The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-07-03


ness. They have neither eaten or wasted
the seeds sent them by Northern benevoIence
or the Agriculture Department, but around
each ffecdmen's home where these have gone,
is vegetable garden, such as we obseve in
our rides in this vicinity. They are an inn
proving people, and if men from the North
do not 60 in to aid them. will, by their in
dustry, enterprise and thrift, regenerate the
South. tsi.ss p
My friends, some of you tired of city life,
may think of emigrating. To such, ] say,
put not a thousand miles between your fam
lilies and their old homes by going to the
distant West or Northwest. THERE'S more
genial climate and q country as rich and
beautiful within few hundred miles of
your home, where you can buy agricultural
and mineral lands at from two to five dollars
an acre; in which you can buy land almost
contiguous to towns destined, under the IN
duence Of freedom, soon to be large cities,
whose railroad connections are already estab-
lished, at from five to fifteen dollars an acre
In this region, your skill as machinists 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. "a
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 iron, coal and
limestone have visited Lewiston, Me-,
Nashua and Manchester, N. a., and Lowell
and Lawrence, Mass, and / 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 l 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, 60 to the rich and fertile, but exhausted
South. 31
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 a
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. y ~ ssiF aA
But, my laboring friends, when 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 I'M
consciously lapse into the habits which pre-
vail. Again, let me say, do not think of go
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 Danyille, Va, can earn about nine dollars
per week but in one of the towns of North.
Carolina, we saw girls and women, who in q
Philadelphia factory would receive from
four to six dollars per week, who were wor-
king long days in tobacco factory fol
twenty five cents a day. One of the appli
cants to Colonel Edie for rations stated, and
established the fact, that her husband work
ed in saw-mill for thirty cents day and
the best iaborers in their vicinity, without
distinction of color, are employed in the ricf
gold mines of the latter State, at one dollal
per day. -.i,-s
In this picture of helpless destitution an
not portraying the effects of war No, the
fruitful seeds of this misery were brought
from Africa in slave ships It was not tht
war that reduced Norfolk from the first com
mercial port of the Union to the position Of
an inconsiderable town without foreign CON-
merce. The war did not convert the ricl
and beautiful land around fernando into ar
arid waste. The war did not drive the onct
proud occupants from those long abandonei
mansions, whose columns and architrave
are now so dilapidated, or from those villa
ges of huts, about which the poisonous win,
has twined its beautiful but fatal embrac,
for years. Z.
Said one, who for years recognized Mr.
Calhoun as his inspired leader, but now ha
but little hope for the South 1--WE hav
sacrificed our country to cotton, mules anl
niggers, and if you regenerate it, its prosper
ity will be our lasting reproach. They wen
most happy who fell in the war, before tn
delusion was quite dispelled." Said an
other =" Why did not the North and Soutl
I, 4 n = Il
was fighting for the prosperity of my coun
try; but some months imprisonment in on
of your forts, and plentiful supply of you
newspapers, satisfied me that was fightin,
against every cherished desire of my heart.
The South must be regenerated, and we O
the North must do it. There are, however
many there who will aid us in the work, bu
we must plan and guide it. Let our states
men traverse the South, and, ascension 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 an
one of the States send him your paper dali
after you have read it. What they need
to understand US, our habits and purposes
When in may several addresses told then
NOT the colored people, or the Low
downs" but the Weather portion of m
audiences that, masters as they had been Q
thousands of acres and hundreds of slave.
they had never been able to provide them
selves and families with many of the bes
results of wealth which. enter into the dali
life of a Philadelphia workingman, the
would look skeptical but after had descri
bed our neat two story houses with fou
rooms each, and the outer kitchen and bat