The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-06-11

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North Carolina, the Pennsylvania
Dutch, who followed the limestone
with its rich soils from Pennsylva-
MIA down thro Oh Virginia. Tennes-
see and North Carolina, were each as
marked people with as marked
characteristics as those who are
sometimes callel the Cavaliers who
settled the tide-watel regions of
Virginia, or the Purit2ns who civil
lied New England, and those char.
acteristics survive to this dav. Yet
the characteristics which diStin-
tinguished these people, closely re
lated as they were, were minute; ;
hence the people OF the South grew
more alike as time went on; and it
is not too nue. to say that they
were the mo>t homogeneoy. people
of any part Of the country
The political develop >Iiom
the Revolutionary war to 80 can
only be explained with d full under
standing of the influence of slavery.
From the discovery of the cotton gin,
which made slave labor SO valuable,
in 1850, it became necessary to put
every possible barrier to protect the
institution of slavery from extinc.
ton. Its labor being worthless in
the Northern States, it was easily
perceived that the conflict would
arise and that antagonistic legisla-
ton could be prevented by only such
defensive measures as would give to
the Southern States power in the
national congress sufficient to pre-
vent unfriendly legislation. This
long contest soIidi6ed the South,
gave it IL succession of trained lead
ers, made 1t intense in its advocacy
its principles, caused it to study deep
ly and closely constitutions, political
and economical questions and gave
it that compactness which gradually
formed it into one body and caused
it to be named the South. But while
this was true there were three dis.
tlnct Souths contained within the
boundary of those States, all of
which are now being rapidly devel-
oped since the institution of slavery
has been destroyed. These are {:
The farming South, the planting
South and the mountainous South.
The destruction of slavery put an
end to the Investment of Southern
profit in slaves.
Some other vocations than agricul.
ture had to be found for the active,
vigorous and energetic. Twenty years
were needed to place the South in =
condition somewhat like that in which
it was when the war broke out. The
rava9es, injuries and destruction
caused by the war and the years
which followed were so enormous
that they have not yet been entirely
repaired.
Mississippi, in 1860, was the third
wealthiest State in the Union it will
be many years before she will be en-
abled to resume that place.
This changed condition has pro-
duced It's natural results. The great
Appalachian range, with the bosom
of its mountains covered with timber
and inexhaustible minerals buried in
the soil, with quite number of large
streams and an equable and pleasant
climate, has been the fruitful field of
new developments.
That intelligence, energy and capt.
tai which formerly opened new plan
tations in the Mississippi valley and
other Southern States, have lately
been in the main devoted to opening
new mines, constructing new fur
naces or building factories, either
within this range or close to its foot
hills.
This development has gone on an lis
going on to an extent which is scarce