The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-06-23
GREATLY PLEASED.
A Northern Mans Eyes Was Opened
at Chapel bill.

- ~sSA en0AA man hyeb was Upeuet
at Chapel Hill.
Congressman Boutell, Takes Oppor.
tunity to Say Moe Things About
the South and Her People.
Congressman Fl. S. Boutell, of Hi.
nois, who recently delivered the com.
mencement address at Chapel Hill. N.
u, before the State University there.
saw many things during his visit
which gave him better insight into
conditions in the South than he had
previously enjoyed. The institution,
az which President Polk, Senator Ben.
ton and many other prominent South.
efn statesmen graduated, was founded
IN l776. and maintains high stand
ard OF merit in all its departments. Yet
IL mas not lost the flavor OF the OLD
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 II
would be a good plan If some Northern
Young men would go there to study
one OF the striking revelations disclos
ed TO him was that leading member
or the graduating class, whom he judg
ed from his coGrtly bearing and fine
presence to belong to the old aristocracy
of 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
fxcuTsions into the South by Northern
statesmen should be made oftener. Il,
would be well to send the m there whe1
young for more thorough comprehen
sion Of the country and people, but
there are few, however advanced in
age, who would not profit by a better
acquaintance
Mr. Boutells visit. agreeable as II
was TO him In It's revelations touching
the standard OF educational institu
tionsin the South, the cour tesies shown
him and his recommendation In regard
20 sending Northern youth to Cbapel
Hill cannot but bear good fruit in pro
motlog more national spirit. His
Veiws are directly in the line of thosa
whlcn have been lecently expressed by
the Courier Journal upon the snbjact
and In keeping with the Spirit of late
addresses by Presidents Hadly, OF
Yale, and Eliot, OF Harvard. Especial
~ enlightening to the North is the
incident related by him Of the young
graduate OF hum BILE leantecendents whom
ne mlstook Tor one Of aristocratic birth.
lt Will serve we'll to correct an impress
sion too prevalent In the North that
wealth and high birth are essential
for success in the South, and that the
poor man is practically barred from
nope OF rising In life. There never was
more groundless idea, as the history
OF men who have attained eminsnce
IN that section abundantly proves.
Andrew Jackson was the son of poor
Scotch-1rish 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,
freckle-fa"ed, barefooted boy who cary,
cd his way to fame over all his more
arlstocratic associates. Henry Clay was
known as the Millboy of the Slashes,
locality near Hanover Courthouse
Va, where he was born. Yet 10 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 az in the North.
The result OF Mr.. B0utells visit
cannot but prove bene fetal 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 excap.
tions, there is equal interest with equal
support from the public treasury
What is especially needed now is lust
such enlighteDing OF the Northern
mind as has resulted from the visit OF
MIR. Boutell to Chapel Hill. That one
or such otherwise wide information
and long prominence in public life
should not sooner have become inform
ed upon the subj act, is the key to mucf
vi tile lingering sectional fee!!ns
which exists between the North an6
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