The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-31
Bill Apps Weekly Letter.
Continued from First Page.)

at home. Something must be done ana
done quick or the old Puritan race Will
became extinct. | reckon these colored
graduates would make good missionaries.
They have never tried anything else.
When my good friend Mr.. T. K. Ogles-
by sent me his book, Some Truths OF
H~istory-The South Vindicated,' | was
too sick to peruse it carefully. Since /
have gotten better / nave reread it
every page-and am free to say it is the
most comforting little book Of $50 pages
| have yet found. 1t is mastery and
as true and solid as a stone wall. He
has certainly indicated the South and
nailed the lies and SANDERS to the mast
head. / feel like l nave a defender in
mine own household, and yet there IS
not a malignant expression in it. 1t is
gracefully done and would bring conVic-
ton to any mind, north or south, that
was open to conviction. Every youth in
the land should buy q copy and absorb
it's contents, for it is as readable as a
romance. I egard it as the best con
tribution to Southern historical literature
that has yet appeared. c~n1 So to
Mr.. Oglesby, No. s South Broad street,
Atlanta, Ga. 1t seems to me that this
book would convert q Northern fanatic
and if it converted only one it would
save q soul from death and hide q null
titude of sins. And there has recently
come to me the March number of The
Alkahest, a f1rst-class Southern maya
zine, and l find in it a very remarkable
i article, The Stages of Civilization" by
Mr.. Frank Orme, of Atlanta. | did not
think that the Frank Orme | used to know
was old enough to have written an arti-
Gle 50 scientific, SO philosophical. so Hulk
ley-like on the races of mankind. Most
of the article is an analytical history
of the principal races and the causes
that contributed to their advancement
or their decay. The latter part deals
gently and fairly with the negro and
our efforts to elevate and refine him
by education. From Mr.. Ormc's view
point and the laws of ~ethnology and
biology this cannot be done and the eff
fort Will be in vain. but 1 nave not
time or space to review his admirable
treatise. Let our thoughtful men, wise
men, our learned professors in the col
leges read it and they Will find abundant
food for thought and serious reflection.
Mr.. Ormc seems as familiar With enth-
nology. biology, a~nthropology. sociology
and all the other ologies, as Huxley or
Humboldt or Daring. We old veterans
are pleased TO see our young men talk
ing hold Of these things. Ever since
the war our people have seemed almost
paralyzed for fear of making their con
diction more intOlerable by talking, but OF
late there is a renewal of independence
and younger men are coming to the front.
The sale of Henry r. Jackson's great
speech on The Wanderer" has exceed
ed my expectations and it was Il young
man who projected that-not for money
but for the diffusion Of knowledge.
And here is a long article in a Des
Moines paper from a woman who has
been recently travelling through Texas
hunting for something she wanted to
find and she found it. 1t was some very
| high weeds in the front yard Of one
Homeland at another house was a wo-
man sitting on a log dipping snuff and
she had lost all her front teeth. An
other discovery was that Texas women
| cont do anything. They won't work the
garden or raise chickens or churn the
butter and if one was caught at it she
would be taken UP and put in a glass
| case and sent to the ST. Louis fair as a
curiosity. What a malignant slandereT
she it. She winds up by saying that the
| people there hate the negro so bad that
if the whole race had but one neck they
would Choir it off. l know Texas from
east to west and north to south and the
| people will average we'll with the better
| class in the older States. When Will these
| SANDERS cease? The March number Of
The Review Of Reviews has a most ex-
| cellent editcsial on the South and her
| people. IT is Kind and considerate until
it gets to Roosevelt and It gives him
the most fulsome praise and declares
| that ne is our friend. But l want Mr..
| Shaw to tell me if he can about when
| will Roosevelt "retract his published
ISLANDERS of Jefferson Davis and make
! an apology to his widow. That's what l
| want to know and until he does that no
) words of praise will prove him to be
| either 2 gentleman or 2 friend.
BILL ARP.