About The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907 | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1887)
8 THE SUNNY SOUTH. ATLANTA. GA„ SATURDAY MORNING. JUNE 11, l 88 ? OllWW 5o<j?tY A BRILLIANT RECORD. The New South a Continua tion of the Old. Facts and Figures That Overwhelm Heckless Assertion* IVmvhkr SrutKcs, Ga., May 27, 1887. (>n last Friday evening the “Psyche Society” held its semi-monthly mec ting at the residence of l)r. \V. Campbell, and it proved to be a very pleasant and interesting entertainment. It could not be otherwise with so competent a president as Prof. J. G. Camp, and so bright an arriy of blooming girls and gallant boys as the “Psyche Society” can boast of. The prin cipal feature of the evening was a debate. Sub ject: Resolved, That a woman’s smiles has greater influence over man than her tears. Miss Real rice Christian and Mr. T. N. Camp bai the affirmative side of the question and Miss Bessie Anderson and Mr. L. C. Upshaw the negative. We do not know that we ever listened to a more spirited debate, or saw de baters enter into a subject with more whole- souled interest. Messrs, ('amp and 1 pshaw deserve to be highly complimented on the way they made “the welkin ring” in behalf of their respective sides. Misses Anderson and Chris tian (since the debate known as Tempest and Sunshine' ) both received much praise for the creditable way in which they acquitted them- beivc s in their part of tli3 debate. Af er the <1 bate, music was next on the pro gramme, and, on being called upon, Miss l.lo- dio Stipe performed an instrumental solo in her best style. r , . , . Miss Aduie Lee Upshaw recited. “Winch is best, love or wealthV’’ in a very effective man ner. . Miss Bessie Anderson sang, “When the tide comes in,” with exquisite pathos. “Tlie Psyche society is a good institution; 4fid ii creating here a great revolution; N >t iiiiv oy pa tsiiing iacuities lutellectufj, t ll.it ia matters or love it proves most effectual.' Sici r Ante. A BEAUTIFUL WEDDING. A Senator’s Daughter and a Journalist Married The most interesting social event in Wash ington last week, says the New 5 ork Sun, was the really beautiful wedding of Senator Dolph’s daughter and Richard Nixon, of the New Dr- leans Times-Democrat. There has been a good deal of interest in this wedding for several reasons. Miss Dolph’s beauty has never been disputed, ami she has been an acknowledged belle in official socie y, where there are always pretty young women each season. She has been happy in the number of friends, and has been termed a popular girl. Some of her girl friends have frankly expressed surprise, Ix- cause, as they said, she did not marry money or position. < >ne young woman, more out spoken than the others in her set, exclaimed: “Dh, Agnes, why do you marry a poor young journalist? Why don’t you wait and marry a Senator, somebody worth while?” Miss Dolph. though “finished” in a fashionable New York school, still holds to the breezy. Western prairie off-hand manner of the < >rc- gon-born girl. Few Wasumgto.i journalists have married daughters of men in official lile. 5 oung men often called newspaper men are loo busy to give much time to society. As a rule they are not in the “set” of society men, and have no opportunity to meet society girls. Several years ago Howard (’arroll married Miss S arir, whose father was a member of the House ai the time. Later, I. 0. (’rawford married the daughter of Representative Joyce, of Ver mont. Miss ,Io>ce was a beauty, not unlike Miss Dolph in the style, of being tall and a bru nette.. As Mrs. (’rawford she is still a line looking woman, and clever, loo. Miss Dolph has much independence and strength of char acter, that will serve her well as the wife ol a “poor young journalist.” ••Marry a Senator!” she retorted, with vim in her voice. “Marry a man as old as my father, and one 1 don’t care for! You know Senators are old men, or most of them are. Young men don’t get in the Senate. When my father and mother were married he wasn’t a Senator. His chances were no better then than Mr. Nixon's are now No; you may wait and marry an old Senator if you want to. I’ll take the poor young journalist now, and we will wait together lor the Senate or any other good place we can get.” Then, in a graver tone, she added: “You see, Mattie, I care more for him than for money or position.” How to Bo Agreeable. Very rarely, if ever, young persons acquire the ability to converse with ease and fluency. This implies, first of all, good ideas, clearly and sensibly expressed. An empty mind never made a good talker; remember, “you cannot draw water out of an empty well. * Next in importance is self-possession. “Self possession is nine points in uc law’’—of good breeding. A good voice is as essential to self-posses- 1 hioji as good ideas are essential t > fluent Ian- j guage. The voice, from infancy, should be i c.iieiully trained and developed; a full, clear, flexible vo oe is eric of the surest indications of | good breeding; it fa Is like music on the ear, j uni while it pleases the listener, it adds to the ; conlid'Ti • of its possessor, l>t* he ever so timid. j One may