AXD £.

would be wholly modern, in place of modern and mediaeval mixed,
and the South would be fully a generation further advanced than it,
It was Sir Walter that made every gentleman in the South a

is.

Major or a Colonel, or
a General or a Judge,
before the war; and it
was he, also, that made
these gentlemen value
these bogus decorations,
For it was he that cre-
ated rank and caste down
there, and also reverence
for rank and caste, and pride and pleasure in them. Enough is kid
on slavery, without fathering upon it these creations and contribu-
tions of Sir Walter.