The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-08
GO-AHEADITIYENESS.

For The Evening Telegraph.
trait of character supposed to be almost pc
culiar to our "Down East" brethren heretofore.
But we would admonish them to take care of
their laurels, for there are in our city of "Bro-
therly Love- some modest, unassuming men
identified with the lumber interest of Pennsyl-
vania, who springing from obscurity, are asto-
nishing ''old fogyism" with the extent and mag
nitude of their undertakings and the indomi-
table energy with which they are prosecuting
them to n successful issue.
The wide range of our own almost limitless
pine forests cannot circumscribe their enterprise.
Millions of feet of lumber reach our wharves
and depots from the far-on Canadas, via lake,
railroad, and canal, forming almost an unbroken
line of trade from that remote region. Where
but a few years since was unbroken silence,
there are now bustling and restive communi-
ties of industry and hard labor.
Not content with causing the busy hum Of
industry to permeate every nook of the frigid
North, they turn with genial smile to the God
forsaken South, the land of the orange and
pomegranate, the land flowing with honey, and
clothed with the habiliments of perpetual
spring.
These are the right kind of Reconstructonists;
instead of weeping and wailing over the fOrlorn
and devastated land of flowers, they go there
with their money, well their fraternal feelings
towards their erring brethren; saying to them,
\ eXpressively, by their example, Look up, repine
not, but put your shoulder to the wheel, and
work out glorious destiny for yourselves and
your posterity."
n Such are the men now engaged in the evergreen
forests of the Carolnas, who, while they draw
from the unresistng hand of the restored land
holder the rich contributions to commerce, they
return, reciprocally, the means of redeeming
their exhausted plantations from poverty to fer
tlity, and to procure available, efficient labor,
come from what quarter it maya very de-
sirable object, being deprived of their slave
labor--a blessing for which many lift their
voices, noon and night, in thanksgiving to Him
''who doeth all things well' in the administra-
tion of his providence.
The special work of resuscitatiOn to which
would call your attention, and to which should
be stretched FORTH the ready hand Of mate
rial aid, has been inaugurated under the auspices
of a number of our esteemed citizens and
lumber merchants on Delaware avenue
in the high swamps of North Caro-
lima. They have commenced operations on
their purchase near the town bearing the ever
d cherished and Providence-favored name of ouI
4 own beloved washington" Ga good augury o.
! success), on a scale Of grandeur yet reasonable
! economy, that gives the earnest of complete sue
cess and great profit 10 those who will identify
themselves with the great movement of retriev
I ing ruined yet fascinating, district Of our com
mon country from desolation to thrift and cheer
ing prosperity.
Who win step forward now with their surpu
capital to make up to these gentlemen the small
sum necessary to give them unquestioned powe
to perform work grand and noble, because
/ peaceful and Godlike in its objects? Where arr
the phianthropists who are announcing through
our journals-and we give them our warmes
confidence their attachment to the sentiment o
"Peace on earth and goodwill to all mankind"
/ Let them advance to the front" now, "fOr by
their works ye shall know them" and come tt
the rescue. These gentlemen have now sub
| scribed stock to the amount of one hundred an(
4 thirty thousand dollars, in large and small sub
j scriptions, and only require further sum of on
hundred and fifty thousand dollars to accomplish
4 the attainment of their most ardent wishes.
In the antecedents of the gentlemen embarke
in the business you have the surest guarantee q
integrity, and profitable reimbursement an
future revenue from this mine of wealth.