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THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 30 189S
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LETTERS^
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(The following - is oilsrcd in reply to
«A Poem Wanted” on page 4 of The
Sr.vNV South for August 5, 1893.)
A WOMAN.
ForTHK Sunny South.
Who had a face bo like my love
That It my Inmost heart did move,
And made me think new life was given
To one I dreamed of as in Heaven?
A woman.
who soothed my sorrow laden heart,
Made me forget its keenest smart;
Bound up the wounds with silken thread,
aud gently pressed my aching head?
a woman.
who wrote me letters full of cheer,
All full of smiles, nut not a tear?
who gained my friendship with her pen,
Aud cheered me till I smiled again?
a woman.
who led me on past friendship’s door,
with promises of good in store,
Until 1 madly, fiercely loved
The very air through which she moved?
a woman.
who made tue tell to her my love,
with words that any heart would move,
while 1 my throbbing heart held still
To hear her sweetly say, I will?
a woman.
who turned away from me with scorn,
Aud laughed that I was so forlorn?
who acted like an incarnate head,
Aud led me on to thi9 sad end?
a woman.
0 woman! Lovely, gentle, true,
That one of you such deeds should do!
May she rei ent the mischief done,
iud be, at last, ere life is gone
a woman.
—S. C. Bond.
>>t. f.ouis, Mo., Aug., 1893.
Mammy.
The editor is highly gratified by the in
terest correspondents are taking in this
department, and trusts that our readers
are not overlooking the good things that
appear here.
The following picture of ante-bellum
hie in the South is true to life and full of
feeling:
Due Editor: Among the many recol
lections of my childhood’s home, from
which I have long since removed, there
comes to my mind a picture that brings
up in a vivid manner my child-life.
the erect, comely figure of a woman
with a kindly brown face, neatly braided
iair, sprinkled with gray, surmounted by
in W ti ', 1Brc hief, standing at the well or
u the doorway and shading her eyes with
er band as she looked over her glasses up
and down the road.
That is the picture of my dear old col-
ed mammy who for more than thirty
i rs shared onr joys and sorrows.
, was ^ re( l to my parents by her
waa removing to another
8 ^ e did not wish to go with
cll °i ce i and never afterward
v« a i # ? oti ang6 her home. In the last
bv hi 0 ' r e 1 r , li * e 8he wa * frequently urged
•I’ a ^ r chll dren to live with them, but
],„ tt „. Way ® replied that she wanted to
Ahrt Z 1 , , U8 > m y mother assuring her that
\vT°u f. alWiiy8 be cared for.
ami JL*. n were her especial care,
Urji!, e f Xt v t0 our mother she received the
w } share of our confidence. If we
tin,! .! U trou ble, Mammy could always
mind way to soothe our childish
Wu w e enjoyed any pleasure, no one
It than°she rea ^ y t0 enter into tbe 8 Pi ri * of
h.i»^oio 0t ker 8 confidence in her was un-
her -.,55 au >5 tbe babies were often left to
kit,'L,5' would carry them to the
blat« tbem from her own
ti ori ' > “T mother’s horrified exclama-
“O she found her thus engaged,
won!,! . you wil1 kill my baby 1” she
*cmd calmly reply.
ami he’s done eat cornbread
( termilk and greens too long ago,
all i Kri ,^ 0 ! a 10 bu rt ’im.” And truly we
umnt 0(1 l ° lbrive nnder her manage-
wetos^tbi^ 189 morning, so eager were
I'ronX ,\ reasures that Santa Claus had
lure aiinr? 8 ’ we would often rise be-
Mammy’s rooS? Ca " y ° Ur 8tockin « 8 t0
file awLTJ? Would ^ways find a bright
K'fa h«r 1Ug U8 ’ aud a * we displayed our
*lw a’-» mZZP r cssion of delight and praise
syss ac * e tbeua more valuable in our
siul it t0 bid her good night,
Hot Sleen T 1108 1 Ior 8 0t 1 could
c&lled at he? dior-™** fr ° m my bed and
her^answer—k 1 ’ Mammy! ” and received
'pood nighty, Honey!”
dr d w it*w a fand °* stories to
raw on, and it uur chief delight as
children to gather around her fire and
listen to them. But best of all we liked to
hear the scenes of her own life recounted
and the request was often made:
“Now, Mammy, tell us about Florida."
