Red Rock: A Chronicle of Reconstruction

Red Rock: A Chronicle of Reconstruction

The Region where the Grays and Carys lived lies too far from the centres of modern progress to be laid down on any map that will be accessible. And, as he who maps an undiscovered country may place what boundaries he will, it need only be said, that it lies in the South, somewhere in that vague region partly in one of the old Southern States and partly in the yet vaguer land of Memory. It will be spoken of in this story, as Dr. Cary, General Legaie, and the other people who used to live there in old times, spoke of it, in warm affection, as, the old County, or, the Red Rock section, or just, My country, sir. It was a goodly land in those old timesa rolling country, lying at the foot of the blue mountain-spurs, with forests and fields; rich meadows filled with fat cattle; watered by streams, sparkling and bubbling over rocks, or winding under willows and sycamores, to where the hills melted away in the low, alluvial lands, where the sea once washed and still left its memory and its name. The people of that section were the product of a system of which it is the fashion nowadays to have[viii] only words of condemnation. Every ass that passes by kicks at the dead lion. It was an Oligarchy, they say, which ruled and lorded it over all but those favored ones who belonged to it. But has one ever known the members of a Democracy to rule so justly? If they shone in prosperity, much more they shone in adversity; if they bore themselves haughtily in their day of triumph, they have borne defeat with splendid fortitude. Their old family seats, with everything else in the world, were lost to themtheir dignity became grandeur. Their entire system crumbled and fell about them in ruinsthey remained unmoved. They were subjected to the greatest humiliation of modern times: their slaves were put over themthey reconquered their section and preserved the civilization of the Anglo-Saxon. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 49648
Author: Page, Thomas Nelson
Release Date: Aug 7, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Clinedinst, B. West (Benjamin West), 1860-1931