The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-11-17

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value 70 tne future Of inc agriculture Oh 'n'
worid the deposits peins ProoAoiy equsi IN
extent and value TO those Of guano on tno ISL
ands on the coast Of fsru' Their s1sssncs
was well known before the late reosihon, ."
well As their use and probable future value
But South Carolina had soul q. O., turned
up noss) above industrial progress and utility,
other than that connected with raising rice
and cotton with slave labor. The I'D
Yankee" Is the man who Is excavating and
mining these phosphatss; the several com
psniss having their head aud front In Boston,
New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, for
the most part. These "carpet. bsgssrs" are
digging out Of tho bowels Of South Carolina
riches destined, in the end, to pay the owners
Of the deposits and laborers engaged, possibly
as much annually As the people Of the State
ever received from their cotton.
I question whether ever before the war
Salem, N. c.. ever received from beyond
North Cardinals limits ono dollar for dried
fruit Of any description. So, too, Fredericks-
burg, Va, Is now sending North annually
hundreds of thousands Of dollars worth Of
dried sumse leaves aud stems; and other inte.
rior Virginia towns started the trade this
season. 1 may further mention that the
Manassas Junction brown. stone auarries arc
already being worked BY 4 company Of North.
srn men and .washingtonians, to an s1tsnt
producing ten times as much money 10 all On
gagged 10 and on the enterprise Is the quar-.
ries in that locality produced before the war.
Tho deposits Of this valuable stone in that
vicinity are apparently inexhsustibie, and Il
cannot DO long, If We are to have the "psscs"
which Grant desires to secure, ere those quar-.
riss bring to those owning thsm, and to tho
Iaborers they employ, q hundred dollars whore
they now bring them ten
Thus, the results Of the war are already be.
ginning to compensate tho South for all her
psoupi.ry sacrifices made At the instance and
for the bepsdt Of ber class who knew no other
southerp intere,t than that Of ,lsysrv-tbs
dr,v.,tons tina. "A veiebted bsr down n, to
enable every other section of tho Union 10
outstrip her in the race Of Industrial pIosress,
enliehtepmsnt and prosperity.
That. "nnns are 80 hind al, III .a !.bn lsiu
BY the determination Of the controlling minds
in Southern public Affairs to. IL possible, 70.
establish slavery In all but the name. The
Wholesale foroibls denial Of the blacks Of
Louisiana and Georgia OF their legal right to
vote In the late PRESIDENTIAL contest, 10 not
only PalPabie premonitory OF their purpose
mentioned above, but also positive proc that
they do not design to permit the industrial
interests OF the South to progress, II they can
prevent IL. The key TO the progre" Of those
interests Is tho advancement Of the labor Of
the South 10 intslligsnce, industry and thriit.
They war on this advancement, because, II II
influence In tbs South who do not seek Il
through devotion to the cause Of the proersss
Of labor and the general development Of the
resources of the regions wherein they seek