The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-05
THE NORTH VS.. TIE SOUTH.


esis, comparing the prosperity Of the two
sections, and eteifwe can discover the causes
OF the difference. There is difference, a
great difference, and to the advantage Of the
north, too, ge must all admit. In the north.
ern states we see great manufactures ofevery
description in almost every hamlet town
and city. We see fine farm
houses, broad acres under fence
and in cultivation, producing immonse.
ly Of corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye,lpotatoes,
fruits of all varieties, vegetables, etc. We
sec navigable rivers and lakes, the waters of
which are covered With steam and sal YES
sells. all busy in The service Of commerce.
We see flouriihing towns and cities, built up
substantially and with magnificent buildings,
public and private, on every hand. We see
u perfect cbecker-woTk Of railroads ira
veraiug tho country in all directions, and
with freight or passenger trains passing over
them every hour. Wesee splendid church
and school buildings and find schools,
academies and colleges everywhere. We
find newspapers, magazines and every dc
scription Of periodicals wherever we 20 and
all flourshing, ard we see business, trade,
commerce, hustle, stir, activity, thrift and
plenty 10 every nook and corner OF the
north. The people Of this section are not by
nature any more Intelligent than the people
of the south, nor ate they Of better physical
development. They have much more in
hospitable climate and by far fewer natural
advantages than in the southern states Why
is it then, that wo SEQ all this prosperity
aud development in the north and
see so little Of IL in the south? The reason
is that tho northern people have moro On
orgy, more snap, more push, mud conse.
quenlly more enterprise than tho people Of
the southg We do not believe that th.
northern people are more literally endowed
by nature with these traits of character thsn
The southern people, but tho contrary cir
onmstaucel undor which they have been
feared and have had their characters moulded
and developed, from those that have sur
rounded the southern people, have led TO this
difference. II is the custom TO charge
that the clmate of the south
is enervating and that It's effect
upon the people is to make them lethsrgic
and indolent. We do not believe this. TIE
mind is effected IN great measure by the con.
dition OF the physical organization, and if The
body is enervated, 10th to action, so is the
mind. Ia there not as much intelligence, ms
much brilliancy and strength of mind, as
much genius among the southern people rs
among The northern people? The history OF
the country in every particular answers ia
the affirmative, Then it il not the climate of
the south that nervating. There
was on (nervating cause in the south
though, al one time, alayely-now,
happily, forever gonc. Tho institution Of
slavery pua'yzed tho energies of tho south
ern people They had no occasion TO exert
themselves in anything when they had bond.
men to do for them, and consequently the
dolce fur niente OF their lives had no ending
There was no need for the exer.ion Of brain
or Drawn, and while the southern people
were idling away tho year,, tho northern
people were dclving hard and making slaves
of wood aud water, aud iron, and all the
bounlies of nature. Northern boys and
girls were brought up to labor aud toll
and consequently 10 salr.relanoc.
and practical knowledge of
lie and its duties and requirements. Souta-
ern boys and girls were brought up in idle
ness and to spurn lsbor,and without ADEQUATE
ideas of how 10 struggle with the world, how
to build up and expand the advantages about
them. Nearly sixteen years have passed away
since the negroes of the south were freed and
their owners thrown upon their own resour-
cea fora livelihood. Few of them were there
who knew how to buffet with the waves of
aaVersi'y' how to make living, and the
generation that was just coming on when
slavery ceased to exist has not vet
reached the point when they must q
out into tho world, but when it does
enter the arena, it will be now generation
inoeed. 1t will know something about the
realities of life; it has been taught how to
work, 1t is being learned the lesson of the
struggle with tho world. Let our southern
people arouse their dormant energies and
seizing those advantages nature has eNeo
them in climate, soil and resources generally
force them into seryi.ude. Why. there IA
scarcely a county in Texas bu! what has
water power enough, il 1t DO properly con.
centrated, 10 be made the motor for a hmm.
dred of the largest sized cotton mills. or any
other class of manufactures Tho
people of the north succeed ia this way.
Why, it the Trinity river ran by New Eng.
land town Of the size of Dallas, its people
would gather up tho water and hundred
mills or manufactures of some kind would
be in operation, and tho city would double
its population in two years. The 0gricultu.
raj classes of the north cultivate their farm,;
southern farmers scratch theirs. An Indiana
farm'r will make thirty bushels of wheat pcr
acre on land not half as good as we nave Ia
Dallss county, or seyenty-ilye bushels of
corr, while the Dallas farmer thinks he