The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-06-23
GREATLY PLEASED.
A Northern Mans Eyes Was Opened
at Chapel Hill.
Congressman Boutell, Takos oppor.
tunitY to Say Moe Things About
tho South and Her People.

tho South and Her People.
Congressman Fl. S. Boutell, of Hi.
nois, who recently delivered the com.
mencement address at Chapel Hill. N.
O., before the State University there.
saw many things Curing his visit
which gave him better insight into
conditions in the South than he had
previously enjoyed. The institution,
at which President Polk, Senator Ben.
ton and many other prominent South.
eTn statesmen graz Uated, was founded
In 1776, and maint'.ins high stand.
ard OF merit In all its departments. Yet
it has not lost the flavor OF the ole
times, said he, speaking OF It's at.
mosphere as center of plain living
and high thinking. This, coming from
Harvard graduate, is praise worth
nothing, as was his opinion that IL
would be q good plan II some Northern
yourg men would go there to study.
one of the striking revelations disclos
ed to him was that leading member
OF the graduating class, whom he judg
ed from his courtly bearing and fine
presence to belong to the oldarstocracy
or the South, proved to have CONF
from one room cabin in the North
Carolina mountains, who had arrived
at Chapel Hill without dollar and
earned his way through college. These
@xcuIsions into the South by Northern
statesmen should be made oftener. I,
would be we'll to send them there whet
young for more thorough comprehen
sion OF the country and people, but
there are few, however advanced in
age, who would not profit by better
acquaintance.
Mr. Boutell's visit, agreeable as Ii
was TO him In Its revelations touching
the standard OF educational institu
tions In the South, the courtesies shown
him and his recommendation In regard
to sending Northern youth to Chapel
Hill cannot but bear good fruit in pro
hotlng more national spirit. His
veiws are directly in the line of thosa
which have been recently expressed by
the Courier Journal upon the subject
and In keeping with the Spirit of late
addresses by Presidents Haaly, OF
Yale, and Eliot, Of Harvard. Especial
ly enlightening to the North is the
incident related by him of the young
graduate OF hum mbleantecendents whom
be mistook for one of aristocratic birth.
lt Will serve well to correct, an impress
sion TOO prevalent in the North that
wealth and high birth are essential
ror success In the South, and that the
poor man is practically barred from
hope OF rising in life. There never was
moreNgroundlesS idea, as the history
0f yuHn no 80
IN That section abundantly proves.
Andrew Jackson was the son of poor
Irish emigrants and he was
born In the Waxhaw settlement, near
the dividing line between North and
South Carolina, his father dying In
his infancy. He was a red.haired.
rreckle-faced, barefooted boy who cary.
cd his way to fame over all his more
aristocratic associates Henry Clay was
known as the MillboY of the Sashes
a locality near Hanover Courthouse
| Va, where he was born. Yet no two
men we're OF more distinctly Southern
and American type. The list could be
extended Indefinitely to prove that in
The South personal merit and capacity
are quite as distinctively the qualities
which win success as In the North.
The result Of Mr.. B1utell's visit
cannot but prove beneficial in tending
to desectionalize education and pro.
mote a better understanding among
the educated class in the North Of con
ditions as they exist In the South, not
only In regard to education, but in all
other material facts There Is no part
Of the Union in which education Is
commanding more attention, rot only
as to the white, but also the black
race, as to which, with limited excep.
tlons, there is equal interest with equal
support from the public treasury.
What Is especially needed now is Just
such enlighteping OF the Northern
mind as has resulted from the visit OF
MIR. Boutell to Chapel Hill. That one
OF such otherwise wide information
and long prominence in public life
should not sooner have become inform,
ed upon the subj ject, is the key to much
or the lingering sectional feeling
which exists between the North and
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