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their antagonistic elements. Her soil is rich and 

 fertile, as opposed to lands which have been cropped 

 to the last stage of exhaustion by a never-ceasing 

 and never-compensated harvest of tobacco. She 

 has a clear and health-invigorating air, noble 

 mountain-heights, and streams which leap out 

 among them, inviting manufactures. The govern 

 ment is aimiog for the greatest good of the greatest 

 number. 



Nothing short of a high prosperity was to be 

 expected from conditions such as these. Thus, 

 after disbursing nearly $100,000 since June, 1863, 

 with one half the counties paying no tax whatever, 

 and only a portion of the residue paying their full 

 proportion, there was a balance in the treasury of 

 more than double that amount. This astonishing 

 result is evidence of high prosperity ; for if this 

 new State, &quot; wrenched from the grasp of rebellion 

 by military power, and growing on the very hem of 

 civil war, can thus flourish under such circumstances, 

 the restoration of peace and order will develop a 

 prosperity surpassing all that has been writ 

 ten in the history of its ill-starred and traitorous 

 parent.&quot; 



All through the Southern States there will be in 

 numerable openings for Northern enterprise, whether 

 the adventurers be farmers or mechanics. White 

 labor will be as urgently needed as that of the 

 blacks. The South must continue to grow cotton, 

 rice, sugar, and tobacco, as aforetime. The world 

 needs these products, and is determined to have 

 them. England has relied with pitiable helplessness 



