Reply #5: Seems to me this

[izzie]

He was one of the men in the South that said we have to make our state come into the 20th century so worked at getting every one educated etc. It was not a thing to do in the South when he first came in but he did not want SC to be like Al., Mi. and Ga. I can recall SC people I knew who were not ready to educate blacks. I once told some one, 'well do it now or you will just have to do their children so why put it off'. I learned fast to shut up my Northern ways.