Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-06-29
THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE REJECTED.
RESOURCES OF THE SOUTH.

After all (says the Richmond Enquirer) the true
safety for the South is in the development of the
resources which nature has lavished on her with a
bountiful hand, and the consequent strength and
spirit which it will impart to her sons and the
spect that must be rendered to her increased polt-
cal power and social influence. The late move
ments in internal improvements in Virginia, destined
the Atlantic with the teemng houses of the
West-f coupled with direct steam communication with the
vast mars of Europe, policy which all should chehmus
nfuse new life into people, and furnish them with
strength and inducements to command justice the hands of
the other sections Of the Confederay Our people must have
their ondness for emigration checked by the attraction of
enlarged Of business facilities at homeand if the
empated schemes are carried out the desired advantages
naturally follow The completion Of the railroad to the Ten
nessee line will be Of the main elements Of this realization
Of Virginia hopes The results that measure when carried
by Tennessee be guessed from practical expert
ment which has just occurred in Georgia The Augusta
Consttuonas publishes letter from ATLANTA in that State,
describing successful shipment of bacon and -four from In
diana in the far West to Ataant in Georgia The bacon
and four shipped Lafayette the Wabash thence
down the Wabash into the Ohio thence down the Ohio to
Paducah thence around the Muscle Shoals the railroad to
Decatur thence the Tennessee to Chattanooga and thence
the State Road to Aaanta In spite of these various
shipments the realizes handsome per cents in
instances nearly 100 per cent IT, in the language of
Augusta contemporary ga route long, crcutous, and
requiring many transfers and shipments be used pro-
taby, what may we not expect from the lines of railroad
that pass through Tennessee, and to pour large
volume Of their trade into Virginia by the Virginia and Ten
nessee railroad
But it is not only the immense trade, following free in
erchange of the products of the different sections with
responding increase of travel that must look for from this
great highway to the West The interest Of the people of
the Northwest is nearly allied with that Of the agricultural
States OF the South and the effect Of uniting them to by
sympathy and aid in defending the constitutional rights Of the
South This is not the least interesting speculation growing
out OF this important subject.
The immense resources Of the South may be Judged the
glowing sketch of single State Georgia. presented to the
House by Mr. STEPHENS few days since. Though Geor-
ga is unquestonaby in ADVANCE of all the other Southern
States 10 works Of improvement she has greater natural
advantages than other States, among them Virginia. audit
will be their fault entirely they do not catch her in the
of Improvement Never important for the South To
be her interests aud put forth every energy to
increase and consolidate her power Mr. STEPHENS said:
She has her beds Of coal and ron her lime, gypsum and
mar her quaies of granite and marble She has nexhaust
bic treasures Of minerals including gold the most precious of
metals. She has soil and climate suitable for the growth
and culture of almost every product known husbandy and
agriculture better country for wheat and and all the
cereal plants to say nothing Of cotton and tobacco is not to
be found in equal space the continent There too
grow OlVe vine, Win forests
Of oak and pine sufficient build and the navies Of the
world She has mountains for grazing, rivers for commerce.
&c., waterfalls for machinery of all kinds without number
Nor have these great natural advantages and been
neglected Young she she now the first cotton grow
ing State in the Union Her last years crop will not fall far
short OF six hundred thousand bales if does exceed it
She has believe, thirty cotton factories in operation and
great many more Fastening to completion. One Of them has
Dr. soon will have ten thousand spndcs, with hundred
ooms capable Of turning eight thousand yards of cloth
per day. Her yarns already finding their way to the
markets of the North and foreign counes and the day is
distant when she will take the lead in the manufacture as
we'll the production Of this great staple She has also her
lour mills and paper foundre and furnaces
lot with their fires extngushed the gentleman Of Penn
ylvania said of some his State but in full blast Her
'orts last year were not less than thirty millions Of dollars
qual to, If not greater than those Of all New England
,ether.
She has six hundred and fifty miles of railroad in opera
ion at cost Of fifteen millions of dollars and two hundred
more IN progress OF construction By her energy and
se she has scaled the mountain barriers and opened the
for the steam from the Southern Atlantic pers
waters ofthe great valley of the West But this is not ALL
The has four chartered univeresnay ve for she has one
evoed exclusively to the education Of her daughters She
Vas the frst State believe establish female college,
which is now in foushing condition. and one of bright
81 ornaments OF her character She has four hundred young
nen pursuing collegiate course; greater number, be-
than any State in the Union proportion to her white
opuaiion. You will nd out only these things to be
ut tell you also what you will find You will not find
ny body in the State begging bread or asking aims You
viii find but few pauper You will not find forty thousand
engs pnched with cold and hunger demanding the right
,bor stated to be the case long SINCE in the
iy Of New York.