be witty without being popular; vol uble without being agreeable; a great talker j i, t<> note j Be ; i::r r ; he who habituady sneers at every thing, wjH nut oniy render himself disagreea ble to o'hers, but will soon cease to find pleas ure in life. B * frank; a frank, open countenance and a y au b are worth far m ire, even socially, than “pedantry in a stiff cravat.” lie amiable; you may hide a vindictive nature, under a polite exterior for a time, as a cat masks its sharp claws in velvet fur, but the least provocation brings out ooe as quickly as the cthei; ill-natured persons are always dis liked. . Be sensible; society never lacks for fools. If t you want elbow room, “go up higher.” Be cheerful; if you have great trouble on | your mind, you have no right to render other people miserable by your long face and dolor ous tones. It you do you will be generally avoided. But above all, be cordial; true cordiality unites all the qualities we have enumerated. Marriage for a French Army Officer. It. is easy enough for an officer of the United States army to marry the girl of his choice, even if he has to runaway with her. Fora subaltern officer in the French army marriage is much more difficult. When such an officer decides to marry he informs his Colonel ot his mentions. The Colonel passes the request on to the War (Alice, and at length it is put before ’lie Minister. The first thing then done is to Hud out if the young lady concerned ful fills the requirements of the law which pro vides that she must have an irreproachable moral character and a dot worth a yearly rev enue of 10,000 francs. The unfortunate young man’s application begins to descend the lad der of officialism until it reaches the officer commanding the gendarmerie in the district where the officer’s fiancee resides. It is then passed to a gendarme, who is ce in missioned to inquire into the young lady's moral character. He proceeds as cautiously as a detective •Should he happen to know the father of the demoiselle indicated, he goes and sees him; if not, he culls his information from the neigh bors. He will even follow her when she goes to the theatre or entertainments. Having fin ished his investigations, he draws up a report, and if all is satisfactory the required permis sion is granted. If the character is all right but the dowry is wanting, permission is withheld until the money is made up. which is sometimes by sub- subscriptions from the officer’s friends and companions. [From the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion.] “The White Man of the New South” is the somewhat attractive title of an article in the March number of the Century Magazine, over the signature of “Wilbur Fisk Tillett, Vander bilt University, Nashville, Tenn.,” which merits attention, not simply because it is a misrepresentation of history, but that it ema nates from a presumably representative man in a Southern university. The author is appa rently skirmishing to bring himself within the scope of the gale which has recently given such a graceful swell to the sails of Mr. II. W. Grady. Unfortunately, however, the zeal of the Vanderbilt professor is scarcely tempered with the vein of native loyalty which tingles through the eloquence of Georgia’s popular editor. While disclaiming any purpose to depreciate “the chivalry, the hospitality, the high sense of honor,” etc., which characterized the South ern gentleman of the “olden time,” he yet placidly assumes and distinctly announces that “the comparisons and contrasts instituted must be very unfavorable to the white men of the Old South.” IIo then flashes upon us the light of his main proposition; that “it is the white man of the South, more than the black, that has been freed by the civil war.” lie speaks ll ppantly of the South as consuming the first decade after the war in “wearing the black garb of mourning for the lost cause,” and voicing their only feelings through Father Ryan’s mournful threnodies.’' He character izes what he is pleased to term “(lie typical representative Southern man,” before the war, as a “dependent idler,” a “gentleman idler,” and says “tin y were little more than overseers of the blacks.” Jle then kindly informs ns that everything which the “New Sou’ll” has done, and is doing in the development of diver sified industries and material prosperity, in education and literature, in morals ami reli gion, is due to the “emancipation of tins white man of the South from the bondage to idle ness, which is inseparable from the ownership of slaves.” He further assumes that thocoL- t m crop of to-day, though flO per cent larger than before the war, is raised on a less acre age, which, he claims, is the result of a high state of cultivation incident to free white lain is there an intelligent man in the South who believes that its average agricultural condition now will, in any respect, compare favorably with that before the war in excellence ai d thoroughness? “The fine breeds of cattle are everywhere supplanting the inferior breeds;” the “raw-boned horse, the scrub cow and razor-backed bogs are fast disappearing.” We venture the assertion that live counties in Mississippi, in