The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-09-22
ANDERSON H. S. c. THURSDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 1870

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pleasant. The inhabitant is spared the extreme
cold of New England and Michigan, as we'll as
the torrid heats of the tropical regions Charles
ton is on or near the isothermal line which
passes through Naples; to speak of Naples is
to remind one of all that is delightful in sky,
temperature, climate. And to one who knows
the charm of the climate of Charleston for nine
months in the year, Naples can. offer few eli
matte advantages. The whole State of South
Carolina, and indeed all the Southern States,
have healthful and agreeable climate, if we
except the districts known to be malarious, and
comprising but small part of the whole area.
Even these are healthy from November to May;
and for planters who are obliged to cultivate
these malarious districts, pine lands are ever
near, where residence ID perfectly safe and
pleasant the year round. The rates of mortal
ity, which are the olay sure tests in this mat
ter, indicate very clearly that the States of Vir-
ginia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee,
Georgia and Florida are as favorable to physi-
cal vigor and long life as any others in the
Union. With regard to the other States of the
South we have no definite data at hand, but it
is believed the same fact may in substance be
serted Of them.
6. The lands in the Southern States can be
purchased at much lower rats, in proportion
to their value, than il the North or West An
investment in farm or plantation in the
South, and the same care and labor to make ita
paying one, that is given by the thrifty farmer
in the North, will, under the more genial skies
and in the longer seasons of the latitude, pay
largely more than it would in the colder States.
Something should be said about the political
situation in the South. The political excite
ments, the abuses of power by place-holders,
the want of respect for law and order existing
in some parts of the South, are no more than,
under ell the circumstances, might reasonably
have been apprehended. The reconstruction
measures of Congress failed to enlist the sym
pathies, or to receive the support of the great
mass of the intelligent men of the South. 1t
was misfortune that this was SO. 1t threw
the work of reconstruction into hands little
to undertake it. The results were better than
the Southern white people themselves had
right to expect Yet it would be folly to deny
that gross evils have existed in the new State
governments of the South. But things are
mcnding. The more moderate and intelligent
men of the several States are waking up to the
fact that a revolution has taken place, and that
if they would have any part in the government
of their States they must act on the principles
which that revolution has established. Day by
day new recruits are coming into the camp OF
those who would make the new South better,
richer, wiser and freer community than the old
South could hope to be. And ere long the
majority of the intelligent men of the lately
rebellious States will be acting with the friends
of equal rights and of the nation.
For South Carolina l feel authorized to say,
that partisan press, inspired by relics of dis.
loyal opinions and hopes, cannot be trusted to
represent fairly her political. situation that
while she abors under political evils, she 10
slowly but surely working herself clear of
them; and that the man who comes to her as
an immigrant, whether he comes from Europe
or from the North, will be welcomed to her
himself worthy of such welcome.
The days of violence, in excess of that which
exceptionally exists in other States where the
rule is the observance of law, have, l believe,
passed away in South Carolina. The laws are
generally well executed; and there are abun-
dant grounds for hoping that ere long large
numbers of those seeking new homes will find
them within her borders, and find them prof.
table and happy.