The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-04-05

~ North. Leaving out the
H appalling loss of life, 1
~ am sure they would not.
~ And some of the eff
@~ forts which are yet be-
ing made to iniure US are peculiarly
exasperating to a proud, sensitive,
brave people, in that they are often
siye and insulting.
We may bear with whatever pa
thence we can and until
they are righted, political. Industrial,
material wrongs. sectional legislation,
the building up of one part OF the
country at the expense of another,
class legislation, resulting in the for
nation of great trusts, the creation
of muIti-millionaireS, trust magnates.
who under the forms of law, are
Haunting their defiance in the face of
the law, strip and despoil the poorer
classes. the plain people. These iniqui-
ties fall not upon US alone, some parts
of the West are suffering quite as
much as We do. and the consumer
mere being the victim. But
when slanderous and malignant at
tacks are made upon Us as a people,
upon our customs, habits,
our intelligence, our CIVILIZATION, all
patience is gone, and We feel like
turning and rending u traduc-
erS.
Not all of the Northern newspapers
and periodicals are unkind and I'M
truthful in the delineation of our life,
as. for instance, the New York Sun
and Harper's Weekly recently have
had appreciative and kind articles
about US and the urden we must
carry. but far too many of them yet,
en- every occasion, and when there ls
no occasion. strike at us vigorously.
AS samples of the work done by these
eaIumniatorS. we shall give only two
choice bits of reflection. served by
public caterers to a false and de-
PRAYED appetite, the one sample now
q little stale. the other steaming hot
from the caldron of ignorance and
spite.
a Northern writer in the American
edition of the Encyclopedias Britain
MICA has this to say: In this world
Of letters. at least, the Southern States
have shone by a reflected light, nor
is it too much to say that mainly Dy
their connection with the North, the
tarolinas have been saved from sink
ing to the level Of Mexico and the
Antilles" Wicked mendacity could
go no further. Southern literature
has not been exploited, if ] may here
use this word, as has been the North
trn. there has been no wide publlca-
ton and general circulation of it I'M
til within recent years, but that we
have a literature. much Of 1t dlstlnc-
tive. and some the very best of It's
kind. no we'll informed man OF letters
will deny. A handsome "library' of 1t,
in fifteen large volumes, ten now be-
jng out. of which our own DIR. EDWIN
A. Alderman and Joel Chandler Hair
ris. the Iamented Uncle Remus')
are the editors-in-chief has come from
the press. / am the proud owner OF
a set of these books, which L value
away and beyond anything that has
appeared on American literature.
Bat we shine by a reflected light.
What Northern light was reflect
ed 10y Poe, Lanier. Hayne, SImms
McIeiII. Joel Chandler Harris, by tina,
uuInt genius Lafcadio Hearn, who,
while born in Greece, did some or MS
best work when living in New Orleans
Cr what light was cast back by John
James Audubon, and by those emf
nent scientists, LeConte and Maury
From what Northern sources dc
Thomas Nelson Page, George w
cable. and dozens of other writer's OF
fiction, whose names Will readily &C
cur to the reader. draw their lnsplra-
ton? Mark Twain, / believe, was
somewhat Southern. and during the
formative period Of his life, was
thrown into close contact with our
people. Whence came his light,
AS to the charge that 'malnl by
their connection with the North, the
Carolinas have been saved from sink
ing to the level of Mexico and the
Antilles" we would answer that gu
connection with that section, not with
the people the masses, but with thei1
leaders. from Thad stevens down to
Nelson w. Aldrich and Joseph G.. Can
non, has been a fierce struggle tc
keep them from sinking us to the
level, first politically and socially o.
the West Indian mestiZO, and latterly
lndustrially, to that of the Mexican
pcon.
Ouite recentIv T have come across
this SavOry moroccan in (the January
'ssue) of the American Magazine
from a correspondent, without a worC
OF denial, correction, or explanation
from the editor or publisher of tina
periodicals.: All the tyranny, thu