lSUO, could have furnished more fine-blooded saddle, harness and draught horses than can now be found in the entire State. (>ne Southern State could then have shown more fine hogs than now exist in the entire cotton belt. While a very few farms in the South are now stocked with small herds of line cattle, yet, under the old system, thou sands of planters had supplied themselves with superior cattle for their own use that aggregated more, in number and value, than the blooded stock of the same territory at present. With a reckless indifference to evidence, he swings the sweeping assertion that all the manufacturing and mining enterprises of the South art* the direct and exclusive fruits of the white man's deliverance from the debilitating and benumbing influence of slavery. This is entirely gratuitous, as there is no shadow of proof that the South, left undisturbed for the last quarter of a century, would not have brought all these, and various other interests, to a higher plane of development than they now occupy. The “cotton seed oil mill” is emphasized as one of the specific r< suits of the liberated en ergies ol the New Mouth. Admit, for the sake of argument only, that the oil mill is the pecu liar product of the free South—is the fact be yond question that its presence among us is an unalloyed blessing? Bef >re the evolution ary forces of the “unfettered” Southern mind culminated in this “survival of the fittest,” the cotton planters returned their surplus seed to the soil, with a reproductive value of 25 cents per bushel; now the negro renters and many white farmers sell to the mill for IS or 10 cents per bushel, and the only additional return is the oil which comes back in the shape of Ar mour’s lard, for which they pay 10 cents per pound. lit* would have us believe that the material resources of the South have been developed only under free labor, and yet as far back as 182S, Thomas 11. Benton, himself opposed to slavery, said in the United States Senate that the South furnished the basis of the Federal revenues, the value of her exports up to that time being SS00,000,000; that on the North al most nothing. He also further said that four slave States—Virginia, the two Carolines and Georgia—paid time fortlis of the expenses of supporting the Government, while they re ceived nothing in return in the shape of Gov- * ruinent expenditures. Up to the civil war New England exported next to nothing, yet managed to grow rich out of the abundant pros perity of the South. This explains the signifi cant remark of Mr. Lincoln, “If we let the South go, where shall we get our revenues?” Prof Tillett, in attempting to portray what lie terms the blighting and demoralizing in fluence of slave ry upon the minds, morals and energies of the Old South, is guilty of the gross absurdity of attributing to the character of wealth, influences which belong only to its degree or extent. The character of a man’s wealth lias nothing to do with his habits, or tastes; it is only the amount which he posses ses, and which is subject to the demands of his fancies, ani appetites, that may qualify Lis physical, moral, or intellectual capacities. It ihe wealth of the Old South, instead of being so largely in slaves, had been invested in mines, mills, railroads, ships, stocks, bonds, etc., it would have engendered an equal tendency to leisure and luxury. ****** Prof. Tillc tt further informs us that the New South is much in advance of the old, in morals and religion, as in material prosperity. ’This is very gratifying intelligence in view of the fact that as to the rank and lile of the Federal and Confederate armies, the church member ship in the Confederate army was twenty-five per cent, the larger. The same estimate would apply to the general officers, and regimental and company commanders of the two armies. Now, as to this intellectual inferiority of the Old South, the memory of which so wrings the compassionate soul of the amiable Professor. He makes the fatal admission that “before ibe war the South had more boys in college than the North,” but begs the question by pleading that “they only went to school because it was the thing to do.” A grave charge against the Southern youth, on which we challenge him to the proof. Here is the quality, the sum and substance of his testimony. He deposes that “of the books written by American authors, ffO per cent, come from north of Mason anti Dixon’s line,” and then asks “what is the answer to this discreditable fact?” “Slavery,” he reiterates, “the curse of slavery with its slothful ami enervating influences, rested like an incubus upon the intellect of the white man of the South.” Very well. We concede that the North has written nearly ail the works of fiction, IK) per cent, of which are worthh ss and 75 per cent, are actually pernicious. She hjis furnished a great many passably good school books, a little valuable history and a great deal cf doubtful accuracy and questionable value. We admit all this, and more. We credit her w ith standard scientific and theological pro ductions, of which the South has been among her most appreciative students, feelii g and ac knowledging