The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-04-21
THE SouTH WANTS.

the most earnest expressions of opinion
that the South has afforded in recent
years. 1t represented a need that has
given not only that section but the whole
country concern for the last decade.
Every member of the convention stated
without reservation that his State was
not progressing as it should, and con-
fessed frankly that it was being left be-
hind other sections of the country in
population and prosperity. 1t was to
remedy this condition of affairs that the
convention was called, and many wise
plans were proposed to further that end.
1t was resolved to have each Governor
prepare addresses to the people of the
United States and Europe setting forth
facts in relation to the condition, religion,
education and physical resources of the
State, and that these papers be published
in pamphlet form for distribution at the
Worlds Fair at Chicago. Itwas resolved
also, at the close of the session, to issue
the United States and Europe, setting
forth the agricultural and commercial
advantages of the South, which address
closed as follows:
SIT is the field in which the immediate
future will unfold the most marvellous
developments of the century. Here new
homes are to grow like spring fl wers
coming out of the winter of our discon-
tent, and are to multiply with increas
ing rapidity as the years 60 by. Here
capital is to find its most tempting and
profitable field for investment. The
governors of the states in behalf of their
several constituencies extend cordial
and pressing invitation to homeseekers,
farmers, mechanics, miners and work
men to come and cast their fortunes with
the South, as they 40 also similar in
vitation to capitalists, whether in the
United States or elsewhere, to examine
our resources and to aid us in their de-
velopment to the end that they may
participate in our prosperity"
To all of this the people of the country
readily assent. 1t comedies the natural
| advantages of the South and wishes the
section success in its endeavors to have
those advantages recognized aud appre-
ciated. At the same time it reserves the
right to call the attention of Southern
ers to the fact that it seems to be build
ing its hopes of future prosperity on a
foundation of sand The conditions that
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South in the past will operate to exclude
| it in the future unless certain Southern
peculiarities are corrected. 1t is to be
noticed that the convention shut its eyes
to the facts in question. 1t failed to
,ndemn lynchings, yet who would wish
to make home or embark his capital in
a section where Judge Lynch disposes
of almost as many criminals as the
tees that have made election matters
entirely one-sided in that section and
uses the bug-a-boo of negro denomina-
ton to scare its white citizens into sup
porting only one political party. What
intelligent class of people would care to
be ruled by such sentiments, or to par
ticipate in such practices? Even at the
time the convention was in session ar
rangements were being made in the same
city to receive with the most honored
rites the remains of Jefferson Davis, the
former chief of the confederacy, which
were to be removed from New Orleans
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which were to be transported with mill
tary honors through the very section
that calls for population and capital.
There are few Northern men who would
care to cast their lot with a people so
prone to honor infamous rebellion and
treason and the European instinctively
avoids region which the Northern man
keeps away from. The whole trouble is
the South wants prosperity but is not
willing to pay the price for it. She
wants more than all, to remain Southern,
to draw color line, to be one-sided in
politics, to despise the very laboring
class that it invites, and to deal with
crime not according to law, but accord
ing to the dictates OF "Sonthern chlV-
airy"
1t is with no disposition to find fault
that the people of the United States out
side of the South remarks upon this
state of affairs. 1t is condition calling
more for sorrow than anger. But unless
the South awakes to see herself as others
see her her efforts to invite immipratiOn
and capital are likely to be useless. Gun
less the Lord watch the city the watch
man waketh in vain" SAID the Psalmist.
Unless the South is more regardful of
the rights of every one within her Dor
ders her convention of governors will
have got together on a FOOLS Grand
Sunday Budget.