The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-08-15
From the Noodle Daily advertiser
Georgia.

The people Of the State Of Georgia have good
and sufficient cause for exultation in view of their
iron mines, gold mines, cotton factories, cotton
crop, general improvement, educational advan-
tagcs, and general prosperity. Well may the Re
cordeT ask, "Who would leave Georgia to go any
where elsc!' IL is a rare Circumstance now TO
meet a Georgian moving 20 a new country. Emf.
grants may be met from all the other States east of
us, but IL IL a rare circumstance TO meet a family
from Georgia. Her citizens contented at home
BY diycrsfying her labor, developing her varied
resources, and drawing on her immense mcchani-
cal power and mineral wealth, Georgia has opened
up TO her people future of such promise as TO fac
ten them with hooks of steel TO the soil upon which
they were born. She has adopted a policy which
every State south of Mason and DiKon's line should
have acted upon years ago. But IL is not yet too
late, and we trust 10 like policy engrafted
upon the legislation Of Alabama. A very fair be-
ginning made during the session of the last
legislature, but that body stopped short Of what
should have been done.
The State should have assisted, with her credit
and her money, the two important lines Of rail
road, the Mobile and Ohio, aud Alabama end Ten
ncssce, in a manHO 80 cGectua that the final com
pletion would have been insured within the coming
three years. Georgia adopted a similar policy,
and We have before eyes the result. Thou
sands Of citizens arc annually leaving Alabama,
who, had these lines OF railroads been completed,
and her vast mechanical power and mincral wealth
fully developed, would never have dreamed Of leav
ing her soil.
10 secure rapid increase Of population, Of
wealth, Of comforts, of general prosperity aud gen
oral intclig cncc, our labor aud capital must be
diversified. II citizens to remain at home
contcnted and happy, we must add to the culture
Of cotton, railroads, cotton iaCtOrcs iron fOrgcs
and foundrcs, coal. mues, &c, &c, thereby CIV
ing all profitable employment aud adequate com
pcusation for their labor. The Georgia papers arc
! iully justified in shouting -Hurrah for Georgia
Hear the Miedgeville Recorder:
From a table Of the railroads Of tho United States,
VIC notice that the total miles of railroad is 677,
and that Georgia Is the third State in extent OF this
| Improvement New York IL first, having 1906
| miles Of railroad Massachusetts second, having
,O49 miles and Georgia third, having bj5 Penn
| sylyana comes next, having 6l3-and so on. Hur-
! rsh for Georgia. She has more colleges and more
students attending them than any other southern
state, more manufactures Of various kinds, more
railroad, and will soon have more plank road than
any other. She is the largest cotton grower, and
has generally more varied resources, mineral
wealth, natural mechanical power, variety of pro-
duct, and all else to promote the prosperity OF her
people and her own greatness, than any other coun-
| try in the world. Who would leave Georgia for
any where else Who will be rash enough to mar
her onward progress-her onward greatness?