The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-10-01
DAILY PRESS.
PORTL ND.
Monday Morning, October l, 1866.
How TO Make the South Prosperous.
PORTLAND

How TO Make the SOuih Prosperous.
Light is really breaking in upon the politi-
cal darkness of the South, and the best men
OF that region begin in earnest TO turn their
attention to the obstacles which have SO long
lain in the way of developing the great natu-
raj resources which there exist. Intelligent
Southern men travelling in the North are
painfully impressed with the immense con-
t.ast between the condition of things here
and that presented by their own naturally
more favored region. Mr.. John FORSYTH
writing from New York to his paper, the
Mobile Register, says of a portion of south
ern Pennsylvania over which he has recently
travelled:
The wealth of this country cannot be Justly
measured by its population. The improve
llents IN machinery, especially as applied to
Sgriculture, almost dispense with human hands
and the sweat of the brow They plough, SOW
;lnd reap with machines and mans only Occur
patton is to superintend them. Hence, you
Tide over country dotted with farms, III
high state of culture and grooming under croPs'
ind are surprised at the lack OF laDorers, anu
wonder who does all this work. Capltai anu
rcence have supplied the places OF our large
gangs of negroes, and the work goes on as II
by magic. Thus Pennsylvania Win her tnree
millions of population, enjoys productions
equal to the labor of six millions. The same
processes would make the South garden of
lruitfulness, the abode of great population,
and the seat of power.
Let us take lessons from our neighbors. and
find compensation for the sudden destruction
of our vast labor system. We have all that
Pennsylvania has, iii coal, iron and water DOW
er, without her harsh winter climate. We have
products impossible to her soil. The tcdr has
n faasO
nsao direction. Let us follow it, encourage men
of labor and skill TO settle among us, capital to
export our latent resources and train and ele-
gate the negro to DC able to do his part of the
grand aCork of closing the gap in material civ
llization, which our hardy northern neighbors
have for so long kept wide open between u.s.
BY this path, too, men of the South, we are to
recover the political power TO make our rights
respected and sure.
II The Columbia (Ga) Enquirer warmly COM
mends this wise counsel to its own readers,
adding more good advice to the same purpose
Most surprising OF all, the Richmond Enquir-
er in recenC article on the shabby and in
convenient domestic arrangements of most
Southern households, recognizes the superb
GRITTY of those Of Yankee land, where there j:
"a pump at the door, dairy in the yard, {
kitchen under the same roof, a cookingstoy,
instead OF fireplace built to hold halt cord
seasoned fuel sawed and split and placed IN
der shelter, a washing-machine instead of
washing-tnb.9 &C., and concludes as follows
Yankee notions must become the order O
the day throughout the South if the Soutl
would become speedily prosperous, rich an,
powerful. Yankee industry and energy, in
genqity, perseverance and "goaheadativeness,
AZ nnias
capital and labor and brains, contrivances an6
cuteness are Indispensable desiderata to max,
the waste places of the South beautiful and t.
convert her vast solitudes, her mountains an,
valleys and plains and swamps, old fields an,
forests, and her prodigious, varied natural ad
vantages into the full blessings which the Go,
VINO made them designed them TO be GA teen
ing, happy and refined population. Ida IIla