Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1853-07-29
From the Washington Republic, July 21.


Empire State of the South, Charleston is the
Boston of that section. She has recently COM
pleted her arrangements for a railroad to Gin
cinati upon line of survey only 63l miles in
length. She will also connect with Louisville
by line of 600 miles. The shortest Balti.
more line with Cincinnati is, we believe, $50
miles. Charleston will thus attracted a LARGE
proportion of the provision and manufactures
of the Ohio valley, and in the next war we shall
have regiments of Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana
volunteers coming down to defend the outlet of
their trade at Charleston, as their fathers did at
/ New Orleans; and when abolitioniSts come to
set free the negrOs who wear the goods, eat the
bacon, and work the mules Of the Northwest,
the volunteers will rise up and aid in their ex1
pulsion upon the plainest and most inevitable
reason because it will be their interest to do
| SO.
We note, moreover, that plan is on foot to-
make rail road coastwise from Charleston to-
Savannah, and the latter city will place herself
directly in the line of communication with the
Gulf and the Pacific by rail road to Pensa-
cola. Charleston has thus secured access to the
Gulf-the central Mississippi at Memphis and
the great meathouse and meat tub of the I'M
ion-the Ohio valley. We have observed,
moreover, that contract has been made for
the manufacture in Charleston of all the rolling
stock of the New-Oreans and 0pelousas rail
road. There are other evidences of industrial
prosperity which account in our mind for the
profound quiet of South Carolina and convince
us that she is organizing practical power that
will rely upon itself for protection, and that she
will no longer be as thin-skinned and sensitive
as those who do not prosper in the world are
in their relations with those who do.
Every friend of the Union has been delighted
with the restoration of calm in the Southern
States and the abatement of that bitterness
with which some of them regarded the exercise
of an indispensable authority by the Federal
Government. We have always thought that
these political prejudices were engendered by
an acute apprehension of oppression on the
part of those who lead public opinion, opera
ting upon a stagnant and Improbable cOndi-
ton of popular industry in the older Southern
States. 1t was from these causes that the de-
cline in commerce in the Southern cities was
attributed to the tariff, and the reduction in the
value of lands or the relative diminution of
their population, was charged as the insdious
results of system of government which fostered
one section and depressed another The expe-
rience, however, of the last few years past has
taught the South that the true cause of the
growing inequality of the sections consisted in
the adoption by the one of all those institutions
and improvements which attract population,
and the positive opposition of the other to eve
ry system of industrial development.
The statesmen of the South persisted in the
theory of Plato, that agriculture was the only
desirable interest. Their arguments against
protection were often carried to prejudice
aginst the manufacturing interest ITSELF They
carried their prejudices against sections so far
as to discourage immigration, especially of the
Yankees. They relied upon remedies wholly
Tho ho1a Of ba
served by the admission of an equal number of
new States upon the fallacious theory that E.
quality in the Senate constituted an eaqual par
ticipation in the power of the Government
Experience has however, convinced the South
that the constitutional rule of power is not ter
ritory, nor past services, but people, and that
people can be only attracted or retained by Of
fering them industrial and social inducements
The conviction of this great truth has spread
over the South from the Potomac to the Rio
Grande Everywhere the rich and cheap lands,
the coal beds and water power are thrown open;
every facility is afforded to the ingresS of for
eign population and the investment of capital;
harbors are deepened, channels opened, and ev-
cry preparation made for the commercial &C
commodation of the interior products.
The consequences of this change of system;
are already apparent in the growth of Southern
cities, the enhanced value of lands and slaves,
and in the success of their manufacturing ex-
periments. This universal prosperity has pro-
duced content. The Government is no longer
looked on as the sole cause of sectional Unequal
ity; its advantages have been proven to belong
to those who acquire the elements of wealth and
population. Schools and canals founded the
power of New-York, and she has now the col
lection of seventy6ve per cent of the national
revenue, and an ELECTORAL vote equal perhaps
to the joint vote of both the Carolinas and Vir-
ginia.
The growth of positive power in the South
ern States has not only promoted the perman-
ence of the Union by rendering sectional op-
preston impossible, but it has engendered an
other influence of the utmost importance. The
system of physical development has been car
RED out great extent with the aid of north
ern capital. We would be glad if the author of
the money articles in the Herald Times would
state approximately the amount of money in
vested by the capitalists, iron-matters and ma
chinists of the Northern States in the State and
corporate securities of the South-in coal mines,
town sites and steam lines; it would show an
aggregate, we are satisfied; that will be found to
constitute on immense debt, and it is but pre-
paratory to the incaculable investments which
Will follow the completed system. This result
has already given the Southern States the hos
vi luGeIeSL Jue permaneuCe OF
institutions, and every day its influence in disa-
busing northern and southern minds of Sec
tional prejudices will become more apparent.
And this has been done with the object of so
uniting the interests of this great national fam
lily as that it is neither to their advantage to
quarrel nor divide. Il it is the triumph of tho
American over Achean system. The one a lea
que of Temporary convenience, where the whole
confed eracy might be taken to pieces in mo-
ment, like piece of artillery, the other so boil
ted and riveted together that the whole fabric
must be employed together or not at all.
Eloquent Ertrdct.-We copy the following
passage from the new work, 1.-THE Old House
by the River"
Go preach to the blocks and stones, We who
believe that love is in the clayl Go preach to
the dead, We who deny the Immortality Of the
affections Go reason with trees, or hills, or
images of wood, or with your own motionless,
lifeless icy souls, We who believe that, because
there is no marrying yonder, there shall be no
embracing, or because we may not use the gen.
tie words my wife, we may not clasp these
sanctifed forms in our holy armsl tell you,
man, that Immortality would be glorious cheat,
Il