The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-05-13

of which he was q Director and
great throng Of. the best citizens a
sembled amid wealth of floral ar
musical tribute. all making an occ
sion described by the Charleston Co,
rier as almost unparalleled at the ol
sequies of any private citizen. Tn
side of heaven there is no more hoi
pitable people than the people of II
South. And now / bring ia, messag
from all the States of the South whie
| visited inviting immigration thithel
The South is to rival the West as
field for American enterprise. Horac
Greeley's advice to go West is to hav
an addenda IN 'sgo South" The frs
avalanche of population thithcr will
make their fortunes. 1t is a natiena
absurdity that SO much of the cottel
OF the South should be transported s
great expense to the North to be trans
formed into articles of use. The few
factories at the South are pioneers o
the amounted spindles which are ye
to begin the hum of their grand marcf
on the banks of the Savannah, Appal
achicola and the Tombigbee, There
stands Georgia, with its $4,000 square
miles, and South Carolina, with it,
$4,000 square miles, and Alabama
with its 50.722 square miles,snd North
Carolina, with 50,7O4 square miles, and
other States, none of them with more
than ten per cent. of their resources
developed. When will the overcrowd.
ed populations of our great cities take
wings of the morning and fly to re.
giOns where they shall have room to
turn round and breathe and expand
and become masters of their own
corn fields or rice swamps or cotton
or timber forests. Land
to be had there in the Southern States
from 81 to $40 per acre. Only SIS
required to get there if you are not
too particular as to how you go. Do
you say the climate is hot? The Their
mometer every summer runs up high
Or in New York than in North Caro-
lima and Georgis. though there the
heat is more prolonged. Afraid OF
the fever? The death rate of Michi-
gan and Georgia are equal, while the
death rate according to the last census
is lees according to the number of
population in Georgia than in Con-
and Maine. Whether you go
West or South you will probably
have one acclimating attack. 1t is on
ly different style of shake. There is
no need that England or Ireland or
Scotland any longer suffer TOR room
Or bread. The tides of emmigration
now pouring into this country are
greater now than at any time in his
thousand, six hum
lred and fifty-cight emigrants last
month arrived in New York, five
thousand emigrants last Tuesday in
md around Castle Garden. This is
only an intimation of what is to come.
Mako two currents. While you put
On extra trains to take them West by
Pennsylvania, Erie and New Y ork
Central, put on extra trains on the
Baltimore and Washington, and
and Atlanta and Charles
ION routes to take them South. There
are tens of thousands of fortunes
awaiting for men who have the enter
prise to go and win them. The South
beckons you to come. Stop cursing
The South and lying about the South,
and go and try yourselves the cordial.
ty of her welcome and the resources
Of her mines, her plantations and her
forests. Perhaps that is the way God
Is going to settle this sectional strife.
There will be hundreds of thousands
Of our brightest, most intelligent.
aiost moral young men who will 60
South for residence, and they will in
yite the daughters of the South to
help them build homes amid the mag
nollas and orange groves, and their
children will be half North and half
South, balf Georgia and half Vermont,
half South Carolina and half New
York; and thereafter to divide the
you would have to divide the
with some such sword as
Solomon sarcastically proposed for
the division of the contested child, ,and
the Northern father will say to the
Southern mother, Come, my dear, 1
guess we had better put this political
feud to sleep in this CRADLE The state
ment SO long rampant at the N orth,
that the South did not want industri-
GUS, useful and moral Northern men to
settle among them brand as poiit-
ical falsehood, got up and Kept up fol
political purposes. i. at 15s
Again I have to correct the impres.
sion that the South is bitterly against
the Government of the United States
The South submitted to arms certain
and most of them are sub
to the decision. There is nc
fight in them. We hear much about
the fire-eaters of the South; but il
they eat fire they haze private table
and private platter of Goals in a pri
vate room. I sat at many tables, bu1
l did not see any thing of that kind o.
diet. Neither could L see any spoOr
or knife or fork that seemed to have
been used in fire-eating. Why, sirs,
never saw more placid people-somt
of them with all their leg or one arm
or one eye, the member missing sacri
feed in battle! 1t is simply miracu
lous that these people feel SO choerfu
and 30 aimable. 1t is dastardly meal
to keep representing them as acrid
and waspish and saturnine and ma
levolent. l haye travelled as far a
most people i'm this and other lands
and I have vet tn find q more affable