breeds;" the "raw-boned horse, the
scrub cow and razor-backed hogs are
last disappearing." We venture the
assertion, that five counties in Missis
sippi, in i860, could have furnished
more fine blooded saddle, harness and
draught horses than can now be found
in the entire State. One 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 fine cattle, yet, under
the old system, thousands of planters
had supplied themselves with superior
cattle for their own use, that aggre
gated more, in numbers and value,
than the blooded stock of the same
territory at present.
With a reckless indifference to evi
dence, he swings the sweeping asser-
ill. inanv the daughters ot weaitny planters.
respect compare favorably with that Instead of attempting to restrain these
before the war in excellency and thor- alliances, they were generally encour
oughness? "The fine breeds of cattle aged by wealthy parents with a view
are everywhere supplanting the interior to preserving iuc Fwvdiv..
vigor 01 ineir uuntucs vrnuvui. muuiv.
ing their estates. To employ a home
ly but expressive phrase, "brains and
money were constantly combining"
to build up and preserve, in the Old
South, the finest society in the world,
to the exclusion of those twin evils, the
millionaifs and the tramp. The fine
moral and intellectual organization of
Southern children has, heretofore, been
largely due to the fact that their moth
ers were exempt trom the hardships
of physical drudgery and the depress
ing effects of impending want. The
poorest man in the South supported
his family with comparative ease, be
cause of the gently rising gradations
in society and the universal liberality
of the stronger toward the weaker.
