Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-29
GEN. JNO. b. GORDON
Gives Some Account of His European
Experiences.
The SOuth's Future.

viewed by reporter OF the Atlanta
Constitution, to whom he said in
answer to the first question:
II am very glad to get back home.
After all, this is the best country in
the world. In a material way be-
lieve it is going to develop into the
richest section on the globe. In a
social way find more individuality
of character, and a more marked
originality here in one day than you
can find in Europe in month. This
is perhaps natural, because ours is a
new country, and every man
who is intelligent and active is him
self force in its development, and
must be reliant and aggressive, SO to
speak, to hold his own. He builds
up his own business and is architect
of his own fortune. In England
everything, on the contrary, is CON-
sentative. A man inherits his bust
ness from his father and conducts it
just as it had been carried on gen
erations before him. There is little
to breed originality or make salient
points OF character You find, here
fore, that our people are brighter,
more original and stronger than the
English or Continental people. 1t
is quite a relief to me to get back"
PRoUDER OF HIS COUNTRY THAN EVER.
"You come back prouder of your
country than ever"
eyes, and loving it better. 1t is
enough to make an American proud
to ride through the streets of London
with it's civilization of 1000 years and
see American implements, American
sewing-machines, American tools and
American goods displayed on every
hand and know that American watch
es are being sold in the store, and
American fields are feeding the
English people, and American facto-
ries are beginning to clothe them.
1t is strange, too, how being in
England wi pes out all sectional pride
that the Southern man an the Vest
ern man or Northern man may have.
In New York you are introduced to
a stranger as gentleman from the
South, Chicagoan is introduced in
Boston as from the West. In Eng.
land you are introduced universally
as an American, and before you
know it you have forgotten all secs
tional prejudices and sentiment
and involve the whole republic in
your affections and pride. An
American never understands what a
country we have and what a work it
is doing until he goes 5000 miles
away from it and can contemplate it
all amidst people who know noth-
ing OF its superior prejudices, but
VINO consider 1t as one grand repub-
lie. l found, however, that in in
,elligent circles there was special in
terest in the South. 1t is generally |
believed in Europe among the best
thinkers on social and financial topics
thas the South will become
THE RICHEST PART OF THE COUNTRY.
They are beginning to investigate
thoroughly our wonderful material |
and AGRICULTURAL resources, to wonder |
at our development, and to inquire
after Southern investment. The in
vestment of Sir Edward Reed in
Florida, and the establishment Of |
Rugby colony in Tennessee, the
heavy investments in Mississippi |
Valley lands by English com |
panies, and the heavy purs
chases of Southern State and |
railroad bonds are but hints of the
interest that the Englishman1is be>
ginning to feel in the South. There
is a general disposition to send
young men of rich families to Amer>
lea, where the younger sons por-
tions are ample for large purchases
of lands or investments in new en-
terprises.> Heretofore they have
mostly gone West, but hereafter
they will begin to come South. Al
ready Texas is filliug up with young
Englishmen of good education and
family, and number have settled
in Tennessee and Kentucky and still
more, perhaps, in Virginia Some
that / know of have settled in Geor-
gia. They are finding out very rap>
idly that their small capital will go
further in the South and command
higher premium than it will in any
other section of this country, and
that the North and West are flooded
with capital pretty much as England
is-that men of small fortunes are
beginning to be crowded out"
MANUFACTURES.