Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-11-18
THE NEW SOUTH:
"A Rosy Future for the Sunny
south,
AS alketched by WhiI0m East
Tennesseean. now q HOOsieF.
Madison (Ind.) Courier.

Madison Qnd.) Courier.
Mr.. Geo. B. Cowlam, now citi-
zen of Madison, who moved here
this fall from East Tennessee, with
bis family. was passing along West
street this morning, when a Courier
reporter caught him on the fly.
Since Tennessee has elected re-
publican governor, and Houk and
Pettibone and Moore, all stalwart
republicans, to congress, and proba
bly, republican Legislature, Mr..
Cowlam's face has been wreathed in
smiles, and he chueks and chuckles
like an old hen with a big brc ID of
chickens.
whats the south going to do
about it ?" asked the reporter.
Mr.. C.-"Squat. Squat right in
their tracks. Why, the most Won
derful thing about this campaign,
to both north and south, ten years
hence, will be that the democrats
carried q single northern county.
It will be hard for the south to real
ize lat a set of men smart enough
to build UP such a country as the
north is to-day, were ever so fool
ish as to allow such a crowd as the
democratic party even to hope for
the possibility of success
Rep,-"Will the south remain SOL
id?"
Mr.. C.-"Not much! No sir; that
thing is over. Before congress ad-
iourns for the Christmas holidays the
solid south VIII be sbivered into a
thousand fragments"
Rep.-"Then why did they fight
so hard ?"
Mr.. C.-"Well, they are not such
bad fellows, according to the light
they have. They are not half such
fools as they have given us some rea-
son to think they were; and don't be
n to be such fools as they took us to
be. No, not near it! The trouble
with them is their cussed old system
of slavery made their country poor
and ignorant by degrading and thus
keeping out free labor, and as a re.
suit of it their system is a hundred
years behind. Their whole ciyiliza-
ton is dwarfed and stunted by it.
They had it up to the war, and as
soon as that was over Andy johns
sons fool policy set them off on a
Wild goose chase after political con-
troll of the country, and that has
kept them all as bufg as the devil in
a gale of wind up to last Tuesday
They haven't had much time to build
up the south since Tuesday, OF
catch up with the north, but the
south is going to be great country
and don't you forget it.
Rep.-"When
NJ. C.-When ?" Why, right off
In the neAG ten or fifteen years the
south is going to grow faster than
any other part of the country will OF
ever has grown"
Rep.--'What makes you thiul
so ?"
Mr.. C.-"Why, because the 'solid
south is busted up. For fifteer
years every material interest of the
south has been sacrificed by the in
sane policy of the Hamptons, Lamars
and Hills, who have been unable t.
make the south thjnk the northern
democracy could turn the scale. The
old leaders can't fool them with tha
rot any longer. They must lead of
in a forward movement at once, Of
new men will replace them. They vii
be replaced anyhow, two years hence
But recollect that in all there fftee1
yeas the industries Of the soutl
have been slowly growing, swelling
and gathering strength in their con.
fnement, and now that the "soliG
north" has jolted the bands little
the force from the inside will shivel
the thin shell Of the 'solid south
into q million fragments. Yes, sir
the Jig is up, and if I had millio1
dollars to invest I would put ever,
dollar of it into. the south. Jus
think of it: In the first ten year
that the north was free from tn
rule of the antedeluvian Statesman
who used to govern the whole coun-
Try and now govern the south, tn
northern states doubled thei
wealth, and in the next tel
years, just now ending th
north has become grea
empire complete in all it's parts, wa
ahead of anything else in the world
Now let the south be free from thes
fellows ten years and you'll see
growth in wealth and population tina
will astonish us all. Why the soutl
is just bursting with natural wealth
They have got everything, climate
soil, timber, water power. Every
thing but plenty Of capital, enter
prising men, and the civilization O
the nineteenth century. They ar
going to get the "missing ingre
dients" now, rightaway, and then
clear the track y
Rep.-"Cotton going to be kin
again q
Mr.. C.-"Not by - 329 sight
No, sir; they are raising now abou
as much cotton as the world needs
It's an expensive and exhaustiv
crop and over-supply would brea
the price and all the planters with il
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