The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-27

lilies and their old homes by going to tine
distant West or Northwest There is a more
genial climate and country as rlcn ahu
beautiful within few hundred miles .,
your home, where you can buy agrlcuitural
and mineral lands at from two to hVe doilars
an acre; in which you can buy land almost
contiguous to towns destined, under the III
f1uence of freedom soon to be large cities
whose railroad connections are already estap-
lished, at from five to fifteen dollars an acre:
In this region, your skill as machlnlsts Will
be of immense value Many OF the rich GOLD
and copper mines of North Carolina have
already passed into the possession OF North
ern men, and are being worked by the most
approved machinery.
AS experience demonstrates their richness,
this field will become largely productive OF
wealth and employment. But the rivers OF
the South furnish boundless water power,
much Of which washes beds OF 1ron coal ana
limestone. I have visited Lewiston, Me-,
Nashua and Manchester, N. H., and Lowell
and Lawrence, Mass. and I assure you that
a single stream in each of the States of Ala
bama, Georgia, South Carolina and North
Carolina, furnishes power vastly in excess of
that required to move the machinery OF the
cities have named. Much of the cotton
crop will yet be spun and woven by this
power, near to the fields on which it IS grown.
To enterprising and ingenious emigrants l
say, go to the rich and fertile, but exhausted
South.
What is required to regenerate the South
is subsoil plows, phosphates, agricultural
implements generally, large increase OF
horses, mules and horned cattle, and stead
lily increasing supply of steam engines and
mining machinery. and such manufacturing
machinery as can be moved by water power
These, with a comparatively small amount
of cash capital, and few earnest men to
teach Others their use and value, would in q
few years make the South bloom like gar
den, and develop population as loyal as
was that of any Northern State during the
war. (Applause.) And the interest OF North
ern capitalists require them to supply those
potent agencies at the earliest practicable
day.
But, my laboring friends, when I advise
you to move South, understand me to couple
it with the suggestion that you go in little
colonies, say of ten or twenty families. Car
ry with you your Northern habits. Arrange
for the regular receipt of the papers and
magazines for which you now subscribe, and
let one of your number be at least capable of
conducting fair country school. In this
way you will regenerate the neighborhood
into which you go and preserve your chill
dren from the Ignorance which prevails. A
single man or family going there would un
consciously lapse into the habits which pre-
vail. Again, let me say, do not think of 60
ing to work for wages. There is little de-
mand as yet for skilled labor, and unskilled
| labor is in terrible excess
The coiored hands in the tobacco factories
of Danville, Va, can earn about nine dollars
per week but in one of the towns of North
Carolina, we saw girls and women, who in a
Philadelphia factory would receive from
| four to six dollars per week, who were wOr-
king long days in a tobacco factory for
twenty five cents day. One of the appli-
cants to Colonel Edie for rations stated, and
established the fact, that her husband work
ed in a saw-mill for thirty cents a day; and
the best laborers in their vicinity, without
distinction of color, are employed in the rich
gold mines of the latter State, at one dollar
per day.
In this picture of helpless destitution am
not portraying the effects of war; No, the
fruitful seeds of this misery were brought
from Africa in slave ships 1t was not the
war that reduced Norfolk from the first COM
mercial port of the Union to the position of
an inconsiderable town without foreign COM
merce. The war did not convert the rich
and beautiful land around fernando into an
arid waste. The war did not drive the once
proud occupants from those long abandoned
mansions, whose columns and architraves
are now so dilapidated, or from those villa
ges of huts, about which the poisonous vine
has twined its beautiful but fatal embrace
for years.
Said one, who for years recognized Mr..
Calhoun as his inspired leader, but now has
but little hope for the South ave have
sacrificed our country to cotton, mules and
niggers, and if you regenerate it, its prosper
ity will be our lasting reproach. They were
most happy who fell in the war, before the
delusion was quite dispelled" Said an
other" Why did not the North and South
understand each other? believed that
was fighting for the prosperity of my coun-
try; but some months imprisonment in one
of your forts, and plentiful supply of your
newspapers, satisfied me that was fighting
against every cherished desire of my heart"
The South must be regenerated, and we of
the North must do it. There are, however,
many there who will aid us in the work, but
men traverse the South, and, as occasion Of
fers, speak frankly, batting no jot or breath
of their opinions, but uttering them cour-
teously, and if any of you has friend in any
one of the States send him your paper daily
after you have read it. What they need is
to understand us, our habits and purposes.
When in may several addresses 1 told them
not the colored people, or the Glow
DOWNS" but the weather portion of my
audiences-that, masters as they had been of
thousands of acres and hundreds of slaves,
they had never been able to provide them
selves and families with many of the best
results of wealth which enter into the daily
life of Philadelphia workingman, they
would look skeptical; but after had desert
bed our neat two story houses with four |
rooms each, and the outer kitchen and bath
room supplied with hot water from the range,
and lighted through with gas; and the
large we'll lighted and ventilated school
house for the children, near home the pub
lie library or institute near by, the choice
among churches of all denominations the
cheap daily newspaper, and other things ia
miliar to you almost of them would admit |
the correctness of my proposition. We can
thus teach them much, and the time has
come when many of those who were recently
our foes are willing to hear us, and cooper
ate with us in any good work for the poor
among whom they dwell.
Let us, then, my friends, while manfully |
defending all that is good in our opinions or.
institutions. endeavor to FORGET the mast and |