The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-07-03
Mr.. Barry said

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hold an angel of light standing in the
gloom there, saying: "What ye seek is
not here!" One hand, in token of silence
is held over the rock in which the form OF
the dead past is locked, the other points
you to the animated, active world around
This is not the time for men to go howl
ing around like Gergesenes amid the tombs
of dead issues and exploded ideas.
Lately, "the land shone DER with civil
swords" They are sheathed now. Let
rust devour them.
PEACE ASSERTS HER REIGN.
You must not spend time in fighting
those battles over again with an idle wal
of words. Your silence will not insult oul
dead. Over the graves of our slain, though
unmarked by marble or mausoleum, Valor,
broken hearted will always weep.
Peace let them r.st,
God knOweth best"
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1t is the great
young men Of Mississippi; the erect, living,
breathing present.; the future full of fate,
throbbing with unborn ideas and colossal
events, that appeal to your thoughtful con-
sideration, and the energetic exercise OF
all your powers
The Southern States are politically and
theoretically constituent parts of the teder-
ative union of all. Then they should enjoy
all of its blessings, participate in its coun-
ellis, and share in its pride.
If we must remain in the Union, (and we
muSt,) let us plant flowers instead of thorns.
The South presents to day the divinest atti-
tude, the sublmest spectacle of moral
grandeur this world can ever witness
that of peace under provocaton; for
know she wants no strife; she meditates
no treason; she wants her wounds to heal;
she is trying hard to let her sorrows sob
themselves to sleep. Every son who truly
loves her her, wants her to
CATCH THE STEP IN THE MARCH OF
EVENTS,
and to keep abreast in the advancing lines
of civilization.
1t is true that the late civil war crushed
us for the time; but, we are not hopelessly
paralyzed. The idea that we are is too
common; it is deadly nightshade to the
hopes and energies of these young men,
and should be rooted out, shattered and i'll
the dust, but seven in the dust could be
seen the magnifcence of the material"
The forms of life were only changed-nOt
destroyed. The South will yet arise-it
will rise as glorious and as nascent as the
blushing morn when throned on Eastern
clouds God walks with it
WHAT is THE MATTER WITH THE SOUTH?
Now, why is it that the South, especially
our State, is tagging behind in her material
developments? What afflicted her? What is
the remedy? These arepertinent questions
that press for solution. We are suffering
from atrophy. With both hands full, we fail
to feed ourselves. With natures larder at
our very door, we suffer hunger. With per-
ennial fountains of living waters accessible,
we thirst. We are dropping from inertia
with dormant powers that are Titanic. We
have the richest country and are the poor
est people, comparatively speaking, on this
planet. This is a solecism in the social or
der, Il startling paradox in political econ
Omy, yet it is true.
The mineral animal and vegetable king
doms find their highest depression Of wealth |
in the South, except some of the most |
precious metals; yet we are poor, compar-
ed with the North. Causes may be found |
in the protective legislation of the general |
government, the institution of slavery, and |
its violent and sudden destruction, the in
fuences of external nature, and the tastes
and habitudes of the two peoples. These
we can overcome or greatly modify. In
deed
THE NEW SOUTH Is A NEW BIRTH.
Young gentlemen, you must realize that
you begin life OH an entirely different
plane from that of the previous generation.
There is our trouble: We too often try to
put new wine into old bottles, and old wine
into new bottles. 1t will not work.
The three cardinal forces in modern civ
ilizatiOn are agriculture, commerce and
manufacture. The people of the South
are almost wholly an agricultural people,
and hence its growth is stunted. Our sin
gle staple in this State, cotton, with its
cost of production, will perpetually dcplete
us under present conditions. The money it
brings flows back to the great centres, and
we get only our food and few prime neces-
saries of life-nothing is added to the cap
ital of the country. We are purchasers of
of every commodity of life. Thus we are
kept in a state of pitable peOnage to the
and commercial world.
WHAT WE NEED
in this dilemma is manufactures. We will
then produce and manufacture the raw
not only of cotton, but number
ess other articles of daily use. Then will
we grow powerful, pOpulous and prosper
rus. That spirit, however friendly, which
'eeks to promote agriculture over other ,
pursuits, only tends to dwarf it; for it is
IN axiom in political economy that when [
.ver restraints are imposed ON manufacture
md commerce, agriculture is discouraged |
q a corresponding degree.
With this advantage would come another Z
# commanding importance-that Of immi- [
ration. Indeed, the two are cOrrelative. i
Every effort should be put forth to invite @
population. We crave free infusion of {
CAUCASIAN blood into the body polite of c
his State. Welcome even the men of the
,orth who lately stood in battle against us. l
he soldiers of the late war are not hard !
0 reconcile; it is mainly those who were /
rave citizens in war, and are militant in +
eace, who refuse TO be cOmforted. Wei t
ONE we viii shake hands if you come to C
lake our destiny yours and we will have
o humiliating concessions as to who were :
ght or wrong. We neither demand nor J,
snder the surrender Of ones manhood in y
his latitude. Welcome the blue-eyed n
the canny Scot; the joyous, n
Irishman; the brave, inn a
ulsive Frenehman; the hardy wanderer ;,
-Om the white cliffs Of Albion, Welcome, u
Il, within our borders Thrice welcome, =,
be pale brow that has given the world its =
erOes, and highest types in every depart =
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