The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-03-07
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| Americans, by Inheritance from the olc
! colonists. And the spirit Of the pioneer
has been stimulated by the romance oi
Indian adventure, the wild freedom of the
hunting ground, and the richness and the
cheapness of the virgin soil lying westward
of the older settlements. Among us, at
present, local associations have been broken
by the unsettled condition of the country,
and the apprehension of the rule Of so
recently servile race. Hence the stampede
to Mexico, to British Honduras, to Brazil,
TO the North, and even 10 those border
States which are in danger of being crushed
between the upper and neither millstones of
Radicalism. A mariner, weary of stem
ming the river current and buifeting the
waves of ocean, might just as wisely cast
anchor upon the breakers ON the bar
Our country presents singular specta-
Gle. People Of oil other lands are seeking
this. The Irish are gradually assuming
control of the cities of New England which
ere long may be an ally of the South; while
the sons of the soil are focking away in a
mixed cencourse of foreign emigrants tOthe
West With less wisdom the people of
South Carolina are, many of them, rushing
away from the State, at the very moment
when such resources are being developed
as urgently invite immigration, and as will,
in o few decades, crowd sea island, plain
aud mountain with various population of
Irish, Scotch, English, Germans, Danes,
Swedes and Norwegians-such resources as
will fill every wasted pulse Of the body pol
itic with o current Of new and vigorous
life-such resources as by the blessing of
Heaven will restore 10 us all our prosperity.
We are not afraid to indulge in sach ex-
pectations We are sure that our present
difficulties will be overcome. Our disor-
dered society will be composed; our shat
tered and PROSTATE industries repaired.
We look beyond the immediate effects of the
act of emancipation SO suddenly and re-
vengefully effected, and so injurious TO both
races at the South. We look beyond few
years Of excitement, disorder and distress,
ani confidently predict the era of thrifty
labor and general abundance.
An article from the "Soldier's Friend" inyi-
ting the veterans of the Federal army to
settle in our State, well exhibits The adyan-
tages voluntarily renounced by tllose of our
people who exile themselves to other lands.
The writer calls upon the Northern people
to observe how amply nature has done her
part here. Aud what should induce the
Northern laborer or capitalist 10 come,
should surely induce the South Carolina
proprietor to stay. The latter also may
wisely observe the water powers that now
waste their strength among our mountains.
His is the abundance Of the gold iron, cop
per, manganese that crop out among the
rocks and sparkle in the sands. His are
those rich clays and ochres that vein the
hillsides with suggestions to enterprise and
the forests that abound with the choicest
American woods For him the native viues
Of wonderful luxuriance display their juicy
clusters among the trees. His are the favor
ed localities where the fig, the olive, the pc
can and The almond grow, the table-lauds
where the peach, the uectarine and the apri-
cot ripeu and glow, and the eastern slopes OF