Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-08-05
THE LONE STAR STATE


York and Pennsylvania see growing
to the South of them an empire which
they profess to fear, and which posi-
bly, theyshave reason to fear CONNER
cially; though we can hardly conceive
of there being any reason to fear it for
other cause. 1t is strange, however,
that the North and East are SO jealous
of Southern grown. They dread it far
more than they do the growth of Can
ada, and they try to console themselves
by thoughts of a quieting nature. The
Washington Post has put some salve
on their sores'in the following way:
ssThe South has rich lands that are
cheap in the market, climate unsur-
passed for salubrity, diversity of
crops unknown to the North even, q
water power that the world can scarce
ly match, and mineral resources SIM
ply limitless. All that is needed is
capital; population, physical energy,
and business sagacity to make of that
secti on all that the North is.
ssThese will all come when half
million Northerners shall yearly cross
Mason and Dlxon's line and take up
their abode in the South. No force
bill, no appeal to the fourteenth
am endment, will stop it. North and
South are agreed that the sectional
question is dead and hopeless of resur-
rection."
The only thing that rifles the South
ern man is the superiority which the
above utterance carries-the superiori-
ty of abilltylto workout the problem of
Southern advancement, being given to,
and dwelling in the men of the North.
Nh. Roosevelt, whose success is phe-
nominal, had Southern mother. Mr..
Bryan's people went from Virginia
West. Senator Dolliver. who has made
more reputation than most any man in
Congress during recent sessions, is
from West Virginia. New York city
and many other Northern cities are full
of Southern men who are in the front
rank in all that goes tolmake those
cities great. Samuel Spencer was
power in the Vanderbilt and Morgan
house. Louis E. Nixon is Southern
er, and possibly the greatest lawyer in
New York, Samuel Untenmeyer
went from Lynchburg. 1t gives us,
therefore. feeling of great excavation
and makes us very weary when we
hear, "all that is needed is capital,
population, physical energy, and bust
ness sagacity," to make the South
great. Then to be told, sThese will
come when half . million Northerners
shall cross Mason and Dixon 8 line and
take up their abode in the South"
As q matter of fact the South has
had some very good men come into
her midst from the North, but she has
sent many as good, if not better North.
The crossing of Mason and Dixon's line
by ''half million" or more Northern
ers every year from 1851 to 1865 put
blight upon her institutions and pros
perity no people but those who have
always made the South great, could
have recovered from in q century. The
South welcomes good, honest North
ern men with capital, but she desires
to tell the Post and all others, that she
is in no sense beholden to the North
for any material part of her greatness,
and will never be. Her cotton alone
brings back to this country $500, OCO, 600
and but for her cotton this country
would today be bankrupt. Texas owes
little of her prosperity to any ''North-
ern horde" She grows in greatness
because she SO manages her affairs
that people out of choice seek her con-
fines.