a common pride in the merits and reputation of her authors. And yet we announce only what is fcusceptible of demon stration, when we unhesitatingly declare that for more than one hundred years the grand march of the American intellect has been pro jected from Southern brains. From the early days of the colonies two columns of physical and ideal forces have moved steadily from east to west across the continent, divided mainly by the fiStn or flfftli line of latitude, each ani mated by respective and peculiar inspirations and each complimental to the other. In the Northern division we have ever found a sleep less, restless, ceaseless struggle for sectional, local and individual supremacy, marked at every step by the fierce conflict between the victims of want and the despotism of capital— astern and native practicality born of indige nous necessity, wbiie along the parallels of the “Old South’’ has rolled the deep and inajfeslic tide of national thought, national sentiment and national action. The South has been the land of “enterprises •of great pith and moment,” ra her than the nursery of scribblers. She has made history for others to write and sell. She has carved with the sword the pathway of the pen and made America the stronghold of the Anglo- Saxon race. The first resolutions declaring the right of the colonies to be “free and indepen dent” were introduced into a Southern Legis lature by a Southern man. The first resolu tions to the same effect were presented in the Colonial Congress by another Southern man, and took form and consistence, in the Decla ration of Independence, under the matchless genins of *81111 another Southern man. A Southern man led the patriot armies to victory aid established the possibilities of the proudest nation on earth. A Southern man was prime mover of the Convention that framed the Con stitution. When the Government had been created, its organic law was still an unexplain ed book, a ponderous oar in unskilled hands. It was left for the greatest legal mind of the age, a Southern Chief Justice, to analyze and stamp upon it the construction which will be accepted as long as the Constitution is respect ed. A Southern man framed the ordinance for the organization and government of the great Northwestern Territory, an instrument second in importance only to the Constitution of the United States. A Southern man was the author of the republican theory of popular government which prevailed during the sixty years of our greatest prosperity, peace and happiness. Of the fifteen Presidents of the Continental Congress, eight were from slave States. From 1780 to 185.*, a per od of sixty- four years, embracing eleven Administrations, the slave States furnished eight Presidents, whose terms of service covered fifty-two years. During the same time the free States furnished three Presidents, whose ccmbined terms cov ered twelve years. < >f twelve Vice-Presidents, four were from slave States. Under these eleven Adminis rations, the slave States sup plied fourteen Secretaries of State, eleven Sec retaries of War, six Secretaries of the Treasu ry, nine Secretaries of the Navy, and eight Postmaster-Generals. Of fifty-five Presidents, pro tcm., of the Senate, thirty-nine were from slave States. Of thirty-one Speakers of the House, twenty-two were from slave States, of five (fliief-Justices, two, and the only two of great eminence, were from slave States. Of twenty-nine Associate Justices, seventeen were from slave States, of twenty-one Attorney Generals, fourteen were from slave States; of one hundred and eighty-live Public Ministers to foreign countries, ninety-nine were from slave Slates. Without going further into ex haustive details, for which material is abun dant and overwhelmin'?, we affirm, without fear of decent denial, that along the lines of these fifty-two years, are ranged all the broad and lofty conceptions of statesmanship, all the bold ami fruitful enterprises, all the grand and comprehensive achievements from which have evolved the pride, the power and the glory of the American people. The war of 1812 was scarcely less important in its results than the war of Independence. The one left us an embryonic nation; the other developed a full-grown power, wiping out the insults of twenty-five years, plai ting our flag upon the ocean and dissolving every doubt in the minds of foreign powers that we were a government, de facto, ai d entitled to a place in the front rank of nations. This war, we are told by a Northern historian, “was a South ern measure for the protection of Northern in terests;” yet it was inaugurated and pressed to a triumphant issue under the administration of a Southern slave-holder, supported by a “Solid South,” in the face of the almost solid opposi tion of the free States. Who were the master spirits of that struggle? Such men as ('lay, Calhoun, Monroe, Grundy, Lowndes and Craw ford; while only live Senators north of the Delaware voted to sustain it. In the gloomiest and most critical days of the conflict, New England, who “writes all the books,” was holding a secession conventhn, denouncing the war and intriguing with the emissaries of