The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-05-30
his country was established by a

this country was estaollsned oY d
Southern man, and the first success.
full commercial paper in the United
States was Southern publication.
Mrs Harriet Martineau, the gifted
and famous English authoress, says
that for more than fifty years after
the Revolution days, "the best speci-
men of periodical literature that the
country afforded was the Southern
Review, published at Charleston
the Charleston of the Old South.
The man who first gave COM
plete description of the Gulf stream
who first marked out specific routes
to be followed in crossing the Allan
tic-who first instituted the system
of deep-sea soundiDg-who first sug-
gested the establishing of telegraph
ic communication by cable on the
bed of the ocean, and who indicated
the line along which the cable was
laid-whose Treatise on Navigation
has been text book for the United
States navy-who was declared by
Humboldt to be the founder OF a
new and important science-and on
whom France, Austria, Russia,
Prussia, Denmark, Belgium, Portu-
gal, Sweden, Sardinia, Holland,
Bremen and the Papal States be-
slowed orders of knight-hood and
! other hoIors, was NJ F Maury,
Southern man.
The first steamship that crossed
the Atlantic went from a Southern
city, whose citizens had it built, and
even its engine was constructed by
Southern man. The first railroad
ever built and operated in the world
was in South Carolina, and the first
iron-clad war-ship that ever plough.
ed the blllows of the ocean was con-
structed by john NJ Brooke and
John L Porter, who were officers in
the navy of the Confederate States
of America. The organizer and
constructor of the United State 8
Naval Observatory, one of the best
in the world, was James Melville
Gillis, q Southern man, who was al
so the first constructor of working
astronomical observatory and the
first publisher of volume Of as
Economical observations in the Un-
tied States. The most learned
American miperalogist, the greatest
American naturalist, the most fa-
nous musician, the greatest Ameri-
can architect, the greatest Ame1-
can tragedian, the most noted dra-
matist. and the first Greek scholar
in America today, are all Southern
men.
The first woman in the world to
receive scollege diploma was Miss
Catherine E Brewer, a Southern wo.
man of the State of Georgia; so was
the first woman in the world to di-
rect and conduct great daily polit-
icle newspaper, and the only woman
on record who was the wife of a
governor, the sister of o governor,
the niece of governor, the mother
of governor and the aant and
foster-mother of a governor was
womaa of South Carolina.
With all this arrav of bright shin.
ing stars that sparkle in the Armam.
entot Southern history, who could
fail to be proud of being associated
with so noble company? Our own
South Carolina has been distingu-
ished as "the nurse of manly senti-
ment and heroic enterprise" where
Is to be found in the highest degree,
"that sensibillty of principle, that
chastity of honor which feels a
stain like a wound and inspires cour-
age while it mitigates ferocity."
South Carolina, with her long line
of statesmen, orators and scholars
who have illumined the pages of our
history mith their words and deeds,
presents a phalanX of talent and pa.