The New South: An Address by Maj. Robert Bingham, of Bingham School, N. C., (Bingham School P. O.), in the Interest of National Aid to Education (Classic Reprint)
The New South: An Address by Maj. Robert Bingham, of Bingham School, N. C., (Bingham School P. O.), in the Interest of National Aid to Education (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The New South: An Address by Maj. Robert Bingham, of Bingham School, N. C., (Bingham School P. O.), In the Interest of National Aid to Education Mr. President - ladies and gentlemen: I appear before this highly cultured audience, composed almost entirely of North ern men and women, to tell of the educational status and needs of the South, and I wish you to understand distinctly that I am a Southern man, of Southern birth, of Southern blood, of South err. Education, of Southern record, of Southern prejudices, ...
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Excerpt from The New South: An Address by Maj. Robert Bingham, of Bingham School, N. C., (Bingham School P. O.), In the Interest of National Aid to Education Mr. President - ladies and gentlemen: I appear before this highly cultured audience, composed almost entirely of North ern men and women, to tell of the educational status and needs of the South, and I wish you to understand distinctly that I am a Southern man, of Southern birth, of Southern blood, of South err. Education, of Southern record, of Southern prejudices, if you will. I was a Confederate soldier. I saw the last sun rise on the army of Northern Virginia. I was one of Lee's armed men at Appomattox court-house, who never bowed the knee to any Baal. But fought to the bitter end. And it was a bitter end; but these bitter pangs were the birth pangs of the new south, which, though still in its swaddling bands, is greater and more power ful in some respects than the old South, and which will soon be greater and more powerful in all respects than the old South Could ever have been. When the bitter end came we surrendered in good faith. We accepted the conditions, and having done our duty as we saw it in one direction, we laid down our arms and betook ourselves to repairing the wreck and ruin around us. It was folly to stand, like the figure at the stern of a vessel, looking backward and weeping over the troubled waters behind. The Almighty has given man eyes in front only, that he may look to and live in the present and future. The past of the South is irrevocable, and we do not wish to recall it. The past of the South is irreparable, and we do not wish to repair it; for, terrible as the lesson was in the learning, there are two propositions which meet with universal acceptance in the new South: First, that the greatest blessing that ever befell us was a failure to establish a nationality; and, second, that the next greatest blessing was getting rid of slavery on any conditions. A few of the older men - stranded wrecks of by-gone days - may cling to the dead past; but their in uence has ceased, and, like giants Pope and Pagan in Pilgrim's Progress, they are harmless. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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