The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-20

By HON. HENRY w. GRADY.

By HON. HENRY w. GRADY.
Ne" York Ledger
The beauty Of Southern scenery,
and the tenderness If Southern skies
have caught the attention of many
Of the very rich men Of the North.
Mr.. H. NJ, FIagler of the Standard
Oil Company, has spent over $780,
600 in hotels and Improvements, aud
his POaCe de Leon and Alcazar are
not eQualled 10 the old. world or the
new. Mr., George Vanderbilt pur
chased a mountain near Ashevllle.
IN the famous "Iand ofthe sky" and
has outlined improvements thai will
cost over $3,COO,O0O. In Florida q
numter of misunderstanding 3
foreign prince and duke or sO-haye
made superb winter homes. By the
way, Florida has recovered what she
lost TO California two years ago. The
tide Of travel IS turning again and
Fiorid is not confirmed as the win
ter garden of the republic, but its
Sanitarium. The air and the sun
shine of the South make life delight
fol, which recalls little story. 4
Northern lady and a Southern one
were thrown together for day or
Two. The Northern lady had critj-
Cised the railroads, the hotels, the
homes the towns, the farms of the
South. A last she said:
81 tell you. though. l do enjoy
your DalmY air, and your GENIAL
sunshine"
Il am 80 glad" said her Southern
neighbor "for that's about all the
Yankees left U.S.
In 1860, Georgia, Alabama, and
South Carlina were, with the excep-
tion Of Rhode Island the three rich
est States in the Union. In 1880
they were, with the exception Of
Idaho, the three poorest. In the
above comparison wealth is measured
by the holdings per capita of the
citizens Of each State. After twenty
five years of peace and of unusual
prosperity Georgia has just reach
ed again the total of her tax books
in 1861 minus her property in
slaves.
What pull 1t has been Through
the ashes and desolatiOn of War-up
the hill. step st a time, nothing
| ceItain-nOt even the way HIND
cred, misled, and yet always moving
up little, until-shall we say it?-
the top has been reached, and the
rest is easy! The desperate days of
Starvation-the doubtful days of ex-
perjment-these arc over. And now
the world will witness change in
the South, little less than msgical
The ground has been prepared-the
seed put in-the tiny shoots tended
past the danger-point-and the day
of the mighty harvest is here
The Comstock lode IS, perhaps,
the richest spot Of the earth. And
yet all about it is bleakness and
misery. It's teemlng riches haYe
gone to build up distant cities and
carry great currents, of which the
miners. gasping in its depths, hear
but dim report. The cotton field is
a new COmstock lode. And for years
the farmers fought in destltution, as
the miners fight, while the bales of
cotton, as Of silver, went to enrich
the cities beyond their horizon, At
last they learned how to catch the
ebblng sea st the edge of the patch
and throw its enriching flood back
on their own fields.
The long-leafed pine now standing
In Southern forests. wOuld yield, al
$40 q thousand feet-tLe c-udes
form in which it can be rendered.
$500,OC0,0O0 IN excess of the totaI
taxable value OF the South, intlud
ing cities, railroads, farms. personal
property, everything. That is an
enormous possession But that does
not satisfy the New South Made
into furniture, that pine would bring
$50 instead Of $40 a thousand feet
And so, IN something over four hun
dred and fifty factories SIC is turn
> ing it into furniture.
Noho1y lmagjnes that the some
what romical revelation in Brazil
in whlcA the oeople said to the IN
peror: ''lf you please, sir" and the
| an,nar0r GOOD SOul said to tho Dco