Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-10-20
THE FUTURE OF THE SOUTH.

An address delivered before the Agrl-
cultural Society of Vermont, enforces this
fact: that great as has been u increase
Of population, wealth has advanced be-
yond population, and that in proportion
as our industry has been diversified,
capacity to purchase and enjoy the fruits
Of the earth has been much more than
correspondingly enlarged, and that the
union of a people in a common purpose to
develop all their powers, BY whatever
means, whether intellectual or mechanical,
is the secret of their own growth as well
as the amelioration Of the state OF man.
These truths have, since the war. been
seen apd felt to apply to the South as well
as to the North ; and there is an article
begun in the June number Of De Bows
R~eristc, and finished in that for Septem-
Der, on the future of South Carolina,
which shows to what a degree that State
is now anxious to throw open its u
and invite skill and industry, from what
ever quarter, to come in and improve that
and all the Southern States. While slav-
cry existed this Investigation Of industry
was impossible, because the laboring
classes being all ignorant, skilfull labor
could not be found in many distinct
branches. To cultivate cotton alone paid,
because the more simple the labor Of
slaves the more easily it could be regu-
lated and ascer,ained. so that but a single
branch, even Of farming, was successfully
carried on, and the planters bought their
meat, and even their corn in large guam
titles.
Now, however, already the capacity Of
the South for u greater variety Of crops is
felt and expressed as never before. Near
Aiken, South Carolina, there have long
been cotton manufactures, and now it is
found that all the sands and different sorts
of clay requisite for the manufacture Of
glass, earthen and crockery ware, up to
the finest Wedgewood. French porcelain
and Psrian marble work, are in the vicin-
ity. For fruit there is no country in
the world that surpasses the entire South
in capacity. The grapes, the peaches and
figs are not to be excelled in quantity, al
most without care or culture (; with these
they might he made to supply the large
cities Of the North with early fruits Of all
kinds. The only question here is how far
Northern men can safely settle in the
South and introduce their capital and ex-
perience in the development Of these re-
A gentleman in tho South
wrote recently to the North, offering his
or a part Of it, for sale, saying
the South had had enough Of cutting
of their noses to spite their face, and that
he and many more were now anxious to
welcome Northern men Of intelligence and
capital. This feeling is spreading even
in South Carolina itself, and to a large ex-
tent.
A well-known writer, J. 7. Trowbridge,
the editor of "Our Young Folks" spent
several months recently in visiting both
the battle-felds Of the South and the prin-
cipal cities. Having letters to Governor
Orr, of South Carolina, and men Of that
kind, he was we'll treated, and had the
best means Of seeing what was really the
animus of the people Of all classes, black
and white, wherever he went ; and though
he traversed as a Northern man, he re-
cords many conversations Of interest in q
work lately published, called The South,
4 Tour Of its Battle-felds and Ruined CT
ties" These conversations abundantly
show the great change which the war has
made in the convictions, feelings and
aims Of the most sensible and inf1uen-
tial men Of the South. While many per-
sons there may be as bad as ever. the
leading men show a degree Of change and
progress, amounting in many cases to a
desire for Northern aid in reconstruction
and for the education Of the colored peo-
pie, beyond what have been expected.
That things will work themselves right,
though perhaps not in the way that he or
any man now living would expect. there
seems the best reason to hope. II is really
astonishing how much has been accom-
plished, and even on lines Of march, where,
as in Columbia, there wal much to exas-
pera,e. On all such topics as Shermsn's
march, the burning Of Columbia, etc., he
gives the views and accounts Of both sides,
and the effect produced, in such o way as
lays opens the feelings and hopes Of the
South more truly and simply and impair
TALLY than most travellers. His sympa-
thies are greatly with the colored race, and
vet he sees that the work Of elsvating
them must be slow, laborious and accom-
plished by firm government.
"Now tell me c~andidly," said I to a
colored man Of some thoughtfulness,
how the colored people behaved them
selves on obtaining liberty"
"well, just tolerable. They were like
q bird let out Of q cage. You know how
q bird that has been long in a cage will
&C. when the door is opened. He makes
a curious Aut,ering for q little while. 1t
was Just so with the colored people. They
didn't know at first what to do with
But they got sobsred pretty
soon, and they are behaving themselves
very decent now"