The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1867-08-08

bundant timber for building, fuel SC.
perfect healIhfulness and abundant for
ming lands. This would be thessur,
result if left to rs, but as the great val
ue of our climate, soil and staples would
bring in agricultural immigrants, 81
this inviting field of manufacturing
power will not be left for us. We may
look upon and rejoice in this district
enlivened by, and Aourishing with {
thriving population of one hundred
thousand people, at a sooner day thar
agricultural development would produce
it, foreign capital, will seek these treas
ures.
We arc yet in transition state, civ.
il and political disturbances yot for &
while keep us out ofthc recognized pale
of civilization, but they must and will
pass off, if not removed by returning
gacity to- our politicians, material
prosperity with immigration and emi.
grafton will surely remove them, while
the coming generation is still young
Emancipation had its evils, which are
now gricviously present to us, it result
ed in utter irrctrievablc ruin to indi-
viduals and families and in terrible,
though I hope, temporary disaster to
States, yet when these civil and politi-
cal disturbances arc removed, as they
will be by one or the other of the pro
cesses above suggested, then I deem it
demonstrable that emancipation will
result in the increased wealth and pros
perity Of the Southern people i'll the
aggregate, however it may have crush
ed individuals, and for these, among
other reasons, slavery and the cotton
plant were monopolies in the hands Of
Southern planters. The ease and COM
fort of their position prevented their
making great efforts to devclopc to
their full extent even the advantages
of these monopolies, while they paid no
regard TO true development of tho thou
sand other valuable resources Of the
country, and the prciudices of the rest
of mankind, shut out all other capital
and enterprise. Now slavery is gonc
forever, and the prejudiccs OF the world
arc satisfied. The moral and physical
barriers that intcrvened between us
and the capital and enterprise Of the
world have disappeared, and as the
labor of the world will seek share in
our rich agricultural harvests, so will
its capital seek for its own ends, to de-
velope our great manufacturing power,
and our noble streams, Which have for
ages given their music to the forest as
they bounded on, free as air, to the
sea, giving no toll to- man, are now in
the markets of the world, rivals of the
New England streams, with the great
advantage Of never being locked in ice,
their music will soon be changed into
the hum of the great water wheel and
the buz of machinery, and their waters
will roll on to Old ocean, after paying
tribute, every drop, to man. There
may not be as much poetry and senti-
mcnt in the music, but it is better mu-
sic to keep time by in the dance of life.
In the limits prescribed, it is impossi-
bic to more than touch upon our agri-
cultural advantages in this general
point of view, but enough has been
said to show that laying aside motives
of patriotism, there is promise i'll our
old land yet Of a rich and. prosperous
country, sufficicntto keep at home those
who talk and think of seeking new
and moro thriving land for the arena Of
their industry and enterprise.
In my next I propose to finish this
branch of my subject, by view Of our
agricultural resources as applicable to
individuals in the pressing necessi-
ties Of the immediate present.
QUAKER.