The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-05-04

bers OF the Board. of Trade the orphan children
OF the asylum 81 which he was direclof, and q
great throng OF the best citizens assembled, amid
wealth of floral and musical tribute Al max
ing an occasion, described by the Ghatleston
Courier, as almost unparalleled ut the ohsequies
OF any private citizen. This side Of heaven
there is No more hospitable people than Ire peo-
pie OF the South, and now ] bring messaRe
from all the States Of the South which I visited.
inviting Immigration thither The 6euEh ID to
nvalthe West as an opening field for American
enterprise. Horace Greeleyss advice TO 20 West
is to have an addenda in q Go South" The frst
avalanche Of population thither win make their
fortunes 1t is . national absurdfty that 80
much of the cotton of the South should be
uansported5at great expense 70 the North to be
transformed into articles Of use. The few facto-
ries at the South are the pioneers Of the nm
counted spindles which are yet to begin the hum
of their grand march on the banks of the Sa.
vannah, Apalachicola and the Tombigbee
There stands Georgia, with its 5000 square
miles, and South Carolina, with It's $1,000 square
miles, and Alabama, with its 90. TO square miles,
and North Carolina, with 5O,704 square miles,
and the other States, none Of them with more
than ten per cent of their resources developed.
When will the overcrowded populations Of our
great cities take the wings of the morning and
ny TO regions 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 plantations or timber forests. Land
Is to be had there in the Southern States
FROM ONE TO TWENTY DOLLARS AN ACRE
Only SIS to get there if you are not too particu-
lar as to how you go. Do you say the climate
is hot? The thermometer every summer runs up
higher in New York than in North Carolina
and Georgia, though the heat is more prolonged.
Afraid Of the fever? The death rate of Michigan
and Georgia are equal, while the death rate, &C.
cording to the last census, is less according to
the number of population in Georgia than in
Connecticut and Maine Whether you 60 West
or South you will probably have one acclimating
attack. 1t is only q different style of shake.
There is no need that England or Ireland or
Scotland any longer suffer for room or bread.
The tides of emigration now pouring into this
country are greater than at any time in history
81 ,65S emigrants last month arrived in New
York, 5000 emigrants last Tuesday in and
around Castle Garden. This is only an intima-
ton of what is to come. Make two currents.
While you put on extra trains to take them
West by the Pennsylvania, Erie and New York
Central, put on extra trains on the Baltimore
and Washington and Chattanooga and Atlanta
and Charleston routes TO take them South
There are tens of thousands of fortunes waiting
for men who have the enterprise 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 cordially of her
welcome and the resources of her mines, her
plantations and her forests. Perhaps that is the
way that God is going to settle this sectional
strife. There will be hundeds of thousands of
our brightest, most intelligent, most moral young
men, who will go South for residence, and they
will invite the daughters of the South to help
them build homes amid the magnolia and orange
groves, and their children will be half North
and half South, half Georgia and half Vermont
half South Carolina and half New York; and
thereafter to divide the country you would have
to divide the children with some such sword as
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of the contested child, and the Northern father
will say to the Southern mother Come my
dear, | guess we had better put this political
feud to sleep in his cradle" The statement so
long rampant at the North that the South did
not want industrious, useful and moral North
erners to settle among them brand as political
falsehood, gotten up and kept up for political
pourposes
Again, have to correct the impression that
the South are bitterly against the Government
Of the United States The South submitted to
arms certain questions, and most of them are
submissive TO the decision There is no fight in
them. We hear much about the fire-eaters of the
South, but they eat fire they have private table
and private platter of Goals in private room. /
sat at many tables, but did not see anything Of
that kind Of diet. Neither could see any spoon,
or knife or fork that seemed to have been used
in fire eating. Why, sirs, never saw more pla-
cid peopIe-some of them with all their prop
years of age with one leg or one arm or one eye,
the member missing sacrificed in battle 1t is
simply miraculous that those people feel so cheer
full and so amiabe. 1t is dastardly mean to
keep representing them as acrid and waspish and
saturnine and malevolent. / have travelled as
much as most people in this and other lands,
and have yet to find more affable, delicately
sympathetic, whole-hearted people than the peo-
pie OF the South. They are to-day loyal and pa
triotic, and if foreign foe should attempt to set
foot on this soil for the purpose of intimidation
and conquest, the forces of Bragg and Geary,
Mcclellan and Beauregard, Lee and Grant would
come shoulder to shoulder, the blue and the
gray, and the cannons OF Fort Hamilton Sum-
ter and Pickens would join in
ONE CHORUS OF THUNDER AND FLAME
The fact is that this country has had big fam
lily fight, but let neighbor come in toIinterfere,
and you know how that always works. Hus-
band and wife in contest the one with a cane
the other with q broom-stick, if some imper-
tinent individual attempts to come between them,
he gets both cane and broom-stick have
sometimes thought that the North and South
would never understand each other until the
approach OF common enemy compes them 10
make common cause. II foreign despotisms
think we have no cohesion, no centripetal force
as a nation, they have only to test it. The fact
that, instead of the thirteen colonies we embrace
everything from the Atlantic to the Pacific
oceaus implies no weakening of national grip.
BY steam and electricity our country Is within
easier control than at the foundation of
the Government 1t took two weeks to get on
cal communication across the country at the
start now ii takes two minutes. San Francisco
and Galveston and DesMoines are nearer to
Washington now that Richmond was then
There never was a time when this nation was 90
thoroughly one a. to-day. Would to God we
might more thoroughly appreciate il.
You see the whole impression Of my Southern
journey was one of high encouragement The
great masses of the people are right If half
dozen politicians at the North and a half dozen
at the South would only die, we should have no
more sectional aerimony. 1t is Q case for the
undertakes. If they will bury these few dema-
gogues out Of sight We win pay the entire ex-
pense of catafalque and epiiaph, and furnish
enough brass band to play the rogue's march.
But time, under God, will settle it The genera
tons that follow US will not share in the antipa-
thies and bellicOse spirit of their ancestors, and
will sit In amusement at a state of things which
made the national graveyards Of Murfreesboro,
Gettysburg and Richmond an awful possibility.
On q clear morning of week before last we
took q carriage and wound up to the top Of
Lookout Mountain. Up, up, upi We went out
on the rocks and saw into five States Of the
Union-scenes so stupendous and overw helming
that you Involuntary take Of your hat IN the
presence Of the grandest prospect sn the cont
nent Yonder is Missionary ridge, the beach
against which the red pillows Of Federal and
Confederate courage snrged and broke-z0 900
on one side, e6 600 on the other Yondef are
the Blue mountains of North and South Caro-
linas. With utmost stretch Of the eve. wonder
zee Kentucky and Virginia Here at the font are
Chattanooga and Chickamaugua, the peonuncia-