At one time during ber life as a slave,
her master had lived in Florida, bat get
ting badly in debt, left for fear his slaves
would be seized in payment.
She never tired telling of their home
ward march, pursued for some distance
by the irate creditor; how at one time
they were partly overtaken and two of her
little children were stolen from her-
Our little hearts would burn as she told
of her baby being taken, he was only
eight yeais old. She never saw these
children again.
At other times we would be greatly
amused as she told of the Georgia scenes—
her impressions of the “Georgia Crack
ers."
During all the trying years of the war,
while my father was away with the army
she was my mother’s constant help and
support, and by her wise management
took a great part of the responsibility from
her.
Mother’s confidence in Mammy’s econo
my and wisdom was so great that she gave
up the housekeeping to her entirely, and
often did not know what was coming on
the table at meal-times.
During the long winter nights she slept
in my mother’s room before the fire,which
she kept burning all night, and always
had the youngest child with her, so that
Mother need not be disturbed if it awak
ed.
Mammy would never use a cooking
stove, always contending that “things
cooked on a stove didn’t taste right." And
truly no viands ever tasted so delicious to
us as those that came from her -ovens,
cooked on the fire-place.
Her roasted beef, steak, fried chicken
and corn-bread were always especially
praised.
Though our boys have all grown up and
made homes of their own, they often
say:
“I never see any cooking now that can
compare with Mammy’s.”
With all her other good qualities Mam
my was an earnest, conscientious Chris
tian ; and it was one of the chief pleasures
of her life to go to the house of God.
At the close of the war when the negroes
established separate churches, she never
joined them, but to the end of- her life
neld her membership in the church to
which my parents belonged. While she
would sometimes attend services at the
colored church, she seemed most at
home in the gallery of the white
church. When our pastors came to onr
home and prayed, as they nearly always
did before leaving, Mammy would come
and kneel reverently just outside the
door, and would often rise at the close of
the prayer with streaming eyes.
But a time came when Mammy could no
longer lead her bustling, active life. She
was stricken with paralysis, and then it
became our duty and pleasure to perform
for her all those little acts of kindness
which for so long she had lavished on us
While she recovered from the stroke
enough to walk about the house and yard
and do little things, she never had suf
ficient strength to resume her old duties
in the housenold. Some of us would al
ways go to her room at night and see that
she wanted nothing and leave a little
light in the fireplace for her “to sleep by."
A second stroke took away her speech,
and her mind gradually gave way. Her
last illness lasted only a few days, seem
ing to be a complete giving way of all her
forces. We did not know her exact age,
but thought she must be over ninety years
old.
After lying motionless and seemingly
unconscious for two days at the close of a
calm Sabbath, as the last rays of the set
ting sun filled the earth with beauty, her
pure, generous soul passed from earth to
neaven. She lies Puried in the old church
yard near some of those that she loved in
life-
When we think of jthe happy land and
our ever increasing circle of loved ones
there, her face is always among those that
we expect to meet when we too shall have
passed to our heavenly home.
Susan Marshall.
Greenwood, S C.
“The Negro.’
The “Negro Problem” has long been a
subject of discussion, and a cause of bad
feeling between the people of the North
and the South.
In fact the negro has been a great
stumbling-block, so to speak, in the path
of genuine reconciliation of sentiment be
tween them.
