Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-06-15
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

of statements we are not surprised tnat IL
uttcrs them; because well aware that from its
inception to this hour il has been simply the
mouthpiece of coterie of New England sojOurn-
ers at New Orleans, many of whom, while en-
gagged in species Of trade involving connection
with the very worst attributes and incidents of
the existence of African slavery, profess to be
as much Mortified at the bare thought of the
institution as the most fanatical of their kith
at home. This class of the New Englanders in
New Orleans are rs enterprising and energetic
as inscriptions in the means by which they
essay to make money. They exert great power
in the city. because they possess much money:
which rs power in the midst Of the miscella-
ncOus population of all large American cities
where the public estimate of the manis based
on entirely different elements of calculation
than those that prevail among the more indie
pendent population of the country, where
when compared with the condition of the
population of the cities no man knows what
it is to be dependent upon any other man for
the bread and clothing of himself and family.
The Bulletin is the immediate representa-
tive only of the two per cent per month class
of New Englanders of New Orleans, of whom
we write abOve-the men who make most out
of those whom they can compel to drive their
servants hardest. Yet it rarely fails to be
under the control Of some whining half abOli-
ton sympathizer, possessed of general and par
ticular knowledge only sufficient to make one
a mischevous member of society-of that little
mOdicum Of learning, that ''maketh a man
mad" Hence its chronic propensity to adopt
and repeat the ideas of the South and her
people, upon which Garrison, Wendell Phillips,
&c, base their peculiar arguments. The fact
that such men as control that journal are per-
mitted to sCjourn in Louisiana, brands their
representations of the social and moral habits
Of the Southern people with falsehoOd; while
the fact that the class they represent grow
rich by sucking the life blood Of Southern
commerce, for a moment as it were, vanishing
every summer-as the mosquito gorgcs him
sclf-prOves the falsity of that journals persis
tent efforts to create the impression that the
South is comparatively poor.
We are heartily sick and tired of the jerc-
miadcs of such journals, North and South, con
corning the lack of diversity of employment at
the South. Employment is not greatly diver
sifed there, because in planting, and the con-
paratively few occupations necessarily followed
IN planting regions-Occupations incident to
the fact that the capital there is principally SO
inycSted-men thrive better than in specula-
ting regions, where more shifts must necessarily
be rcs0rted to make money, and where capital
is far more insecure. however invested. las
general thing than in the production Of the
great staples Of the South, and in business in
cident to their production.
The South is now rapidly regaining its rcla-
tive state Of business prosperity, ms that existed
before the invention of the mis-cal!cd ''Ameri-
can system created a hot-bed condition of
business affairs ut the North on capital wrung
from the South by sectional legislation against
her commercial and industrial interests She
is frcer from debt at this moment than either
other section of the COnfedcracy. Where she
contains one pauper. the other sections of the
Union contain perhaps ten. With nine -tenthS
of her capital. it may be, invested directly in
agriculture-the business supposed to give the
least profits Though the surest the world over
the average profit actually realized on Southern
capital in the long run is far greater than the
average profit realized on capital invested nj the
North in her thousand different ways of invest
ment. The history and condition CfinanciaD Of
the railroads Of the country prove this fact An
Improbable railroad at the South j. as rare "A
profitable one at the North and dishonesty
conducted one is rs uncommon there. MS a rail-
road at the North in the stock or management
Of which it is not understood that some one or
more persons are not prOfiting themselves
fraudulently.
The New Orleans B~lIrt0 to the contrary.
notwithstanding. We trust the time may be
long hence, ere employment at the South be-
comes as diversified as at the North. or in
Europe: because that state Of things will be
produced by but one or two causes:
First by the dissolution the MON Second,
by the decline Of Southern business prosperity
to So great an extent as that men will be put to
their wits ends to get bread, as at the North
and In EurOpc-cOntingencies equally TO be
regretted should either ever occur
We're the Union dissolved, the markets of the
South would speedily be lost to the North.
Then would necessarily come greater diversity
Of the employment Of Southern capital and
labor; and, in its train. widespread business
ruin would come upon the North. Whenever
Southern capital invested in Southern agricul-
ture ceases to be as profitable as at present, it
will by degrees seek more diversified invest
ments; diversifying the employment of South
crn labor to a corresponding extent
While real estate at the South is annually
increasing satisfactorily in value; while poor
rates are things almost unknown at the South;
while the people of the South are clearer of
debt than any others in the land; while South
ern agriculture almost invariably yields heavier
profits in the long run, than any other invest
mcnts that can be conceived of in this country;
and while every white man at the South is. as
at present, truly II freeman, in his social and
industrial position in life, we sincerely trust
that the South may continue to eschew the
mploymentdiyersifying advice of the New
Orleans BHilsyH. That advice is but an ell
anation of the socialstic theories spreading so
fast at the North, to the great danger of pro-
ducing agrarian results there that may not
long hence utterly destroy the prosperity in
that region, even though it (the North may.
up to that time, continue to enjoy its present