Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-31
MEMPHIS APPEAL
FRIDAY, |: MARCH 81, 1882
THE COURSE OF THE SOUTH Is on
WARD.


WARD.
Among the important lessons history i'm
parts there are none, perhaps, more interest
ing than the details that show the effect of
adversely upon different nations. Some,
crushed to earth, rise again, like truth, more
vigorous, robust and enduring than ever.
Lethargy is shaken off, faults recognized and
corrected, and efforts are made that not only
rehabilitate but that send people further
on the line of progress than it had ever gone
before. Others, on the contrary, lose their
former energy, permit adversely TO go to the
length of defeat, and accept defeat as ire
mediable. Supine, listless, slothful, hope
less, they lose their former characteristics
and are in the end blotted out and cease to
swell the rank of nations. The Jews, over
taken by reserves of the most intense kind.
retain their energy and have gained in sa-
gacity and skill by brave endurance of mis-
fortune while battling bravely against its
influences. France, bowed down by Ger
man discipline and force, lifts up
her head, frees herself of the incu-
bus that held her down, and wends
her way to prosperity with degree of vigor
unsurpassed. Venice, overtaken by ill-fate,
loses her pride and sinks into the dolce far
niezte, and how many nations and races have,
with loss of commerce, wealth, or martial
victory, also ceased to possess a separate
identity because affection had laid its hand
upon them, and in their case what should
have been spur to arouse, proved only an
opiate, benumbing and enervating, and the
nations life was gone. 1t is happy and a
glorious thing TO recognize that the South
belongs to the former class. Trial, hardship
and loss have only stimulated her, go that it
can be said of her boldly, "She suffered and
became strong" The fact is everywhere be-
coming acknowledged that out of the old
South, that was MANNED and crippled, new
South has arisen-a South refreshed by her
troubles, more courageous and more muscu-
lar because she has endured; not weeping
over the past; not chanting ieremiads over
times that are gone; not lamenting and pity |
ing herself, and bsseeching the compassion of |
her friends and neighbors; but South full of |
renewed vigor abandoning old sloth, and |
gone-by apathy, and taking step with m anly
fortitude in the line of the worlds progress,
with degree of indemitable determination
and unconquerable grit that is bound to force
from fortune the gifts she would not bestow
OF her own good will. As the years pass on,
as fevers and floods and other calamities are
piled upon the mountain of obstacles raised
by the war, she still keeps the onward way,
fresh trouble only developing stronger pow
ers OF endurance, and revealing more might
to conquer, to overcome, and to work out
with unyielding energy the ends she has set
before herself to accomplish. The world is
beginning to accord its need of praise for all
this, and lips that formerly were bitter with
reproach are now eager in their tones of COM
An article before us in the
Boston Advertiser OF Monday speaks of the
industrial development of the South as not
merely pleasant theory, but fact revealed
by statistics. Among other things the invent
i've Yankee is rivalled on his own faYorite
ground, for, while during the years from
1850 to 1860, 2244 patents were issued to
Southern States; from 1870 1880, inclusive.
The number had amounted up to I4,440.
The Advertiser says: "There are two Souths;
the one retaining many of the old-time pre-
JUDGES, on grounds of race and locality, full
Of sad and bitter memories of an unsuccess-
full struggle; the other forgetting the things
behind, the conflict and its issue, and devo:-
ing itself to the practical business methods
which have made New England prosperous
agriculture and manufacturing being con-
Quoted with skill and prudence, and the ira
iitional waste and want of system in plan i
lation life giving place to economy and sa-
gacity and care, so that Southern manufac-
turing centers are becoming rivals of the
Northern industrial towns" That paper
would have been correct if it had added that, {
while the former is waning and decreasing
N dimension and brightness every day, the
after is growing and 'beaming with more
brilliant rays, mounting higher and higher
oward the zenith it will, at no very distant
lay, attain. The improved agricultural inn
element is at work in the Southern field, the I
busy is clearing new lands in her forests,
he hammer resounds in her cities, and the
vhir of the factory spindle is awaking the 8
'choes. The young men and women are
eadiDg and thinking, and toiling and pressing :
onward, and hope, and determination, and 1
heerfulness, and the stimulus of enterprise
5 moving their young lives and the present 4
bright with the flowers that will soon bear =
oble fruit =