The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-12-17
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pleasant and expeditions. At Louisville
as at Jeffersonville the r. r. Co., had
Buses in readiness to convey us 81 miles
to the Depot. We arrived at the Depot
at 8 o clock los miles from Indianapolis.
Once inside we selected our car-piaced
our carpet bag and shawl upon the
seat selected and left for the other end of
the Depot for some refreshments. "
Imagine our surprise on our return, some
graceless scamp had borrowed our shawl
a very nice and heavy one) or taken it
by mistake. it must have been thorough
mistake. and in the hurry and excitement
OF the moment-no one would steal in
this land of chivalry-n no. [ can't believe
lt--no-but it is gone. Now we are
without either over coat or shawi-and
we must abide the consequence-noc chance
for redress or time to look alter its 80
whistle blows-all aboard and away we 90
well We are going so we can get along
without the lost outer garments. Louis
vile contains about 100. 900 inhabitants,
is a very neatly built town in rather
a dilapidated condition, nearly every
business house and residence has more
or less glass broken out of the win
dows, and looking otherwise little worse
for the wear, not having recovered from
the curse and blasting influence of its
former "institooshuns The country
along the road for the first 80 or 40 miles
South is broken and thinly settled
much more so than the 80 or 40 miles
adjacent to Jeffersonville What
buildings we saw were the poorest
of the poor. Country School houses are
among the things that were. We have
passed the line of Yankee enterprise, the
country is very uneven, nothing but hills
and dales or recesses, very little of the
country looks as though it had or could
be cultivated. What little timber there
Is, is mostly scrub oak, the hills being
mostly barren rocks. As we proceed the
country improves. Large fields of Fall
sown wheat again greet the eye and from
this on through Kentucky, Tennessee
and part of Georgia-it is almost one
vast field Of Fall sown wheat up and
looking finely. The soil through that
region is mostly red clay and gravel I'M
derlayed with either blue slate, grey
lime, or red sandstone, indicating a very
rich soil. The timber is oak, maple, beach,
hickory, chestnut, and sycamore along
the streams. Our statements may lot
be reliable in every case as we have only
passing glance whilst in our rapid tran
sit so miles per hour through the country,
the railroads being in perfect order all
through the Southern country, much
more so than We expected to find them.
We believe from what we have seen and
can learn that Kentucky, Tennessee,
Georgia and Alabama are four of the
best cereal growing, and grazing States
in the Union. All having a very fertile
soil and salubrious climate. We. at the
North certainly cannot compete with
them as grazing states, the South having
the advantage both ia soil and climate.
tothing but the curse of slavery has kept
them where they are.
We have formed (R. r. acquaintance
with kentuckians, Tennesseans, Geor-
gians, Mississippians, and Caroinians.
We have discussed the situation of the
North and South freely and with the
most kindly feelings on my part and be-
lieve so on theirs. They all agree that
the Southern planters before the war had
not the remotest idea az any sort of
manufacturing Or the slightest conception
OF any thing except the cultivation Of
either Cotton, Rice, Tobacco or Sugar
and in order to accomplish either they
must have negroes or land. They would
plant according to their ability-get their
crops matured and marketed and
take the cash and buy more land
or more negroes and plant more cotton.
and so on from bad to worse, till the war
put an end to it. We were urged to come
on there and spend week, a month, or
whole summer, and assured US that
our life and property would be as safe as
at tee North. They now see the want of
Northern ingen uity, skill and enterprise
and invite the cooperation Of the North
and seem to have desire to initiate US
in many things. We arrived at Nash
vile 80 p. IN. 18th 1S5 miles from Lou
isville. Nashville is a very neat looking
town resembling our northern towns
Being the centre of one of the best farm
ing regions on this continent it cannot do
otherwise than prosper. What the peo-
pie here claim to deteSt is the socalled
carpet baggers they say land perhaps
there's oomuch truth in it)they are set
OF scamps that are played out both po-
litically and financially at the North and
go South for no other purpose than to
seek office through the influence of the
Negro. do not doubt there are plenty
of kuKlux Klans all through kentucky
Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana
and Texas who would kin q Union man
IS readily as we at the North would
venomous reptile It is the aforesaid
carpet baggers that has caused most of the
trouble. The people admit they have tax
en- an uhwlse course trying to drive them
from the country AS in SO doing they have
for time retarded emigration, and that