The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
GREATLY PLEASED.
A Northern Mans Eyes Was Opened
at Chapel Hill

at Chapel Hill
Congressman BouteIl, Takes Oppor
tunitY to Say Nice Things about
the South and Her People.
Congressman q. S. Boutell, Of Hi
nois, who recently delivered the con-
nencement address at Chapel Hill, n
c., before the State University there
saw many things during his visit
which gave him better insight iDtc
conditions in the South than he hao
previously enjoyed. The institution,
at which President Polk. Senator Ben,
ton and many other prominent South
ern statesmen graduated, wss founded
In 1776, and maintains high stand
a-d OF merit in all it's departments. Yet
it has not lost the favor Of the old
times, said he, speaking OF it's at.
mospheTe as q center Of plain living
and high thinking. This, coming from
Harvard graduate, is praise worth
nothing, as was his opinion that it
would be a good plan if some Northern
Souug 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 be judg.
d from his courtly bearing and fac
presence to belong to the old aristocracy
Of the South, proved to have come
from a one room cabin in the North
Carolina mountains, who had arrived
at Chapel Hill without a dollar and
earned his way through college. These
zcu.sions into the South by Northern
statesmen should be made oftener. 1t
would be well to send them there when
?oung for more thorough comprehen
sion Of the country and people, but
there are few, however advanced in
sge, who would not profit by a better
acquaintance.
Mr.. Boutells visit, agreeable as it
was to him in it's revelations touching
the standard OF educational instjtu.
tions in the South, the courtesies shown
him and bis recommendation in regard
to sending Northern youth to Chapel
Hill cannot but bear good fruit in pro
noting a more national spirit. His
Vsiws are directly in the line Of those
which have been recently expressed By
the Courier. Journal upon the sutjsct
and in keeping with the Spirit Of late
addresses by Presidents Hadly, OF
Yale, and Eliot, OF Harvard. Especial
ly enlightening to the North is the
incident related by him of the young
graduate OF hum blea antecendents whom
be mistook for one Of aristocratic birth.
It will serve well 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
hope Of rising in life. There never was
a more grcundless idea, as the history
Of men who have attained eminence
in that section abundantly proves.
Andrew Jackson was the son Of poor
Scotch-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. BE was red-haired,
freckle- aced, barefooted boy who cary.
ed bis way to fame over all his more
aristocratic associates Henry Clay was
known as the MlllboY Of the Slashes,
a locality near Hanover Courthouse
Va, where be was born. Yet no two
men were 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.. Boutell's visit
cannot but prove beneficial in tending
to desectionalizs education and pro.
mote 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, lot only
as to the white, but also the black
race, as to which, with limited excsp-
tions, there is equal interest with equal
support from the public treasury.
What is especially needed now is just
such enlightepiDg OF the Northern
mind as has resulted from the visit OF
MI. 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 sct, is the key to much
OF the lingering sectional feeling
which exists between the North anc
the South.-Louisville Courier Journ
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