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To show how shortsighted the politicians were and are, it is only necessary to call attention to one fact, and it is this: that while the Civil Rights Law has kept negroes out of public places both North and South, they ride on the street cars side by side with the white people, and it frequently happens that an old negro woman who comes into a crowded car is given a seat by some Southerner who has tender recollections of his negro "mammy."
She had retained her very colloquialisms, this Molly, too unconscious and too indolent to know she had them, probably, or to care. "So she told me all about it, how tall, cold, proper Harriet had run off from Blair proprieties and Austen, to marry a Southerner and a Catholic! It's as if the virgin in marble had stepped down and done it!" Molly was amused.
"Thought he said he was a Southerner. May I trouble you for the mustard?" "Did the Daughter of the Revolution go along?" asked the captain. "Beg pardon?" "Mrs. Weston. She's a D.A.R. She has told me so five times; that's how I know." "Really, why was she chosen to be the Daughter of the Regiment?" "The Revolution, not the regiment. You remember that little skirmish that took place in '75?"
She desired above all things to annoy the large mysterious Southerner who had resisted her attractions, who had preferred another, and who now seemed indifferent to anything she might say about him. But M. Daveau was only biding his time; and when Mildred came to renew her subscription to the studio, he told her that he was very sorry, but that he could not accept her any longer as a pupil.
Brought up in a bountiful country, where no one really has to work very hard to live, nurtured on adventure, scion of a free and merry stock, the real, native Californian is a distinctive type; as far from the Easterner in psychology as the extreme Southerner is from the Yankee.
Our chronicler, who has an eye for the telling phrase, describes him as "a tall, lank, empty-bowelled, tobacco- spurting Southerner, with eyes like burning black balls, who could talk a company of listeners into an insane asylum quicker than any man in California, and whose blasphemy could not be equalled, either in quantity or quality, by the most profane of any age or nation."
The Southerner took a step forward, leaned over and glared angrily at Haines. His face whitened. "You don't mean that you could swing Langdon into Gulf City?" he gasped. Haines smiled. "I can't say that, Norton, but I guess people interested in Altacoola would hate to have me try." "I didn't know you were that kind, Haines," said Norton, his virtue aroused at the thought of losing his money.
"I knew you were a Southerner the minute I saw you, and have several times been on the point of speaking to you, for you seemed lonesome and downhearted," he continued "But when one is about to beard the lion in his den as I am, it behooves him to be careful whom he addresses."
But when a Southerner of genius writes modern English, his book goes upon crutches no longer, but upon wings; and they carry it swiftly all about America and England, and through the great English reprint publishing houses of Germany as witness the experience of Mr. Cable and Uncle Remus, two of the very few Southern authors who do not write in the Southern style.
In three years the Bureau spent six million dollars on Negro schools and everywhere it exercised supervision over them. The teachers pursued a policy akin to that of the religious leaders. One Southerner likened them to the "plagues of Egypt," another described them as "saints, fools, incendiaries, fakirs, and plain business men and women."
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