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upon the South for cotton, and France for the main 

 tenance of her stupendous monopoly of tobacco. 

 They have long been chafing under the stoppage of 

 their supplies, and to ensure an early resumption, 

 will at the proper time advance capital without 

 limit to the growers of free cotton. This infusion 

 of new capital will stimulate and invigorate every 

 department of business. More than this, the utter 

 destitution of the South, in consequence of the war, 

 will require the labor of more whites and negroes 

 than she ever possessed, to repair the damages she 

 has suffered. 



One half of Kentucky, all Virginia and Tennes 

 see, a large portion of Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala 

 bama, and Georgia, have been stripped clean of 

 fencing. Others have suffered vast damage in the 

 same way. When the reader is told that the fences 

 in the single State of New York cost $144,000,000, 

 he may form some estimate of what must be the 

 demand for labor in the South, to make good this 

 single item in the long catalogue of ravages com 

 mitted by invading armies. 



Houses, barns, outbuildings, factories, forges, 

 bridges, have been destroyed by thousands. Other 

 thousands have been stripped of doors, shutters, and 

 siding, to feed the camp fire. In very many in 

 stances whole towns have been destroyed. More 

 than half of Charleston lies in ruin. A vast rail 

 road system has been reduced to terrible disorder, 

 and receiving no repairs, will cease to be operated. 

 All these structures were the product of mechanical 

 labor. No one can doubt that the South will in 



