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1789 AD (search for this): chapter 1.37
m it such results are invincible and that we have no need to fear for the future, no need to fix any limits to our expectations of wealth and greatness. During the first five and seventy years of our national life, or, say from the Declaration of Independence by the thirteen original States until 1850, the South was dominant. In the executive chair at Washington, on the bench and in the halls of legislature, Southern men were foremost. Of the first twelve presidents of the Republic, from 1789 until 1850, seven were the sons of one Southern State—the Old Dominion—Virginia, the mother of presidents. A majority of the chief justices of the United States Supreme Court during these years were Southern men; and more than half of the speakers of the House of Representatives for the same period came from the South. Surely, it takes no oracle to foresee that the time is now hastening on when the South, seated on the throne of greatness, shall again hold the sceptre of power in our fore
1850 AD (search for this): chapter 1.37
outhern States during these last six years have exceeded in value the total product of all the gold mines of the world from the discovery of America up to the year 1850. Each cotton crop since 1900 has exceeded in value the greatest cotton crop raised prior to that year. The South is now an empire to which we may say that prac and greatness. During the first five and seventy years of our national life, or, say from the Declaration of Independence by the thirteen original States until 1850, the South was dominant. In the executive chair at Washington, on the bench and in the halls of legislature, Southern men were foremost. Of the first twelve presidents of the Republic, from 1789 until 1850, seven were the sons of one Southern State—the Old Dominion—Virginia, the mother of presidents. A majority of the chief justices of the United States Supreme Court during these years were Southern men; and more than half of the speakers of the House of Representatives for the same peri
1860 AD (search for this): chapter 1.37
st ardent friend of the South, the most optimistic believer in its possibilities, would scarcely have dared predict the results in material development which we accomplished. Four years of bloody, wasting and destructive war had been followed by nearly ten years of plundering, wilder and grosser and more reckless than any conquered people ever suffered, of blundering, blind, fanatical experiments in government of which the people of the South, of both races, were the helpless victims. In 1860 the cotton-growing, slave-owning States contained 1,065,000 men of producing age; 900,000 of these fought against the Union armies, whose enlisted men numbered 2,800,000. Of the Confederate soldiers 300,000, one-third were killed, died or disappeared under the ominous report of missing at the roll calls after the battles. The bulk of the South's property, her individual bases of credit, was destroyed by proclamation at one stroke of Mr. Lincoln's pen. Untold millions of her long accumulated
1865 AD (search for this): chapter 1.37
has marched straight over stone strewn roads and towering obstacles from Appomattox to Empire. During weeks of early springtime weather in that fateful year of 1865, the roads were crowded with men wearily trodding to distant homes-men who were ragged and ill-fed, war-worn and weatherbeaten, the valiant units of peerless armieore abundantly than ever before, and in idle and forsaken ground made the site of industry and the places of productions. Before the wild roses of the summer of 1865 had begun to spread their blossoms above the fields where the bloody banners of battle waved in the spring, Lee's people were at work. The feet that had tramped, nd in many sections the meal bins had been scraped and the corn cribs emptied to feed the troops at the front or the families of the soldiers at home. Yet even in 1865-6, we produced 2,661,000 bales of cotton and by 1871, in the very midst of the calamitous process of reconstruction, we gave the world more than four million bales
1866 AD (search for this): chapter 1.37
ramped while the boys were marching, and had borne brave men onward in tumultuous charge towards death, were patiently plodding along the furrows behind the plow. The hands that had drawn swords and kept muskets busy were planting, working, building. Food was the first consideration, because famine stood gaunt at every door, and in many sections the meal bins had been scraped and the corn cribs emptied to feed the troops at the front or the families of the soldiers at home. Yet even in 1865-6, we produced 2,661,000 bales of cotton and by 1871, in the very midst of the calamitous process of reconstruction, we gave the world more than four million bales, although six years before we had hardly a dollar or a seed, an animal or a tool, or a dust of fertilizer to begin with. In the season of 1879 when the last of the alien State governments had been overthrown and order had been conquered from social and political chaos, the South produced a cotton crop of 5,074,155 bales, valued at
1869 AD (search for this): chapter 1.37
cotton produced to the individual of 66 2-3 per cent. The cotton mills in the United States last year consumed approximately 5,000,000 bales of cotton, or as much as the entire cotton crop produced in 1879, and the value of our exports of raw cotton for the past season is placed at more than $400,000, ooo. The crop of 1879, with which this comparison is made, was, at that time, the largest the South had ever raised, the production having more than doubled in the preceding ten years, or since 1869, when the total crop was 2,366,467 bales. The mere recitation of these results, however, does not impress the average mind. People of this age are too accustomed to thinking in millions to be easily awed by figures. I ask you to dwell, however, for a moment upon the remarkable fact that the cotton growing States of the South have, during the past six years, received for their cotton approximately thirty-three hundred million dollars, or more than the aggregate of the preceding ten years.
