The prosperity of the South has only begun in the last few years, and it has begun to increase just as the race issue has ceased.

I will demonstrate that to you by a little paragraph I cut out of the _New York Herald_ last night, taken from the New Orleans _Times-Democrat_.

If you take the assessed valuation of real estate in Alabama, in 1879 it was at $117,486,581; in 1883 it is assessed at $152,920,115.

There has been that increase in four years from $117,000,000 to $152,000,000.

Now let us take the State of Arkansas: in 1879 our real estate was valued at $86,892,541; in 1883 it is valued at $136,000,000.