Show A I 1 T region or of the cumberland mountains Is 18 nat osie wirier hav formon to any great extent jofh the he betelu atlon yet ift it t I 1 number 8 a rautie asti ai net bt fioto the Artric teri aft I 1 that INA portion otho A ofee tA celias ideh oly auw klaft air k alb me y voa yo t a okeh iua by t er 1 ft etca bori riff e rebuth deputa thoin tw wo of cr mbiad irtle is the bf hster tow ithe 1 Aneg hany afia aarun un tal tain reeo regions lisAM ati doT or the part takieh hy by the inhibits inhibit i ovll wa hy 1 mr a j of th WWI ha daitus dait ns 1 18 taften nit ath h peau race I 1 whish tb tearia as of the 1 tion la the contiguous conti guyus portion bf af i north 0 CaTl lii V edth xon ato 1 tuelia that of f a 8 tea avish cotant no tant abidi disho dishonest dia hottat una ea t 16 a 9 fraternity alledo coply atri whom wab A mi mh C J wb field talk mr of white artach of th n i tion ngit aa a aa i jt giboss jj of ert of the preacher I 1 I 1 er iri th e mountain dist districts rift of the states named mr scofield says ignorant he no doubt is but very rarely W ft fool sometimes he may uke idee hta hio cultured brother in broadcloth cl je be fl a knave but any affy oe even slightly gh y a acquainted equa anted with the people of wat region should inov that lift in of sai an ignorance chith is sometimes grotesque but more often path ath eo they are remarkable for gravity sincerity and courage qualities qualities and always ai ways intolerant I 1 h clemat of folly and h hypocrisy it 1 would be easy to sketch from personal knowledge a mountain white preacher far more truly typical of shabby scam scamp Z bat am t I 1 forbear suffice aitto it to wy say tha that 71 t he a would be agnor ant indeed and manner fiercely sectarian like his spiritual ual a ancestor c tor john knox but hanest ii unselfish A mf and untiring me poor mention of every lonely cabin where bua ht him 4 the theador th eavor of a that name aou would sr never emel come slid and making the remotest coves of ft the mountains for bouas with the strange of his prayer all AD this thi but neither knave mr gilmam Gil njohn in a oommen in ahiah he be explains that hiss ketah of iba A white mountain not inta intended ded to portray the class to whom mr scofield applies it he describes the class clam nt meant they a afe tw spiritual rep of a peculiar race of people jourd in num bere rg in the referred tov to but with the bulk of the population prom from mr Gilmor Gil mores Wo it would seem that among Moun teina and in abot semuon ions of ahe taj sout southern heert states auts adjacent thereto there dwells an ill III favored race of people whose origin as u moro or but whose of person wark mark them tham aa being entirely distinct from jaw abigo E axons mr gilmore elake to have known this people for i forty years and to have lived among them for nearly four but instead of citing th the e results of his bis personal observations observation a among them in support of hit his first portrayal of them he be quotes the following from a letter written by hon laudan laadan M ew ewing IL a native Tennes Tenne swany seaU and one odthe of the ampa of that aft you must have oem ett that the genuine not belong to the same race of people I 1 I 1 as those of the va valleys 6 ays eys an alq k lowlands of the same states everywhere and under all jhb they y are the same th hamim men aw arp long and lean with sal ire 0 sy lom bound black bead 0 eyes a and d straight t ht coarse and almost bof sooty idel dead dab laek hair they vill ih net work but spend the most of IM in hunting bunting fishing drinking and the women women when young are some Omea very handsome auff froni this inis source half the prostitutes of the cities are recruited at home they do all thie the work of the garden and the flew field boltre goitre is the fate of one half of them and there is scarcely a family without its cretin As a race they arb ay far more incorrigible than the negro I 1 am of opinion that they are de scented from the thieves and vaga bonds originally chirped shipped to tt the ieteK bojt onles onies as a penal settlement set j lement there are more of them in north karouna than in any other state and from there as a central point they have spread over the mountains odthe of the adjacent jat states the fact of their existence and multiplication iy j a menace to civilization they are a mysterious race and having among themselves no trad itIbA ot dt history their origin is unknown uj in complexion they resemble av ath gypsies 4 asies or portuguese they have with all ail inferior races races with whom they haven have come came in hi con tact such as indians and negroes but to the pure anglo saxon they bear an inveterate hatred for which they are alike unable to render a reason or an apology As a matter of course the above is not applicable to all ah classes chums of these mountaineers many of whom are descended