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

A Northern Mans Eyes Was Opened
!; at Chapel Hill.
Congressman Boutell, Takes Oppor,
tunitY to Say Nice Things About
the South and Her People,
Congressman 81. 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 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.
sTn statesmen graduated, was founded
IN l776. and maintains high stand.
ard or merit in all its departments. Yet
1t 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 II
would be good plan II some Northern
youpg men would go there to study.
one OF the striking revelations disclos
ed to him was that a leading member
! OF the graduating class. whom he iudg
ed from his courtly bearing and foe
presence to belong to the old daristocracy
OF the South, proved to have come
from one.room cabin in tho North
Carolina mountains, who had arrived
AZ chapel Hill without dollar and
earned his way through college. These
excursions into the South by Northern
statesmen should be made oftener. /,
would be well to send them 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 better
acquaintance.
Mr. BoutelFs visit, agreeable as II
was to him in It's revelations touching
the standard OF educational institu
tionsin 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
noting more national spirit. His
veiws are directly in the line of thosa
Whlch have been recently expressed BY
the Courier Journal upon the subject
and In keeping with the Spirit of late
addresses by Presidents Hadly, OF
Yale, and Eliot, of Harvard. Especial
ly enllghtening to the North is the
incident related by him of the young
graduate OF humbleantecendents whom
ne m1stook for one Of aristocratic birth
LIZ will serve well to correct an impress.
sion too prevalent in the North that
wealth and high birth are essential
Tor success In the South, and that the
poor man Is practically barred from
hope OF rising in life. There never was
a more'2roundless idea, as the history
OF men who have attained eninsnce
In that section abundantly proves.
Andrew Jackson was the son of poor
Scotch-lrish 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 ed-haired,
freckle-faced, barefooted boy who cary.
cd his way to fame over all his more
aristocrattc associates Henry Clay was
known as the Millboy of the Slashes
a locality near Hanover Courthouse
Va, where he was born. Yet no twt
men we're Of more distinctly Southern
and American type. The list could bs
extended indefinitely to prove that IL
the South personal merit and ca pacit,
are quite as distinctively the qualitle
which win success az in the North.
The result Of Mr.. Boutell's visi
cannot but prove beneficial in teudins
to desectonalize education and pro
mote better understanding anon,
The educated class in the North OF con
ditions as they exist In the South, no
only In regard TO education, but in al
other material facts There Is no par
OF the Union in which education J
commanding more attention, rot onl
as to the white, but also the blacl
race, as to which, with limited eXcep
lions, there is equal interest with equa
support from the public treasury
WHAT Is especially needed now is jus
such enlighteDing of the Northern
mind as has resulted from the visit O
MIR. Boutell to Chapel Hill. That or
OF such otherwise wide information
and long prominence in public lif
should not sooner have become inform
ed upon the subj ect, is the key to muc
of the lingering sectional feelin
which exists between the North an
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