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What ban be. Doiva ?6r the
South.
All the powerful reasons for fighting through
the late expensive war to keep the South iu
Union, are equally strong reasons lor making
the South prosperous now that we have succeeded.
The grand reason of the "West lor
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ngatiTig was commcmiy conuensea into u. single
sentence,viz; that the West would never
relinquish its .right to the Missisippi. The
Mississippi is valuaablc only as affording a
cheap and commodious route to a market.?
What market ? Not mainly the the Western
Indies; for the consumption of Western products
is comparatively small in those islands.
' Not Europe, most certainly; for the route is
too circuitous. The best market the West
ever had is the South itself. The products of
the West are too heavy and bulky in proportion
to their value for distant exportation. The
"likturai cfrcut oi American" craue7s :V convert*
the grain and pork of the West into cotton,
tobacco, and other Southern staples, by, feed- J
ing the population which grows f.hwp staples, I
and then exporting the fruits of Western agri-1
culture in this less bulky form, which not only !
eaves great expense of freight, but insures the '
certainty of a market. Whether grain will bo j
in demand in Europe depends upon tlio European
harvests. But American co-ton will always
be in demand ; and "Western products
are sure of a market as long as tlicy arc used
to feed cotton growers. "
The most important and urgent interest of
the West is that the South shall be relieved of
its embarrassments at tbo earliest day possible.
"What the West above all things^nccds is a
market. The market which, for four years, it
lost in the South, has been temporarily sup- i
plied by the war. The West had led our vast I
armies, and the multitudes employed in the |
manufacture of army supplies. But this market
is about to' disappear. Western agricultrim
will oinl- nifii Invv anil l/mliln fnmlituni I
unless it gets back tbc Southern market; of j
^rhich there is no possibility except by the j
revival of Southern industry.
The great diflicnlty iG the South is the con-1
dition of utter impoverishment into which that j
section has been brought by the war. The.
pecuniary prostration of the South is so abso- j
lute that its industry cannot be set agoing
without a great influx of capital from the
Northern States. All the money of the whole
cnr?timi c Vm/niv nrmi hil'itnrl '\ "Jin rvi?r?nnH v
which has been destroyed by the ravages of I
armies, and coine into dilapidation by the
absence and neglect of owners, cannot be restored
without money to buy materials and to
; * ' pay'wages. The country lias been drained of
- '4. animals,"both horses and cattle, till not enough
ty- are loft to draw the plough. Nobody will send
annuals there to be sold unless money is sup>
plied, frcw some quarter, to purchase ihr-in.?
The Nc rth has money in. abundanr-:- and ran
easily suppiy this v.-at, but- in th" p"i r-.*;ni.
condition o!'tj/mps- th?? South v i .> >rornrity
rasp4 fe r-*1' (Vnto. Lend moit.'w * ',
pLvner .'Jul t/i: j n- i'_ ..gc: a !h u upv.s hi- i
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cy cannot be borrowed, up-.m Southern bank |t
flock t?i* railroad stock; bank and railroads arof
alike ruined. Northern capitalists wiil not 53
take tSc Southern raiivoads, repj. uish tiiyir roll |!
ing stock, and.put-th^n in running order, be-j
cause, for aught iluy know, what remains of*
the property will be confiscated to the Govern- J:
meat. All real estate in the South is in pre-*
ciscly the stiinc predicament. , Who will lend !
money ou a mortgage, when by an unrepealed ;
law of Congress, which awaits only execution,!'
lIig pvopcrty mortgage does not belong to the
reputed owner? And why should a farmer or j
nlniilin* r-t'/in it'tin ffnilrl r>iiiiim*iiw1 flirt mnonc J
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replace his fences, buildings, implements, and
animals, when it is certain that a single year's
crop would not refund the outlay, and uncertain
whether before tiro crop is gathered, he
may not be ousted from possession.
While things continue' in this state, South- .
cm industry cannot revive. The West loses its.
best market; the East loses a profitable field,
for the investment of capital; 'the Govern-;!'
merit loses the revenue which might he col j
lected from a prosperous communiiv. When ;
the SOuth is impoverish and the West unp'ms- f
perousj'how is cuiploy merit to be found for the!
hundreds of thousands of .men ^thrown loose'!
by the cessation of the wnr<? JJcfore we can j
employ the surplus laborers wc^hall presently j
havejou our hands, we must see a prospect of'
market. No sound business man will manu ,
factum for the Southern market until he sees
a chance that the South will be able to pay
for goods; nor manufacture" largely for the
West till lie sees a possibility of the West finding
a market for its pork and grain. The
chief thing to be done now, at this present
time, is for the Government to render it possi
blc fur cnpit.il to How into tlie South to revive
its industry. That is l'i say, the property that
is left in the South must he put iti such a&>n(iition,
as regards ownership, that it will be an
available security for flic lonn.~iWtp York
Vrorld.
