Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-11-14
Investments i'm the south.

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What the South needs at this time is cap
ital to put life and animation into the busi-
ness interests of that section The people
are ready for work, but are prevented from
going forward on that road by lack of funds.
Thousands of acres of the best land in the
nation are lying idle and unproductive, and
will continue to do so until the tide of capi-
tai flows in that direction. Business men
and men of means would look to the South
as a field for operations if they were not de-
TERED by the statement made in the Radical
papers, that no security can be given for
capital in the Southern States in the present
condition of affairs in that section. This
statement is pronounced erroneous by the
New Orleans Crescent, which journal says
We, who live in the extreme South, and
know the country, its resources, its actual
condition and the character and sentiments
of the people, think the very opposite to be
true. We believe that if there be any part
of the country in which capital is safe, ''in
the present State of our political affairs, it
is the Southern and especially the South
western States. We have passed through
our sea of trouble, anda on dry land again
We came near losing everything aetu-
ally approach the brink of ruin-but what
ruthless war spared is safe from any further
danger. There will never be civil war again,
or political revolution, or even respectable
attempt at commotion, either in the present
generation, or the next, in the Southern
States. We have ever present with us now
not only the light of our own experience, but
| by that light we can better read and appre-
ciate the experience of other people who
have suffered themselves to become involved
in civil war. Ifthere be one sentiment pre-
dominant among the Southern people at the
present time, if there be any one lesson i'm
pressively taught to the rising generation,
it is that political agitation, necessarily lead
ing to civil war, is the greatest of all evils
a curse. And with it is taught its compile
ment, the equally important lesson, that or
der, security olife and property, agriculture
and commerce and manufactures, with at
tention solely to them and the cultivation ol
social virtues, are the greatest Of all bless
ings.
With these lessons indelibly impressed
upon our minds, and with this determination
where can there befound country in which
capital can be more securely invested thar
in this And where more proftably II
consequence of the late unfortunate attempt
at revolution, vast amount of the most val
liable property has been thrown upon the
market at the lowest prices The immedi
ate necessities of individuals who suffered
most severely during the war, have brought
with them, to such as have ready money
the most admirable opportunities, such al
offer themselves only in century, to posses!
themselves of stocks, real estate, and al
kinds of property, frequently at one-eightI
their real value. This is the view which
great many Northern people are actually tax
ing of our affairs, and hence the Southern
country has, thus early in the season, fal
larger number of visitors looking around fol
profitable business and investment, than evel
before. They are right. There is no safer
no more profitable country for the investment
of money and labor, no more secure place
in which to settle than these Southern anC
Southwestern States.