Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-10-01
STANTON SPECTATOR AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
The Resources of the South.

There Is no country so rich in resources as the
South. 1t is Gods favored region, on which his
hand has lavished boundless wealth. A single
glance at the map, and the most casual view of
Its numerous advantages must aatisfy any mind
that 1t was furnished and destined by the Crea-
Tor OF all things to be the seat OF mighty and
furnishing nation. All its features indicate that
it was intended to have national existence and
career OF its own, and to be tributary to none.
No other portion of the earth possesses such
combination OF natural productions and resource.
Inc three great Kingdoms of nature, the animal,
the vegetable and the mineral, contribute their
richest treasures to its ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
All the domestic animals which conIribate to
the sustenance and convenience of man can be
reared in this favored region. Horses, mules
and cattle find here a congenisl cline, in which
they reach their highest perfection. Its bound
less corn fields can tatten innumerable hogs
The true latitude OF the sheep, which furnishes
both food and clothing for our race is in the
South. 1t was Mark Oockerell, of Tennessee,
who, at the Worlds Fair, in London, took the
gold medal, in competition with the wool-grow RS
OF the world, with wool of Tennessee growth
The mountains OF Tennessee and North Carolina
surpass even those of Spain as sheep pastures
In the variety and value OF cher vegetable pro
auctions the South is without rival. She ex-
GELS the North in the growth of cereals while TO
these she adds cotton, sugar, RICE tobacco and
indigo, the elements of an immense commerce,
to whose expansion there no limits. Their
magnitude aud Talue are shown by the fact that
they furnished four fths of the exports of the
old Unio3, and that any interruption in their
supply would derange the commerce of the
world. D-e~
In mineral resources, Also the South possesses
exhaustless wealth. She has coal and iron e.
nough TO supply the world, and is rich in lead,
zinc and copper, and also in manganese, saltpe-
tire, sulphur, salr, and other minerals. The South
has, also, a territory greater in extent than that
of the LEADING empires of Europe, watered by
innumerable streams, sffording limitless wa
ter power, with an extended sea.coast, dotted
with harbors, accessible to ships of the largest
class and with climate temperate and delight
full and peculiarly favorable to the highest devel
opment of the human species. .sl a.sf
Added to all these vast and varied resources
the South has population ylnbning more ele
ments of strength than any o. her of eqnal num-
bers on the globe. In her slave population of
four and half millions, she has body of labor
ers, hardy, industrious, reliable, and adapted to
her industrial pursuits, equal, according to late
Acknowledgements OF Northern writer's, to dou-
BILE the number of white inhabitants at the
North, in productive capacity. aud the value of
their labor In her white inhabitants she has
population of freemen who, in point of intelH-
gence, energy and courage, are unequalled.-
Animated by al intense love Of freedom, al un
bending pr de, an indonisable personal courage,
and lofty chivalry of character, they can nei-
Their be awed by fear nor subdued by force.
Without presumption, we may well rely on
the ability of a country with such resources to
maintain her independence against the assaults
of an enemy twice powerful as the North. 1t
is well for the people of the South to look at
their own resources to know and feel their own
real strength that they may entertain the conf
deuce which they are entitled to feel in their
ability to maintain successfully their present
struggle against an insolent foe bent on their
subjugation.