After referring in detail to the
growth of this section he avers that
while the wealth of the South has in
creased fourfold, the wealth of its
newspapers has increased tenfold ; that
where there was one subscriber twenty
years ago there are a dozen to-day.
lie continues as follows :
The press has been the missionary
and the evangel, and the South has
followed its gospel and its leadership
in ways 01 peace aud paths 01 pros
perity. The journalism of the South
to-uay is as dinerent lrom the journ
alism of thirty years ago as the new
South is from the old. Iu those days
it was full of chivalry, poetry and
valor. Its writers had the gallautry
aud courage of Bayard, 01 France.
Their sentiment fired the soul of mau
in time of war, and made strong men
bend the knee in time of peace. Rang
ing from Randall's fiery lines. " Mary
land, My Maryland," to Maj. Ran
dolph's "Grasshopper aud Sweet
Potato Vine," the journalists have
contributed permanent treasures to
the literature of the nation.
But this journalism was mainly
editorial a journalism of comment.
