The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-05-12
.tbodist Recorder. Pittsburg. Pa.

We spent day in the workshops anc
mills of McComb City. II is no ordinary
place. An ideal, comprising vast inter
terests, social, political and commercial
is being tested in practical way. A few
representative men, of large impulses anC
patriotic purposes, H. S. McComb, o.
Delaware William Thaw, of Pittsburg
Thomas A. Scott, of Philadelphia; A
NJ. West, of Holly Springs, Mississippi
and s. H. Edgar, of New Orleans, sus-
tanned by many other capitalists anc
workingmen, have built city in the pine
woods Of Southern Mississippi, in which
Northerners and Southerners meet as fei
| low-craftsmen and neighbors. 1t is &
practical solution of the problem of the
times, and type of many villages and
cities which shall ultimately rise into life
all over the South The Louisianian and
the Yankee, the ex-Confederate and the
ex-Federal soldier, the son of the planter
and the son of the miner, are here, side
/ by side, with barred arms and beaded
brows, in thorough fellowship OF toll, and
| in peace as neighbors and friends of one
common interest. Work unifies the peO-
pie. Labor is the bond of brotherhood.
Their homes are together, their treasures
are identified with :heir toll, and by min
Cling they merge into unity of soul and
oneness of citizenship. Political parties
can neither devise or explain such infiu-
ence but it is the secret of the only real
peace which the nation is to permanently
enjoy. The Southerners needs the North
erners, and the need is reciprocal the
immigrant from the Ohio or the Alleghe-
MES who comes to stay, is welcome; he
who comes to find office, to speculate, or
to cast reproach, is not wanted. And
this discrimination is ust. This nation
is unfold, and no sectional feeling Is
excusable. The time of alienation is
past. The sword has been sheathed.
There is but one flag There must be
but one interest. The party which mag
nifies the differences of the past, and deals
in the old time phrases of slavery and
war, is dangerous party. The Confed-
crates have laid down their arms they
are Americans, and not Hottentots they
deserve the manly recognition OF fellow
citizens of our own and their own Repub-
lie, and if their political education is de-
fective, as we think it is, let them be led
into more liberal ways and helped into
closer brotherhood by magnanimous
spirit. The bravado of the partisan is
like the bigotry of the sectarian, dead
waste from first to last. These Southern
people have suffered the loss of many
things besides their slaves; they are not
inclined to complain over their losses of
property or prestige, however, so much as
they are at the domineeing spirit of men
who come among them for personal gains,
and to prejudice the colored race against
their former masters. The meddlesome-
ness of politicians is responsible for much
of the tumult in Louisiana and IN other
places. But when Northern and South
ern men meet face to face to make the
most out of the situation, to repair the
wastes and to restore the general peace,
it is surprising what happy results bear
witness to the wisdom of the policy.
AT McComb City the noise of the en-
gines, the ringing of the hammers, the
whirr of the saws, the odors OF new-cut
timber and Towering gardens, the comedy
white cottages and the universal thrift give
evidence that this is the method by which
party politics shall be superseded in the
restoration of prosperity and the establish
ment of peace.
We were particularly pleased with the
business energy Of Mr.. W. M. Francis,
the Treasurer and Superintendent of the
Valley Company. He is an organizer.
All departments feel the touch of his
skillful hand, and share the genial glow
of his manly spirit. A whole letter might
be written touching the machinery, the
work, and the good order in the depart
ment of Master Mechanic Greener, a
gentleman of attainments, and of the
bronzed face and hand of a thorough prac-
tician. Such men, and others whose
names we remember with pleasure, add
dignity to labor, and are the educators Of
the race. In one establishment, railway
cars are manufactured from the native
woods hard by, and of every class from
the bumper Of the construction train to
the vanished Pullman. In the locomo-
tive works we witnessed every process,
from forging the outline irons, to Inning
the polished drivers of an engine. Every
man seems to understand his gift and to
get the most wrought out of the materials
placed in his hands. Such is the Metho-
dism of northumberland not a very noisy
Methodism either; but in works it is emf
nently orthodox
In company with Mr.. Dabney, the
Principal of the Public Schools, and Bro.
HilIyard. our friend and guide, we spent
Saturday forenoon in the forest. We
had stroll, too, with a churchman who
spells it with capital G, Bro. II. NJ.
Church, the pastor Of the NJ. E. congre-
CATION of McComb. Bro. Church is from
Central New York, has a charming par
sonage and lives under his own vine and
fig tree, a literal one, with leaves and bios
SONS and fruit. We worshipped on Sab
bath with his people, and seldom looked
them, that day, were Pastor Proctor and
wife, of the Presbyterian Church, and
their people, also, showing how the sects
as well as the secularities of McComb are
honeycombed together. The Sunday
school festival in the evening was a very
enjoyable affair. The recitations of the
children were tastefully performed, the
singing, led by Bro. Church himself-chor-
lister, organist. pastor, presiding elder, all
in the same church-was equal to our First
Church school in Pittsburg, and that is
saying a good deal. Again, Bro Proctor
and wife, with their people, and some
full fedged Episcopalians with the Meth
odists left off, were present, all mingling
| as if their interests were forever the
same. We are afraid the one Church will
absorb those younger sects which hover 50
/ beautifully about, and that those children
will never be able to get up respectable
debate concerning the differences in their
'isms.
Bro. Church, a northern Methodist,
who has travelled extensively all over
Southern Mississippi, reports an almost
universal desire among the people for ma.
tional unifcation. The old lines of divi
sion are being overgrown by the new
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