And although I do not claim to solve
this disagreeable and apparently hopeless
problem, yet a few ideas from one who has
lived among them many years, and had
every opportunity of studying their dispo
sitions and characters, may prove in a de
gree beneficial to some of our deluded
countrymen who have made the subject
the chief bar to that harmonious brotner-
hood which should exist between people
who live under the same laws and breathe
the same atmosphere of national pride in
the greatest government- on earth.
The character and social qualifications
with which he has been endowed oy na
ture’s God, together with a few of the pe
culiarities of his general make-up, are the
points I desire to touen upon.
All enlightened people will agree upon
the fact that education is more condncxve
to refinement of feeling, and the develop
ment of the good that is in mankind than
any other force that e in be applied. Now,
from the observation that I have had in
this matter of education forjthe negro, the
rule has worked out according to its prom
ise, so far as its subject is capable of re
ceiving these benefits, but there seems to
be a scarcity of material to work upon, and
when he is elevated to a certain degree,
the machinery appears to be too powerful
for the material, and the article pro
duced is so flimsy, that it can
stand but so slight a strain as
to render it useless for practical ad
vancement of the objects aimed at, and
the creature returns to his former nature,
with slightly inflated ambitions and a
smattering of things that are beyond his
power of comprehension, and is left in a
worse condition than tnat from which he
startsd, owing to the fact that his educa
tion has created wants that he knew noth
ing of before, and with insufficient powers
of attaining them; in snort, he has unfitted
himself for the vocation for which he was
suited by nature (manual work and simple
mental exercise), and anything higher is
ont of his element or capacity.
Of oonrse there are a few of the race
who have arrived at some degree of prom
inence, but they are very few and they are
the phenomena of the race, and it is pre
sumptuous to aver that the whole race is
capable of the attainments of the “chosen
few.”
As to character; with no feeling of ani
mosity toward the negro race or nndne de
preciation of his merits (he has a good
many very commendable ones) the negro
has none of that innate sentiment of true
honesty with which the white race in its
refined state is endowed, nor can he ever
attain it.
The negro is a great mimic, and they
who are descended from certain African
tribes are ambitious and extremely sensi
tive, but pride and honesty are not synon
ymous ; and although the negro will iu
some cases “practice honesty," it is al
most invariably through a very decided
“policy," and I have seen very few cases
that would stand the test.
As to his social qualifications, it is ex
tremely presumptuous lor any one who
has not lived among the masses of negroes
to touch upon this subject. The people in
the North have no more idea of the de-
pravity of negro nature in this respect
than they have of the workings of King
Lucifer in his realm.
We have the negro with us, however,
and our duty as well as our interest de
mands that we do all that we can to make
his condition better, in every possible
way. , But in so doing, hold yourself aloof
that you may gain his respect, then you
get his confidence, without which all your
effort will be without avail.
New Orleans, La. W. S. P
The schools are three in number. The
Fayette Female Academy, a large brick
building in the centre of beautiful
grounds. A boys’ high school aud a pub
lic school.
The Presbyterian, Christian and Metho
dist churches are all attractive edifices.
The latter having the advantage in point
of location. Standing on a high hill it
commands a view of the town and coun
try for miles around.
A military company of high repute is
the Jeff Davis Volunteers, E Coffee act
ing captain. The armory is one of tbe
most desirable halls in the State It was
through the eff orts of Gen. Will Martin, of
Natchez, that Fayette was given railroad
facilities abont fifteen years ago. When
the Natchez, Jackson and Columbus road
was run through the town, the depot in
cot.ton season shows a large shipment.
Fayette has more than one prince merch
ant and can boast of very solid commer
cial features; S. Hirscb, McClure and
Harper. F. Krauss probably doing the
heaviest business; though a dozan more
firms are eqnally substantial.
To the c ills of charity and religions af
fairs the citizens are liberally responsive.
If in the columns of the Fayette Chronicle
are found each week accounts of military
balls, germans and other festivities, there
also ere chronicled some worthy charity,
or religious meetings.
