Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-04-25
THE NEW SOUTH.

8 before the war, during the war, and af-
ter it terminated, the English press en-.
: deayored to encourage in the South their
old hobby of Commercial Independ.
ence, so ardently wished for by Southern
statesmen. Its pauper labor system. has
had need for some foreign announcement,
and it could nowhere find people SO like
ly to be won by its sophistry as the
South, whose prejudices and passions ii
has sought to arouse at the expense Of its
material interests. If OH the plea of in
juring Northern mechanics and manufac-
turers and of securing commercial indepen-
dence it could persuade the South to ally
itself with English free trade interests, of
course twas good policy to do it. Hence
for years the English press has teemed
with false statements about the condition of
the South, its poverty, decline and final
overthrows unless rescued from the ruin
GUS protective policy of the North. Our
attention has been called to an article of
this character in the Edinburgh Review.
Id it seductive picture is drawn of the in
B6HfR ff8af (which would follow to the
ian, and hope expressed that the
statesmen of the, South will have
the wisdom to see and contend for it. The
E ResetO and kindred sheets are too late
with their false theories and they are cer-s
tain to be disappointed in their foolish
dreams. There are vast sections Of the
South, now recuperating with new life
blood coursing through their veins. In
Western and Southwestern Virginia in
Eastern Kentucky; i'm Eastern and Mid
die Tennessee in Northern Alabama and
Georgia and in Western North Carolina
are vast beds of iron, coal and limestone
that Nnders the old policy zof Southern
statesmen have for half a century been
worthless. But now a new scene is pre-
sented in all the sections named. The
noise of the hammer and trowel and the
blaze of the furnace throw a new light
upon their undeveloped wealth. The
whole population Of that mountain region,
penetrating into the richer and more pros
porous of the Southern States, are awaken
ing to the importance of this grand
industrial interest. These iron and coal
mines and noisy furnaces are ties that bind
US to the manufacturing interests of the
prosperous North, stronger than any that
politicians can weave To the people sud- |
denly made conscious of this hidden wealth |
all about them, talk of commercial inde- |
pendence" and free trade with England,
sounds like the mere sophistry and folly
that in fact it is. - ~
The happy homes and thriving towns |
and cities springing up about the blazing |
furnaces, and hewell rewarded labor they |
insure, are stronger bonds uniting us to |
the industrial interests and progressive |
spirit of the North than the English press
and their allies South and North imagine. |
The Bugetin ssof the Wool Nam
ufacturers q may rest assured 10 that |
the rapid development of individual inter-
ests in the South, will build up national
sentiment and draw the two sections to.
gether as certainly as those interests are
to prosper under a wise protective |
policy. Railroads and furnaces, rolling
mills. good farming and immigration will
DO more to unite the North and South
than the exploded idea Of English Journals
and sectional statesmen can to divide
them. The Southern people for shalfl
a century have been misled by politicians
to hope for wealth and power through
other means THIN their own hard labor.
Dreams of prosperity and Independents /
resting upon false system of labor and
false ideas of political economy have been
rudely dispelled by war. Nov, the South
looks to labor and the intelligent applica7
ton of its capital and resources for its fu-
ture wealth, and upon this basis its people
will hereafter have less inclination to dab =
bile inapolitics and more time for work. = A
SAN FRANCISCAN, April 2i.LrThe Texas
Pacific Railroad surveyors are at Tusca-
haven. having completed the survey from
Mesilite river to the Pima villages, in Ore.