Great Britain. As a consequence, when England sent her powerful fleet to invest our ports, she exempted the coast of New Eng land from the operations of the blockade. When the success of the war had established its popularity in the free States, a Southern man formulated the financial policy which extinguished its immense debt in less than twenty years. Under these same “slothful and demoraliz ing” auspices of slavery the great Indian wars were fought, their magnificent country opened to tho wI.jUj nt, tho oiva b eo i^uoVtii and nicasures adopted for their civilization. Florida was acquired from Spain; ami from France that vast domain, the Louisiana Terri tory, comprising more than one million square miles—greater in extent and richer in re sources than the whole territory of the then existing United States, and giving us the sole ownership of the Mississippi river from its source to the Gulf. This one achievement, conceived and accomplished by a Southern President through the skill and courage of a Southern diplomatist, overshadows in its stu pendous proportions, outweighs in the vast ness of its results every national measure pre sented by Northern statesmanship and secured by Northern enterprise since the landing at Plymouth Rock. It was this far reaching stroke of Southern diplomacy which elicited from the great Napoleon the prophetic remark that “the acquisition of Louisiana forever strengthens the power ol tin United States and gives to England a maritime rival that will some day humble her pride.” The war for the independence of Texas and the administration of its government by its Southern Presidents was another manifestation of the “slothful energies” of these “dependent idlers” and “overseers.” The war with Mex ico and the annexation of Texas were assailed by the free Sta es with the same vehement op position which they had presented to the last war with England. But a Southern President again held the helm; the pluck and patriotism )f the “gen lemen idlers” once more prevailed, and Columbia took into lierembroce the young iant of whom it has been graphically said: If Texas were laid on the face of Europe with its head resting on the mountains of Norway, me palm covering London and the other War saw, it would stretch across the Kingdom of Denmark, across the Empires of Germany an i Austria, across Northern Italy and bathe its feet in the Mediterranean.” It is capable of producing 12,0(H),(XM) bales of cotton and still have a cattle range left larger than the whole State of New York. This war—prosecuted by the enervated, non-progressive “overseers”— gathered into the national domain, also, the Territory of New Mexico, itseil larger than the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; ex tended the national boundary to the Pacific and opened to the world the “golden gates” of California. Mr. Tillett, in his haste to elevate the New S mth by degrading the old, forgets that most of the represent alive men of the New South— her Senators Congressmen, Cabinet officers, Governors, Judges, jurists, leading journalists, college professors, eminent divines, and suc cessful men of business in every line—were born and educated under the “curse of slavery.” Thtre is no New South. The term is a misnomer and a myth. It is simply a phrase costume in which old prejudices mas querade through medern prints seeking to per vert the education of Southern children into the conviction that their ancestors, if not crim inal, were little more than a race of “idlers,” blunderers, blockheads and failures. But the present or future generations will never find reason to be ashamed of the brain-work of the Old South. The literature left us by Wash ington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Calhoun, Stephens and Jefferson Davis will stand as monuments of wisdom and models of classical lore when the mountains of literary lumber accumulated by professional book-makers shall have crumbled into the dust of ages. Iu all the departments of government, civil and mil itary—in law, literature and science—while the South lias boasted no great army of writers, whose wits are the price of bread, she has fur nished the minds productive of the grandest results to the country and the world. When a prolific little animal, vain ot her numerous progeny, twitted the lioness for nursing only one, the noble beast replitd: “Duly one, hut it is a lion.'