The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-10-17
The SOUTHEAST, Present and Future.

It is gratifying to US to know that the infor-
nation which, we are giving through our col
umns from week to week with reference to the
South is producing that impression which we
have designed it should have upon the lntelli-
gent citizens of the North and of Europe, and
that weTare every day receiving assurances OF
this hctin various ways. From our personal
knowledge of large portion OF the South, as
well as an extended acquaintance with the
best sources Of information, it is not at all like
ly that weTwiH ever be led much into error in
any statements concerning that tisection that We
may make We are induced to make this de-
elaration from the fact that many of our facts
with regard to the wonderful resources Of that
portion of our country. seem to those unac-
quainted with the South so marvellous as to
challenge their truth. We have had several
persons to ask us within The past week if-it is
possible that such mineral wealth exists in Ala
anna as we told of in q recent issue oflour
paper, and if so why it has not been developed
sooner. What we did tell we know to be the
exact truth, but not all of it by great deai
And what is true, of that State in this; one re-
spect is equally true of all the other Southern
States in great many other respects, as lour
readers during the coming year will have am
pie opportunity of learning. And the reason @ m
why the mineral resources of the South are not
more developed issimple and plain. The South.
erners, before the war were emPhatically land
preeminently an agricultural people. The the
oryIofI the entire South, taken, as whole, was
to make cotton to make money to buy negroes,
to make more cotton to make more money to
buy more negroes and thus 1t went on, pro-
ducing untold wealth which, while much of it
was e6j0yedEat home5was either sent ont of the
South 10 enrich others or invested in fictitious
capital which the results Of the war swept EN-
tirelY away. leaving the people without money,
without manufactures, without any other solid
basis of wealth than the Hch and laextaustible
soil which their injudicious system Of culture
could not impogerish, the wonderful mineral
resources hitherto undeyeloped and uncared
for, and It's equally valuable, though still un.
noticed forests of pine and oak, andhick0ry and
elm, and all heother luxurious natural growth
of that favored region. 9h nN' E..',y..s yy
But everywhere throughout the South we
now see evidences Of the new impulse towards
that development of all the material interests
OF tiieicountry which is, destined to make it's
latter exceed its former glory as does the mid
day sun that of the midnight star. And to the
accomplishment Of this grand destiny the
Southern people themselves must at once ad,
dress all their latent energies, and display ell
those herbic qualities which their hard-earned
experience in the late disastrous war 80 prom
inently developed. And to their aid will come
the best brain and muscle Of other lands, and
all Lille. money necessary to utilize all the sre7
sources at command. We can ourselves see,
perhaps better than most others, how surely, if
Slowly, this result IS being attained. Conf
dence is plant of slow growth. Nothing in
spires it sooner than earnest, honest effort:
This the people Of The South have shown and
are persistently showing. In spite of unfortn-
nate political surroundings, in spite of poverty
anh taxation, in spiteiof evil reports, the peo-
pie of the South have, since the close of. the
war, pursued an honest, honorable, industrious
sure to come in such an increased prosperity as
il never previously enjoyed, even in its most
palmy days.-7Hs South.