Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-06-10

Nothing good can come out of Naz
areth" seems to be the cry. Our
fortunate brothers from the North
come down among us aud with
honeyed lips say: "Look at the
great Liberty Bell, the most precious
historical relic in the possession of
the American people. We bring it
and give it to you, for the time. It's
a token of the brotherly love we
have for you. 1t represents re.
united people-pcace on earth good
will toward men. No more North,
no more South, now and forever, one
and inseperable." And we are
tickled almost to death at their
words. In our natural warmth of
heart we are unable to do enough
for them. When their season of de-
parture has come, they fit to their
frigid climes, whore, in perfect se-
curity, they chuckle and chatter
among themselves about how they
have us fooled. AS proof OF their
by rocrisy, look at the discrimination
shown in the appointment of men to
fill public Offices. OF the twenty
two trustees elected for the great
National University which is to be
for the whole countryr-as much for
the South as for the North--how
many come from the South? Two.
There are twice as many from the
State of New York alone as from
the entire South--this "beautiful
southland" as they call it. If the
Southern boy be 30 weak and un-
principled as to show himself espe-
oially anxious to win favor at the
bands of the national clique, there is
an opportunity for him to obtain
handsome sums for his services and
to win a world-w wide notoriety. Ac-
cording to some, lad of yesterday
has done this very thing. To-day
he may be rich, but South Carolina
does not own him. There is moth
ing more pitiable, touching and dis
gusting than>to see q poor, foolish,
short sighted, little follow curl him
self up like NANCY cur and COM
placently lick the hand which holds
the dagger that is to rob him of his
life's blood. Who does this is not q
true Southern son. Although there
be lack of means almost lamenta-
BILE, although the social condition is
fearful, although the political condi-
tion is rotten to the core, the true
Southern boy does not sell his birth
right for mess of red pottage; but
in his poverty, with his black brother
by his side, confronted by all the
schemes and filth and rottenness of
the political condition, he determines,
by Gods help, to scale the pearly
heights of earthly glory and stand
within the portals of success and
pluck the ripening fruit of his toll,
sorrow and adversely.
We've studied briefly few of the
disadvantages that perplex the South
ern boy. Let us now turn to some
of his advantages.
The first thing to which
| wish to call your attention,
in the way of advantages, is that the
Southern boy has blood in his veins
blood rich and life-giving-trans-
mitted from father to son, from gem
feration to generation until to-day,
with all its noble richness and purity,
it courses through the veins of the
Southern boy, giving vigor to his
body, warmth to his heart-making
him the purest and noblest type of
the Caucasian race. His fore-parents
were not people fleeing from justice
at home, nor were they men and wo-
men seeking more wealth, riches and
honor; but, instead they were men
and women seeking whereupon to
establish the most brilliant oiviliza-
ton that ever dazzled the eyes of
the world. We have but to recall a
few old, familiar names to remember
that our ancestors were of the first
of the land; and if you will recall
some of their heroic deeds, you will
clearly see that they were noble in
as well as out of action. Talk about
Hobson-the greatest of modern he
roes-when thirty.six sons of the
South, in crews of nine each, lost
their lives in trying to use the first
torpedo boat ever constructed, and
the thirty-seventh was as willing and
anxious as the first. Hobson pales
as does the moon before the rising
sun when such q name as Lieut..
G. E. Dixon, who destroyed the
Housatonic in our own old Charles
ton harbor, is pronounced. Thus the
lad is rendered proud of his descent
and keen with enthusiasm - fired