The republic., 1851-08-14
Remedial system for the South.

The Richmond Times, in an excellent arti-
Gle upon the policy and practicablity of estab-
fishing line of transatlantic ocean steamers,
adopts a judcious line of remark upon the best
means of promoting the interests of Virginia.
The adoption of this system for restoring the
political equilibrium of the Southern States
will be invaluable in several points of consid-
Grafton. 1t will give employment, and conse-
quently prosperity, to the population of the
State which engages in it. 1t will convince
| those who at the North have agitated the strife
of slavery that the sole effect of their mpotent
| maledictions has been, thus far, to discourage
emancipation and colonization at the South, and
| to stimulate Southern manufactures and direct
| foreign intercourse.
The great purpose of every wise and tempe
rate Southern statesman is now to maintain
the Union as the means Of protection to all those
States which compose 1t, and to promote by
every legitimate means the commercial and So
cal independence Of the South. Hence it is
found that the most patriotic friends of the
South are the warmest friends of steam lines,
railroads, cotton factories, and schools. Thus
they encourage the constitutional ortification of
the South by encouraging immigration of num-
bers and the introduction of capital from abroad,
so that if contest should be forced upon them,
by tanaticism or intolerance the Southern States
will have the material of social and commercial
independence within themselves.
With this plan of domestic defence none can
complain. Every people have right, nay, it
is their duty, to provide for their political
household the means of regaining lost posi-
tion. The South presents two schools of states
men, differing less in their doctrine of State
rights than in the remedies which they propose
for adoption; for no one in the South doubts that
much injustice has resulted from the ncessant
agitation of the slave question. But whilst
the Abstractionists rely upon disunion, south
ern confederacy, non-intercourse, foreign al
doctrines, the Practicals, not less patriotic, nor
less impressed with the necessity of sectional
protection, rely upon the development of do
| mestlc resources-upon the cultivation Of the
same means Of securing the constitutional ele-
nents of power that has given a political su-
The ensuing State organization will afford
an opportunity for testing the popular apprecia-
lion in Virginia of these two schools, and Of
pronouncing upon the remedial system proposed
by each. As both Of the great parties possess
men eminent for their devotion to the physical
development of the interests of Virginia, let
them each bring forward candidates who shall
be exponents of this policy, and let the ques-
lion be upon the comparative efficiency of the
remedial system proposed by each. We should
anticipate an invaluable effect upon the opinion
and action of Virginia from such canvass Her
public men will be compelled to conform to the
opinions of the people, or yield to others who
will carry out those opinions and there must be
complete revolution in her policy, based upon
the declarations of specific system of improve
ment and progress.
We give, however, the extract from the edl-
torial Of the Times:
Will the merchants of Virginia continue longer
to be "hewers of wood and drawers Of water'' to
northern ship and northern brokers? II
they desire 10 attain that true independence about
which southern rights associations pratc yolubly
let them establish line of propellers between the
waters oi James river and Europe. Richmond is
at least twelve hundred miles nearer Liverpool
than New orleans, and we have the authority oi
an enlightened and experienced navigator for say
ing-indeed the fact is notorious--that the voyage
hther is much less difficult, less dangerous. and
less expensive. Surely, then, If line from New