from the bt best patriot and revolutionary stocks but such can be as readily distinguished from the mountain arab as the white man ean can be das cusi p from the quadroon n in n the alleghany allegheny Alleg hany and cumberland C chains of mountains these peo pie can be found isolated frow from the rest of the world not so much by poverty and ignorance as by thear tb own utter incapacity to harmo harmonize with civilized people whenever you read kead in the newspapers about those terrible vendettas vend ettas which hava disgraced the country you will on inquiry find that nine butof every ten of them are traceable to this class or race of men during the war they were thought to be peculiarly loyal because they resisted con and enrolment in the confederate army but as soon as the federal army took possession of their thel fr country and invited them abaid to aid in iii putting down the rebellion they thel were found to be altogether as hostile to the union as to the confederate cause there was but one way to enlist them and that was as to let them organize a guerrilla force officered by men of their own race with free license to plunder boyi 0 sides idea i by way of illustrating the general character of this race and showing i how bow far they are in the rear of civilizations civilization front mr gilmore relates rela the follow foU owing ing incident from his pr per bonal experience among them in the autumn of 1858 1863 I 1 traveled on horseback through the alleghany allegheny Alleg hany and cumberland mount mountains aills and near the village of Mary markville maryville Mar vibe lit in blount county tenn I 1 eno oun ered a native who w ho had a large roll of cloth on the pommel of his saddle which he said he was taking to a fulling mir mill we alrack sti ack up d a con We and after r some acme desultory Y remarks he informed me as a piece ll 11 of news that he and had a few days before whipped a milican spy nearly to death A what 11 I 1 exclaimed why a mexican spy Y said he what do you mean by a mexican mean spy 2 1 kad why bala he aint faint wea we a Atin the mexicans exi cans and we tuck this tha feller to be a spy am the way fayhe he wet vent on filsht s it po esle 1 14 that hat you heard at th can war ended Y aap chy why no I 1 aarif he ta 4 haw that old general scota had bad uck mexico but we th the was abill still gwine on vais thi up hp in the utmost nc erity and wih w 44 P asa gravey aroL mr gilmore es estimate timateo the total white population in ia the ja ciopa of the V ana A aughey AUgh ny mountains in which are found seat more or less thickly the people above kilberg at iwo m lions and d tl the lutje lar at aa half aali a 0 million the majority are des cendej from sooth irysh a and aad ad engi liah hab and mr giltmore Gil speaks h chhy of them tut of the he says i j these people and only these theoe ire are the poor whites of the Alleg hay region reg laon and ill iia view of what they are did I 1 say att an incredible th when 1 I wrote the native eVor poor white preach preacher ets may be bb clawed classed tin OTI der two general heads knaves and fools foole the sketch that I 1 drew I 1 distinctly said was of one of th tha L more intelligent of the class claas I 1 might picture others who woul would drive give a more severe strain ft to the readers credulity there is an hn element of romance romance in the graphic description which ir gilmore gives of this ill starred and peculiar race that a strain of blood antagonistic to loathe spirit of anglo saxon civilization exists in portion of the south it is easy to ta believe the early inhabitants of missouri were largely dmn from the regions of the Alleg allegheny alleghany hany and cumberland mountains and while the people who migrated from thence to the stats named included among their number many citizens in every respect worthy the name of americans there was among them a numerous class who seemed incapable of partaking of the true spirit of liberty or the christian religion this the latter day saints know who settled in that state and participated arp in the experiences the church was as there called upon to paw pass through it is easy to believe that it might have been scions of the stock mr gilmore describes who murdered and exterminated from the state of missouri the latter doy day saints it is not difficult to believe tha i t the lie same stock is frequently frequent lLy met with by latter day saint elders who wha are now laboring in those portions of jhb south the fact that one class of the receive re eive the elders with withA great kindness ana hospitality hospe clity a often evincing a 0 to riak hitik we ife fact that another class wani fesi et to tai ma tham ix a deadly beadi byc avob K infra 1 gnp 1 floew 1 I O I 1 two rm 1 haghig tit ta ef aaa hence is derived confirmatory el defied bf th the of ua gil ra more af pf 9 tao tb whites of the i B 10 jk JB r i |