The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-27

to the training he had received from
his own mother and to the ideals
which that training had engendered,
he kindly, but firmly, spoke his senti-
ments.
The article first appeared in print
in .Ss71, in the October number OF
the Southern Review. one of the
the broadest and most scholarly pc
riodicals Of its day. 1t was the lineal
descendant of the once famous De-
Bows Review From 1346 until the
close of the civil war this later maga-
azine was a leading exponent of the
hopes and aspirations Of the South;
and when it, mortally wounded, as 1t
were, by the collapse and fall of the
Southern Confederacy, suspended
publication shortly after the end of
the war, the Southern Review was
| founded to take it's place. DR.. Bled-
soc was chosen editor Of the new Pc
riodical, aud it was his review of the
then new published History OF
Morals" by Lecky, which led him to
write ''The Mission of Woman. The
last chapter of Lecky's history is a
very brilliant and profound exposi-
tion Of the condition, social rights
and political privileges Of wo-
men in all ages. The criticism
as it appeared in the Southern
Review had been reprinted in pam
rhlet form by some admirer of DR..
Bledsoe; and Senator Johnson, OF
Alabama, (now, alas! gone from us
to his long resting place. and had
come into possession of copy. He
showed it to me and asked me to
have it printed as a public document.
| I glanced through it hurriedly and
was so forcibly impressed by the au-
thor's apt application of Lecky
facts to the question Of woman sui
frage, divorce, and materialism, now
| so apparent everywhere, that I asked
to have it printed in the Record as
we'll as a public document; for
thought it could not be given too
wide publicity because the country
needs educating along these lines
more than any other just at this
time.
Day of the Carpetbagger.
But Lecky's History was only the
occasion of "The Mission of Wo-
man., The real reason for its being
written was undoubtedly the deplor'
able condition of Southern politics at
that time. AS Senators will remem'
Der, the reconstruction Of the South
was completed in 1868. Universal
suffrage had been decreed by Con
gress, and men with Federal uni
forms on their backs and rifles II
their hands marshalled the newl!
freed blacks to the polls, and direct
ed how they should cast their bal
lots. Thus, undo lie leadership Of
Thad Stevens and others, the North
ern fanatics sowed the seed, and o!
l1S71 the harvest OF evils began tc
ripen. The South, PROSTATE ant
bleeding at every pore, her past
hopeless memory of better times, he1
present a slough of despond, and hel
future a hideous nishtmare-th'
South, say, was literally wallowins
in violence, corruption, honesty ant
political debauchery. 1t was pltlful
The great South, than which NJ
fairer land hath fired poets lay,
was become a loathsome region. fu!
| of hideous sights and sounds ant
things unholy. Negroes, very few 0
whom could real or write, and some
Of them not three generations re
moved from the jungles Of Africa
controlled our Legislatures. Whit
white scoundrels and thieves from
the North ruled the negroes and rob
bed our people through them. Man!
Of the magistrates and judges wer'
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