The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1873-12-04
AN INVITATION FROM THE SOUTH.
From The South

(We are much grati6ed in being able te
present to our readers, another contribution
from the facils pen to which they, and w
are indebted for "Pleasure in the South."]
Editor of The South:
Not only l, but those by whom am sur
rounded, my associates and friends, hav.
ever since the war, endeavored, honestly and
fairly to draw nearer to us the good people
of the North. I fay honestly and fairly
and mean this in its fullest Specification
We represent all things in perfect eandor
our soul, our climate, our society; our devo'
ton to and reverence for the past, protesting
no hypocritical repentance for acts, and aspi'
rations which were the highest, and noblsst
of our lives-have no afiliation with the ad-
venturous plunderers who corrupt the igno-
rant, and incite the vicious to prey upon US.
If we did these things we would be unworthy
the confidence of good people at the North.
But the respectable people of South Caro-
lima. do desire the same class ofpeoplo from
the North to come among them. We know
that cultivated, educated, moral and respect
able people are the same everywhere; form
of government, and political opinions have
nothing to do with the private worth Of eiti-
zens. when government is honestly admins
tered, and political views honestly entertain
ed. We know that Northern people are as
good, honest and true, as a general propo-
sition, as the Southern people. We know
that some of the very best and purest of the
Northern people are Republicans, but we do
not know any virtue among South Carolina
Radicals. We know beyond question that
without exception they are ignorant or
vicious no man among them can escape both
horns Of the dilemma. This much l have
said to show the fact that it is not hostility to
which separates all decent
people in South Carolina, from connection
with the State Government, but aversion to
ignorance, vice and corruption. ..
Will good people of the North then
listen to US, when we invite them to share
the bounties which nature has spread out all
over the South when We show them the de- /
lights ofour climate, the rich products Of our
soil?
1t strikes ME that now is most appropri-
ate time for the South to renew these iavra-
ions, and for the north most earnestly to?
consider them.
The artificial condition Of affairs at the
North produced the financial crash, which
8 shaking to the very centre every interest
It the North.
The cotton Of tho South is redeeming, and
sill redeem the finances Of the country from
litter wreck aud ruin.
1t will DO this. it is true, at loss OF four
tents pound on every pound of cotton pro
luced at the South visiting the little patch
IF the poor orphan Confederate boy, and the
leecy plains of lordly proprietors ST..
And yet we suffer only to the extent OF,
perhaps, twenty per cont of income; our
business is not destroyed, no property is
wrecked; not one laborer is thrown out Of
EMPLOYMENT, not one suffers for the necessa-
ries Of life !; and even for the privations we
undergo. we have conviction that compen-
sation is before US in the better average
prices of our produce for the next ten years,
for reasons which readily suggest themselves
such as contraction Of production, expen-
siye systems, etc Now am not disposed
to argue the question Of the advantages, and
disad vantages presented by higher civiliza-
ton, where pursuits are to Q greater degree
artificial; and by alower civilizations, II it be
so deemed, where pursuits are devoted to the
production of the mere natural wants OF man
food, clothing etc., but this is evident, and
here is the lesson, that in country where the
pursuits of a people are artificial, financial
crash crushes with terrible cruelty the poor
the laborng and persons Of moderate means
for the simple reason that the demand tor
their productions absolutely ceases-iood
and necessary clothing &C., may diminish IN
price, but they still have an important mo-
ney power; while silks, sntins, laces, wines,
articles of vertu &C., and the great establish
ments which produce them, are utterly value
less, and the millions whose existence depends
upon them are thrown out OF employment;
Now in the South, every honest INDUS
trious man can find employment at proftable le
rates: nor is this all, in societies where
wealth is overgrown either in individual Oh
incorporate hands, not only poor people ou'
people of moderate means, are at the mercy
of the rich. The very shadow of Stewart
or a Vanderbilt would crush the life out OF
rival with small capital At the North, one
with capital of from $50, 900, to slOO, 900
cannot own. and keep house, and transact
business in thriving city; At the South
even such capital would surround one witt
everything desirable, and make him relative
" millionaire with the certainty that few
Years would make him absolutely so.
To the laborer, the present rewards arr
not only high but he is at once elevated
and ennobled by the sure hope of soon beln!
an independent, and prosperous proprietor
Now, above all times, is an opportune season
for Investments in the South.
Camden, S. O., Nov. 8, 1873,