Show TilE NEW iOUrH Slavery was ruinous to the South The I wealthier classes of the people were maintained I main-tained in absolute idleness while the poorer classes being thrown competition with despised slaves were without the respect of either themselves the slave owners or the slaves Slavery was brutalizing it begot be-got conditions under which real progress was impossible or at best slow The sentiment of the South particularly of that part of the population which has matured since the close of the civil war is that of thankfulness slavery has been abolished Abolition it is true left them with some unpleasant complications It was disagreeable to say the least often times injurious that negroes without an apprenticeship of preparation should have had the franchise placed in their hands but despite the disadvantages resulting from this and kindred causes the South at the close of a war fought exclusively on southern ground paralyzed in every commercial commer-cial and material sense buried in the depths of poverty started in a course of prosperity which bids fair to place it on an even plane of competition wits the North The southern states are fast beginning begin-ning to develop the resDurc3s which hitherto they hate net had tho inclination to explore Alabama is evan now recog nised as a rival of Pennsylvania in the coal and iron industries Georgia itself an empire is rapidly going to the front as one of the chief manufacturing states of the union Cotton mills arc being everywhere established es-tablished railroad rnileagoxis increasing at a wonderful rate so that today the hum of the wheels of industry is heard where formerly the silence was broken only by the drono of the cotton picker Already tilt first sounds of approaching commercial strife are heard and pr monitions ions of coming political changes aw felt j The northern Atlantic states are beginning to cry out with almost one voice give us raw material free of duty that we may have food for our mills not now furnished to us by the South or which the south produces pro-duces at the doors of its own mills The South not having been a manufacturer has until recently desired free trade but now shows signs ot deserting de-serting tho political axioms of its fathers and of throwing its influence in favor of the tariff A great change since the aullifi cation act of 1S32 I In the rearrangement of political lines apt to be soon accomplished it need not bo surprising to sec the states of the Atlantic seaboard and along the gulf the manufacturing manufac-turing states veiling together in harmony har-mony actuated bv the same political motives fighting hand la hand against the then Democratic free trade states of lili nois Ohio Iowa and the rest of those greai commonwealths of the north the west and the southwest where agriculture reigns suprTie The Websters and the Haynes of tha future instead of locking horns in wordy combats will join in attacking young giants from the west The south may congratulate itself on the chang from old times to new The south may cease to be solid politically but it is on the high road to become solid commercially com-mercially |