1111s itepublic, she who created .n naw 1 " e are wia tnat American operatives
she who created an army and she who j are tne most intelligent and ingenious
came as near as she did to creatine a j on earth- The United States grants
-aiion with such odds against her 1 i0ur Iimes as many patents annually as
and ability "luaui. ahu ar tne iaris Ex-
I nnaifiAn . .nnA 1 x J2 , ..
vomuu, nc xcau, niiti aye gold meuais
were offered for the greatest inventions
and discoveries and all five of them
were awarded to America. The proph-
i ecy 01 Jir. Gladstone, uttered several
years ago that "America would h
the chief servant in the household of
the nations, because her service would
be the most and ablest," has already
been realized. America being the
greatest manufacturing nation, how
stands the Southern part of America
Notwithstanding a great politico
economic writer declares after review
ing the mighty resources of the West
and signs of the times, that It is the
West and not the South or North which
holds the key to the future ; the cen
ter of population, of manufactories, of
wealth, and ot political power is not
moving South or North but West;" I
say that if the South is true to herself,
she must necessarily surpass either the
North, East or West in at least two
branches of manufacture, to-wit, Cot
ton and Tobacco.
