The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-04
WE FORGET
SOUTH'S WRITERS
we Are Neglectful of the Debt
we Owe And There Should
be Proper Memorials
'oarl holiday. NJ. A. in Uncle Ram,s
Magazine.)

EoLld you have ~present-day ba-
roes Ihen remind your children Of
II heroes of the past. WouId vo,,
nave poets TO thrill your nation into
irultiul activity? Then do honor 10
ne poets OF your past. The ancient
Irecidn racetrack was lined with tba
statues of the winners of the racaS
u o'her days. and as the runner
iurled himself along the course. he
lell the inspiration of those marble
Isufes beside him and knew thar +
ne, too, won, his statue would stand
among those others in the immortal
ao"s. small IS the JOY of art If il
see no present results and can hone
iof no remembrance in the distant
future. Nl'
New England long ago
.nese facts, and she has not failed
10 reap the fruits in the high quality
Oh her citizenship. Today YOU NAV
race by means of lasting memories
.nH WHO ride of Paul Revere over
NH and valley. You may even find
near Boston a tablet marking The
spot where "Schoolmaster" Emerson
once Kept his school. You may find
d DIT or granite or marble or bronze
telling where Hawthorne did this.
LongfeIloW that, and Whittier the
other. Those descendants Of the Pill
fdtlers, With a high sense for
the ideal, have left in almost eternal
orms their ~adrronition to future
generations to be worthy sons OF
noble fathers We of the South seem
lngly have forgotten the significance
me vast importance Of his our duty
to those who have striven for our
We have erected, it is true.
monuments to our famous soldiers;
but what have we done for the mem
OrU of $hnca AlI
by song and story and stern ex-
postulations aroused those warriors
to go forth and battle for the right?
he that incites to duty be on
sidered less worthy than he that per-
forms the duty?
No Shaft to Cotton-Gin I~nventor
Why, for instance, has the South
reared no shaft in honor Of Daniel
Emmett, the author of "Dixfe?"
Why has not a tablet been placed on
site of the old New Orleans
where that song first burst
the South? Kentucky has lately
bestowed its tribute upon Stephen
Foster, the author of old Kentucky
Iome;' but why has Florida shown
10 gratitude to him for the fame Of
'Suwanee River?" Why has New
erected no memorial to the
'outh's greatest musician, Louis
Why has Augusta, Ga,
lot marked for the world the place
there Eli Whitney's epoch-makng
INVENTION, the c~otton-gin, was first
ried Why has Georgia erected no
ribute to Francis r. Gouldin5, who
1vented and had in use a sewing ma
hine nearly two years before Howe
ecured a patent? It is said hat one
1 the LegareS a a steamboat pad
ling the Savannah river before Full
On stean.od up the Hudson; but what
has taken the trouble TO
owe the statement and mark the
nore where the craft began it's voy-
ge?
Indeed, Georgia has numerous sins
{ omission to account for. Henry
.ootes Jackson. the author of the
Red Old Hills of Georgia. was born
t Athens and died at Savannah; but
either town seems particularly proud
the fact. Surely. the maker of 50
FIRING a State song is as worthy of
memorial as any one of that
innumerable governors. Au-
lsta, Ga, long ago caryed a shaft
honor of her poet, Richard Henry
Tide: but Augustus Baldwin Lon
rect, author Of the famous Georgia
,enes,' to whom Richard Malcolm
,hnston, Joel Chandler Harris. and
1omas Nelson Page owe SO much,
I'd who's story, The Militia Drill"
as directly initiated by Thomas Har-
in his Trumpet Major" has re
ived no recognition from his native
y. He was president Of Emory
and of the University of Mis-
yet their walls tell nothing
him. At Madison, Ga, William
.ppan Thompson wrote for the town
per. the Miscellany. the l~aughable
Iajor Jones Letters" Why has not
adison marked with some inexpen-
e bronze or granite the spot where
IS pioneer n American Eumor did
things?
In 1901, Charleston, s. g. honored
elf by honoring Timrod with a
lar Of stone, Bot see what Gcor-
has done for his ~sChooIfn4ta and
l~oW-pOet. Paul Hamilton Tarn".
s famous ode 'Cousc Hill near
gusta. has been turned over 10 .
gro family The house where he
-oic Lyric Of Action" was written.
house which almost daily received
ters from Iongfellov. Bayard ray
i. Tennrson. and S~Hinhurna. The
Use that should have become a liz
ny shrine Of the South, hes 2e-
o.