The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1892-02-06
VOL. XIV.
WORDS ros THE SOUTH.

he'd recently IN the .ity of San
Francisco Gen. Felix Ag us,
managing editor of the Baltimore
American, was one OF the speakers
aud among the many god things
said, he paid this tribute to the
South:
1t has been my gnod fortune 10
know the Snnth in war and in
pea e. AS a Uni. n soldier | was in
it and thronghlt during the great.
est OF civil conflicts, and saw the
courag. and self sacrifice Of its
people. | was over it during the
gloomy days of reconstruction,
and, for IA quarter OF century ]
have followed its growth and its
de>ti,i les and witnessed the mar.
yclous cuDqursts which it had
achieved unaer the blessings of
Union an p ace.
Ii il a land worthy of the eulngy
of every honest man. In tue abun-
dance and magnificent variety of
Its resources, it Is a parad Sc aud
Canaan, a cOuntiy blessed with
the bou ties and riches of Gods
goodness. II clothes one Ii III of
the nation: it teeds millions of
people; its fruits, i's wines and its
melons acknowledge no equal,
except those Of the Golden Slope;
supplies onr-half of the oysters OF
this continent, and from the Sc IS
transpl,nted IRON its Chesapeake
Bay have come the delicious
bivalves nf the Pacific coast. II
cOntains more coal and more iron
than all the rest of the United
States.
In he year .inst closed il raised
the biggest crnps in its history.
and turned our more iron than for
the ,ntire ten years from 1870 to
1880. 1t is land new II energies,
new in growth, new in ideis-a
rev South. that shakes hands cor
daily with the inventor, ana
cody, but politely, tells the poll
tician to mind his own business.
Within twenty-five years this
South has added millions to its
population. has trebled its wealth
unul it now reaches nearly ten
thousand million dollars; has nul-
tipIied It's schools, its colleges, its
churches: has inangnrAted all kinds
of new indnstIi. and Enterprises,
and thereby established hrme
markets for its products, and has,
in brrf, experienced a Development
which has attracted the attention
of the whole world to the uniimit-
ed pOssibil ties of its exhaustless
future. Aud yet, gentlemen, great
as this & owth has been, The ex-
pansi0n OF It's .journ ,iism ha-
tclipsed II her features of its
progress. The wealth of the South
has increased fouri0ll-the wealth
of It's newspapers has increased
teufold. Where there was one
subscriber twenty years ago, there
are a dozen subscribers to-day.
The Iness has been the mission
airy ard the rvaI gel, and the South
has followed lis gospel and its
leadersh y IN ways of peace and
OF prosperity. The journalim of
the South to-day is as diffcre t
from the journalism Of thirty years
ago as the new South is from the
oil. In those daNs il was full OF
chivahy, poetry and valOr. lis
writer's had the gallantry and
courage OF Bayard OF Frame. Their
sentiment fiied the soul Of man in
time OF wa and male strong men
bend the kiwe in times If prace
Ral ging irnm Randall's fiery lines,
maryland My Maryland" TO
Major Randulph's 'Grasshopper
and Sv ert Potato Vine," tn j urn
alsts have contributed permanent
treasures to the literature of the
nat or.
But this journ ism was m 'inly
editorlal-aJ, J,urna ism of c0mInrn'.
1t required few IN n, d it enjoyed
a limited audience. When the war
was over the new comiitlonS
brought forth all )ther set of men
NOR. in touch with the demands OF
the times. Ii was these men uiten
lab rim in an ungr,teful Fl d, who
estab ish..d ill. inurna ism of lac,
who, with heroic fl ut, aud II T.
withstandiug ignMance ami preln-
dice with which they had to con.
tend, brought newspapf rs into line
with the iourn lism Of the day, in
troduced he power press, employ
I'd the telegraph, engaged the
brightest minds, and added TO
their equi lmrnt the best that their
resources could afford. They made
the vocation OF the journalist one
of the hest paid and best respected
callings III the South that a man
or woman of brains couli choose.
1t was these papers which for th.
tirst line ue-cribel to hr wOr d
the riches and resOucces of the
South--pap rs which made pos
sible and real what j. est and
most permanent in Sou hern
grnwlh.
These papers have had 20 deal
with limited cuHsIilu nci~s. he