Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-01-16
A PROMINENT NEW ENGLANDER
CALLED SOUTH TO ASSIST IN
TIE WORK OF Building UP
THAT SECTION.

For several years it has been known
that the Southern section of the Union
was being rapidly pushed to the front,
but few people of the North really
know how much enterprise, pluck
and determination those people have.
Before the civil war between the states
their surroundings and customs we're
different to ours. They were as much
different people as though they liv-
ed in foreign country. They wer
surrounded by slaves who did all the
work and it was not necessary for
them to exert themselves. The young
men grew up as large land owners
with hundreds of slaves. Each hadsas
it were little kingdom of his own
over which heprevaile6- They thought
of nothing but cotton and RICE culture.
They made cotton to be shipped to
the northern market to be made into
cloth and shipped back to the south
and elsewhere. They were farmers,
we up here the manufacturers. But
the freeing of the negroes changed
things. every man was dependent
upon his own exertions. They were
left without money and without means
and for thirty odd years it was hard
struggle for those people with Moth
ing but the soil as their capital but
this hard life has shown that the
southern people are made out of the
same material, with the same energy
of the northern men and all they need
ed to develop into first class business
men was the opportunity.
The climate is not as mary suppose,
the cause why the white people did
not work. The fact is they did not
have to work while they had slaves
and even now it is SO easy for any
one to make money down there that
they do not have to work as hard as
we do up here.
The southern people are not slow
to catch on. They are not opposed
to Yankee ways as some say, and this
is proven by the fact that they are
getting northern men and women to
| go down and teach them how to do
things in the northern way and this
shows they are up to the times and
ready to learn all they can.
Among the foremost people in the
work of development are those along
the great Seaboard Air Line Railway
which traverses what is known as
the Piedmont section from Ports
mouth and Norfolk, Va, through
Virginia and the two Carolinas into
the heart of Atlanta, Georgia. To
guide people in the work of develop
ment, the Seaboard Air Line has at
considerable expense secured the ser
vices of former citizen of New Eng
land, a real, live, hustling Yankee, Mr..
E. st. John, native of Connecticut
who went west when a young man
and built up a reputation as a rail-
road manager end developer, far
above any other persons that had
anything to do with the development
of the great western states. The
fact that these people are securing
the services of such a man is positive
evidence that they are not behind in
the march of progress. Mr.. ST. John
is located at Portsmouth, Va, and
has been put at the head of the Sea-
board Air Line and he is inducing
many people from the north TO go
down south. He has opened Offices
in Boston at 306 Washington Street,
in New York at 81 Broadway, in
Philadelphia at 80 South Third Street,
in Baltimore at 2O7 E. German Street,
in Washington at 1434 New York Ave-,
and at each of these places north,
men are employed to give imforma-
ton to those who desire to go south;
and during the last twelve months,
more than four thousand persons
have settled along the Seaboard Air
Line, and those who think the south
ern people are slow are badly mistak-
en-. The Seaboard Air Line is owned
by southern men and they are show
ing by their acts, that they are going to
have the territory developed in the
most substantial way, and they are
employing competent northern peo-
pie to help them.
Bright and newsy, as it always is,
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