The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-04-02

North when your forests abound will
the finest timbcrs to be found any
where TINT everything to be though
of comes from abroad. When people
buy so much from abroad they sool
have little at home, and are not likely
to stay there long themselves. But ont
thing has been thought ofin this coun
try while all your money has been SEN
off to your more inventive neighbors
1t has been cotton, cotton, cotton, cot
ton all the time, while every other in
terest has been neglected. Your eli
mate and soil will produce everything
you need to eat, drink or wear. Tho
South is particularly adapted to the
growth Of the grape. He had dranl,
wine few weeks ago made by plan.
ter near Mobile which was equal to the
best European wine.
He was wearing hat, he said, made
at Columbus, Mississippi, BY Slaughter
u which was equal to foreign
manufacture. You can raise and man
ufacture right here everything you need
to wear, from the sole ofyour foot to
the crown Of your head. Then accept
the suggestion from one who wishes
you well. Set to work at once, and do
it, and become really independent
Look at home for prosperity, and not
abroad.
There is a true old saying that "no-
body can make a man." The boy
when put out in the world may rise
from obscurity and poverty to honor
and afiluence, if there is anything in
him. The same may be said of coun-
try. 1t is never made by outside cir
cumstances. Nothing can be made of
either a man or country that has
nothing in it. Be not discouraged by
tlisappointments. When q man gets
knocked down he finds out whether he
has any India rubber in him, and wheth.
er he has the manhood to get up. You
cannot keep some men down: they
will rise in spite of misfortune. Surely
the people of the South have been
knocked down, and robbed and beaten,
but the American people are noted for
getting up;! and you will surely not
deny their character.
Mr.. Everett said he knew but little
about political reconstruction, and car
cd nothing about it. What is most need
ed is material reconstruction. You
want labor-your system has been de-
stroyed and scattered to the four winds
of the earth; you never had enough at
any time; 100000 ofpeople who did
the work are set loose, but 100000
would not be drop in the bucket, to
what your immense territory demands,
and will one day contain. Labor and
land arc naturally connected together.
and yet of all things they are the most
difficult things to manage. Your labor
is gone and the land is deprecated
hundreds of per cent. A better system
will yet be inaugurated. The African
race, when placed on an equal footing,
can never keep pace with the active,
energetic, Anglo Saxon. Some OF them
are intelligent and highly elncated.
They are good imitators, but bring
them into active competition with the
white man and they will fall short in
the race. At present they cannot be
relied upon as laborers. In England,
the rule is that man who will not work
shall not eat Everything depends on
labor, and it is the great problem of ev-
cry nations greatness. immigration is
what this country wants.
Farming in England is very eXpen-
sive; all the small farmers nearly are
tenants, and it requires capital of not
less than one thousand pounds, or five
thousand dollars, to cultivate success.
fully one hundred acres. There are
many young men just able to make ends
meet there on small farm, who, if in
duced to como to this country, could
buy land of their own, and with their
Industrious frugal habits and ideas of
strict economy would soon grow rich
and affluent. Suppose you had few
thousand such men in this, or any coun-
try. the land woull soon blossom as a
garden. and peace and plenty smile on
the land. Such men as these can live
where they are, and they will not come
here as laborers. But if you will give
them positive proof of what you will
do; let them have your waste lands in
large bodies suitable for colonies, they
will come. Give them guarantee
that your best men will unite in a cor
poration to encourage immigration,
appoint men who cannot afford to do
a petty, mean thing for the sake of q
few dollars. Unless your very best
men will 60 into the enterprise, pro-
posed, said the Speaker, II will not
touch it." This plan is to enrich both
sides, not for the aggrandizement fany
few men. Let an organization be ef
fected, and he would suggest to call it
the "National Freeholder's Land As
sociation" of--State Or county. II
this was dono, he would guaranty his
honor, and that of his business house
in England, to Immigrants. But the
movement must come from you.
He had had applications for money
by persons who wished to carry on
farming in the old style. 1t was worse
than folly, and he would as soon throw
his money away as to let it 60 in that
manner. The old style cannot be FOL
lowed any more it is impossible now.
The only way to farm now is to cut up
the large plantation into small farms
and have them we'll cultivated; build
up home manufactures; multiply your
industries serve yourselves first and
then sell any surplus you may have
abroad. Many seem to have thought
of this before; numerous minds have