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So he opened a small textile mill, into which he put his personal capital. He borrowed from northern friends. His sons, who told me all of this, had inherited the mills and greatly expanded them. They are among the most profitable and best conducted mills in the South.

I speak of them because they were among the southern textile mill operators who were true Southerners. Most of the southern textile mill owners are Northerners who have gone South, bought cheap property, abandoned their mill in Massachusetts or Rhode Island, built a mill down South and have taken advantage of the cheap labor supply. However, that was not the case of these people at the Avondale. They had a kind of a paternalistic attitude.

Their hearts broke when the flying wedge struck them. They just couldn't believe it when some of their own people followed this flying wedge out. I speak of this because of some of the extreme emotion which surrounded this flying wedge, and the resentment of the fact that these people were foreigners, were outsiders, by which they meant largely Irish, Italians and French from New England.

Also there were some southern hotheads in this. Googe and these men at the Avondale agreed with me that the hotheadedness of the southern workers comes from the fact that they have grown up in an atmosphere of frustration,