After all Mr. E litor, do you know I
believe the world would move on much
more smoothly if we could come to a bet
ter understanding of that one word char
ity. Faithfully,
Octavia Dockeet.
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Editor Sunny South :
Yesterday as the sun sank in a blaz9 of
glory behind the blue rim of the tree tops
on the Louisiana swamp and its lingering
rays sent shimmering streaks of gold
across the swift flowing waters of the Mis
sissippi, I stood by the side of an ideal
grave. Now if the expression seems
to you, think with me about it.
It is generally conceded I believe that
we may have an ideal love, an ideal
beauty, an ideal of life; then certainly we
should be allowed to cherish an ideal of
our resting place for all time and eternity
This is the grave of S. S Prentiss
which is just two miles back*of Natchez
on the Woodville road. This quiet spot
endued by a brick wall with an iron
wicket is visited annually by scores of
pilgrims.Here themimosa waves its feathey
plumes against drooping cedar bonghs,
and mocking birds leap in the Crepe Myr
tle boughs, singing anthems and trilling
like joyons sonls. Luxuriant vines fee
toon a plain headstone, bearing the in
scription, “S. S. Prentiss. Born at Port
land, Me., Sept. 30th, 1808. Departed this
life July 1st, 1860 "
“Let no cunning sculpture, no monu
mental marble deface with its mock dig
nity the patriot’s grave, but rather let the
nnpruned vine, the wild flower, and the
free song of the uncaged bird, all that
speaks of freedom and of peace be gather
ed around it."
These words came into my mind as
stood by the grave of the Soath’s most
gifted orator, and I thought that Prentiss
nad prophetically described his own grave
when he spoke that eulogy upon the deatn
of France’s brilliant statesman, Lafayette.
It was abont the time that LaFayette
was charming Missies ippians by his elo
quence and fascinating personality, that
the new connty seat of Jeffarson was se
lected, and called Fayette in his honor.
The Frenchman’s lucky star hung over
the new site formerly known as Platner’s
Field and it grew and prospered and is
now the most important town in the coun
ty. Rodney perhaps being the next in
conseqnence.
In the year Fayette was incorporated,
1842, its first mayor wss J. B. Carpenter,
its first clerk G. A. Guilminot; M. C.
Dixon, R. H. Truly, Thomas Davenport,
council.
Present town and county officers are
W. F. Faulk, mayor: Clerk, Honry Key:
Council, G. D. Forman, McClnrn, and S.
Hirsch. L. D. McNair, chancery clerk
Charles Coffey circuit clerk.
L W. Caradine is the present efficient
sheriff. Gov. Leak appointed J. Nemsen
Holmes first probate judge in the year 1822,
G. W. Shackelford being the last to hold
that office.
When chancery court was established,
B. Deason being first chancellor and
Claude Pmtard the present incumbent.
The bar at Fayette has some very abie
and distinguished legal lights. Among
them is captain J. J. Whitney, in
whose honor # the * J. J. Whitney
camp of United Confederate Veterans is
named. Other well known barristers are
Jeff Truly and Chess Coffey, the latter be
ing the present representative in the state
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The courthouse is the most imposing
looking structure in the town. Built in
18S1 at a cost of $16,000.
To the left in the courthouse square
stands a handsome marble shaft surround
ed by an ornamental fence. The inscrip
tion “Adam Bum, born Frankanland,
Germany, Sept. 11th, 1756, died in this
connty 18JJ'’ is not less nniqne than the
story of the existence of it. A Revolu
tionary soldier who participated in the
fights of Brandywine Trenton, and
Princeton, at his death left no living re
lative.
H'B property reverting to the state, the
legislature authorized tue erection of this
monument m his memory.
Some amusing anecdotes are related by
old citizens of the wit aroused in 3. S.
Prentiss by the name on this slab.
It was a source of surprise to him that a
county named for Tnomas J eff arson should
erect a monument to rum.
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