The herald., 1895-11-17

Such chivalry should live and grow and
be recognized Is beneficent in all coun-
tries, and it is pleasing to know it as a
factor in our American republic-both
north and southland without invidious
distinction or arrogating too much, may
l not say 1t is claimed, and Justly
claimed, for the ''old south" with its
cavalier and Hugusnot lineage, such
higher order OF c9iyalry as to make it
that II is 30 recognized by the civilized
world.
THE sOUTH's RESOURCES.
Providence has lavished bounties on
the south-given to it tho Iuxurisnce of
the tropics without its disadva tages,
and the salubrity of the north without its
draw backs. The south of today holds in
trust the elements of the wealth of ma
tons to greater extent thar any part of
the hHbitable globe. In its soil and cli-
mate are the lever that propels the steam
ship through the waves and turns wheels
that keep in mo,iua looms and spindles
that give employment to millions of
hands and supplies raiment to half the
civilized world. Her annual crop of one
staple e-cotton-yields $250000 900
annually-without which there would be
no balance OF trade--no balance ic COM
mercial accounts in our favor in custom
house or treasury.
THE NEW SOUTH.
The rapid develop ment of mechanical
and man ufactural interests in the south
10 seen in the smoKestacks reared by the
banks of rivers-at the base of he: mount
aims, by the borders of her forests, in
her slopine hillsides where the grape
grows purple, in her valleys where mel
los f,,,ss k,,r. %. Al
and by her unopened mines fuller of
treasures than the subterra mean gardens
Of Aladdin. They have sprung, Phoenix.
| like, from the ashes of desolation scat
tered along the charred and blackened
track OF war. All this betokens in the
near future q stronger, richer and moro
powerful south than the old. Verify. il
seems that the great necromancer, Time,
| makes all things even.
The difficulty, Mr.. Chairman and fell
| low. citizens, has been for the north and
south to understand each other. That &C
complished. troubles end and sectional
ism stands mute. As the light is turned
on the truth is revealed, and we become
moro considerate of each other. A peril
nent illustration of this is in the delicate
| matter OF the treatment OF prisoners by
| the respective parties when war was
hagrant. Andersonville had its counter
part in Johnson's Island-and Libbey in
Fort Delaware. While these may be said
each had history that is much mis-.
understood. Immediately upon the close
| OF the war, vicious literature masuuer-
aiding as history. flooded the country-in-
fuenced the passions and warped public
| judgment.
without means OF publishing their side Of
these matters. Hence, error and SANDER
went forth through the press without rx-
PLANTATION or contradiction, and the one
sided statements were taken as truth, and
easily found lodgment in the popular
mind. Since. however, tue correspond
| ence between the two belligerent powers
has been published officially by order of
| the government. that popular judgment
has undergone great change-forced
into honest minds by reaiing both fed
eral and confederate official records.
| spondence, or the ca tells resulting there
from, l beg in this connection to read a
short paragraph of the report of the then
secretary Of war, Stanton, who, if not the
highest authority in these matters for
| federal. there is none.
| AS to comparative deaths in prison of
federal and confederate soldiers. Secretary
Stanton. In his report, dated July Is,
1866. said: "Confsdeartes in northern
prisons, 2-0,0)0 Union soldiers in south
ern prisons. 10000; excess Of Union pris-
| oners, 81. O0O; deaths in northern prisuns,
26, 1876; deaths in southern prisons. %, =
1856"
This report of Secretary Stanton was
corrobnrated the next June by the report
OF Surgeon Barnes, and when re-
| duced down to pure mathematics means
| that II per cent of all confederate pris.
oners died in northern prisons, while less
| thai 8 per cent of Union soldiers died in
southern prisons. If these facts are true
and they are all matter of record, does
not this show the falsity OF the south s
maltreatment of prisoners in her hands2
GROWTH OF WEALTH.
The South has increased the aggregate
national wealth in proportion to our
have developed coal until the swiftest
| steamers that pillow the ocean look to our
| southern mines for the energy upon
which their speed depends. Our iron
| RIVALS any in the market, our various
minerals add tribute t. the worlds wealth
| equ Il in every respect to that of the
north.
| in all wide-awake business circles, as
| in current history, it is conceded that
the greatest opporturitie now inviting
enterprise are in the south.
Progress and prosperity smile again on
the old south, whose energy and enter
prise have given generous profits to
northern capital, which found invest
ment among her people.
| 1t mas been truly said that "when GER
tain rrejud ces have become part of our
| mental furniture, when our primary data
and our methods of reasoning imply lot
of local narrow assumptions, the task of
| getting outside of them is almost the
task of getting outside of our own SKINS"
Unfortunately tnat was the condition
| Of public sentiment OF the north for many
| years as to the southern states, and
! neither was the south free from similar
| prejudices. History (socalled). poetry,
| romance and art have fashioned and fos.
| tered the prejudices arising out of war
| into a public opinion wbicn saw too little
virtue, patriotism and justice in all the
| southern states. Our annals, our opin-
| ions. our acts, our sent inents. have been
| misrepresented and falsItied until BY per-
| verse restoration honast and fair M inGed
| men, capable OF honest jud gment and So
| licitous OF correct upini on, had come to
! look upon the south through glass dark
| ly and withhold from her that credit to
/ which shs is entitled and which she has
bravely won.
| But, Mr.. Chairman. events have hap
| pened which contradict every aspers on.
| We Of the south have prospersd since our
! civil war terminated beyond the magma
| tons of poets; our wasted lands bloom
! again with the fruits and flowers of our
! industry and enterprise. Among the To-
| cal troubles of the last few years the
south has had in her borders peace ana
| order and wealth AMI prosperity found
| neither enemv nor anarchy.