The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-02-16
4 Soutierncv'> Cow plimtnt to the North,

4 FROM Tue New ork Independent.
The following compliment to the
North is clipped from copy of the Ncu
York Ojserocr, published for November
10, 1896. We wonld commend its i'm
partial tone to those WHO today are 50
liberal in praises, at tnion-saving meet
ings, Of that portion of the country, ly.
+ ing south Of Mason and Dixon's line:
! "llon. Mr. Preston of South Carolina,
who spent several weeks, last summer, ia
travelling through the Northern States.
in recent address at 4 public meeting
Of his fellow citizens of the South, pays
the following compliment to the people of
the North:
mo Southern man (Sa;d MIR. Pres.
tom can journey, as have done, ,throueh
! the Northern States, and witness the
rosperity. the industry, the public spir.
! it, which they cxhibit-the seduIous
: cu'siv"tio" of all those arts by which life
is rendered comfortable and respectable
-wlthout feelings Of deep sadness and
! shame, as he remembers bis own NEGLECT
ed aud happy home. There, no dwell
ing is to be seen abandoned, no farm un-
cultivated, no man idle. no waterfall,
even, unemployed. Every person and
/ every thing performs Il part toward the
grand result, and the whole land is cov
cred with fertile fields, with manufacto-
rirS, and canals, and railroads, and pub.
/ lie cdticcs, and towns and cities. Along
the route If the great New York canal;
that glorious monument to the glorious
/ memory of De " lit Clinton, a canal. a
railroad, and turnpike, are to be seen
in the width of perhaps hundred yards;
each Of them crowded with travel or
oycrfiowing with commerce. Through
out their course lands that before their
construction would scarcely command five
dollars the acre, now sell for fifty, seven
tyiva, or a hundred. assing along it,
you see no space Of thr2c miles without a
the sourd Of a church bcll.
ave Of the South arc mistaken in the
character Of these people, when we think
Of them only as peddlcrs horn hints
and bark nutmcgs. Their energy and
enterprise are directed to all objects.
great and small, within their reach. At
the fall of scanty rivulct they set up
their little mandatory Of wooden but
tons or combs-thcy plant a barren hill
side with broom corn, and make it into
brooms at The bottom-and on its top
they erect Il Windmill Thus at single
spot YOU may sec the air, the earth, and
the water al! at work for them. But at
tie same time the ocean is whitcned to
H. eNtrcmitics with the sails Of their
ships, and the land is covered with their
works Of art and usefulness.
Massachusetts is perhaps the most
tionrl<hing Of the Northern States. Yet
Of natural productions she exports but
two artc!cs-granite and ice Also
lutcIy nothing bat rack amt icc' Evcrv-
thing else Of her commerce, from which
she derives 50 much wealth, is Artificial
the work Of her own hands.
"AIl this Is done in region with a
bleak climate and sterile soil, hy tie en-
crgy aud intelligence of the people,
Each man knows that the public good is
his individual advantage, The number
Of railroads and ether modes Of cxpedi-
tiuus intcrcommHnicatio knits the whole
country into closely compactcd mass,
through which the productions of com
merce and Of the press, the comforts Of
life and the means Of knowledge, are
universally diti'u~cd; while the close in
tcrcoursc of travel and business makes all
men ncighhors, and prom otcS common
interest aud comncn sympathy. In a
community thus conncctcd,a Il single flash
OF thought pcrvadcs the whole land al
most as rapidly as Thought itself can fly.
The population becomes, as it were, a
single set Of muscles, animated by one
heart, and directed by a common sense
rium.
"liow different the condition Of filings
in the South Here the face Of the
country wears the aspect % premature
old age and decay. No Improvement is
seen going on-nothing Is done for pos
tcrity-no man thinks of anything be-
yond the present moment. Our lands
are yearly ta,E"d to their utmost capaci-
ty of production, and when exhausted
are abandoned for the youthful Vest
Because nature has been prodigal to us,
we seem to think it unnecessary to do
anything for ourselves. The industry and
skill that have converted the Indictment
and barren hills Of New England into a
garden. in the genial climate and fertile
soil Of the South would create almost a
paradise. Our natural advantages are
among the greatest with which Provi-
dcnce has blessed mankind but we lack
the spirit to enjoy and improve them
The rich ore is beneath our feet, yet We
dig not for it, The golden fruit hangs
from the bouGh, and we lift not our
hands to gather it.
Not the least significant point il con-
ncction with the above extract is the fact
thot tie " \ Ob&rrr"r, in printing it,,
made at the time the following comment.
If Mr.. Preston had remained long
enough at the North to have discovered
the secret Of this wonderful prosperity,
he would have found it IN the lofty rcli-
eious principles Of the founders Of our
institutions; in their ust estimate Of
man as a moral. intellectual, and immor-
tai being; in their consequent deep ob-
horrencr oj' SiorrIV, and in the provis-
ion they have made for aiding every man
in rising to the highest point Of which
his nature is capablc.'