The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-06-18

fafFd progress which marks there cnQfts shopa PC
gratifying 70 every citizen oC lise Southern States
And Why should it not bs q There i no reason
why we should not hsse our railroads as well as
1.-The North and East 10 reason why we should not
Thy our own labof supply ourselves WITH large
portion Il ON Manufactured goods for domestic
consumptops no reason whywe should no, build
uD and srstain schools Of high order for the edu-
caiior 81 our sons and daughters. We have for
mpsh longer time than there was any necessity for
depended on The North and East for these things
L is well that we have at length begun to discover
the immense natural advantages which we possess,
and have gone to work properly to improve them.
| There never was country SO blessed with the
elements Of individual and social prosperity as
the Southern States Of this Union. We have
mild, salubrious and most delightful climate a
soil whose fructifying qualities yield the amplest
return to the industry Of the planter, in whatever
branch Of agriculture he may be engaged naviga-
ton. in rivers bays and ocean, unsurpassed BY any
part Of the continent materials for every descrip.
tion Of manufacture; wood and stone Of every va
riety which may be required for use or ornament ,
minerals, almost infinite in variety, superior in
quality and inexhaustible in quantity Nothing
but our supneness and utter neglect Of these ex-
tIaordnary advantages can prevent US from attain
ing the highest prosperity in every department Of
enterprise and industry.
| We have jeen led to these remarks from reading
speech recently delivered in Congress by Mr..
Stephens Of Georgia. Georgia, unquestionably, is
in advance Of all the other Southern States in
works Of improvement Hear what her eloquent
representative says of her
She has her beds Of coal and iron, her lime gym
sum and mari, her qnarries Of granite and marble.
She has inexhaustible treasures Of minerals, in
Guiding gold, the most precious Of metals She
has soil and climate suitable for the growth and
culture OF almost every produc. known to hus-
bandry and agriculture. better country for wheat
and corn and all the cereal plants say nothing of
cotton and tobacco, is not to be found in an equal
space on the continent. There too, grow the
orange, the olive, the vine and the g with forests Of
oak and pine suiicientto build and mast the navies
OF the world. She has mountains for grazing rivers
for commerce, etc. waterfalls for machinery Of all
kinds without number. Nor have ahese great nat
ural advantages and resources been neglected.
Young as she is, she is the first cotton grow
ing State in the Union. Her last years crop will
not fall far short Of six hundred thousand bales, if
II does not exceed it. She has believe thirty six
cotton factories In operation, and great many
more Fastening TO eompleton--one Of them has or
soon will have, ten thousand spindles, with two
hundred looms capable Of turning out eight thou
sand yards of cloth per day Her yarns are already
foreign countries and the day is not distant when
she will take the lead in the manufacture as well
as ihe production Of this great staple She has also
her -four mills and paper miIls-her forges, foun-
dries and furnaces not with their fires exngushed
as the gentleman OF Pennsylvania said of some in
his State but in full blast Her exports last wear
were not less than thirty millions Of dollars equal
to, It not greater, than those Of all New England
together.
She has six hundred and fifty miles of railroad
IN oFsralIon, at cost of fifteen millions of dollars
and Two hundred more in progress OF construction
~ her energy and enterprise, she has scaled the
mountain barriers and opened the way for the steam
car, from the Southern Atlantic ports 10 the waters
Of the great valley Of the west. But this is not all
She has four chartered universities-nav Eve for
she has one devoted exclusively to the education Of
her daughters She was the first State. L beleve
| 70 establish female college, which is now in a
furnishing condition, and one Of the brightest or
namenfs Of her character. She has four hundred
young men pursuing collegiate course a preaier
number, believe, lnan any State in the Union in
proportion 70 her white population You will find
out not only these th'1gsio be So but tell You also
what you viii not find. You will not find anybody
IN the State begging bread or asking aims. You
will find but few paupers You will not find forty
thousand beings, pinehed with cold and hunger de-
manding the right labor rs saw il stated 10 be
the case, not long since, in The city of New York
What Georgia has accomplished Alabama,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and every other
Southern State may accomplish. Her only adyan-
| tage is that she has taken the lead in works
Of improvement She has no greater natural
advantages than other States; her citizens possess
no more capital, enterprise or industry than those
ofother States. The difference is that their CAPT
tai and enterprise have been earlier directed into
these channels. iFhe magnificent results Of giving
them this direction we now behold to the honor Of
that noble State. Others will follow-are now fol.
lowing, indeed, with rapid strides. Tennessee and
Alabama are pressing their energies in this direc-
ton Roads, for the transportation Of produce and
merchandise, are being consiructed in every d.
rection factories being built up, and mines and
qnarries made toopsn herriches to The enfsrprsng
laborsr
| What, in the mean time, is Louisiana doing fol
herselfs Her natural resources are not inferior
in some respects they greatly superior-to those
of other Southern States She, too, has railroads
to construct factories to build up Institutions Of
learning 70 establish, and what is Of more pressing
importance now than all.else, the waters Of the
turbulent Mississippi, which are annually flooding
the aiFest portions Of the State and destroying hun
dreds Of thousands dollars Of properly 10 restrict
within proper bounds Ths apathy Of our citizens
and State, in regard to these great interests is re-
markabe, if, Especially in regard 10 the leyeeinp
of the Mississippi mol criminal Shall We persist
IN the suicidal course Of neglectng, by our supne.
ness or indifference, those permanent interests, by
proper attention to which our sister States are be.
coming enriched and prosT erous
SINGULAR PLAN.-The Germans, says para.
graph in the New York Post, have recently taken
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