The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-08-09
THE SOUTH.

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liens TO whom be delivered very inter-
esriug narrative address. We make few
extracts. His description of North Car
DINA is glowing, and, we have no doubt,
truthful:
In North Carolina spoke in the cities
of Charlotte, Concord, Salisbury and
Greensboro, and my reception in each
case was as cordial as at Memphis OF New
Orleahs, but less demonstIalive, because
the cities we're smaller. l came hence TO
DanVilIe, Virginia, where made my clos
ing address TO a very large assemblage of
cilizens. Thus. you will see, my friends,
that l crossed Kentucky, Tennessee, Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana, and, leaving the last
named State by Lake Pontchartran and
the Gulf. for Alabama, and coming thence
through Georgia, South Carolina, North
Carolina and Virginia, on the homeward
trip, 1 saw something of the South
l now know from observation and inter
course, something of its people, and l do
but say to you, what said to each Of my
audiences, large or small. pubic or .pri-
vate, 10 school room, or on public platform,
that the whole people will soon regard the
terrible war through which we have Just
passed, as the throes and agony of the
new birth of new, higher, boiler, and
more blessed nation than the world has
yet known. (Great applause
l saw during my trip a country npon
which the Almighty las with most lavish
'and bestowed His richest material gifts
Ii is gorged with every mineral 1 have
scarcely been in State that does not
abound in coal. iron, copper and lead and
have travelled for days ovef a region of
country as richly underlaid with gold
bearing quartz as the mountains of Col
orado or California. Let me speak speci
ally OF North Carolina, because, as is
equally true of Virginia, poverty has driv
en- hundreds of thoU-ands of her native
c'uzens into exile. My friends, North
Carolina is the most beautiful aud richest
portion OF Gods earth upon which my
vision or feet have ever rested. You know
that she produces cotton, rice, indigo, tar
pitch, turpentine aud superior timber
You know that her soil and climate are
adapted to the cereals, wheat, corn. rye,
buckwheat and oats.
But you do not probably know that
that Stale. long known as the Rip Van
Wrinkle fthe Upion, from which more
than fifty thousand free white people have
fled to the two States of Indiana and Illi~
lois, is the land of wine and honey, the
apple and peach. of the fig and pomegran
ate. all of which saw pro pering in open
field and under the most artless culture
It's native vines made toe fortune of Long
worth. who carried cuttings thence. The
wine producing vineyards of Western
Pennsylvania, around the base and on
the Islands of Lake Elie, and scattered
through Missouri, are from the cuttings
aiken from the native vines of North
Carolina:
The Catawba, the Lincoln, the Isabella,
which, as it has not yet been success
FULLY traneplsnted, Eastern North Caro-
lima has the monopoly. There it grows
spontaneously as weed.
The woods and hill sides TEEN with the
richest honey-bearing flowers, aud the
bees invite you to put up but rude box,
that they NAV reward your kindness with
the sweetest treasure. There is not a
vegetable we produce that will not thrive
in Nor,h Carolina, and under these
Astounding stores of agricultural wealth,
a belt, raging from forty to one hundred
| miles wide across the entire State, is so
richly underIaid with gold, that person
with common frying pan, may wash the
sands of many of the rivulets, and make
from Que to three dollars per day. Ny
friends, as l travelled from day to day
through this native wealth and beauty,
Lsaw how sin had driven man out of Par
adise; for never had seen such poverty
as l found in North Carolina. save in
South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi.
where people are starving 10 the midst Of
NATURES richest bouuIies.
You cannot comprehend and credit
this statement. tell you it is true.
could not credit it myself 1t was long
before observation enabled me fully to
comprehend it. Go with me to Missis-
sipPi. l will take you to fernando.
Once fernando was an important railroad
town and station There are scattered
around ii few large old mansions, aban
doned and going TO ruin. It was once
the center of great cotton growing re-
giou, but now, as far as the eye could
range from the platform of the car, We
saw uOAuluS Jul sieOoS a "SSN 10
is valueless, or the red. glaring subsoil
washed and cut by the countless gullies,
till under the bright sun it looked like 9
million flames of red Ere. blazing up from
the earth.
The owners Of that once rich land bad
planted it each successive year with cot
ton, till they extracted from il every agri
cultural element and those fbreus root
with which nature mats the soil and pro
: tscts it from washing. In response to
, question as to the extent of the desolatiol
r we beheld, fellow traveller, Mississip
plan. said, cit is pretty wide. There i
moi a plantation within some miles of th
station, on which family could make
, living" and added, ''the soil y as Away
8 light, and when the rain began to was
/; il. it made quick work of IT," SkilliI
e culture would not only have saved thi
3 wide region from desoiation. but added !
: lis wealth-prOducing power.
Come with me again. my friends,
: South Carolina, and behold mother VIII
> having .'roped'' herself to a pillow. is str
y wing to drag it through the earth, Viii
her son, apparently about eleven years oil
! epdsavors to guide it that they may ops
= furrow In which to deposit the fe