Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-12-25
WORDS OF WISDOM.

peared some weeks ago in the edlto-
rial columns of the Mobile Times. 1t
is replete with sound judgment and
| wisdom, eminently suited to these
disjointed times in which we live,
and worthy of being reproduced and
carefully perused in every Southern
latitude. The writer is one who has
largely shared in the trials and trou-
bles incident TO a participation in the
heroic struggles Of war like that
from which the South not very
great while since emerged, and there
| fore his sentiments and views COM
mend themselves with peculiar force
and merit to every Southern mind.
The Mobile Times, remarks con-
temporary, is owned and conducted
by Southern men of the deepest dye.
This fact gives peculiar interest to
the subjoined paragraph from late
number of that paper. The article
is in keeping with the tone of several
Southern papers, though very differ
ent from the tone of some others.
Most certainly Northern capital,
Northern enterprise, and Northern
men are wanted in the South. They
are needed for the development of
the resources, the cultivation Of the
fields, and the binding up of the
shattered prosperity of that unhappy
section. Those Southern editors and
Southern politicians and Southern
communities, that set themselves up
against immigration from the North
and treat Northern men rudely or
discourage trade and other dealings
with them on account of their birth
place, are throwing the greatest OBJ
struetions they possibly can in the
way Of Southern recuperation. They
may really wish well to the South,
but their influences against her wei
fare are pestilent. And this impor-
tant truth will soon be better and
more generally understood than it is.
| And, when sufficiently understood,
it will surely be acted on:
| Northern Enterprise IN tie South
eyn States-We shall in few days
be able to place before our readers
the charter Of a powerful association
Of capitalists from the very heart Of
abolitionism, organized for the pur
pose, SO often and so strenuously ad
vocated by us, Of making large ad
vances to Southern land owners OF
the plan of the Credit Immobilier o
France, and with a view to secure
the management and disposal o
the corps.
Such an association would-n'
. matter whence it springs-do NOR
toward practical reconstruction than
7 all the constitutional amendments o
proffers Of negro equality ever de
vised. We have said, and still in
sist, that of all the races ever pro
: posed to invite among us, we prefe
f. the American-nay, the Yanke
9 himself. We ask for no better stool
, to populate the South than tina
Yankee himself, and from the mo
ment he shall have deposited in til
furrow, watered by the sweat of hi
brow, the seed which must fructif,
and supply the bread of his family
7 we are ready to admit him to all til
franchises-poor as they are-whic
!, the South ever hopes to enjoy.
! When the poet said that a man
t country is where his heart first bea
S with love, he should have added tina
: it is also where his interest bind
him, and it is that feeling, becomin
= more and more refined as family tie
/. add their charm to material induce
), ments, which threw into the ranks {
g the Southern armies the tens {
thousands of brave Northern me
J who laid down their lives in defenc
9 of what were then the constitutions
d rights Of sovereign States.
t, We want them in our midst, wit
d even their worst prejudices, if the
: will but bring with them that stuE
born and persevering spirit befol
a which at last the brilliant heroism
n the South finally fell exhausted
,e though not vanquished.
% We want their energy, their cap
tai; and the benign influence
% Southern society, combined with tx