The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-05-09
"The South Not Indictable.


fed in the better understanding ~
conditions prevailing in TINS !ne
greatest section of a great country
which has gradually dawned upon ana
is taking hold of ournorthern oreTnre"
a-o+i6ed not because the erroneous
view which has largely prevalleo mas
burt the south, for the southern peo.
o1a have those qualities OF mind ana
heart which can not but make a peo-
ple great, in spite OF all ooS'ac'es
which may be thrown IN their pa'h-
vav; but gratifed, in that Our north-
ern brethren are gradually becoming
more enlightened and less deserving
Of contempt for their little knowledge
of our common country. The tollo"-
mo editorial. taken from a recent Is
eue Of the Buffalo, N. Y, Evening
News shows this better understand
inc of southern conditions when mas
gradually been brought about IN INC
north. and is written in spirit OF 1a'l-
ness which makes it worthy OF repro
dnc1ion in southern newspapers:
Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart. historian
man Of letters and professor OF MS
tory in Harvard University, cheertully
undertakes task that staggered the
mighty intellect of Edmund Burke
He indicts whole people. IN the IN
denendent Dr.. Hart condemns the
eo,,th for sluggishness. scantiness OF
rsorrces even to grinding poverty
uncertainty of labor, race antagonlsm
IGNORANCE, lack of educational faclll.
ties exclusiveness of the 5000 DIG
families and race mixture.
Such IN assault as that Of DR.. Hart
directed against vast populatlon' Is
mich discussed and with no little
warmth in many instances. IN 1ru'i
# is hardly worth that attenuon
u1hen the United STATES reached the
oo;nt Of being able to laugh at thf
s1nrs Of foreign writers on the u1lloi
# marked the beginning OF the perlo'
NJ real national independence -An(
n this case though many replies com'
~ from the south with something 0
the odor of the bottomless pit aOou
them the general feeling is one 0
COZ. .mpt for,s such caricature OF tina
sec+;on as DR.. Hart has drawn.
For nothing appeals more strongl:
~ American pride OF country an
osss;on. of achievement than the pro
oress made by the south IN 1ort
YEARS. Or since the close of the CIV
war; 1t is without parallel in history
and in itself is the .annlhllatlng answe
to the indictment Of all such writer
as DR. Hart. Whenever disparagln
statements of the kind he has pr'nte
are given any notice at al II IS III
o,;niou Of the News that the Drle
est recital Of what the south has az
comnlished in the last four decades
material and intellectual directions
at once the best and the most Instru
rive wav to overcome assertions e
sentially false however we'll intention
ed.
Henry w. Grady, in the mo
eroouent speech that ever tell fro
American lips, described the condltie
of the south in the first hour OF q
feat in terms as profoundly TRUTH
as they were passionately sympathe
;c In brief, the south then lay und
a curse Of poverty and demorallzati(
deeper than civilized men ever kne
before and all the more intense ITO
contrast with the easy abundance
generations preceding the turrla
h,,st Of war. Make comparison al
way you please between the soutn
1865 and the south of 1905 ana L
Hart is answered in fashion to
f,,te him utterly. The test OF pc
ple's quality is never found merely
the position it holds at partlcul
moment. Its starting point, its DIRE
ton Of movement and the distance
has made are even of more wele
than that in forming sound JUG
nant of the question OF gene: