Life of Wm Tecumseh Sherman .. . n mines,where mills may be erected to grind wheat and corn, spincotton, and to manufacture the thousand and one thingsyou now buy from abroad; and more especially tomake known that you are prepared to welcome and patron-ize men who will settle in your region and form a part ofyour community. Your growth and development since the war have beengood, very good—better than I was prepared to see; butcompare it with San Francisco, Denver, Portland, Oregon,Leavenworth, Chicago, St. Louis, or hundreds of places Icould mention, less favored in climate and location thanA
Life of Wm Tecumseh Sherman .. . n mines,where mills may be erected to grind wheat and corn, spincotton, and to manufacture the thousand and one thingsyou now buy from abroad; and more especially tomake known that you are prepared to welcome and patron-ize men who will settle in your region and form a part ofyour community. Your growth and development since the war have beengood, very good—better than I was prepared to see; butcompare it with San Francisco, Denver, Portland, Oregon,Leavenworth, Chicago, St. Louis, or hundreds of places Icould mention, less favored in climate and location thanAtlanta. These cities have been notoriously open to thewhole world, and all men felt perfectly at liberty to go therewith their families, with their acquired wealth and with theirpersonal energy. You must guarantee the same, not super-ficially or selfishly, but with that sincerity and franknesswhich carries conviction. Personally, I would not like to check the flow of emi-gration westward, because of the vast natural importance. GEN. LEW. WALLACE. CARPET-BAGGERS. 561 of that region, but I do believe that every patriot should dowhat he can to benefit every part of our whole country, andI am sure that good will result from turning a part of thisgreat tide of human life and energy southward along thevalleys of the Allegheny Mountains, especially of EastTennessee, northern Georgia and Alabama, and if I can aidyou in this good work I assure you that I will do so withinfinite pleasure. Excuse me if I ask you as an editor to let up somewhaton the favorite hobby of carpet-baggers. I know that youpersonally apply the term only to political adventurers, butothers, your readers, construe it otherwise. I have residedin San Francisco, Leavenworth and St. Louis, and of themen who have built up these great cities, I assert that notone in fifty was a native of the place. All, or substantiallyall, were carpet-baggers, i. e., emigrants from all parts ofthe world, many of them from the South. Ou
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