The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-10-29

trn products to all domestic products exported, e.
| per cent. "n
Production southern States 4 a37 Ses 800 COS, 81
Production of all the States. $685. 1872 40 s67 a46, 29
| So per cent. by southern States, ante LeIluua.
81 per cent. by southern States, post 1euqm:
Population OF :onthefn States (unfted states
others 81 ls5 9a3. Average bushels Indian corn Ii
southern States, 2a; In al the others, 10, in 1860
After quoting ether statistics Commodore
Maury continued.
Mr.. Delmar estimates the population OF
the South for theyea ending June 80, 1866
at SOS, ,709, and of ell the States together
at "a ,505, ,SS2. According to this statement
the South in 1866 had very nearly the popu-
lation that the whole United States had in
1920; and what were the exports of the
whole country in that year? S5l 100000
The South in 1866 exported, according to the
same authority, $272, 900, 900, specie value,
or more than five dollars TO one. In 1850
the whole population of. the United States
was in round numbers 3,000,O 900, and the
! domestic exports amounted that year to
| Sl36, 900, 900. The South now, with not half
the population of 23,000,000, exports $272,
| 900, ,0O0-that is, for /.
Notwithstanding these facts, opinions
have got abroad most injurious to the
| South, and which it is essential to correct.
John Quincy Adams, the other day, in his
Charleston, S. c., speech, tells you what
| Massachusetts, thinks Of the southern peo-
pie. He says that the traditional idea OF
| the eoutherner there is Of man with a
| dirk in one pocket and pistol in the other ;
cigar in one side of his mouth and quid
| of tobacco in the other indolent and domi-
| neering, and intolerant of any difference
| of opinion. A northern gentleman who has
established himself in South Carolina, and
discovered what q goodly land it is, and
| how peaceable the people are, writes to his
friend thus:
81 had been led to believe that it was
| dangerous for northern man to travel
| here, and that robberies and outrages were
| common. 1t would naturally be supposed
! that the officers of the Ereedmen's Bureau
were peculiarly obnoxious to southerners,
vet find that Major Stone, the assistant
commissioner for the district, trayerses the
county not only without q guard, but even
a pistol to defend himself from attack and
| Major Walker, the commandant Of the post,
states that in his opinion life and property
are as secure here as in any Of the north
| crn GlhtcS. NoN, AuS tO"A VI ~AAnSAA 10
partly in Edgefeld and partly in Barnwell
district, than which none were more tho
roughly secesh in their proclivities. This
winter and spring hundreds of northern
persons, of all shades and grades of pollti-
cal opinion, have visited this town, and |
have yet to hear Of the first one who has
been molested or insulted.
"The physical characteristics Of this
section are very different from our precon-
ceived notions. The phrase down South
raises q picture in many minds of dense
swamps, outrageous woods, tropical plants,
sluggish streams, venemous reptiles, yell
low fever and miasma. How much this
idea is due to the pictures usually found IN
school books will not stop to inquire"
The North, entertaining these opinions Of
us, did not fail to impress the European
mind with them. Accordingly, you hear
| MIR. Vernon Harcourt, one Of the rising
men of England, who was the author OF the
celebrated letters published in the Times
during the war over the signature of His
toricus upon the rights Of belligerents and
the duties of neutrals, saying the other day
before the Social Science Congress in Man
chester, at which ali the European world
was present, that " gentlemen who had tra-
yelled in the southern States OF America
might often have seen persons sit down to
peaceful dinner with revolver IN each
| coat-tail. OF course it was only for the
purpose of self-defence, but then 1t very
| frequently happened that before dinner
was over two or three men were shot,"
doubt whether there is a gentleman present
| in this vast assemblage with revolver IN
his pocket. .A
But we are to expect another SANDER. Ii
will be said on the other side of the water
that this large amount of surplus exports
annually sent abroad from southern ports
is owing to the superior labor of the freed
men: but these gentlemen forget that in
turning from the field four millions Of blacks
we put in six millions Of whites.
flow came it, let us ask, that the South
lacks energy and enterprise! }! How came 1t
that such o story got abroad? l will tell
YOU. A gentleman from Now England
| came here-one who could understand and
appreciate the value of our water-power,
| but knew nothing about the value Of our
agricultural resources. He said to himself,
very naturally, What would not this water
| power be worth in New England? 1t is
| true We have water-power worth more
than all the coal and iron IN Pennsyi-
vania, if utilized; and because we did
| not utilize it it was taken as proof that
we were indolent and idle. Again,
gentleman from the mining districts
of England would visit us now and then,
and seeing and approaching our vast mine
raj resources which lie undisturbed IN their
veins, would tell of the fabulous sums
these things would be worth in Old Eng
land, and say the southern people lacked
energy. But ace knew that agriculture was
far more profitable than them all, end we
devoted our energy and enterprise 70 agri-
culture-the most remuneratlVe CT indus
trial pursuits. This water-poTer running
to waste, and these minerals lying idle, are
but our tailings." These foreigners
can't understand it.
What we want now islabor from abroad
labor skilled in mining and manufactu-
rine-to help turn these to wealth; but as
for ourselves, our land is SO overtiowlng
with the benignant bounties OF nature that
we have neither force nor time to attend 10
these great sources of wealth.
Did YOU ever reflect that Virginia is Id
tbe latitude of the Promised Land-that the
same skies upon which David and Solomon
and our Saviour gazed are garnished for
ug as for them that the pleiades Orion and
Arcturus rise and set and shine upon us as
they did upon patient Job !; and that every,
thing that is grown there, from the fig and
the Vine to corn and oil, grow here as well,
and other things besides Did you know
that Virginia and North Carolina nave
given the grsatest gifts from the vegetable
Kingdom that men have received since his