The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-29
BURIAL OF THE BLOODY SHIRT.
The Founding of the Old Soldiers
Colony Full of Significance.

Abbeville Ga. Nov. ga reporter of
the New York Sun recently stationed him
self at the crossing of two main trav-
eled roads in Nebraska and interviewed
ten of the scores of emigrants who were
leaving that state. The tale they told
of suffering from blizzards, drought, de-
spelling winds and cruel winters was pit
liable in the extreme. One ceases to Won
der that they are deserving such cOun-
try, but he does wonder that they do not
all flock to this beautiful southland where
the winter scarce chills and the sea breeze
fans the cheek of summer.
When one seeks a reason for the great
rush to the west in the last few decades
he soon finds one in the active alert and
aggressive policy of the railroads who have
offered every inducement for the immi-
grant to settle along their line. They have
sent their agents to remote corners of the
old world to bring in people. Millions of
money have been spent in advertising ;
beautifully tinted pamphlets and booklets
have been written by the ablest of pens
painting in the most glowing colors the
great attractions of the west All this
has had its legitimate result and where
only few short years ago was the un-
broken prairie, are now cities, which are
the marvels of the world.
Another thing which has prevented many
of our northern and western friends from
settling in the south has been the fear
of social isolation-that they would not
be cordially received here. Politicians
for their own selfish ends have Haunted
the bloody shirt ad nauseam. But all
this is being rapidly dispelled. A few
VenturesOme spirits crossed the line and
were welcomed with open arms and
open hearts. Enthusiastically they
wrote back TO their friends; others came
ana more followed, until now the stream
is swelling to a mighty tide.
Perhaps the greatest advertising
agency in the south to-day is the new city
of Fitzgerald in Irwin county. The
uniqueness of this colony movement i'm
mediately arrests attention. Founded
by the Boys in Blue in the land of the
~ nff 10 asFu Ill.,
monument that the war is indeed ended
that old animosities are in the deep
bosom of the ocean buried, and that
yankee pluck now combines with south
ern courage to build up such a country
as our continent has never known. And
what a golden thread of romance runs
Jefferson Davis was captured now forms
part of the colony possessions. This
marked the closing scene of one of the
its active participants some of the
rarest genuises of modern times.
a Gysn m thg streets tbs of the new
feeling and brotherly love. Those north
of Main street are named for federal off,
ers, Grant, Sherman. Sheridan. Thomas,
the name of 1.-THE cheese-box set on a
raft" the Monitor. The streets south
of Main are. named for southern SOL
Gordon, Bragg and HILL ending with
that plucky little cuss,' the Merrimac
The city allotments have all been made
Twenty-Five hundred people of brains,
grit, push and go and many of wealth.
are on the ground, clearing land gradine
streets, building houses and bringing wild
nature into beauty and bloom. Thousands
more are coming on and it is estimated
that 10000 people will be here before
March l.
Twill the colony succeed?' is sometimes
asked by timid few.
"Succeed?'' Why, certainly it will sue
coed. When we think of the pioneers or
the west, clearing the forests and build
ing homes a hundred miles from a rail-
road with every condition against them.
except the one only of a fertile soil and
in a few short decades to make a coun-
try which is the admiration of the world.
what should hinder such men from being
successful here, where every condition and
all surroundings are in their favor? The
whole policy of the south, now so sui
cidal, will be completely changed The
great stream of money which is constant
~ pouring out will be kept at home Our
grain and meat will no more be boughr
in the west. California fruits will cease
to adorn our shop windows. Boston will
send to Georgia for cotton goods, the fur
niture man will buy from US the manu-
featured article, instead of the raw ma
terial. We have all the natural resources
and all we ask is people to come in and
help us develop them The Grand Army
of the Republic colony is a big starter.