The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-05-27

Or tried by SORROW with Heavens decree,
\ The blessings that never We're Dough5or sofa,
And centre there, are better than gold.
The Secret Of Yankee Prosperity.
Under this head the veteran editor Of the
Mobile Register, Hon. John Forsyth, has this
to say:
srjp through the New England States, comes
hack filed with establishment at what he has
seen. and perfectly discouraged with his own
section of the country. There he saw little
villages sticking in the midst of barren and
uniahabitable mountains, with no surround
ings to support them, eYincing q spirit of life
and prosnerity unknown to our large towns
the recognized trade-centres of our best agri-
cultural regions. And in the country he saw
little farms producing like frst-class English
gardens. though on soil originally too poor to
have grown bear-grass, and in situations that
Southern man never would have thought capa-
bic of being converted into goat pasture.
The people, as general thing, seemed conten,
ted and prosperous; and II ne nad inquired
into their circumstances he would have found,
strange as it may appear, everybody in these
little villages well off and making money, and
the little farms, with their stone piles here and
there, and their stones constantly working to
the. surfaSg to be carried off into other piles,
and their annual calls for fertilizers to the ex
tent of one hundred and fifty dollars per acre,
actually clearing their owners from one to three
hundred dollars in every acre enclosed. NO
wonder that heais discouraged when he looks
from this picture upon our favoraby bcated
towns, and notes their inactivity, their poverty
and general dilapidation, and upon our broad
and fertile acres, and reflects that they are re-
ally, in very many instances, not paying the
expense Of culture.
One would naturally conclude that there
FAUST be some secret connected with all this,
and SO there is. At the village station the
close observer would notice piles of cotton
bales, 8 circumstance calculated to create no
particular interest in the South, but there,
thousands of miles away from where cotton
ahould be grown, it would take the form of
mystery. Stepping upon the platform in quest
of solution, his ears would be greeted by
sound as of a waterfall, having peculiar hum
ming mpaniment-spindles The case
would be made plain-the strange little vii
lage would be recognized as a manufacturing
point, and then he would know that we in far
Off section were digging its prosperity from our
soi--feeding it into a vigorous life upon the
very food for which our towns were starving,
and asking it nothing in return actually ship
ping our cotton at our own expense, and then,
sn order that it might grow fat on its business,
Euyfng Its fabrics at its own profitable figures,
and paving transportation on them to Our
homes. What kind hearted people we South
erners must be!
Then for the secret of success among the
farmers. Passing through the country with
his ewes open, the close observer would at the
proper season soon have his attention arrested
by an improved mower sweeping over the
meadow under the exclusive management of
youth of, say sixteen, and accomplishing more
IN day that could in that time be wormed out
of dozen freedmen with their scythes. A
little later and he would see the younger broth
or of the youth turning the hay; and then in
due time would come still smaller boy with
rake, followed by trio of little fellows having
all sorts of fun as they, with hay fork, stored
away the crop in the hay loft
In everything done on the farm in New Eng
land this same plan is resorted to. If the soil
must be prepared, instead of setting dozen
freedmen at it with their mules and plows to
sweat through q week, as we would do, out
comes machine managed by boy or two, and
in an incredibly short space of time the JOB Is
sown that would give our hands long, tedious
task; but there STRIPPING with seed sower
puts it down exactly right and in very short
erder. And when the crop is ready to be hoed,
instead of charging it with black army ready
to play for pay, . boy harnesses his nag to
horse-hoe, takes his seat as in sulky, and
rides about over the field hoeing several rows
at q time In short, New England works by
machinery, and therein lies the secret Of Yam
kee prosperity. She has simply changed places
with us-she owns her labor. If it were other
wise, or, in different words, did she have to
work on our plan, and depend OF our kind of
labor, and did we not in the goodness of our
hearts give her the profits on our products, a
few years would find her entirely depopulated,
q happy hunting ground, upon which the red
man might pitch his wigwam, never to be dis
turbed by any encroachment of civilization.
There is no reason why we in the South
should not own our labor in the same way, and
set our spindles going, thus giving prosperity
to our towns and villages. We can never be a
success till we do it. Let US think the matter
over.
REUNION OF HAMPTON IEG1oN.-At a
meeting OF the Hampton Legion survivors,
held In this city on February "a, 1875, it was
resolved to have a reunion of the Legion in