Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-10-14
ENGLISH VIEW OF THE
SOUTH.
Address of SEr. John Everitt Of
EOndOn.
Delivered at zion, England
August 2Ssh.

Mr.. JOHN ES b. -. iIOuuOui uS-
llyered an address IA. IN Luton, Eog-
land, Of which r reaches US in the
Luton Times. We are plessed to learn
from the address that Mr.. E. expected
to sail at once for the United States, and
we presume is now in this country. We
hope that we may have an opportunity
soon Of welcoming him to Memphis.
The address at Luton was mainly upon
the resources of the Southern States, and
the character of their people. The fol-
lowing extracts will be read with inter
est:
1t slavery had gone from their hearts
and homes, and now let them look at
that wonderful land rid of this incubus
Of slavery, and without dispsragiDg for
a moment the wonderful people of the
North, or his own people, more honor
able and more conscientious race did not
exist on this planet than he saw living
there on the borders OF the Mississippi,
the Tennessee, and on the Gulf of Mexi-
oo-men who were OF our own kith and
kin. men who sympathized deeply with
our sentiments of freedom, and who said
to him with tears IN their eyes" Oh
that we were under the shadow of your
flag v'-men who would give anything
to be identified with the great institution
OF this counuy-mea who were rich in
sympathy with everything that was
right minded and noble and free.
The soil of the Southern States was
remarkably prolific. There were all
sorts OF soIis. The great bulk Of the soil
he travelled over was Of the garden
mould sort, dark mould from depth
of two feet to fourteen feet. He had
seen black mould fourteen feet deep, and
this not over garden, not over parish,
but extending over hundreds and thou
sands of acres, lying yOnder on the Mis-.
sissippi, called the Mississippi prairie
land, land that would bear anything
cotton, corn, fruits, In fact they could not
mention anything within the range OF
culture that might not be grown to any
| extent without manure. The only thing
| there was to keep down the weeds the
great trouble was to get rid OF the weeds.
! What would they say when he told
them that that land had been bought,
he belived he had bought ome of Ii, at
| Eve dollars per acre, which was about
lTs. t>in our money There was not
an acre OF land Ia the county Of Bedford,
not including ths. Blggieswade garden
land, which could hold . candle to it.
| The sogthern country was waiting for
! hulnsn lgbor. The soil WAS rich to re-
pletion, and there was In It every thing
that could possibly contribute TO the re-
quirements of the most polished and
most refined civilization. Itwas land,
SO to speak, flowing with milk aad
| honey. 1t had broad rivers and streams;
| it had glorious valleys 1t had lofty
mountains it had everything inviting
to humanity. 1t was country which
1 wanted the simplest requirements of la
bor; and in that country no man need
stRrve,
Then they might say. What about
I the climate?" When he went there
an insurance Office wanted to charge hin
five per cent on bis life assurance be.
cause he was going beyond the thirty
sixth degree OF latitude. He did not pay
| ii, however, but they tried it on, and no
doubt in the honest conviction that it
! was dangerous for 3 man to go there.
There was a gener, impression that Il
was unhealthy FOR man TO go beyond
the thirty-siytb parallel, BECAUSE there
! they would get into idalarious, pestif-
! Gus, f9ver-sirieken = =" ~, where man
| had nineteen chs one against
him. He might ssy oe that more
| thorough deiasion u lot exist in the
mind Of any lun ..c. daughter and
cheers.1 Let them listen to few facts.
He determined TO know the truth; he
could see no way Of doing that except
BY getting statlsties which no one could
| deny, and when he was there he asked
| Of ul 20 NJ
He began, amongst other things, to in
quire about life aversges. Every conn-
| try had its life averages. Every one
who had dealings with an insurance
company knew that on these life aver
ages the profits of those Institutions were
based. When he was in the Gulf OF
Mexico on steamer he happened provi-
| dentially to come across a gentleman
going to New Orleans for the purpose OF
extending life business; 80 he got him
planted in q corner snd got before him,
1 ands kept him for good three hours
asking him questions, and he wcrmed
out Of him everything he wsnted t.
know. Laughter and cheers. He rep
resented the Equitable Office in Ne y
York, which was based on the North.
ampton tables, the same in its eonstitu,
ton as the Equitable Office in London,
one Of the oldest and best Institutions oi
1 London. In 1865, according to the pub.
lished reports, tbs business of life assu-
rance being kept separate In the North
from the South, the South showed q life
Faverage OF forty-two years, and the
North of only thifty-six. And that was
the country on going to which an Office
wanted him to pay I've per cent. for an
extra risk TIE thing was ridiculous
Ii was mOnstrous. l,H
AS to resources the Southern States
had everything in minerals. They had
corn, wine, oil, cotton, tobacco. and
everything man could want in the great.
eat abundance, He had seen noun
tains Of iron ore, great Jumps, which
looked as II they had been run in crys.
tails. Again, here were towering noun.