* It is the character and the magnitude of thought, and not the abundance of thinking, that cut the mighty and everlasting channels where How the living streams of mind and progress. The naval and military cadets from the South have had no superiors as a class. The culture and intelligence in the ranks of the Confederate army were unsurpassed by that of any of the great armies of the world, hence the e xalted esprit de corps which so often ren dered the Confederate soldiers more than equal to an odds of three to one iu the splendid columns of the Federal army. Where is there an example of modern seamanship that will compare with the daring and brilliant cruise of Admiral Semmes, who, with a single ship, swept from the seas the commerce oi a great nation? Who was it that mapped the geo graphy of the seas, explained their secret phenomena, blazed out on the trackless ocean the shortest and safest highways for the com merce of the world, by his “Wind and Current Charts” and his “bailing Directions,” saving the United States millions of dollars annually on out-going tonnage alone? Matthew F. Maury, a Southern man to the core, and by common consent of all nations, accorded the proud title of “Philosopher of the Seas.” Where is there a parallel to Audubon, the naturalist and ornitnologist of the world? Chloroform, that has robbed the surgeon’s kuife of all its terrors, was first applied by a Southern physician. The two greatest eras in surgery for the last two centuries, in fact two of the greatest in surgical history, were marked by two Southern physicians, Ephraim McDowell, of Kentucky, and J. Marion Sims, of Alabama. In their respective branches the surgery of the whole enlightened world recog nizes and follows the leadership of these fa mous men. Ben Ilill was the only man in America who ever made $1,000,000, as the di rect product of his brain, independent of in vestment or speculation; in addition to which he gave fifteen of his best years to active pub lic service. The only approximation to bis record was that of another Southern lawyer, Judah P. Benjamin, who went to England af ter the meridian of life and became the lead ing jurist in that lani of great lawyers, having on his docket, at one time, half the appeal cases In the kingdom. Does this order of rnen spring from a race of “idlers,” whose aspira tions and energies have been emasculated by the “curse of slavery?” But mfemory wearies with enumeration, and we only suggest that Southern parents should look to the education of their boys and act with due circumspection when the friends of education come to us “bearing gifts” in the shape of endowments for Southern universities, where children are to be taught to forget history and to blush for the character and the deeds of their ancestors. Winona, Miss. B. F. Ward. SADDAY NIGHTS, At Sugar Hill. Undo Edom on Cremation, “Creamation!” cried uncle Edom as bre’r Jorum ended a lurid account of the latest in cineration at Fresh Pond, which he had just been reading aloud for the edification of the company. “I doan call dat no creamation, I calls hit burnin’, I does. I always heern as a creamery were a place whar dey kep’ milk an* butter an’ sech, stidder roas’in’ dead folks whole, lack dey was suckin’ pigs. I wunner de gover’ment ’lows er sech doin’s in a civil- ighted country.” “Hit air fur insanitory pupposes,” explained bre’r Jorum, who felt it incumbent upon him, as a person of superior intelligence, to show that he tbori uglily understood the subject. “You see, ef r’e practice uf inbumanizin’ dead corpses oon&iHRrfi>ng< r, de yeth will bt come imprecated wid de exaltations fum so many dead bodies all purifyin’ in groun’ at oust, an’ de water which perticulates froo de sile befo’ hit retches our springs an’ wells, will become salivated vy d delirius gases fum de same, an’ so purduce disease an’ other melo dies among de livin’. But ef do dead kyar- casses, stidder bein’ put in de groun’ to defect it wid dar petrifactions, is took to de creama- tory and burnt clean up, hit stan* to reason dey can’t give out no defective gases nor exal tations uf any sort to purduce disease among de livin’.” “You can’t rack me b’lieve no sech talk as dat,” cried bre’r Juber, feeling that his own province was being invaded by the presumptu ous schoolmaster. “Bein’ a doctor I uaterally has mo’ to do wid dead folks ’n de rest er you, an’ I knows better’n to b’lieve a dead corpse, layin’ dar in de groun’, kin pizen a spring or a well a hundred yards off, an’ it kivered up tight an’ fast in its coff'n! Ghos’es an* bants moughl do sech things, ’caze dey kin move about, but dey inginer’ly don’t i>ester nothin’ less’n dey has a call to. An’, besides, dar’s a many er de yarbs used in our perfession what doan have no power less’n dey has growed on graves, an’ ev’ybody know a rabbit’s foot it- se’f ain’t no ’count ’(lout it’s de lei’ hime foot uf a graveyard rabbit; but how you gwineter git a graveyard rabbit, ef dar aiu’t no grave yards?” “An’ dat ain’ de wussest up it, nuther,” said uncle Edom, bringing his fist down on the table with the energy of a young earthquake. “1)3 Bible seh dey shill all rise agin at de last day—but how dey gwineter rise, ef dey is all done burnt up? Answer me dat! When de jedgemenf come, an’ Gabul blow his trumpet, how dey gwineter heer it ef dere ain* nothin’ lef’ on em but a little han’ful er ashes? I dunno what d,s warl’s a coinin’ to nex’! Folks look lack dey girtin’ i:i sech a hurry to be burnt up dey can’t wait fur de devil to do it, but inns’ go an’ burn dey selves up jes* < z soon ez dey’s dead; ’dout waitin’ fur de jedgement, or lettin’ de Loid have a word to sell ’bout whed- der he want ’em burnt or no. Ef dey would burn jes’ only de wicked, hit would’nt mek so much diffunce, ’caze dat’s dere nateral een’ anyhow, but when.it como to tekin* up a good Babtis’, what’s been down un’er de water, an’ burnin’ him up like a onconvarted