 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 700 pages
...problem at all. I thank God that at last we can say with truth, it is simply a geographic expression. The whole story of the South may be summed up in a...went to work, and she is richer than ever before. You see it was a groundhog case. The soil was here, the climate was here, but along with them was a... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 636 pages
...experience of men it is rare for any to say with perfect sincerity: "Sweet are the uses of adversity." The South never knew what independence meant until...subdue herself. We lived from hand to mouth. We had our debts and our niggers. Under the old system we paid our debts and walloped our niggers. Under the... | |
 | Henry Watterson - Southern States - 1903 - 500 pages
...problem at all. I thank God that at last we can say with truth, it is simply a geographic expression. The whole story of the South may be summed up in a...went to work, and she is richer than ever before. You see it was a ground-hog case. The soil was here. The climate was here ; but along with them was... | |
 | Henry Watterson - Southern States - 1903 - 504 pages
...experience of men it is rare for any to say with perfect sincerity: "Sweet are the uses of adversity." The South never knew what independence meant until...subdue herself. We lived from hand to mouth. We had our debts and our niggers. Under the old system we paid our debts and walloped our niggers. Under the... | |
 | Henry Watterson - Southern States - 1906 - 536 pages
...problem at all. I thank God that at last we can say with truth, it is simply a geographic expression. The whole story of the South may be summed up in a...went to work, and she is richer than ever before. You see it was a ground-hog case. The soil was here. The climate was here ; but along with them was... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Southern States - 1911 - 472 pages
...disrupted. As Henry Watterson, of Kentucky, puts it: " The South ! The South ! It is no problem at all. The whole story of the South may be summed up in a sentence : She was rich, she lost her riches; she was poor and in bondage ; she was set free, and she had to go to work ; she... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Miller - United States - 1911 - 372 pages
...the cities disconsolate ; the labor system revolutionized. But, as Henry Watterson says, the South " was poor and in bondage ; she was set free, and she...went to work, and she is richer than ever before. FIRE-SWEPT HOMES THE PATH OF DESTRUCTION NOTHING BUT BARE WALLS WORK OF THE FLAMES A VISTA OF HAVOC... | |
 | Broadus Mitchell - Cotton growing - 1921 - 288 pages
...just at this point. Henry Watterson has said : " The South! The South! It is no problem at all. The story of the South may be summed up in a sentence : she was rich, she lost her riches ; she was poor and in bondage ; she was set free, and she had to go to work ; she... | |
 | Mississippi - 1970 - 428 pages
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The whole story of the South may be summed up in a sentence: She was rich, and she lost her riches; she was poor and in bondage; she was set free, and she had to go to work; she went to work, and she is richer than ever before. 
