Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-06-20
THE PRACTICAL.
A Trip to the Northwest Saws Saw
at Ssginaw-The Salt Wells and
Saw Mills.
Manufactures in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne,
Jackson, Mich, Saginaw and
Cincinnati
Examples Of Thrift and IHdusty-A Les-
son Worth Learning
The Value of Cheap Lands immigration
Common Schools, Mechanics
and Manufacturers.


Editors appeal: A recent trip tC
Saginaw Bay, as one Of party Of ed
itorial excursionists, enabled me to
realize to what an extent the North
west has grown in the past ten years,
and to what extent it is destined to
grow in the future. Familiar with
the extraordinary recuperative power
Of our own section, and the wonderful
resources, by the development OF
which the. South has risen from the
ashes Of war and out Of the depths OF
despair, could scarcely believe that
human energy in any part of the
world could exceed it, or that it was
possible, under the most favored cir
cumstances, elsewhere to equal it.
But I have learned otherwise. I
have learned that by the agency Of
cheap lands, railroads, free schools
and immigration the Northwest has
grown. not alone in population, in
agricultural wealth, but in manufac-
lures and mechanics, to a degree ena-
bling her people to be Independent Of
the East and of EurOpein many things,
and TO make those parts Of the
world purchasers OF her for some. 1
learned over again the lesson which
the APPEAL has teen practically in
culcating for so many years that it is
impossible to build up a free and inde-
pendent community except by the
announcement Of a diversity Of in
dustrisI pursuits, such as has insured
for England the tribute Of a world
that every year needs more and more
the aid Of mechanical appliances in
the rapid march Of human develop
ment.
TIE PEOPLE OF THE NORTHWEST,
not satisfied with the wonderful
growth Of agricultural products, have
copied the example Of England; have
found in the profound depths Of a soil
which yields most abundantly, a
mineral wealth which, by the aid Of
braWny arms and stout hearts, they
skillfuhy fashion into machines Of eX-
traOrdinary capacity, increasing fsCili-
ties for manufactures that find a de-
mand as needy as their power to salts
fy. The Northwest, with a constant.
ly increasing population demand
ing aids and assistants in the
work Of developing the country
was forced to have recourse to me-
chanicsI devices and machines, while
the South, stimulated by a worlds
demand for cotton, enlarged her area
Of growth for that staple and saved
from his vices the negro machine, not
more reliable or intelligent than those,
which, guided by the Northwestern
farmer and manufacturer, have built
towns and cities, and made a gar
den out Of a wilderness. And not
only this, the means Of education and
personal culture have kept pace with
the work OF material development,
evidenced in magnificent school
houses maintained at the public eX-
pense, and other institutions Of prac-
teal and benefcent character. From
the hour left
LOUISVILLE,
a sort Of hybrid production Of the
North and South, I saw on every hand
the evidences Of this wonderful devel-
opment, and witnessed the taste and
skin Of this great people-Of a people,
who, as a noted manufacturer Of Gin
cinnati remarked to me, were impa-
tient to surround themselves with
every means Of personal and CONNER
cial Improvement known to their old
ueighbors in the States and ns-
tons whence they emigrated
70 the West. Years Of travel
had prepared me in some
measure for startling changes. ! had
not been in the northwest ia fifteen
wears, and knowing something Of the
energy andsWill-pOWer Of the people
of that section, ] was ready to believe
extraordinary things Of them, and to !
realizeI an advance cOmmengu- |
rate Herewith, but l confess myself I
outstr1pped and that even my imagi- |
nation was at fault in any efforts |
had made TO cOnjure for myself q pie |
ture Of the condition Of this great |
section. From Louisville TO
INDIANAPOLIs,
our way lay through a country famil- i
lar to most travellers, either for busi- /
ness or pleasure. Manufactures every
where keeping pace with agricultural
schools, academies, col
Ieges and churches in all directions
dotting the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. a
picture created from the confusion Of
nature by labor, skill and industry.
From the Union depot OF Indianap-
oils there goes out every day seventy
two trains. The train-bell and steam
whistle never cease to sound, and the
smoke from the modern iover which
moves a world never ceases to ascend
10 heaven a perpetual reminder
OF the ceaseless vigilance, the eX-
capacity and WOnder-prO-
dueing energy of a people who are
great and are destined to be greater.
OF fseventy-tWO trains each day,
coming from and going to all parts
Of the Union, and then try to
reflect upon the effect this must have
In spreading abroad a cosmopolitan
spirit, in the diffusion Of knowledge /
snd the quickening OF the impulses
Of even a naturally active race. Cot
- q ] Z
suQiue and machine shops, and WOOL /
'en manufactures, all attest the extent J
'O which this great railroad center !
has so rapidly grown. Added to these
are an increasing wholesale trade in all !
branches Of business, and a retail that
satisfies every want Of a population !
as inguisitive and acqulsitive as that
II IOndOn or New York. With the /
people OF Indianapolis, as indeed Of
he whole Northwest, politics is absO-
utely and In fact subsidiary to per-
lonaI advancement and aggrandize-
nent. They have been more thor
Jughly under the control Of their pO-
itical leaders than the people OF
he South, hence with all their
5ducatiOn and means Of attain
ng a true knowledge Of other
peoples, they have been at
sult in regard to the people Of the
south, 50 thoroughly individual as
compared with them, In all matters
II social and political progress.
ASSOCIATED EFFORT
a the distinguishing trait Of the
people. It must hereafter :
1e that Of the Southern If they would
,ompete in the progressive race.
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