The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-04-28
The Actual Condition of the South, as Seen by
BroONynite.

To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Having
spent the winter in a somewhat extended tour
through the Southern Atlantic States to the
Gulf, visiting almost every section on the sea-
board to the mountains; and having enjoyed
many facilities for learning the views and SEN
timents of all classes and parties in regard to
their present and progressive condition, and
seen vast amount of undeveloped wealth, l
submit the following statement, as the result OF
some of my observations, for the information OF
those who feel any interest in that section.
And first, in regard to the people. The blacks,
who are the most valuable laborers in the world,
when treated right, and especially for field SER
vice, at some crops in that climate hav-
ing been cruelty tempted, imposed upon, and
used, by loyal demagogues-are fast learning
who are their true friends, and finding their
true position. The intelligent and influential
classes, who pay the taxes for the support of
the government although excluded from par
ticipation in its management approve and cor
daily support every honest scheme for educa-
ting and improving the moral and physical con-
dition of their colored fellow-citizens. They
also cordially welcome every newcomer, from
whatever land or section, or calling OF industry
except the political carpet-bag sspeculators," +"
whom they rs heartily despise. AS in every
all the whiskey and fire arfns-which many OF
the younger and more ignorant citizens OF both
colors avail themselves Of 'since freedom came"
there are fewer brawls and less danger to life
or property in all the Southern States than
there is in any of our larger Northern cities.
True, there has been good deal of petty thiev-
ing of pigs, chickens, &C., but the stories of the
Ku Klux outrages are all manufactured or col
ored up for political and speculative purposes,
and they have had their effect. Thousands Of
Northern and Western men, who have had the
courage to trust their lives in that section, have
made Investments and are engaging in enter
prises that will demonstrate the fact that the
South offers greater inducements for the far
mer, the manufacturer and the mechanic than
any other portion of the world.
The invalid and those predisposed to certain
hereditary diseases can find in the humid and
temperate air of the seaboard, or in the bracing
atmosphere of the hilly and mountain region,
the climate best adapted to his case. The ag-
riculturist can find every variety of soil and can
grow everything that can be produced in any
other part of our country, besides several other
staples that will grow no where else. And for
the manufacturing of many staples produced
there is no section of this country or in the
world that possesses such immense natural ad-
vantages of unfailing and easily controlled wa
ter power, in a genial, healthy climate, sur
rounded with the raw material of cotton, tim
ber iron ore, and valuable minerals of all kinds
good and cheap farming, where every lus-
cious fruit can be cultivated, and now grows
almost spontaneously where the tea plant, mad
der, indigo, and rich products OF other coun-
tries will flourish.
While there are unoccupied lands, unproduc-
tive mill sites, mines, &c., to be had the South
(all cheap now, sufficient to support thriving
multitude many times greater than the popula-
ton of our whole country, it would seem that
these facts only require to be known to encour-
age thousands of our enterprising citizens to
avail themselves of the opportunity to better
their own condition, and at the same time con-
tribute towards rendering that portion of our
country what nature has designed it foraan
earthly paradise. Il. w. H.