1870 AD (search for this): chapter 1.37
s now have a population of approximately 25,900,000, with a constantly diminishing proportion of blacks. Our prodigious increase in values from 1900 to 1906 is shown in official assessed value of property, which has grown from $3,000,000,000 in 1870, and $5,266,000,000 in 9000, to $7,750,000,000 in 1906, an increase of more than 46 per cent. in six years. The progress we have shown in every department of human effort in the recent past provokes the admiration of the world. Great as has be 70 per cent. As rapidly as their resources have permitted it, the Southern States have looked to the increase of educational facilities and the multiplication of the common schools. The figures show that the expenditures for public schools in 1870-71 in the sixteen former slave States and the District of Columbia amounted to $10,385,000. Ten years later, at the close of the period of reconstruction, or say 1879-80, these expenditures amounted to $12,678,000. It was then that the South began
1871 AD (search for this): chapter 1.37
ne stood gaunt at every door, and in many sections the meal bins had been scraped and the corn cribs emptied to feed the troops at the front or the families of the soldiers at home. Yet even in 1865-6, we produced 2,661,000 bales of cotton and by 1871, in the very midst of the calamitous process of reconstruction, we gave the world more than four million bales, although six years before we had hardly a dollar or a seed, an animal or a tool, or a dust of fertilizer to begin with. In the seasoper cent. As rapidly as their resources have permitted it, the Southern States have looked to the increase of educational facilities and the multiplication of the common schools. The figures show that the expenditures for public schools in 1870-71 in the sixteen former slave States and the District of Columbia amounted to $10,385,000. Ten years later, at the close of the period of reconstruction, or say 1879-80, these expenditures amounted to $12,678,000. It was then that the South began to
1879 AD (search for this): chapter 1.37
s before we had hardly a dollar or a seed, an animal or a tool, or a dust of fertilizer to begin with. In the season of 1879 when the last of the alien State governments had been overthrown and order had been conquered from social and political chUnited States last year consumed approximately 5,000,000 bales of cotton, or as much as the entire cotton crop produced in 1879, and the value of our exports of raw cotton for the past season is placed at more than $400,000, ooo. The crop of 1879, wi1879, with which this comparison is made, was, at that time, the largest the South had ever raised, the production having more than doubled in the preceding ten years, or since 1869, when the total crop was 2,366,467 bales. The mere recitation of these resulnd the District of Columbia amounted to $10,385,000. Ten years later, at the close of the period of reconstruction, or say 1879-80, these expenditures amounted to $12,678,000. It was then that the South began to recuperate. Expenditures for 1890 pra
1880 AD (search for this): chapter 1.37
ation. Against a population of 16,300,000 in 1880, at the close of the dark period of reconstructthe products of our farms and gardens, which in 1880, represented the gold equivalent of $660,000,00sts have grown from nine and thirty millions in 1880 to more than $250,000,000 last year. Southern ar $260,000,000 in value against $20,000,000 in 1880, 1200 per cent. increase in mining, the results exports of $261,000,000 from Southern ports in 1880, we find our exports in 1906 amount to $642,000ts great impetus with the Atlanta exposition of 1880. Census reports show that in that year there wes the number of spindles in the whole South in 1880, while the total number of actual spindles in o,994,868, or sixteen times as many as we had in 1880, six times as many as we had in 1890, and twiceas many as we had in 1900, six years ago. In 1880 the New England States consumed in their cottonose of the period of reconstruction, or say 1879-80, these expenditures amounted to $12,678,000. It
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