Mr. Edwin Booth.
Surely every generous heart will syinjAlbizu
with the peculiarly crushing How which has
befallen ilr. Edwin Eooth. * A gentleman
whose retiring coui>csv has universally commanded
respect?an actor whose genius and
success have delighted his countrV?a citizen
whose sole vote was chst for Abraham Lincoln
?a ihuti whose character has made hosts of
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menus?it is un:ci liitc which mcnilUCS iiis
name wit!-, the national sorrow. "Don't speak
to Ric of politics," said In: several months since
to a friend who differed from him, "for we can |
not agree. Abraham Lincoln will be loved
and honored hereafter not less than Washing*,
ton."
Mr. Booth .at once, and naturally, withdrew
from liis present professional engagements.?
But he should understand that lie is not to be '
mined by the crimes of any one who bears his ;
name. The powers which ho has always f.o
nobly used arc not to ho lost to lis by any.
offenses but his own. When the bitterness of '
the hour lias somewhat passed, and the event 1
which now afiliets us can be more calmly cou- 1
tcmplatcd, lie will resume his work, we hope, '
sure of the approval of those whose kind l
thoughts lie most values, and of the public
which he charms and instructs. Meanwhile it
is our duty to take care that no taint of prejudice
attaches to his name.?Harpers Weekly.
A married man, who was out at a whist
. rty, wh o: ho proposed going l.'iiii",
1.1 god to stay \'i little longer. "We!:-1 ice >. -
plied, "perhaps I may as w.'l; my wife pr
L'ly, is already as mad as she cau be.'^
campjey; tcesijay, jure is.
.. tVe aro in receipt of several topics of tho Charleston
Court'w, of hue dales, through tho courtesy of
iMessrd. W. G. C(j.i;rv.n"i:v aud II. B. Chapman.
fiie Skxtihentoftije NonTHEiix Press.?If the
sentiment contained in the few Northern papers which
have reached us bo illustrative of the universal feeling
amongour late enemies .vo must coucludc that the
most wretched and intolerable fate lias b^alleu the
South in its subjugation that ever law been motod out
to a nation. In tho dark and ennly ages of the world,
captives in the subjugated provinces were generally
held and treated as slaves by conquerors. '.Niescyiu
uiuiiy cases, were the peers or'equals of the captives,
and iti their subjugation bad nothing to expect but a
state ul' slurry. The subjugated people of the South
aC-'Online to the Northern nrpss. rircsenr. nmv nn an
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omaly in the history of llie conquered nations. Let
the autipathy. and dislike engendered in the hearts of
the Northern people bo what it may towards the South
and her institution heretofore, we cannot one ou rage
the thought of the govorniuent endorsing the vile
calumny heaped upon us as a people, by the press.
Before the war the white class of population of the
South were, in a social acd political point of view, tree
and equal with the whites at the North: while the
black nice here, constituting a very large portion oft he
population, were on a social level in most cases,
scarcely above the native African; and enjoyed 110 political
privileges whatever. v
Through the fortunes of a great and terrible w,
this black element, is supposscdio Uhy.clUoeu.sudden.**
Jy transferred into the scale of social being, as the
equal in all rights and immunities which his former
master enjoyed ia common with the whiles of the free
Stales, while by the press of the North this master is
outlawed as a criminal of the highest ofter; is placed
subservient lo his late slave; is ostracized and dist'l
anchised, and his properly, property procured by
years of toil, is supposed to be confiscated and appropriated.
To add to all this tlie mind of the former
bondsmen is poisoned uga.nsihis former master, and
taught to look upon him (liis only true friend) us his
enemy. TheNcw York Herald and Tribune arc constantly
heaping their inexhaustible store of epithets
in coloring our 'treason,'' ami vocabularies of vengeance
aid sacked for punishment, of 'rebels.'1 Horror
alter horror is recounted among their tales of woe,
ami no misery is great enough for those, who, pleading
f> >r the .principles of tho common constituiion,
sought to govern themselves. This desire, to tho more
o.'VccUtally latin us, and hold us up as objects of.splcDn
and contempt, fas descended not only from the political
forum to the pulpit, but small bodies of families
tiro holding assemblages with fi view of deriding us,
mid'refusing the return home of nutuy of those who
were enraged in the late struggle. We are amongst
those who have and are now enjoying the liberty of
the press, hut wh.ro that liberty is abused and renders
itself suicidal to the best and dearest interests of
lho government who permit its exigence, v?v think
lliiit government should adopt measures to suppress
it. *
J f this state 01 things bo permitted to exist,and we of
Lho South are forever to be subjects of derision and
contempt. regrets will uo doubt spring up in the hearts
of itmny tlint they did uot pursue the policy which '
lho Indian Legend tells us was adopted by tho last ,
tribe of the gulf, which sooner than submit to their ,
foes, passed, with tho last vestige of their raoe, into ,
lltesaa, and where now, on our own Southern coast at ]
times may be hoard their mourning dirge.
Niagara! Niagara! o'er much of Mother ;
K.-u ill,
And mu'-h of Father Ocean, I Lave stamp'J it 1
from my birth; 1
I*-?: ii' V'T l:av.- 1 witness'd, from old Gotham
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.ituti- play the "dropgauni" as completely >
us y ou do.
A Conversation with A. BL
Stephens. ; /
A-friend who saw and conversed with Atcx. V
II. Stephens, on bowji^lbe steamer at Pof?.*ip '
Royal,%w rites as follow^'in a private letter:.; Ho
looks much older than when I saw.Rim in.the *
House in *57. -He converses freely and dow .
not appear at all like a prisoner of war. Il'oOJf /
says he never saw so marked a change in four^. V.;
years, in any two men, as in Abraham Lincoln
and Jefferson Davis. Ho expressed great'jttK >
grct at the President's assassination, admitted K'J$jg
the Confederacy was played out, and seeihed
anxious to have nnaao drrLrprl imd t.lw mntto.
settled 'as speedily as possible. His idcais to *|
have tlio different rebel States repeal the ordi- '
nances of secession^ nd accept the Constitution S
of the United States and vote on the constitutional
amendment, lie expresses the opijiflMi 1
that the seceding States will not pass
acknowledged that his Milledgeville spi/sdli. wa*
almost prophetic, and that he went TOffn the:
popular current to prevent any c'::?lt DOtweca
himself and Toombs, lie appears'to. : have uo-.
concern for himself; says he is only anxious to
secure as honorable terms as possible foV his.
btite and people, the majority of whom, besays,
never were secessionists, Ho is bent over
very much, his hair is nearly white, his voice-,
is lower and not so shrill as formerly, and his-.'^
hand trembles when lie uses it; but he talks as ' "
smoothly as ever, and his eyes flash as in days
gone by? . .
France and Frenchmen.?In France the
roads are poor, the fences arc light tind.
fauciful, the bridges, though beautiful, Jaclc
permanence, in J'anfi the architecture is light,
beautiful, and pometimes fantastic. The streets,
are bad, generally, without sidewalks, and
arranged for anything rather than neatness.
The French are hasty, fitful, recklc.-s, and
changeable, charmed with glitter and show,
and car less of consequences. They arc polite,
excessively polite, and yet practice the most
consummate duplicity. They kiss you to-day,
and to-morrow assassinate you. Some sprinkle
themselves with holy water, and then go
straight to a debauch ; others believe in no
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oilier ncavcu uui me indulgence or every vile
passion. *
They are very scientific, ami yet very foolish.
Still there is much of science and of-litcrature,
of taste and beauty, prominent everywhere ?
The immorality and irreligion of the French is
most deplorable. They are a wicked, godless
people,'and uo wonder that, as a nation, they
aro so often cursed with despotism, anarchy,,
revolution, and civil war.
Napoleon.?Napier, in his history of the
Peninsula war, makes -the excellent and just
remark on Xanolenm
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' Self had no place in his policy save as his
pcrsoual glory was identified with France and
her prosperity. Never before did the world
see a man soaring so high and devoid of all
selfish ambition. Let those who, honestly1
seeking truth/doubt this, study Napoleon carefully;
let them read the record of his second
abdication published by his brother Lucien,
that stern republican who refused kingdoms at
the price of his principles, and they will no ?
longer doubt."
This is from a British writer who studied the
affairs of the times in which Napoleon nourished
with mote than ordinary fidelity and intelligence;
and who, withal, as regular a specimen
of John Bull as ever pnt pcD to paper.
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