East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-10-11
Southern Prosperity.

sat moping in the darkness, and they |
strike viciously and vigorously at all |
who approach them, longing for the
congenial night that will never re-
turn, and blinking hopelessly in the
glare Of better day. Some, how
ever, welcome it without understand
ing it. They are confused as to its
sources, and can only wish that they
were favored with its full benefcence,,
Their preiudices against the North
their instructive dislike, common to
all men, to recant their lifelong as
sertions, force them to grope in an
almost grotesque way for an explana-
ton which will not violate too rudely
their former convictions Of the differ
ence which to them is now as palpa-
bic as it is puzzling. And so with
many qualifications, this class of minds
is urging the Southern people TO as
'pire after the prosperity, the energy
and the mechanical, mercantile, and
literary triumphs of the North
They desire to see the busy fingers of
the printing press picking up and
scattering the broad sheets of knowl-
edge. OF course, these sheets must
bear a Southern imprint, both in
their Intellectual and mechanical fea-
more light, the envy which docs not
wholly consist in grumbling at the
good fortune of industrious neighboIs,
and the hope of more enterprising
and fruitful career for the Southern
social system, are a promising sign
1t is point gained when men recog-
nize their wants. A determination
and effort to crafty them are then
generally well assured. The dividends
Of the immense manufactures Of the
North, the gigantic labors of machin-
cry, the skill and judgment and
thought and study which are constant
ly brought to bear by men in all de-
partments Of labor and science, upon
the new uses TO which the slaves now
lying unemployed in earth and air
and water, may be put,-all these in
dications and Developments of Nor
there civilization, are the object of de-
sire and wonder in the South which
feels that, in its storehouses also are
the dormant forces that among us are
utilized and transformed into the con-
veniences, the pleasures and luxuries
of life.
In Virginia, the Richmond Ercm6-
er, under its new editor, creditably
announces a new carer, by praising
with some timidity the growing in
dustry of Massachusetts,. 1t urges
the development of Virginia mines,
the employment Of Virginia water
power, and the conversion into mate
rial advantages of Virginian forests.
Of course, he explains, Virginians do
not desire money-making their prin.
cipal object Of life, as is the case with
the Yankees, but he thinks great i'm
provement can be made in a mercena-
ry direction without damage. We
appreciate all this most cersainly. 1t
is hardly to be expected that men ac-
customed to do little or nothing,
should instanneously be impelled to
spend a good share of their existence
in labor, but we do most sincerely
congratulate the Virginians that they
ter the conceit Of their contented indo-
lence, or persuade them that sour
grapes are the principal produc tons
of Northern industry, which they do
not want That is step towards or
ganizing labor on its freest and most
vitalizing principles, and we hail it
with honest and hopeful pleasure
We observe also that a couple of Mo-
bile editors are welcoming the light
which has broken in upon them, even
while ignoring the source of it, which
as plain as the sun in the heavens.
Hon. John Forsyth, writing from New
York to his paper, the Mobile Regis
ter, says of a portion of Southern
Pennsylvania over which he has re-
Gently travelled:
"The wealth of this country cannot
be justly measured by its population.
The improvements in machinery, es-
pecially as applied to agriculture, al
most dispense with human hands and
the sweat of the brow. They pillow,
SOW and reap with machines. and
mans only occupation is to superin-
tend them. Hence, you ride over a
country dotted with farms, in q high
state of culture and groannig under,
crops, and are surprised at the lack
Of laborors, and wonder who does all
this work! Capital and science have
supplied the places Of our large gangs
of negroes, and the work goes on as
il by magic. Thus Pennsylvania with
her 100000 of population enjoys
productions equal to the labor of g.
100000. The same processes would
make the South garden of fruitful
ness, 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 la
bour system. We have all that Penn
sylvania has, in coal, iron and water
power, without her harsh winter eli
mate. We have products impossible
to her soil. The tcar has been pathwab
for Southern energies in new direction.
Let us follow it, encourage men of la
Dor and skill to settle among us, cap
ital to export our latent resources,
train and eierGte the negro to do his part
Of the grand 'cOrk of closing the gap
in matirial civilization, which our har-
dy Northern neighbors have for so
long kept wide upon between us. BY
this path, too, men of the South, we
are to recover the political power to
rights respected and sure"
Mr.. Forsyth does not wish to ac-
knowledge even to himself that free