In Virginia and the Carolinas, for example, economic conditions and traditions--and traditions are yet a power in the South--differed greatly in different sections.
As the years passed, apathy began to disappear in some parts of the South.

Wiser men recognized that the old had gone never to return.

Men began to face the inevitable.

Instead of brooding upon their grievances, they adjusted themselves, more or less successfully, to the new economic and social order, and by acting in harmony with it found that progress was not so impossible as they had supposed.

White planters found that the net returns from their farms on which they themselves had labored were greater than when a larger force of negroes had been employed; shrewd men began to put their scanty savings together to take advantage of convenient water power.