Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-10
True Progress In Tennessee.

A few days since the able, industrious Commits
sioner of Immigration for Tennessee, Rev. Hermann
Bokum, delivered an address in Pittsb urgh, Penn
sylvanis. Under the caption ct the head Of these
remarks, Mr.. Bokum's address Is Published in the
Pittsburgh papers and highly complmented. The
Gaset.c publishes the extract We give below, and
says:
The statements and deductions Of the speaker are
peculiarly forcible and practical illustrating great
progress In the right direction 10 at least of the
Southern States. Mr. Bokum commenced bis ad-
dress SO follows
1.-THE rebellion and its suppression have brought
about entire revolution in the industry Of Amer
lea, and Tennessee largely feels the powerful infu-
Of this revolution. Before ths war tho impor-
lance attached 10 the raising Of cotton and the OBJ
tanning Of cheap food for her slaves made her take
part in the policy which opposed manufacturers
throughout the Union, 30 that the West being left
without market in the East, might be compelled
to furnish 10 the South the cheap food she needed
for har slaves. In consequence of this policy, the
producers found themselves ct the mercy Of the
planters snd the planters in their turn at the mercy
Of the English manufacturers. In absence Of the
means of support which diversity of employment
furnished during every season of the year. large
portion Of the citizens Of Tennessee had to leave the
State in order to seek employment somewhere else,
while the non-slsveholdiDg WhiteB who remained
behind were left without Indictment TO improve
their condition, since, In the absence Of intei-
gent and remunerstive agriculture the soil became
worse and worse exhausted. The overwhelming
gulf between the prosperity Of the North and the
decline Of the South then brought in the rebellion
and, in sweeping away The institution Of Elav3Ty,
gave rise TO the adoption Of policy il harmony
with the law, without which State can enjoy per-
manent prosperity. Now Tennessee is fully alive
TO the fact that it is only by Investigation Of en-
ployment, that she can escape from the low condi-
tion TO which her former policy has brought her,
that abe must bring TO light her mineral wealth,
that she must use her water power for the establish
ing Of manufactures, that she must have home
market for her farmers increase Of farmers TO feed
her consuming population and that 70 attain these
ends she needs capital and the intelligent labor Of
the North.
"The day OF emigration, when thousands OF her
children sought home in other parts Of the Union,
has gone by, and the day Of immigration when by
her wise policy she invites the capital aad the labor
Of other States TO her borders has come. It is
very sad experience through which she has arrived
at this knowledge of her nsed. do not onl y refer
70 the rAvages of war though they have been great
her aaddest experience has been the impoverishing
Of her soil during years previous TO the war, and
decline IN the scale OF wealth and OF Intelligence OF
large portion Of Dor population. But she has
learned the lesson at last, and brighter future is
dawning upon her. She no longer turns to England
70 do her manufacturing, 10 the West 20 furnish
her with cheap food, but she endeavOrs by the de-
velopment Of her own man utacIures 70 obtain
market for her farmers, being mindful o. the fact
that by healthy competition among her own PEG
pie she is keeping within her own borders the wealth
she produces, sud thus benefits every class Of hor
inhabitants.
II glad 10 and in my intercourse with citizens
Of this city, how true snd enlightened view they
take Of the change which is going or in the South.
They fully alive 70 the fact that IT, BY dsvel-
opment of her resources, Tennessee ceases in many
instances 10 draw her supplies from the North the
new impulse given TO her prosperity By The dsvsl-
0pmsnt 9f her own resources mus, in The end, be
tbe means Of bensftting other parts Of the Union"