The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-01-22
A Southern Organ on the Southern Sit
nQflon-

From the Augusta (Ga.,) Constitutional.
Inc recent war met our southern people
on the ful tide OF material prosperity. OF
ten st1gnatlZcd by their northern associates
as wanting In some of the essential ele-
ments OF manhood, enterprise, persistence,
energy, and fitted mainly for life Of luxu.
rlous Incidence, yet the statistics and tho
records OF the country had already proven
The contrary, With smaller population,
our exports largely exceed those of the 9TH
er section. Our efforts IN the departments
OF internal Improvements, manufactures
and commerce were beginning to move
porl pdSSa with successful agriculture
Our intellectual vigor and force of will
were admitted ON another arena and on
that arena, and elsewhere, our adminlstra-
tive ability had elninently shone. Capital
and abor, constituting tor long period
the vexed question OF the world, had been
united among Us, and blended harmonious
~ Into the most effective system OF labor
yet devised by man. Indeed, our race ev-
erywherc, with increasing stride, was re-
specially maintained, In competition for
the rewards aud the renown of national
greatness.
But the genius of discord lighled her
torch, AMI the promises Of the future were
for period diSsipated or destroyed. The
war rayaged our people and desoloted our
fields. The Bosom OF fire and sword swept
over our affairs and our hresideS. Our So
clal structure was upheaved and measur
ably inverted. Oar Industrial Institution,
Nth its admirable checks and balances, acas
OUerthrO1Ch. On the cessation of hostllities
with these disastrous consequences, the
general mlnd became stunned and confused
, The public was, tor the moment paralyzed.,
Nine thousand millions OF property bad
been suddenly and violently wrested from
an essentially agricultural people. Credit
was greatly impaired, In most Instances had
persisted. Labor was scattered to the four
winds, and its creatures made the 1tctintS Of
mlspLaced teneUoieace or Wtid afandtic,sm-
as their employer was the victim ofpoilti-
! cal rancor-died OF disease, CT restitution,
( aud of excuses, Amid the wrecks of for
| tunes, famine, too, stalked abroad. And
| plunged into the straits of poverty, there
was, with very many, hard struggle for
| the mites OF mere subsistence. For sea-
son, 1t really seemed that chaos had come
again. Since these events, there super
yeued three years of political thraldom
and political lespondency, But with the
prospect Of release from the worst features
OF the servitute-like living death to a
| proud race of hereditary teemen-the high
| Spu1t Of orr people hare reviUed and re
| bounded. The wheels OF industry are again
III motion. The anvil and the loom are
| again III active use. The sails Of commerce
are once more spread. And the great lev
er IN human atfairs-the enricher-we may
say the civilizer and benetactor, the sym
| ooiIc piow Is again grasped with vigorous
hand. Already our exports are estimated
| Ill large rropOrtionate value OF those of the
entue country. If cotton were ever King,
| ond ever dethroned. 1t appears that the
promises to renew his crown and scep}er.-
The world seems prepared to acknowledge
our supremacy liz its production a large
crop III India, be accompanied OR followed
by famine, and the decline from war prs
ces turning Egypt again to the cultivation
Of the cerealsi And with the full conlpre-
henslon and appreciation of our altered site
uatIon and circumstances and the adoption
O. JudlcIouS system Of labor to meet their
necessities, thus supremacy will probably
be established Tor ages to come. The spir-
1t OF invention Is rite among US. New or
improved implements and laboring saving
machines are being grought into practical
use. Tue discovery oi natural deposits, of
phoSphateS and other minerals, opens a
wide field to science aud industry, and indi
Gates the proyidnetial bestowai on our worn
and wasted fields, OF cheap and abundant
fertilizers, The young manhood OF the
land, formerly welded by vanity or sloth,
to the professions, called pre- entinence, the
learned will catch spark Of the pervading
energy, ana with uprolied sleeve and active
BRAIN add to the Accommodations of protita-
bic labor.
For the tillage of the soil is the founda-
ton stone upon which rest all the ediice8
OF man. And while supplying pabulum in
one form or another to his multfaIious
avocations, to the Industrious and intelli-
gent husbandman it coniers iDestimable
benefits in his physical, mental and moral
rotations, ana nsures to him the lof.iest
independence. a scion of true nobility
his calling the nobliest IT all-he rests Cd
his mother earth and looks for his wants
the genial sunshine, the fertlIzing sho yer,
the spriug~time and the haryest-alone to
his beuegcicnt Creator.