The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-04-19
Of those silent forces that shall, In the
South, replace the abnormal with the
normal. 81 2 IT.. - 4.

We attribute Ethe following TO the hen
OF DR.. Risley, yho was! with Gs some
weeks sinoe, onthis TOUR preaching the
gospel OF material reconstruction with
much effect. Would that there were
more of such carpet-bag missionaries.
We hope the facts stated will induce
many honest and enterprising citizens OF
less genial olimes to make their abode
with Us. The communication is addressed
to the editor of the Brooklyn Il. ~
Eagle:
The ACTUAL CONDITION OF THE SouTH,
AS SEEN BY A BRooKLYNITE.- Having
spent the past winter in somewhat ex-
tended tour through the Southern Allan
tic States to the Gulf, visiting almost
every section from the sea-board to the
mountains; and having enjoyed facilities
for learning the views and sentiments of
all classes and parties in regard to their
present and prospective condition, and
seen a vast amount of undeveloped
wealth, Isubmit the following statement,
as the result of some of my observations,
for the information of those who feel
any interestin that section.
And first, in regard to the people. The
blacks, who are the most valuable labor
ers in the world. when treated right, and
especially for field service, at some crops
in that climate-after having been cru
ely tempted, imposed, upon, and used,
by loyal demagogues-nre fast learning
who are their true friends, and finding
their true position. The Intelligent and
influential classes, who pay the taxes for
the supportof government, although ex-
cluded from partipipasingi in its manage
ment, approve and cordially support
every honest scheme for educating and
improving the moral and physical oondi-
tion OF their ,oolored fellow-citizens.
They also cordially welcome everyinew.
conner, from: whatever land or section,
or calling Of industry except the ''po-
litical carpet-bag speonlators, whom
they as heartily despise. As in every
other section, there are outlaws and out
RACES, but with all the whiskey and fire.
arnas-which many of the younger and
more ignorant citizens. of both oolors,
avail themselves of, ''since freedom
came 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 thieving
Of pigs, chickens. etc., but the stories of
Ku Klux outrages are all manufactured
or colored up for political and specula-
tive 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
enterprises that will demonstrate the fact
that the South offers greater Inducements
for the farmer, the manufacturer and the
mechanic, than any other portion of the
world.
The invalid and those pre-disposed to
certain hereditary diseases can find in
the humid and temperate air of the sea-
board, or in the bracing atmosphere of
the hilly and mountain region, the
climate best adapted to his case. Tho
agricuituralist can find every variety of
soil, and can grow everything that can
be produced in any other part of our
country, besides several valuable staples
that will grow no where else. And for
the manufacturing of many staple pro-
ducts there is no section of this country,
if in the world, that possesses snch i'm
mense natural advantages of unfailing
and easily controlled water-power, in q
genial, healthy climate, surrounded with
the raw material of cotton. timber, iron
ore, and valuable minerals of all kinds
good and cheap farming, where every
luscious fruit can be cultivated, and now
grows almost spontaneously-wh the
tea plant, madder, indigo and rich pro-
duets of other countries will flourish.
While there are unoccupied lands, un-
productive mill-sites, mines, &c., to be
had at the South. (all cheap now. suf-
ficient to support thriving multitude
many times greater than the population
of our whole country, it would seem that
these facts only require to be known to
encourage thousands of our enterprising
citizens to avail Themselves of the oppor-
tunity to better their own condition, and
at the same time contribute towards rem
dering that portion of our country what
nature has designed it for-an earthly
paradise. II. W.R.
The New RAILROAD BR1DaE.-The new
railroad bridge of the Charlotte, Colum-
bia and Augusta and South Carolina
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