The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-07-30
A FEW IMPRESSIONS
MADE DURING OUR TRIP NORTH.

North CarOana, virginia, Deleware, Mary
land Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New
York and Washington City, gave us an in
sight into that part of our country, that we
had but little conception Of A person
4 who spends his life in country town or
on COUNTRY farm, finds happiness in it,
it is true, but he necessarily gets contract
ed views of life, and does not realize in all
its fullness the magnitude of his country,
its diversity of interests, its farming
operations, its manufacturing enterprises,
its industries, its immense cities of massive
buildings, teeming with people, the thrift
and progress, that 60 to make up in its
entirety, nations resources, power and
grandeur.
North Carolina and South Carolina are
very much like Georgia in soil and natural
formation. Virginia partakes largely of a
richer soil and is more inviting to husband.
ry. The tobacco industry of these states
and their tabacco factories comprise chiefs
ly their principal sources of wealth. all
though the cereals and stock raising are
not neglected Virginia especially is a
splendid wheat growing country. The
lands are highly productive and stretch out
beautifully before the vision.
The farming country of Pennsylvania,
New Jersey aud New York is all that heart
could wish The lands have been brought
up to high state of productiveness, ard
market gardening is extensively carried
on, as markets are near and there is al~
ways good demand for such products
Their farm homes are very attractive in
neStness, architecture and coziness
Grassy front yards, winding avenues, and
other lastly arranged objects OF beauty,
are conspicuous throughout that portion Of
country. Our people South do not make
their farm homes as attractive aad beauti-
full as our Northern friends. No where in
sight, in the front yards in any of the
Northern farm homes do you observe rub.
bish, wood piles, or unsightly fencing, but
all this is kept in the back ground, and
the very prettiest is in the forefront.
New York, of course, is the greatest city
in the United States. 1t affords more
sight seeing" attractions and objects of
interest than any place we know of 1t is
full to overlooking with everything to in>
terest, amuse, instruct and please.
Every phase of human character, diff
ferent nationalities, high and low, can be
seen. 1t is truly cosmopolitan city.
Some OF the Georgia editors had some PEI
culiar and novel experiences and saw
sights that they did not believe existed
Much there is of degrading character,
and missionaries can find there an inviting
field in which to operate.
The Brooklyn bridge is the grandest
piece of mechanical skill and engineering
in the world, save the bridge at Edinburg,
Scotland. Then there is New York's fine
harbor, her immense shipping advantages,
her vast system of elevated railroads, and a
multitude of other things that 60 to add to
her superlative greatness and resplendant
renown. One editor expressed his aston>
ishment at what he saw, by saying that
that man was only half educated who failed
: to see New York and visit her attractions,
and mingle with her populace and learn
something ofwhat is going on there day
and night.
The most beautiful city in the United
States is Washington. There is none to
compare with it in any particular In
streets, parks, buildings and attractions,
Washington City is without rival. The
government has made 1t so in the vast ex-
penditure of money in buildings and parks.
There is much to be seen there. We vis>
tied the Navy Yard, where immense guns
} were being manufactured; the National
Museum of Art; the engraving department
where green backs were being printed !;
the Washington Monument, $50 feet high
giving view sixty miles distance; the
White House, with its pretty grounds,
. fountains and flowers, and other governs
ment buildings.
Notwithstanding the delighufulness and
instructiyeness of our trip, we came back
home fully impressed that the South is the
: best part of or country. Our people are
J more purely American, in blood and ma
tionality, more in sympathy with each 9TH
er and possess characters of identity that
heighten their independence and manhood.
There is more mineral wealth, greater
natural resources and grander possibilities
here than in any section of our common
> country.
While we find that the North has thrift
prosperity, fertile lands, beautiful homes
vast system of railroads and manufacturing
plants by the score yet our Sunny South
is far superior in all the elements of eli.
mate, greatness, health, beauty and mex.
haustible natural resources.
While they have the accumulated wealth
OF over century, that the war did not
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