The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1869-01-23
Investments South.

"A renewed rush of investments
South" says our special telegraph, of
the 9Th inst, from New York, sis pre-
dicted on the opening spring"-a pre-
diction which, we have no doubt,
will be verified. The funeral pail thrown
over the South since the war is to be
raised. We have not been dead here,
only sleeping, percbance dreaming, not
of the charnel house and weeping mour-
ners, but Of a new life. Our banners
are already foating to the wind, and on
their ample folds are inscribed, in golden
letters, the significant motto, REsURcAM,
The war has swept off its thousands and
its tens IL thousands, but there, is still a
large army left of vigorous men in the
prime of life, who are tired of the battle
field, and heartily disposed to convert
their swords into plowshares and their
spears into pruning hooks. Agriculture
has new charms f.r them, and classical
literature, especially the Georges, and
Sir Humphrey Davy's Elements of Agri-
cultural Chemistry. We have lost some
of our institutions, but we,1 1ave enlarged
our patriotism, and the land, embracing
the most fertile portions ofthe Continent,
remains to us.
In what. are these prospective invest
ments at the South to be made? Does
not every one konw? If anybody is ig-
norant, we will inform them. The birds,
and, what is better, the capitalists, with
their heavy money bags, have whispered
the intelligence into our ears. What is
the newsa Why, the capitalists at the
North, the gaining party in the late war,
who grew rich on it's spoils, while we were
reduced almost TO penury by its desola.
tions, are about toinvest moneXin South
ernlands, manufactures, commerce, ships.
railroads, elevators, and buildings of all
sorts There is a time to build and time
to destroy, and those far-seeing Northern
aud Western men, who-to use Yankee
phrase, more rich than elegant-know
on which side their bread is buttered, al
e. on which side their interest lies, are
about to make vigorous effort to rebuild
the South and restore it to more than its
former prosperity, when Africans titled
che soisas unhired operatives. While cotton
commands the fine price that it now does,
they are satisfied that fortunes are 70 be
made out Of the rich territory of the
South, Notwithstanding the present con-
dition of the levees. Gen. Grant, who
is in favor Of home industry, and who is
very nationalin his views, wishes these
enterprising gentlemen to come and To-
cate here, with all the implements neces-
sary for rebuilding the levees, and plant
ing the sugar and cotton fields. The
opinions Of this rising political economist,
who is about to WELD the power of the
country North and South, are decidedly
Influential. Landed estates, many of
which were abandoned during the war,
and many OF which have changed hands. |
are consequently appreeiating in value
every day. Two more crops such as we
had last year, will redeem the South and |
raise her from that state of dependency |
which has, for some time past, paralyzed |
all her energies.
The revival of trade and the establish
raent of ofmanufactories of all sorts among
us, will Danish most Of the political evils
that have existed in our midst. At least,