Year: 1869

dustry and educatlou which s''o $500


needs, and forestalling prosperity, there


comes to us from South Carolina voice OF


wisdom and of counsel, which shows that


reason has not forsakcn entirely the MINDS


of some of our leading men, and that pru'
dence and forecast begin to rule.


Col. w. L. Trenholm, President OF the
4 Charleston Board of Trade, on retiring from


his position, made most significant and in


teresting speech, in which he rcvicwedsthe


past of the South, showing, that by change


alone could we have been saved from


decay; by change alone could we have been


brought to tine threshold of the destiny now


opening before us !" and that it is a source
of congratulation that we have escaped


decay. and that We even in our own time,
are able to see that our past has not been


in vain"


Col. T. holds that slavery has effected a
healthy conservatism at the South, but now
that it is removed there is no reasonable, in
scparable barrier, to the harmonizing of the
national character. "Before the war we
stood too widely opposed in all the relations
of life for all our various qualities to com
bine, but now the quick intellect and the
fertile invention of the East, the large aims
and broad culture OF the North, the restless
: pirit and boundless ambition of the West,


the conservatives tenacty and intrepid
courage of the South, will all become inter
woven, and form one substantial and well
defined American national character


With regard to the future individual in
forests of the South apprehension is express
ed. = BE says, however, "apart from reason
and intellect, many of us are held back by
a sentiment which all must respect, but to
which none ought to yield our destiny is
not our own to make or mar as we like,
but we must conform to the requirements
of our times and move to the cadence of the
great march of the world" "The institu-
tions, the laws the manners of the past, have
subseryed their purpose and fulfilled their
destiny. God inspired them, God has
changed them. What is man that he
should contend with the Almighty p"


The present task of the South is declared
to be- "to explore our new circumstances,
to discover their resources, and to appro-
pirate the benefits"


To this task we must hiring courage and
patience, minds uniettered by prejudice. and
eyes undazzled 10y authority; we must be
intrepid enough to give offence to igno-
rance, we must forget to defer to servlity,
we must learn to respect energy and make
use of our youth. Let the young men and
the brave lead our van; let the true and
/ the wise direct our counsels let the infirm
and the timid follow in safety in the rear
Thus and thus only can we advance, thus
and thus only can we achieve. a,


Want of space forbids extended extracts
from this remarkable speech. The follow
ing paragraphs however, must not be over
looked. aga3 fl ala1 siaiF


The speaker has been noting the obstacles
to immigration which have heretofore ex-
listed and says: u F sas1


"With the extinction of slavery the South
presents to immigrants an entirely different
aspect. Our native population, no longer
migratory is already beginning to find the
country too large, and to conjecture how
immigration can be reconcifed with conser-
yatism. Our foreign-born citizens, few in
number, but intelligent and prosperous, are
earnestly and actively engaged in inviting
their countrymen to try their fortunes here,
while the attitude towards immigration as
sumed by our newly enfranchised classes re-
fleets infinite credit alike upon their good
sense and their patriotism, and entities them
to participants, throughout the future, in the
benefits of broad and liberal public policy.


Let us everywhere in the South yield to
this impulse of the times. The great popu
lar mind has fastened upon immigration as
the foremost measure of the day. and its ul-
innate triumph admits of no question; hut
in many a private circle, in many an ancient
coterie, doubts and apprehensions are still
entertained. Many an empty privilege
many a useless custom-the numbering rub
bish which collects in old communities
may be borne away upon this vigorous flood.
Some venerable and worthy relics, too, may
be lost: but it is better to lose the relics
of antiquity than to make no bequests to
posterty. The past did its duty and is
dead; but we live upon its works. Let us
likewise do our duty that our children may
in turn live upon ours. **


"Fling wide your doors to immigration
and compel them to come in-not barbarians
to be beasts of burden, but intelligent. thrift
ty, liberty-loving men. and healthy, indus
| trious and virtuous women. Welcome all
alike, whether they he laborers or capitalists,
artizans or merchants. Establish Just laws
and watch jealously over their impartial ad
| ministration see that labor is assured of
its earnings; that property is made sacred;
| that wealth is effectually guarded against
public and private assault. Let the inviola-
bility of the person and the sancitity of hu-
man life receive the most impressive sane
| ton of our courts let the public peace be
| maintained with the truncheon of the police
man, and not the bayonet of the soldier
let the public expenditures be directed to
the ends of good government and not to
| the nourishment of party.


'Iong before these things are all accom-
| plished, before even we shall all be of the
| same mind as to their merit, the tide of i'm
migration will be upon US. Our soil is too
| accessible and too fertile, and our climate
| too pleasant and healthful TO be passed by
for the distant and inhospitabe regions,
| which alone now offer public lands to the
immigrant.


! agriculture in the South presents now
greater inducements to the farmer than to
the planter Science and mechanical inven-
| tion are more effective than muscular force.