The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-02-19
INpusmR1Ah PROGRESS.

The Southern people harrasscd and
bedcvilcd by political quacks, national
and local, seek and find consolation in
the widening and improving fields of la
Dor. From every quarter Of the South
VIC hear of rcdoublcd and well-direcied
effort in every branch of rural industry.
The ground is better prcparcd-feriili-
gers more generally applied-better'
seed in domand-and every Indication
of increased energy and advancing agri-
cultural intelligence. 3a". 'd' n
The mechanic arts and manufactures,
too, The allies Of agriculture arc claim
| ing and occupying a position in South
ern industry--unlznown and unlocked
for in former days. There is marked
Improvement in mechanical enterprise
and disposition to give to these arts
in the South capability ard skill to
meet all our wants. They will extend
and improve until Southern mechanical
products will take tho place in our com
me &c of the thousands Of products from
abroad which now SO largely drain our
resources. 1l sal
Heretofore we could boast of few
Cotton and Wooden factories, turning
out none Of The finer fabrics. Now it is
thought, the day is not distant when
Southern factories will successfully com
pc,e in every market with all the
products of Wool and Cotton. With
every advantage the field invites not on
" Southern capital and labor but offers
inducements TO capital from abroad
which is already beginning to show It's
effect on Southern industry.
| But these arc not thc only manufac-
.turiog cpie prises now swelling The tide
of Sou hem prosperity. In every 10
cality in the South industrial enterprises,
are turning out varions products, with
a spirit: skill and energy, hitherto I'M
known to our people. Agricultural i'm
plcments are employing the skill Of
thousands. Oihors are engaged in CIV
ing the hi CHEST value 10 that Important
product, the Chinese Sugar Cane Our
Marble is finding its way to market and
Iron in lis crude state from The mine is
being extensively wrought up mo many
70 rs for use. Bones, heretofore was,-
ed, arc now Ground up for az icultural
uses. An enterprise in Atlanta pro
| poses 10 Gin Cotton and make oil out Of
The seed; another in Nashville is max
t ing Co .on seed and Lipsecd Oil. Bar
Icll facto les, broom factories and num-
erous similar industries, are ing up
in va. ious localities, and as if increase
The tendency of indus ial development
and greatness Railroads are being
built or projec cd as if the future is %
have no use for wagons outside of the
farm.
We do not see that there is any use
in the land and immigfa ion Bureau still
under discussion in the Legislature
The result is already determincd-thc
die is cagt-our destiny is revealed
We are not only alive to our own re-
sources-joyous in cur delivery ON
the shackles of the '-Institu.io but
the world knows of our industrial free
dom and the boundless and unequalleG
blessings of our sunny land, and, the
world is coming, without waiting for in
vitations from immigration bureaus, in
a stream which will know no abatement
until the South is made as populous, as
prosperous and as happy as such a
country deserves. l.ia H.
Let us be grateful. We arc growing
rapidly in all the elements of greatness
sire ching up 10 degree of strength
and power, which legislation however
venal cannot re ard, and which Heaven
DIES iens, as compensation for the evils
VIC have been made to suffer.