Ignoring the manufacturing industry. they have at the same time ignored the great mining industry. wvhich must of necessity depend upon the manufacturing interests to create a demand for its products. Thus it was. prior to the late war. the Southern section of this country was almost without manufacturing interests of any kind. rich deposits of coal and iron lay undiscovered and undeveloped. The immigrant in search of employment shunned this section and settled where the dignity of labor was recognized and where the smoke of the furnace and the hum of machinery were as gladness to his vision and as music to his ears. For this reason. and no other. was it that the bleak lands and inhospitable shores of New England. whose dominant classes recognized the equality of human rights and the dignity of labor. encouraged and developed a diversity of employment. soon causing their sterile lands to blossom as the rose and magnificent cities and flourishing villages to spring up as if by magic. . Here it was that an austere people laid the foundation of the greatest and noblest civilization the world has ever known.
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