Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-02-19
Prospects at the South.


Extract from Forney's Letter Washington to the
syfSk Chronicle y f9sI In
The evidencesof improvement IRE many
and startling. Let me enumerate a few
from which we may cast the horoscope OF
this interesting section - - - hEa
/. The almost unanimous acquiesenee in
universal suffrage, which is made earnest
blythe fact that the negroTwith the ballot
works more faithfully than under The lash;
and so does more by his industry to enrich
the planter than in the days of slavery.
2. That instead of buying produce from
/ the North anb West the South ds segin-
ming to plant and grow all its own cprn,
potatoes, wheat, &c, and will therefore
soon be self-supportiDg region.
g. That, instead of sending off cotton
and iron, to be returned in wearing ap-
parel, rails tools, farming implements,
&C., large manufactures are being con-
structed in every Southern State. Gov.
Sprague, of Rhode Island, has just invest
ed heavily in sites for two great works
one at Columbia, S. O., and the other at
Augusta, Ga. He also purchased large
estate at Fernandina, Fla.
4. That companies of Northern menIare
being rapidly incorporated by the beggis-
| latures of the different Southern States,
| with fun powers to buy and sell lands, to
| organize emigration societies, to establish
banking houses, factories, &c. y4saa.
5. That all the great improvements par
alyzed by slavery and postponed by the
war, are being vitalized by the infusion
of Northern energy and capital, and
by the well-founded hope of Congres-
;sipnalg assistance at spefiod ppot9yery re-
mote.
J, 6. ThatvtheI colpred people are eagerly
laboring to elevate themselves by educat-
ing themselves fana2 their children, and
that such Governors as Holden, in North
Carolina; Scott, in South Carolina; Smith,
in Alabama; Yarmouth, in Louisiana;
Bullock, in Georgia lEggleston insMississ
sippi; and last though not least, Brown
low, of Tennessee, are establishing com
mon school systems to perpetuate uniYer-
sal intelligence. 81 &; E
7. That many Of the former secession
or rebel papers have dropped mere poll
| tics and are now devoted to the mis-
sion Of business and financial reconstrle-
tiOn: sty asas b. saalts 4j % fsfE5Ha6 ttsBt ~
+ s. That, whereas, there was not one Re
publican paper in the cotton States in
1850, there are now at least one hundred
isome of them dailies of increasing circu-
lation, and several of them former NV hig
| and Observation-Disclosures of large influence,
like the Standqrdg at Raleigh,rN. e., and
the Wig, at Knoxville, Tenn. I'll ~
/ As weastudy these indications, and con-
trast them with the past-the past OF yes
terday-it is very easy to anticipate the
marvellous future of the South "a
To poor men the inducements presented
by this future are, to say the least, unex-
Id IL q,
with variety Of productions equaled no.
where on Gods globe, is thrown open to
them almost without money. ID
The chief needs are labor and popula-
ton. In some districts emierants can get
tie permanently in others they can get
homesteads for fifty cents, and. in still
others alta dollar, al acre. THE very best
are In the market at five dollars, and when
they gouas0 high as ten dollars the differ
ence consists in superior buildings and
outhouses. AsAsk T. "A e.se (. x II
What is chiefly required is not speculal
tive aid, but money and men. They
by industry and intelligence, the reward
will be ten-fold to what it is in the West.
FL am writing of to.day-of the necessity
| AOA llhAlSSulSkbC dOblOo. nC lOW pIlCCo iOt
land cannot last long in view of the rapid
enrichment of the whole South. Capital
lists and land, companies are already in
vesting and organizing, and the farmer
and mechanic of small means, eager for
an independent homestead, should not de-
lay an hours Let them go out and see for
themselves, and, my word for it, they will
not bedisappointed.A = = - Z,
Norfo1Iy ic III q oitx fitted n oxya II atb orc
for the enterprising poor men of the North
and for the foreigner. And the same is
true of a hundred towns further South
South Carolina, Florida, and Alabama, all
safely reconstructed, and sure to be secure
biding- places under Gen. Grants vigor-
Gus rule. abound in sites .as tempting as
North Carolina. Texas is q vast empire
of undeveloped opulence, which must
come into market quickly under the same
resolute guardianship. 81. .,,j - Us -