THE "GEORGIA CRACKER."

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1515, 15 January 1886, Page 4

THE "GEORGIA CRACKER."

The <: Georgia Cracker" is a pessimist who will never allow that he is well, but only " tollable "—a lean, sallow person " of dry fibre and. coarse existence, yet not devoid of wit and good sense." lie seems, according to Mr King, to have been born with his hand* in his pockets, his back curved, and his slouched hat crushed over his eves, and he does his best to maintain tnis attitude tor ever. " Quarrels, as usual among the lower classes throughout the South, grow into feuds, cherished for years, until some day, at the cross roads or the country tavern, a pistol or a knife puts an often fatal end to the difficulty. There is in all sparsely-settled agricultural portions of Georgia too much popular vengeance, too much taking the law into one's own hands but there is a gradual growth of opinion against this, and even now it is by no means so pronounced as in Kentucky and some other more Northward States." Still, Georgia is a goodly country, and the Georgian one of the pleasantest of men, when he has emerged from the " poor white" stage of existence, or still better if he has never been in it. The ladies are occasionally a little bitter at " the Yankees ;" the men are, however, inclined to sink politics and attend to business, so far as this is compatible with the Government of their State being one " for white men." They are particularly on the alert when the African begins to be loquaciously political.— The Countries of the World.