The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-10-28
S. G.
Thursday Morning, October 2s, 1853.


lopment of Columbia. We rise now to
abroader theme, and to one in which we
are not less interested-the development
OF the resources of this State. In the
first place, it is undeniable that this
State has many natural advantages.
Providence has given us the blessings of
the soil, the blessings Of health, the
blessings of climate. Standing between
the cold of the North and the heat of the
extreme South, we escape the disadvan-
tages of both, and enjoy the golden
mean. The low country with its coast,
its rice and long cotton; the middle
country with its varied products; the up
country with its grain and other pro-
ducts, have each their special attractions
The question now might we'll arise, how
are the resources of the State to be fully
developed? We refer now to the mate
rial improvements of -Sonta Carolina. To
state first general principles, it may be
laid down as rule, that no State can be
fully developed, unless by diversified in
dustry, all the energies and all the capa-
bilities of the people are thoroughly
evoked. To draw these forth, no one
industrial pursuit will suffioe-hence the
proposition that is generally accepted.
that'agrioulture, manufactures and COM
merce or trade, are the three great inte-
rests that should alike be sustained. Ii
is their harmonious combination that
will bring full and well-rounded pros
perity. We notice that no less man
than Father Hyaointhe-in q speech at
the Peaoe Congress thrown out
some ideas on this very point. He said:
'I have now a word to say of interest
Earthly interests are great things. They
are full of ideas and Of virtues; and, after
all, since God has placed us on earth-it
is not for the purpose of dreaming of
Heaven either, but for the purpose of
deserving lit is by the conquest of tho
earth that man marches to the conquest
of Heaven. The sacred Book tells us
that God in His wisdom has made man
to establish this world in justice and
truth. These are words which we can
not too we'll mediate or apply. Gentle
men and ladies, the justice of man to the
Garth, is agriculture, industry and COM
merce. Agriculture holds the first place
This earth, wrapped in lethargic slum-
Der, is wakened by the vigorous arm of
the laborer; she drinks tho sweat of the
man; she is intoxicated with that bitter
and holy liquor, and taking disgust for
her native barbarism, she bends herself
active and joyous to the culture which
transforms and fertilizes her. Behold
tho earth, established in justice and
truth, become the nurse of multitudes,
opening her large breasts to the mon of
all nations, and pouring upon them III
great floods that physical life without
which the moral life itself would speedily
l,e drained. The peasant has purchased
these riches, which, with a just pride, he
hands over to the workman of our manu-
factories, saying to him, Brother, finish
my work and commence thine; pursue
the great labor prescribed to humanity
by God;' and the industrial workman
takes the fruit Of agriculture. He calls
from everywhere the concealed or rebel
lious forces OF nature. He conquers that
which is rebellious, he elicits that which
Is concealed, and he creates in his turn
those other marvels which are the last
work of man and of matter in the sphere
OF the useful. as the arts are their last
work iii the sphere Of the beautiful. And
when the peasant and the mechanic
have done their work, then commerce
opens her broad wings, spreads her sails
to the breeze, her engines boil and roar,
her vessels furrow the seas, her chnriots
OF fire traverse the earth; the arteries Of
the peoples open themselves on every
hand, in order that the blood of the
same civilization, the seat of the same
moral ideas and the same material pro-
ducts, may flow throughout all humuni-
ty."
So much, now, for general principles.
In the light of these, let us consider how
we shall proceed to develop South Caro-
linn. Our object is not SO much to enter
into details as to suggest food for
thought In the first place, as the Priest
lns said in the extract we have given,
agriculture holds the first place. {"
Many of our readers have, no doubt, read
the classic story of Ant,eas. 1t is said
that so long as this character touched
his mother earth, he gathered now