A Little Treatise on Southern Civilization: With Suggestions for the Founding of Southern Economic and Political Science Associations (Classic Reprint)

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Few years ago, while traveling in one of our Southern States, I happened upon a little pine woods community which was inhabited by people of the class which have become known to the world as poor whites. They were of the usual type, apathetic and ignorant. One family consisted of a father and mother and ten children - ten children to make good citizens if given a chance. I was told that the mother had recently come out of the insane asylum. It seems that she had become despondent and apparently neglectful of her chil dren.' The neighbors told her husband that she was lazy and needed a whipping, advice which he thought best to act upon, although he was known to be fond of his wife.

But this supposed cause of the trouble did not prove to be the correct one; for it became necessary to carry the woman to an insane asylum, where rest and nourish ing food enabled her in a few months to return restored in mind and health to the bosom of her family.

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