The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-11-17
THE NEW SOUTH.

resources Of the South present them
selves az invitingly for investment
now as il the South were some new
Iy discovered country. Her terrific
~ is full of mineral riches almost
un6isturbed and of water. courses
with innumerable sites for flourish
ing factories, as we'll as vast forests
of every variety Of valuable timber,
to say nothing of almost all other
adaptabilities and capacities for
an y,bing and everything Of a prac-
tical character looking or leading in
the direction of that intelligent and
earnest utilitarianism which consti-
tutes tie chief feature of the pro-
gressiveness of the times Such is
the new South physically consider
ed, on the map Of America, in place
of the old south Of ante bellum days
Considered with reference to her
spirit of general industrial develop
ment, there is a marked and momen-
tous change going on in the new
South which gives bright and
Frightening promise of most salutary
results. The southern people, in
the new order of things under which
they are now living, have had and
still have, not little both to learn
and to unlearn. The Institution of
slavery in these southern States
permeated with its influences every
part and every pore of the industrial
system of this section of the Union.
1t turned our peoples thoughts
away from almost everything of a
productive or creative character ex-
cept the culture of the fields. 1t
was a blindfold in the presence of
mineral wealth waiting DOLLY to be
brought out of the earth. 1t caus
ed our great manufacturing sdvan
tsges to be disregarded. 1t deaden-
ed all inventive genils. And, from
the leisure which it afforded, while
it made many wise and useful states
men it was at the same time prolific
of myriads of diminutive agitating
politicians, from whom, with differ
ent surroundings, might probably
from time TO time have sprung men
highly useful to themselves and to
their country 10 some of the more
robust arts 10 the practical affairs of
life. 1t was an institution of meal
culable potentiaities and it lived
long enough to stamp its impress
too deeply upon everything in the
South to be obliterated in day or q
year, even after the terrific upheav-
al that swept the institution itself
away from the land forever. But il
is gone now and it has been gone
long enough for the reaction to be
} gin to be seen and felt Throughout
8 all the different departments in tina
intricate. yet simple system of in
dustrial economies which is essentia
to the higest degree of indipenden
prosperity among any and every
people.
The southern man is now no long
er born to be a "a farmer or planter
an artisan within so small a circum
ference as to be shut out, or rathe
shut in, from all inventive ambition
l or a lawy err, or doctor, or an invol
. untary politician. The southern
mind is no longer turned away
IN the cradle, from the comtempla
tion Of everything else but agricul'
turt IS a source of productive mes;
for the necessary demands of the
world. Southern energy is now DC
longer confined within the compass
of cultivation of cotton, tobacco
and grain. There are new grooves
appearing very perceptibly among
the old grooves. There are new
ideas appearing very perceptibly
among the old ideas. There are
new thoughts and new theories ap'
pearipg very perceptib!y among the
old thoughts and the old theories
There are new industries appearir G
very perceptibly among the old in
dustries. And that grand results
gloriously affecting the future pros
perity of the South will very soor
be seen from it all, no uncloGded
intellect can fail already to compre
bend.
The rev South will, ere the expi-
ration OF another decade, be all the
stronger, all the lustier, all the more
prosperous and progressive from the
very fact of the long repression Of
her inherent powers /; for she Is
bringing up her great mining and
manufacturing res rves, just at the
point of time when the wants of the
world are crying most loudly for
them.
hon JUDsoN C. CLEMENTS