The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-19

western. North Carolina is more
plains than it is mountains, though
like other North Carolina things, our
mountains are higher than any in the
East"
1t would be an easy task to write
three column article for q Sunday
edition if one would read few ideas
of the Northern Know-Alls in regard
to our people in this dear but SLAM
dered Southland. Coming into the
South, if only for a few days, is often
an eye-opener TO Northerners of the
more liberal and intelligent type. The
Standard gives this:
zone of the distinguished men who
has been coming South with the Ogden
Educational party, who had just been
enjoying the first real experience of
Southern hospitality and Southern I'M
obtrusive piety, remarked with some
emphasis, after portraying q scene
that had touched him, the oid-fash-
toned custom of family prayers, We'll,
you have not abolished God from the
Universe The inference was, that
in his own section God has been too
much abolished from the Universe.
That is what too much liberty of
thought may lead to. And it is better
that thought itself be restrained, along
the lines of reverence, respect for the
moralities and regard for the deem
cies of life, than that liberty should
transcend those limits"
New England writer's within a few
years have exploited the low morals,
the decay of true religion and piety,
the deserted farms, the small families
and so on in that corner of the Uni
verse. There is not a shadow OF a
shade of doubt as to this assertion
that the women of the South lead the
North in purity, feminine virtues gen
orally, in domeSticity and a love of
home, in all that decorates and
adorns female life and character; that
the men are better bred, more OBJ
servant of the high moral principles
and practices that govern a civilized
life, and more chivalrous and abound
ing in true courtesy to the women;
that the people as a whole are more
sincere believers in God in His re-
vealed religion, in faithful observance
of the demands of the Bible--are, in q
word, more religious
One other quotation from DIR. Me-
Kelway's able editorial already drawn
upon:
The more any rightly constituted
person will explore this theme, the
more he will see that the distinctive
life of the South it's old-world beauty
and fragrance, its other world aspira-
tions, are largely due to that en-
forced restraint of liberty. that is the
inevitable result of the fear of the
Lord and the keeping of his command
ments."
Well said, and dyed in truth. 1t was
the fanatics and fools in New England
that caused really the tremendous war
If there had been no New England
there would never have been any war
between the two great sections The
old fanatics in their descendants We're
too strong for a reign of peace and
a wise, equal, just, constitutional
government. New England came near
breaking up the Union before Wash
ington's eight years of office expired.
They were breathing hot about it, and
working for disruption of the Union
from 1905 or 1906, until they got con-
troll of the government so as to get n
great advantage over the South in leg
islation. / can prove all this without
the least difficulty If it were necessary
to do so. The old anti-slaveIy fellows
with their vigorous natures tried to
crafty their deviltIy by misrepresent
ing the South in almost every particu
lar The Standard says partinently:
THE motive for such accusations
against the South is not far to seek.
The agitation for the abolition of
slavery had to justify itself by a pic
ture of the Southern master as a cruel
and lustful tyrant. Barring the pas
sion for reforming people at a dist
ance, if New England had known the
Southern master and the Southern ne
gro as they each were, the Civil War
would have been an impossibility and
the abolition of slavery would have
been a Southern problem wholly. The
North is generally willing now for the
South to deal with the negro problem
The willingness came fifty years too
late"
Through the decades | have been
drawing upon history and citing facts
to show the nature and cause and in
of Northern assaults upon
the real South. Although living al
ways, where morality, virtue, patriot
ism and high principles were involved,
in the thinnest of glass houses
built upon the most rotten of founda-
tons, they have been sorely and in
addicted to throwing the
raggedest stones. We cite another
passage from the Standard with some
figures:
And yet there are some things
even known to the Congregationalist, |
we suppose, that should prevent its |
throwing stones. What about the num- |
Der of divorces in New England as |
compared with those of the South }
In Georgia there are 100000 people ,
less than in Massachusetts. In Massa-
chusetts there are 100000 fewer chill |
dren of school age. Is race suicide |
good social ethics? There are 5000 |
more saloons in New York city than |
in all the Southern States.
And then, if that is what you are |
of, ask Professor Shaler to |
send you his monograph about the |
distinct races among the negroes of |
the South, from the light colored Arab |
TO the ebon Guinea negro, and study |
that question a little. Study it, too, |
IN the country, in the black belt, |
instead of in our cities. And then ask |
Suppose every bastard born |
IN Massachusetts, in two hundred and |
fifty years We're marked indelibly, and |
all his descendants to the tenth gen.
Grafton, whether inter-marrying with |
themselves or not, how many would |
One meet in the streets of Boston?'
The Standard has given US some |
reflections, and telling |
figures. The demolition is deserved, |
and based on .palpable facts. -
Scott's novels are still in the lead |
among the most successful sellers of
The greatest authors. While some of
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