Year: 1868

coal in the greatest abundance and Of a
good quality too. The resources of that
Southern country in minerals were
greater than in any country they could
mention. G


The South was divided into two
classes-the planter and the slave--no
middle class-no such class where there
was slavery-it must be king and serf-
must be MOBILES and slaves. The planters
lived in their mansions in great stylet
They lived like lords and country squires.
They were the most hospitable people
from all he could hear that ever lived.
Taken as a whole they were a high
minded, high-spirited, high-soulsd race.


The planters were stripped of their
wealth, aud ladies Of distinguished
birth, of frst-cless education, who had
never soiled their fingers, who had been
waited upon from birth, and every word
attended TO and every wish gratified,
were suddenly thrown by that war into
the most helpless poverty and they had
to cultivate gardens In order to grow veg
etabIes to keep themselves alive. Per-
sons who were worth % 900 to 30, COO
dollars q year were left without the
wherewith to buy meal of food, unless
they set to work to cultivate their gar


dens. Many young men after the war,
who had been educated In our public
schools, had gone to handle the plough
and set hard to work, and If they stuck
to hard work they would soon restore
the wasted means Of the South, for with
the work would come pleasure, with the
pleasure would come profit, with the
prcfis would come self-respect, and with
the eelf-respsct would come manhood,
and they would rise, for It was only as
manhood rose that q nation rose.
GCheers. And IL we could by our SYM
pathy help and cheer them on they would
join US in carrying forward the glorious
tide of human progress and human CIV
ilization and Christian influence, until
England and America combined would
purge the world.


People said the slaves would not work.
Toey could not be surprised at that. 1t


was like letting schoolboy out for a
holiday after being kept in for long Pc
riod. A schoolboy would not work when
he had got q holiday. And the slaves
had got their holiday, and they would
90 marching up and down declaring that
they would work DO more. They were
free and they could not understand it.
No wonder they got it into their heads
that they would work no more. The
wonder was that they got anything into
their heads. Now they began TO find
that they must work, and he never saw
laborers work better In his life than he
saw them work in the plantations on the
Mississippi. The testimony now OF all
right minded men was that the blacks
are working uncom monty well. When
a man ate the bread of industry it was
not the color OF his skin that told him ii
YVES sweet. There were people who had
not got black skins who were not fond of
work. There we're white people who if
you would keep then would not work
at all. TLaughter The colored man


would work If he vas paid. And if he
was bamboozlec and cheated he wouldn't
work and would they? [Laughter.]


Would they believe him? There had
never been more thsn two millions of
laborers in the Southern States. He
had searched the records from the Mis-
sissippi river to Washington. He had
spent hours and hours in the middle of
the night searching for facts, and there
never had been two millions of paid Ia
borers in the thirteen States-in a c0un-
try thirteen times the size of England.
They would think that two millions of
iaborers would do very little. What was
the result? These thirteen States had
exported, dollar for dollar, more in
amount than the Northern States with
their teemiDg millions, more than Rus
sia, more than Prussia, taere than Aus
tria, more than Germany, tuOre than
France, and, leaving out the manufao-
lures of this country, more than Eng
land These two millions of laborers
had exported more dollars worth than
any country on the face OF the globe,
and they might include manufactures OF
any other country except England. In
fact they might put two or three of those
countries together, sad then the South
would beat them. Whist did this prove?
That with this small number OF laberers,
labor was wanted and was well paid.
There was O wonderful field in which
humanity might go to. enjoy its own in
dustry. The South was glorious land
full Of plenty.


If he were to speak to them OF its riv-
ers, look at that glorious Mississippi roll
ing along for 5000 miles, averaging more
than q mile in width. II we had ca
nal 5000 miles long in England the eoun-
try would have to be cut like gridiroD.
Il had been said by one OF the finest
men who ever lived-Hichard Golden
/ loud cheers that the valley OF the
Mississippi would gov corn enough to
feed the civilized Wild. Let them try
to drink that in. II they could it would
expand them; and IL they couldn't 1t
would crack them. A laugh.) And


then let them think OF the valleys of the
Shenandoah, the Hudson, the Kappa
| hannock.


After the war many slaves were de-
/ votedly attached to their masters. He


had often spoken to one "pncle BILL
and tried to draw him out on the subject.


"WeIl, Uncle Bill" he had said, is net
this glorious change ?" But he could


not get Bill to say anything. He pressed


him very hard; Like master very
well,n said Bill, "always very kind to
I word beyond that. one day ne pressed
him rather hard, and he said, " You
know, sir, we have TO buy our own
clothes now" daughter


The probable future of the South ?


What a Landscape What panorama
| How 1t stretched out over hundreds and
thousands and millions of acres of land,
| to be covered with teemiBg population.


When he thought of the glorious views
he had had there, and then thought that
I that vast country was to be peopled by
large populations, by busy pushing hives
OF men, he remembered that this beauti-
full rich soil was to be cultivated, he felt
that language was weak and Insignia
cant. He saw there country capable
of taking within its arms almost the en-
tire human race what future was that
country to have? ? Was there any man
| who could presume to guess? The imag-
ination fails, and the mightiest wing OF
thought tires and becomes weary, and


we are glad to get away from the theme.
1t would be garden laden with the
| richest of human needs, q county full to
the oveT1owing with ali the require
! ments of human necessities. 1t was TO


be country gloriously great and glori-
ously free, and how few yesrs it would
require to effect tie ehsnge!


He should like to see colonies of so to
| 100 families 90 out there and settle in
those splendid lands, not go out solitary,


like marked crow, but in colonies.
! And it wss no use to send men who
! were not adspted. He saw many peo-
pie go to the States who had much bet
/ ter stay pt home, He knew Of young


men trained behind the counter, very
honorable calling-he IS trained there


himself-go out to farming. Now farm
ing was a pretty tight job for any OF
| them, and the English farmer wanted q
/ great deal more knowledge before be
could battle with the elements as well