The Silver Bullet, or the Young Relic Hunters of the Palmetto State: A Story of Today (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Silver Bullet, or the Young Relic Hunters of the Palmetto State: A Story of Today

The characters in this book illustrate a phase of life in the New South -for we might as Well acknowledge that our Sunny Southland History has two epochs, the Old South and the New South. The Old South has its delightful and hallowed memories of chivalrous days, and of a refined civilization unsurpassed by any on the face of the globe; but it also had some wide con trasts. Over against the chivalrous, the re fined, the educated, and the wealthy, were the ignorant, unrefined, poor, who under the Slavery Regime, seemed destined to remain in that condition.

The New South, however, with its energy, its push, and its agricultural interests be coming more rapidly and generally diver sified with manufacturing enterprises is fast obliterating, so far as the white race is con cerned, this second and undesirable class. Marvelous are the developments that are now being made.

The characters here portrayed are true types. Some of the events and facts may seem to'be a wild play of fancy - for instance, the Picture in the Saucer. We have onlyto say that the account of its advent is strictly true, as any one may learn to their satisfac tion by writing to responsible parties in Pied mont. Old Sol is a veritable old darkey. The Historical Circle has its real counter part.

What we have written has been largely for the purpose of doing justice to the life of the inhabitants of our well-managed cotton manufacturing towns in South Carolina, and to show that the spindle and the loom are just as conducive to the development of good and noble manfiooa', as the Anvil, the Plow, the Plane, or the Pen.

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