sinner, hit’s de outdacionsest t hing (lat ever happened sence Horod thro wed de three chillun in de fiery fun- nis, an’ all de ciiu’ch onghter rise an’ pertes’ agin it like de prophit Lijali agin de Pope. Deie creainomoiies ain’ nothin’ but a abomi nation to de Lord an’ a dedication er de or dinations er religion. Dere couldn’t uuver be no fun’els ef de corpses was all to be Hung in de fire and burnt up to nothin’, an’ who’ll keer to b’long to a ebu’eh whar dey could’nt have no fun’els an’ sech fur folks to injov (leyselves? Ait’ how you gvvinter sing dat good ole hymn “De christiuui week at de blowin’ er de horn. Hit's no use to pray when d9 train am gone,” ef de christium’s done burnt up fo’ de horn begin to blow? 1 tell you, my bretherin’ hit’s wusser ’n de train bein’ gone when de man hisse’l’s done gone to nothin’ an’ dar aint no horn a g winter week him den, not even Gabui’s.” Douglas and Buchanan. Stephen A. Douglas possessed great personal popularity, and was ardently loved by his fol lowers. It seemed almost certain that he wculd become a Democratic President until— under the inspiration of Jefferson Davis, then Secretary of War—he consented to engineer the repeal of the Missouri compromiso. Away down at the bottom of this scheme lay a plan to make a Territory West of Missouri, which would send David Atchison, who had lost his seat, back to the Senate of the United States in order that he might continue the agreeable game ot whist and the somewl at prosy classic discussions which had been going on for years between him aud Mason, of Virginia, and that particular clique of ponderous respectabilities. It took an amount of hauling to drag Douglas in; but the united efforts of the administration, and the urgency of Gen. Robert Armstrong, the owner of the Washington Union, a man of great personal influence and popularity in those days, and the father in-law of Arnold Harris, I )ouglas’ chief friend, prevailed. Being in, the Little Giant—with Alexanuer II. Stephens as his lieutenant in the House—made a great and successful light, laying the foundation for the war of secession and procuring his own politi cal ruin. The expected reward did not come in ’50. The National Democratic Convention nominated Buchanan instead of Douglas for the Presidency. A breach soon followed the incoming of the administration. “I beg you to remember,” said old Buch. to Douglas in the outset of this, “the fate of Talmadge and Rives ’’ “Sir ” said the Little Giant, with naive defiance,' “I beg you to remember that Gen. Jackson is dead.” Sunshine and Song. I have just finished the perusal of a sixteen page pamphlet with the above title by Maurice Thompson, it being an address delivered, by him before Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 1(5, 188(5. It is a good thing to read, and must have been a grand thiDg to have heard. Redolent with the perfume of orange blossoms and the fragrance of the great magnolia blooms, there is the thrill of a bird note in every sentence. The entire address is the breathings of a loyal soul paying tribute to a well beloved father- land. I know of no more fitting words to de scribe the ideas which reading this tribute en genders, than his own when he says, in speak ing of the longing for the Sjuthland: “That dream is the old, hereditary regret, transmit ted to us from our first ancestors—it is the old unquenchable tradition, the everlasting desire to get back into lost Eden.” Himself a son of the South, it is entirely ap propriate that he should say this. Following up the thought lie illustrates how art was cra dled on the dewy Mopes of the sun-kissed hills of Greece, its lullaby, the scented breezes sigh ing amid the myrtle groves to the soft accom paniment of the murmuring waves of the blue Mediterranean. He describes to us, in beauti ful simile, how the cold glaciers of the Goths and Vandals of the North came sweeping down chilling the life blood of the sun.meiland and quenching the lights of art and science, left the world in the long polar night of ten centuries duration. How beautiful is the sentiment that, “there is a space, somewhere in the South, in which the true seed of song lay ready to germinate as soon as the sun should shine again. The gods had pined and died, but the poets were of finer breed—their fiber was better, theirs a higher mission.” True must be the heart throbs of the author of such a sent!ment as that. Following up the idea of light and darkness, he describes in chaste and beautiful language, a night spent in the woods. Jle tells how deep was the un broken silence of the wood, and how strangely sounded the mocking-bird’s matin hymn, and how “a streak of dawn was flung up in the east, and I knew the day was at hand.” To this he compares the awakening of art from its longslumber, when, in the vales of Provenue, the spirit of song burst forth and was echoed ami re-echoed along the shining shores of the mid-land sea. Listen at him again—“Out of the little ear- den of Languedoc issued a flight of birds who filled the world with music. It was the South once more enlighten.ng the world.” (icing still further, he proclaims his belief—“That it the