The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-10-11
ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA
Continued From First Page).

| all IL for each. We are ready Tor II l"ii
and equal division OF the gravest duues
and the highest privileges, including our
part Of all civil, military and naval adj
vantages. together with fair share oil
national Offices. from postmaster 10 Pres
! ident. We have come back, as senator
| Hill sad, TO our fathers house. ana 4
may be allowed 10 add, we are READY 10
break merrily into the fatted ring ana
kill the golden calf
Contributions 10 INDUSTRIAL GRtATNisS'
have rseryed FOR conclusion re-
| strlcted glance at the Industrial history
| OF the South. ana its present brghtehhs
promise OF future additions 10 all those
things which win increase our country
greatness. TrIe as this section has been
TO the original ideas OF the forefatners'
! its record does not consist alone OF mere
! chivalrc sentiment. Its footprints are
well marked in the pathway of the
worlds progress. 9nd it as willingly un-
folds its oil career as It's present re-
sourceful prospects to the scrutiny OF inc
age. In the infancy OF the Union, aftcr
a hundred years of competition, IL stoou
/ foremost in industrial and commercial
! power and then saw without envy the
/ material wealth Of the wide and Tlch
territory 1t had donated to the general
! estate turning away from its own ports,
merce surpassed by New York. The
| Northern section grew rapidly because
| the Northeast became the merchant, the
! banker, the transportation agent, ana AT
| length. the msnufacturer OF the country,
| by which adjustment OF business reIa-
tons It turned its money over every day
! and prOfitcd b. every turn Of the incoin-
| ing and outgoing trade. while the South
| made one annual deal. immigration iorc-
/ oil
| Inducements upon the territory OF the
| West. and the immigrants became Gus
| toners of the East. The sale OF rs slaves
brought no small amount Of ready money
! 70 those who barganed them to the
! South, and early emancipation OF us ne
| groes freed the North from bonds when
| tho South was Obliged longer TO wear.
| Great governmental aids followed each
| other thick and fast In the form OF bouh-
| tics tariffs. contracts and the ike, N
| the disbursement % which the large per
| centage went away from the Souths
! Grants TO build railroads with public
lands which Southern SESSIONS and policy
! had secured to the national wealth eA-
| ceodcd the area Of European empires
and Of which the South received not one
! fifth of its share. The Southern people
! make no unfair complaint a. the energy
! with which these and othcr unnamed ad-
vautaces were seized. but they 90 re-
| buke all unjust sncers which stsmal re
them as an unprogressivc race ana Ut"
! whole South makes powerful lroleSt
against this injustice by the evidence o.
| its old thrift I'm maintaining prosperous
| existence In the Union for nearly cen
/ turv by the use Of only one-tenth OF ~
resources. and the still more significant
djsplav OF its rapid rise in recent years
from utter prostration through the mas
terfuI shirt of it's own people. me trans
/ formation OF tho Southern wilds lnto
fruitful fields. from when nave gone
northwam in siXty-hve years TWO nun
dred and fifty millions cotton bales worm
forty dollars per bale, besides cereals,
and fruits. tobacco, lumber ana othei
| nroducfs OF fourfold greater value
| should be accredited to the enterprise OF
| the diligent Southerner II Is strange
| tina. a neople who hibernate nearly nan
| the wear in enforced idleness, while the
vorl<ingman of the genial South Is our
with the morning lark and pursues MS
oolline, through the months Of winter as
! well as summer can think OF such "a Woii--
er as INDECENT. When we survey the deep
repose of many Eastern towns whlch
! slrr,her in unprocressive II not 'innocu-
| ous dcseutude." We nationally inquire why
| Southern cities are so specially chaldc
| terized as sleepy bOrOughs? We VIII
| not forget that the first railroad was puH'
In Carolina the first steamship that cross
! ed the ocean weighed anchor from
| Southern port and the cotton gin OH
! pinatcd in the cotton belt. The Old South
! was in truth a vast hive OF small indus
| tries II was dotted with domestic fac
| tories tanned its own leather made It's
| shoes I'm every county and It's hats IN
every section; woye its cloth i'm domestic
in fl nxXr
milled its corn and wheat and lived al
home in peace, plenty and hospitality
will take the ten years between 1879
| and 1850 i'm Illustration Of the energies OF
the old South to show its enterprise, ana
To remove the error that Il had the cotton
| monomania and was not keeping pace
with the nascent industrial spirit OF the
times.
with only one-third the population Of
the Union during that decade. the SCUM
raised ono-third the corn Of the country,
oue-fourth the wheat three-iourihs OF
the tobacco. nearly all the rice and sugar
one-third of the live stock. made large
sales of lumber and naval stores. bcs des
| PRODUCING in unasccrtaincd quantities,
| that remarkable variety of cereals, lruits'
and vegetables for which ID was now
moro than ever famous. Nor was II then
[ a laggard in manufacturing ana Ger
individual enterprise, as VIII appear 'H
! its gain during that one decade OF one
| hundred per cent. in grain mills, exceed
| inc the percentage Of the entire country
| IT'S increase by two hundred per cent
i'm machinery and engine construction. its
| great growth ia cotton mills and In hun
! dreds OF minor Industries which occupied
its people In those ten years II doubled
its lumber trade doubled the output from
| ron fouuderies and nearly quadruped JUS
railroad mileage The South Increased its
railroad miles in that decade above the
percentage increase of all other sectors
of ;hc United States combined. II nae
I'm 1860 a mile Of rail 10 every seven hun
drcd of it's white population, while the
other States all united had one mile TO
every one thousand people An eNposi-
tion of the Industrial status in $3.50 would
have shown the world that the Dixie OF
that day was not merely the land OF
cotton. cinnamon seed and sandy bot
tom" but in the range ana value OF IT'S
nroducts from the SOL and In the diver
sitv and elevation OF It's industries OF
cvcry kind IL was measuring up 10 the
stature OF the most progressive nations.
The recovery of the South from its
! stunned condition I'm 1865. after the war
which exhausted its resources, chal-
lenges the generous admiration OF man
kind. The returning soldiers OF the
Confederate army made heroic efforts TO
recuperate their country, and al
though these brave eliueaNoIS
we're repressed awhile by the
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