Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-02-02
YESTERDAY, TODAY, FOREVER.
Tho South Is Still the Same Grand
Old South.

Old South.
Editor Keowee Courier: There Is
a current practice among some enter
prlsing persons to refer to the South
as the "New South" The South Is
older than any other portion Of the
Union, for which her sons wrote the
Constitution and the laws to gov
ern; she is higher in dignity and
rights Of age. The South is old
old in history. old in sacrifice, old in
glory. old in chivalry-old in all that
goes to make up n people VINO fear
to do wrong and dare to do right.
Tho South Is the same old South, and
viii ever be. and will assert herself,
by her men. wherever one places
his shinsle or bakes his bread" She
may not have the wealth Of other
sections. but her young people are
after this secret.
She was once a princess, but the
furies trilled away her possessions,
assuming that the human freight
tslaveS) Of her cars Of fortune were
the main things Of her aflluence; but
they lost the wGy to the regions Of
her mountains, her forests, her
streams, her soil and her climate,
and to-day she is awakening to ad-
dress the centuries and sound in ring
ing tones the fact that her brave
sons and daughters, with this new
found wealth, will lead the civiliza-
ton Of the universe. The South lost
her slaves, but no one grieveS over
this, save in the manner and lawless-
ness of her neighbors in rObbing her
Of them. She lost these, but she lost
more-her noble men who are now
mourned by broken-hearted wives,
mothers, daughters. sisters and kin
dred. 11er beautiful mansions and
homes were devastated and despoiled
and chaos reigned when her few re-
naming warrior sons returned to
their once beautiful and prosperous
homes. But she never lost her honor,
her courage, her social laws. her re-
ligious habits, her traditions, her rev.
erence for women, her Difference for
the aged, the simplicity, gentleness
and high democracy Of manner, and
her courteous consideration for the
civilities Of life that have made her
famous throughout the world. She
has never lost her grand institutions,
social, moral or political. She went
to war and returned, pure and exalt-
ed. She will never blush to own her
cause, her deeds, her sacrifices. She
is proud in her defeat, and humble
only before her Coda land without
Il single stain.
There is great difference between
the North and the South. both in
race and in climate. Marriage be-
tween Mort crn and Southern men
and women will draw the sections
long as time shall last, be that Ger
tain unnamed, unseen. but evcr-prcs-
cni, difference between the Southern
aud the Northern people that neither
the pen, the sword, the brush, the
orator, nor the blood, can change.
The roses play their part. the honey
Sucklc and jasmine. the magnolia and
orange blossoms their part, the mock
ing bird its part; the quick winds Of
the Vermont hills, the traffic Of the
East the rugged agriculture Of the
West, but there is but one Vermont.
one Texas, one Florida in the great
Union. Regions differ-innuence
are fixed. There is but one portion
OF the Union in which the white and
the black races can live in comDara-
tive harmony, and that is in the Old
South. The cotton and rice. the
sugar, fruits and melons, the fish and
fowl Of the South, the grain and cat
tie OF the West, the agriculture Of the
Middle States, and the manufacto-
ries OF the North. make up the Union.
The pcculiarities of each section are
as + uch part OF that section as
others possessions are. The South
has her wealth in her fields, in her
mines and in her water-powers The
old South is destined to be the strong
box of the Union. She has lived to
send her sons to the ranks Of blue
in defense OF the country Of which
she has ever been part.
1t makes me tired to hear the lit
tic fellow with his hair split in the
middle, in speaking Of the South. re-
fer to 1t as the "New South"
deny me charge. 1t Is the same good
'Old South, made so by our
forefathers Of the Revolutionary
war. and sealed with their blood,
and as such she has been pcrpctuated
by her Southern sons to this day.