awful ice-barrier weie melted away and summer were again permitted to take her an cient realm, the birds and the flowers would rush back to their longed for haunts in the far north. I take the suggestion, .and lay it in my heart. O, the old, dear, sweet, deserted, des olate South, it is the home that haunts our imagination, and, like migratory birds, we are forever impelled to visit it, vainly searching for the groves and the temples of song! Song was born in the South, it died there, it arose from the sepulcher there, it went out over the world from there.” But my author strikes the key-note when he indulges in a reminiscent encomium on the land of his birth. “My dream of the South is of the old plan tation home. I)o you remem ber it? It was a poem in itself. It is gone. The thunder of battle was all around it before it fell. Sweet hopes were scattered far when the winds blew its ashes away. But neither war nor lire could destroy that picture of the old plantation home which still hovers in the rose mist of memory!” In referring to the literature of the country, prior to 18(50, and of the South particularly, he conies right out and boldly acknowledges that it was of a very inferior sort. This is a saying that has needed expression a long time, and I am glad to find a Southern author who has the manhood to say it. In rehearsing the advantages, possessed by the South, for keeping pace with the North, he hints in the most delicate manner, of the cause of this barrenness. < >ne who does not understand his allusions must, indeed, be a dullard be. With rapid strides lie passes over the, so-called, literary field, and disposes of the authors as he conies to them. Sweeping aside the cob-webs of tradition he turns the broad white light of competent criticism in the musty vaults, and our poor old authors stand revealed in all their crudity. Speakiag (>/ the ante-bellum poetry of the South he places Pinckney and Poe before the pubile and reviews them. Granting the power and originality of their genius, he remarks that “There is not even a sub-tropical glow ’ in any of Poe’s poems, which the candid and impartial critic must grant as true. lie says: “You will understand that I am calling atten tion to a singular fact—the fact that not one of the Southern poets before the war ever re flected in any adequate way the warm, luxur iant, impulsive, cliivalric life of the South*. In other words, we had no typical Southern poet, who, like the mocking-bird, coull pour forth from his fragrant, bloom-covered house the songs of the odorous winds and ever fruit ful groves.” Passing over that perio 1 of unquestionable and almost unaccountable lethargy, the aiuhor comes to Tiskner’s “Virginian’s of tnc val ley,” ar d says, “It was no doubtful, faltering strain, that song of Tickner’s, down yonder in Georgia. Who has not read it and won dered why such trumpet note had never be fore been sounded in the land of the mocking bird and the magnolia.” Referring to “Little Biffin, of Tennessee” he claims that Tickner’s lyrics are Southern just as Whittier’s are Eastern. Then he comes to Randall, Ilayne, Flash, Requierand Tirnrod, and speaks of the stirring poe try they wrote during the war. But it is of the pure and relined notes that burst forth from half a dozen throats after the war-cloud had rolled away and the dawn of a fairer day came like a sunburst up on the Southland, that Maurice Thompson de lights to speak; and in this glorious and glori fied choir he himself utters nounceitain strain. Following this, he enters into a series of comparisons that must convince the most ob tuse that the true literature of the South does not antedate the war of secession. Coming to the peroraiion, his language is so just that I cannot refrain from quoting him entire. “Now, awhile ago I read you ‘Little Giffen’ and ‘The Virginians of ibe Valley,’ and I now say to you that the Northern critic who would deny those Southern war songs a higher place in martial poetry on account of their sentiment would bo unworthy of his calling. So Isay, too, that I hope there is no Southerner who fails to honor the consummate art of Longfel low. Nay, more—I am charmed with the be lief that freedom sits as liruily enthroned in Southern hearts as iu any hearts of the world. When I speak of freedom in connection with literary ait, I mean freedom to choose one’s subject and to treat it as one pleases. There should be no subjects forbidden to art save im moral ones, and every side of every question should be treated with perfect respect. Truth fears no-attack, and truth never forbids dis cussion.” 1 am glad to find that Maurice Thompson, who is winning such a warm place in the hearts of his readers North and South, is n conserva tive man, unhampered by the childish preju dices of time-honored traditions. It is a good thing to find a great genius backed by a well- balanced brain, and it is glorious to find an aspiring soul in close accord with a broad, open and liberal heart. Such I consider the author whose language I have .attempted to quote and criticise. M. M. Folsom. Near-Sightedness is Increasing. 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