CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
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18. If protected by the government by the simple and 
most beautiful process of letting us alone, and placing no 
obstacles in our way, there is laid up for us, in our soil, 
an incalculable amount of wealth. 
To industrious immigrants we say. Come on, and try the 
country. We have some disadvantages in many parts of 
the South, physical and moral, but these are found else- 
where. Much of our country has been laid waste by the 
ruthless hands of the destroyer and the robber, but it is 
fast recovering. We have the miasmatic fevers of the 
Mississippi Valley, but they are not more fatal than the 
same forms of disease away out in the West. 
We have mosquitoes, buflfalo-gnats, and gad-flies, but 
they do not continue all the year. We have the boll-worm, 
the cotton louse, and the cotton caterpillar, which sometimes 
sadden the heart of the planter, but we always make some- 
thing, and not unfrequently we make " a mighty big crop." 
We close our volume by an extract from the " Prison 
Life of Jefferson Davis : " 
" In ten years, or perhaps less, the South will have 
recovered the pecuniary losses of the war. It has had 
little capital in manufactures. Its capital was in land and 
negroes. The land remains productive as ever. The 
negroes remain, but their labor has to be paid for. Before 
the war there were 4,000,000 negToes, and the estimate 
that 1,000,000 have died off during the war is too large. 
"As to a mingling of the races, Nature has erected 
ample barriers against the crime. There is no danger of 
its prevalence. 
" The blacks are a docile, affectionate, and religious 
people ; like cats in their fondness for home. The name of 
freedom had charms for them ; but until educated to be 
self-supporting, it would be a curse. 
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