The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-05-23
The Industries of the South.

When an individual is overtaken by misfor-
tune: when he loses what he has accumulated,
whether his reverses are the result of accidents,
errors of Judgment in making investments, or
fortnitous circumstances beyond his vision and
control. he owes it to himself, to his family, if
he has one, and to the community in which he
lives. to look frowning fortune straight in the
face. and start again resolutely and right on
ward to repair his losses. As it is with one
man 30 it is with all men.
Life is too short and time is too valuable to
be wasted in unavailing repining over the ire
yocable past 1t is often sweet, sometimes sad,
to contemplate things that have gone. In ad-
yersity human nature loves to look back upon
brighter and better days. But he who all the
| time looks backward must move Backward
Our Southern people have had and stu have
much to grieye over. They were suddenly re-
dnced % from plenty to penury. But, with few
exceptions if any, they have shown themselves
heroes in peace as they were in war. They
went to work early and earnestly after the ces-
sation of hostilities between the two sections.
They have toiled on assiduously, bravely, de-
votedly. And slowly, but surely, We hope,
thew are bettering their condition and i'm
proving their prospects. But with all the en-
erpy. all the vigor, all the resolute determina-
ton of the Southern people to regain their lost
ground in their industries, so completely par
alyzed by the blasting breath of the furnate of
fire through which they passed, their progress
has not been commensurate with their natural
resources. Agriculture has been revived, and
more extensively and remuneratively perhaps,
than there was reason to expect; with such sur
rouudings as at the close of the war made the
whole Southern country look like waste with
out prospect of redemption. All the old
Z o,,6r how
also been adopted by the farmers and planters
In addition to cotton corn, wheat, oats and to-
bacco. our agricultursts have learned that it is
we'll to cultivate fruits and vegetables extern
sively for market too. In Virginia the seasons
since the war for cereals, as well as for trucks"
have not generally been favorable. And, as o
| consequence, our farmers have had hard
strupgle with the "bad luck" that has attended
them. But nevertheless instead of retrogra-
ding they hare advanced. The fields are no
longer grown over with weeds ami bushes and
briers Their houses are no longer in dilapi.
dation and decay. They have their horses and
other live stock, and implements of husbandry
around them. And altogether they are in q
better. much better condition than they were
when they turned their swords into plowshares.
Southern agriculture has improved. New fea-
lures have been added to it. But there is room,
ample room for further improvements still and
as our farmers increase in means we shall have
them.
Commerce in the South since the war has
hardly kept pace with agriculture. AS our
lands were devastated, 80 too our waters were
swept of the shipping owned by our people,
The sea depends upon the sol, as does the
stream upon its source; and in addition to the
incubus upon commerce from the comparative
depression of agriculture, the policy OF the
general government has been, and continues to
be, discouraging to this important branch of
industry. Manufactures are sadly needed in
the South. They have always been neglected.
There is not only no reason why we should not
have factories Of all sorts here as they have
them in the North and in the West, but there
is every reason why we should have them. We
have water power in the South equal if not
superior, to that of Lowell OF Fall River. We
have an abundance, superabundance, of coal
and wood for fuel where steam would be re-
ouired for the movement of machinery. And
we have raw material of almost every kind
which is now carried North to feed the facto-
ries there. Our people are comparatively 1n-
accustomed to this branch of industry. They
knew little of it in the days when they had the
means of engaging In it. Now, however, under
the auspices Of the new era into which We have
entered, it is absolutely essential to our pros:
perity that we shall establish manufactures all
over the South.
Capitalists from the North who have expert
ence in such matters will find the field for
profitable investment in manufactures here
more inviting than in any other section OF the
Union. Some have entered upon the expert
tnent. Let others follow.-NoUolk { Va.) Jour-
nall
- One of the most famous localities in
Frankfort, Germany is the Judengasse, or the
street of the Jews. 1t is full of rickety ole