Carolina QuotesJabez Lamar Monroe Curry
North Carolina · connected1825–1903
American politician (1825-1903)
- Died in Asheville
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Piety, church membership, was not the social standard, but integrity and proper treatment of slaves were.
Probably no people nor institutions have been more misunderstood than those of the Southern States.
The marked civilization which distinguished the South was not altogether due to slavery, but unquestionably it largely contributed to the creation and maintenance of certain social peculiarities which are rapidly disappearing.
What more natural and proper than that those who had wealth, were men of affairs, were familiar with markets, read newspapers and traveled, should be consulted and deferred to.
Far more than half of the present ten million bales of cotton have been produced by white labor.