Much of the manufacturing. especially of cotton goods. that New England once monopolized is now done it the cottonproducing States. Ironworks that once smoked amid New Englands hills are now silent and cold. while the flames of similar establishments are burning on many of the Southern plains. Immigration is pouring into the South. making her fields to bloom and blossom as the rose. while New Englands bleak and sterile hillsides are being abandoned by their tenants and given up to the thistle and the stunted birch. New Englands leaders see these things clearly and painfully enough. and. having the opportunity In the present control of the Government by their political friends. it is. perhaps. but natural that they should strike at the prosperity of the Southern States. and give them all the trouble they can. Jealousy is now added to their former hate.
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