose spire
the attacking British ships were
sighted in the Revolutionary War
and on which Federal guns were
trained forty years ago. It's chimes
were captured by a British officer in
Revolutionary times, but recovered
and mutilsted by Sherman's men in
the Civil War, but re-cast in the
original mOlds, in all these years
never jangling out of tune save on
the night of the famous earthquake
of 1885. Near the city too is Fort
Moultrie, where, as every school boy
knows, Sergeant Jasper in the face of
the storm Of British shell replaced
the American flag. The grave of
Osceola, the Indian chief who led
the terrible Seminole War, is also
here
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1t looks as if we are not going to
leave room to say that President
Roosevelt visited the Exposition
while we we're there, and, standing
within cannon shot of the scenes
where North and South fought so
fercely years ago, repeated again the
truth shat a reunited country hon
Ors alike the blue and the gray. We
do nos know that we can close this
article more appropriately than by
quoting this paragraph from his
speech:
The wounds left by the great
Civil War, inoomparably the great
est war of modern times, have
healed; and it's memories are now
priceless heritages of honor alike TO
the North and TO the South. The
devotion, the self-saorifoe, the stead
fast resolution and lofty daring, the
high devotion TO the right as each
man saw it, whether Northerner or
SJusherner-all thege qualities of
the men and women OF the early
now shine luminous and bril-
liant before our eyes, while the
of anger and hatred that once