Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-30

uuA tAltHltu lltIN'llil bl ill' ttill-
dltion of the Southern States, and u mnstrry
arrangement of the statistics of some of their
productive industries, makes incidentally the
following remarks
"Tho total production of gold and silver by
the mines, mountains and rivers of the whole
world (according to Cormide's latest state
mcnt) for q years has been 4,i00 9s7, 900;
and the American cotton crop for the last 10
years has amounted to from-52, 500 900, OU0
to S30OO, ,OOO,O 900 in gold values. Since 1865
an industrial revolution has occurred IN the
states made free by tho war; such as never
before occurred-on the surface there
has appeared to be misgbvcrnmcnt, fraud,
political disturbance. want of stability some
times violence but, underlying this surface,
apparently 80 deeply ugitatod, great industrial
forces have been quietly and surely working
to the end indicated by the great crops of
cotton; tue 10 last crops marketed exceeding
the 10 anti-war crops by nearly G,jOO,0OO,
bales, while the crop now being marketed will
be far the largest ever grown.
And then he remarks with q logic, whose
force il irresistible to candid minds. and
which constitutes complete and crushing
answer to the political slanderers and assail-
ants of our fellow citizens of the South :
Violence and anarchy cannot have been the rule
in n section that has produced greater crops for
snle, nnd has ut the same time been more self sls-
tninlng than ever before in its history,
Follow-ctizons commend these words of
sobernCsa and truth, to that body of intGlli-
gent but deeply preiudiced citizens, who
assembled in this city at the Academy of
Music last week to listen to an elaborate
inyectiye against whole communities of our
fellow-countrymcn, of whom the orator wns
wholly without personal knowledge. and yet
upon whom he poured the Walls of his ridi-
culc, hatred and depreciation without stint.
Surely the provincialism, the poverty, the
disorder resulting from war, and the revOlu-
tion of social and political systems form
better themes for kindly sympathy and
helpful suggestions than unspaling ccnsuro
and pitiless rdiculG. The states of the South
west could as Justly been denounced for the
rnyages of yellow fever among their people.
Such utterauccs may be acceptable to Il crowd
Of heated partisans in the midst of an angry
canvass, and may pass with such and for II
little time as stNtesmanship but the wise and
friendly suggestion of Mr.. Atkinson, on
another page, outweigh them i'll value ns they
soar above them i'll the higher atmosphere Of
patriotic spirit
Still dwelling upon the productive capaci-
tics of our country, he says tobacco sugar,
and rice occupy 50 small II space that the
scale of the chart will hardly suffice to picture
Them"
And vet onr domestic production of the last
two articles is only in the Southern States
and tobacco is chiefly produced there.
OF the tobacco crop but two-liIths are con-
sumed in the United States, and the renlln-
der goes to swell the balance of our foreign
trade. Yet from the two-lifth5 retained and
manufactured in tho United States, over
@3S. 900 U0D revenue has been derived in the
last fiscal year by excise duilc4
Again says Mr.. Atkinson
The production ul wool cannot be- graphically
defined. Its final h0mr may ht upon the cotton
h,whcre sheep fed upon the cake that Is lell after
the u has been taken from the kernel Ut the seed,
will fnrtiliHn the soil, double the rrDp ni cotton,
and add the wool clip 10 the profit ui The whole.
In II few short years sheep, mainly fed upon llit
kernel Of the cotton seed and upon the grasses thai
follow the cotton. will send 10 market from The
same fields, alternately occupied, IL mnri wool ns
cotton.
Let me add. brforcil cease, to quote the
high authority of Mr.. Atkinson, this eloquent
and patriotic sentence
W1nnmhrr now irarly pr quite fifty million
people. A hundred million could he Sustained
without increasing the area OF a Sinsli farm, ui
adding one to their nulniHr, by merely bringing
our product mp to the average standard Of re4Oll-
ably good agriculture; aud then there might re-
main for export twice The quantity We now scno
abroad, to feed the hungry Ia foreign and7,
No longcr divided hy the cursr ui slavery, this
Nation is now united by the bonds ol mutual Ill
urcst and ul common spcrch, tied by the rpl
| hand of rightg-iye thousand miles ul raway,nllt
is vet only nrsinnlhs 10 icrl me vllal power ana
grandeur 81 atr"ly h'''o'l'' 'Ais'ei'oc'
How can such vision of prosperity. .woaltl
| and happiness of u united country arise be-
| fore the eyes of an American and fail to i'll
| lis soul With thankfulncss and enlarge hi
SENSE of brotherhood towards all the state
and all fine urople whose industry has com
| bincd tn proltice such results How cnl
| he consider the North as separated From
| the South, or the East from the West or turl
| aside from the contemplation of these won
| derlul flrlits of unity and free trade ON
| continental scale. within our own borders
/ tn find food for dcrisiou and uuiudly rcllcr
| tious mon any of our c1-opcratofs in thi
rrent work 2
| With the executive power of this Govern
ment in thn hands of nm ADMINISTRATION ins
| and friendly to every section. striving TO INIT
| thc hearts and interests of oIr penuic to Ms,
| tir nowrrs of great office moi 10 promote fin
| eudi nr faction or n marty Inf tho genera
| wrIfore If nil how tritling viii even tlif
| ,rcnt nrnsrnt hn IN thc ,.rpntGr fnturp of urn;
| ncritv tbot awaits nal
| fii,n ug thcrnfnro reconciliation an,
brotLerbond and mt an and Forever IN lin
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