ble to the South. "If the negroes emigrate," said a
prominent business man of Augusta, Ga., to the writer, "I want to
emigrate too." And this is the prevailing sentiment. The negroes, also,
are proving themselves worthy of freedom, although it is not to be
expected that the effects of three centuries of slavery could be
eradicated in three decades of liberty. In looking out for business
rivalry New England would do well to gaze less intently across the
Atlantic and more toward the Yadkin and the Savannah.

* * *

There is little reason to fear for our country. The Union has endured the
severest trials, only to come forth stronger than ever from every ordeal.
Grave questions are presenting themselves for solution, but who can doubt
that the American people have the brain and the vigor to solve them?
Anarchists make no impression here. Notwithstanding the appeals of alien
agitators, Americans remain true to the traditions of the Republic. It is
in this deeply implanted reverence for established institutions that the
hope for the future of America rests. Before it the pestilential vapor of
anarchy, borne across the Atlantic from the squirming and steaming masses
of Europe, disappears like a plague before a purifying flame, and,
whatever may be the outcome of the struggle, in its various forms, now
going on between the upper and lower orders in the mother continent, in
the United States the foundations of society are likely to remain firm
and unsapped.

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