The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-04-24
From. tss Seutler. Cultivator:
The Science sof r ucing Wealth.

The scienc Of Pr cling Wealth.
I;ss.have been much interested in the
f3perusal of the statenien is and reasoning
of your Correspondent s'H., - in favor Of
Encouraging Northern capitalists to settle
in the South and aid in developing its
vast agricultural, manufacturing and min
ling resources Sectional antipathies,
whether in the Northern or Southern
States, can be productive of nothing but
EVIL. and that. continually. They were
the cause of the late disastrous war, and
cannot fail to cast blight upon Southern
prosperity and happiness so-long as they
predominant in the human heart.
+ The science and art of producing wealth
andsof keeping it are far from being.as
we'll understood as they; ought to be. 1t
4 is so mach easier to consume and waste
Ecapital than to call into existence, that
/ the consumption of property as suggested
fby. tH ~ often exceeds its production for
Ia.limited time But with well directed
Industry, good economy and frugality,
wealth may be accumulated in the plant
ing States much faster than. lei, y appears
to believe. With our manifold natural
advanta ges, it lisa poor compliment to our
lSskill3and enterprise to assume that, FIVE
millions of white people in the South can
not. produce capital much faster than any
immigration is likely to bring to them.
from the North. This is an sinlportant
subject and deserves a thorough examina-
ton.
Without any assistance from colored
persons, an industrious white population
ofsfve millions ought to produce one
million bales. Of cotton a year surplus
over and above consumption, or %
fair equivalent in other property This.
annual gain would hardly be less than
one hundred million dollars. It will be
some years, L fear, before ten million dol
lars, or one-tenth of one hundred, are an
nually brought into the planting States
for permanent investment in industrial
operations. The Western and Pacific
States, tho Middle and The Northern,
present strong inducements for capital to
seek profitable employment; hence, with
no unkindly feelings in the Statcs now
denied any representation i'll Congress,
the South can reasonably. expect only a
fraction of;the capital Of the North going
sout for permanent investment While
we should attracras much of this as posi-
BILE, in 8 legitimate manner, t is, as I
humbly7 conceive, vastly most important
that a generous and common effort be
made TO induce our white population to
avail themselves Of all improvements in
agriculture and the mechanic al is, which
give at once a higher standard of social
and physical comfort and a much larger
surplus from year to year over consump
tion. With few and sadly defective tools
to. work with, no capital and little enter
prise, surely much should not be expected
from such a people in such condition
whether white or black. Poverty and a
lack of enterprise, como partly from the
mild climate and small wants of man in
thesunny South, and partly from the lack
of mental and social culture. Let snow
lie on the ground six months in twelve,
and the mercury sink seventy degrees
below the freezing of water, as sometimes
happens in New England, and stern ne
cessity would compel far greater economy
and industry in the cotton grow
ing climate. Necessity is not only
the mother of Yankee invention, acute
ness of thought and action, bat the
parent of those peculiar Industrious habits
ofEmind and muscle, which carly learn
Fbothsbow to create and how to keep
wealth or property. When emigrants
from England first planted q colony in
Massachusetts they. frozc to death, or
nearly so, by hundreds and thousands.
Equally now, severe and abiding physical
forces changed tho true English into tho
true Yankee character Bring the latter
South to live and rear his offspring, both
are subjected to all the climatic forces
which have changed all Northern and
European immigrantsin into genuine South
erners. Southern ideas, SO far as they
are peculiar, are the offspring of climate
quite as much as buzzards, alligators and
cotton. The production of wealth will be
easy to those who carefully study the
wants Of mankind, and the adaptation of
the climates and soils OF tho South to sup
ply those wants one who has not capital
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