The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-07-21
REPU BLIC.
WASHINGTON:


Charleston Enterprise.
) IL Georgia be the Empire State Of the South
Charleston is the Boston Of that section. Sh'
has recently completed her arrangements fur !
railroad to Cincinnati upon line Of survey
only 63l miles in length. She will also con-
meet with Louisville by line Of 900 miles.
The shortest Baltimore line with Cincinnati is'
we believe, $50 miles. Charleston VIII mus
attract large proportion of the provisions ano
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
abolitionisis come to set free the negroes who
wear the goods, eat the bacon, and work the
mules Of the Northwest, the volunteers will
rise up and aid in their expulsion, upon the
plainest and most inevitable reason-because it
will be :heir interest to do so.
We note, moreover, that plan is on foot to
make railroad coastwise from Charleston to
Savannah and the latter City will place her
self directly in the line of communication with
the Gulf and the Paciti; by railroad to Pen
sacoa. Charleston has thus secured access to
the Gulf-the central Mississippi at Memphis
and the great meat-house and meat-tub of the
Union--ihe Ohio valley. We have observed,
moreover, that contract has been made for the
manufacture in Charleston of all the rolling
stock of the New Orleans and Opelousas 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 DIS thin-skinned and sens-
tive as those who do not prosper in the world
are in their relations with those who do.
Every friend of the Union has beeh delight
ed with the restoration of calm in the Southern
States, and the abatement of that bitterness
with which some of them regarded the exer-
else OF an indispensable authority by the Fed
erai Government. We have always though,
that these political prejudices were engenderet
by an acute apprehension of oppression on tn,
part Of those who lead public opinion, operat
Ing upon stagnant and Improbable condition
OF popular industry in the older Southern States
1t was from these causes that the decline il
commerce in the Southern cities was attribute,
to the tariff, and the reduction in the value O
lands, or the relative diminution of their popu
lation, was charged as the insidious results 0
system of government (which fostered one sec
ton and depressed another. The experience
however, of the last few years past has taugh
the South that the true cause Of the growing
inequality of the sections consisted in the adop
tion by the one ofall those institutions and i'm
provements which attract population, and tn,
positive opposition of the other to every sys
tenn of industrial development.
The statesmen of the South persisted in tn.
theory of Plato, that agriculture was the only
desirable interest. Their arguments agains
protection were often carried to a prejudic.
against the manufacturing interest itself They
carried their prejudices against sections SO ia
as to discourage immigration, especially Of tn,
Yankees. They relied upon remedies wholly
political. The balance of power was to be
preserved by the admission of an equal number
of new States upon the fallacious theory that
equality in the Senate constituted an equal
participation in the power Of the Government.
Experience has, however, convinced the
South that the constitutional rule of power is
not territory, nor past services, but people, and
that people can be only attracted or retained
by offering them industrial and social induce
ments. 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 foreign population and the in
yestment Of capital; harbors are deepened,
channels opened, and every preparation made
for the commercial accommodation of the in
interior products.
The consequences of this change Of system
is already apparent in the growth of southern
cities, the enhanced value of lands and slaves,
periments. This universal prosperity has pro-
duced content. The Government is no longer
looked on as the sole cause of sectional inc
quality; its advantages have been proven tc
belong to those who acquire the elements o.
wealth and population. Schools and canals
founded the power of New York, and she ha,
now the collection of seventy five per cent
of the national revenue, and an electoral vot
equal perhaps to the joint ,oe of both tn,
Carolnas and Virginia.
The growth of positive power in the South
ern States has not only promoted the perma
nence of the Union by rendering sectional op
preston impossible. but it has engendered an
other influence of the utmost importance TIL,
system of physical development has been car