The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-09-03
south Carolina and lIassachuseIts
"A Contrast.
The Anti Slavery Standard says;

"A contrast.
The Anti Slavery Standard says:
"Though Charleston has not, until
now, been the object of direct and de-
termined attack, she has felt her full
share of the evils which have followed
in the train of the rebellion. Many of
her most wealty inhabitants have been
reduced to absolute poverty through our
occupation of the sea islands, and all
property holders must have had ruinous
losses in consequence of the derange-
ment of all the established investments.
She has been brought low from her pride
of place, and has reaped only poverty
and sorrow from what she expected
would bring her power and wealth such
as she had never possessed South
Carolina and Massachusetts,, Charleston
and Boston, have often been contrasted
or compared as the two communities
which incarnated the two opposite ideas
of free and slave labor.
1.-THE result of the two years of this
war are instructive lessons az to the vi q.
tality of these principles in their opera
ton on the condition of the communities
inspired by them. South Carolina has
more slaves than white citizens, which
gives hen every advantage in the trial of
the experiment whether of the two sys-
TENS is the most profitable for public
wealth and strength. She has, or had,
q soil indefinitely remunerative of labor,
and which did once pour all but bound
less wealth into her lap. Massachusetts,
on the contrary, lying farther off from
| the sun, with q soil which grants no
| blessings that are not wrestled for man
| fully, has no fortunate gifts of nature
TO exempt her from toll, and has no I'M
! happy race TO be compelled TO toll for
| her Yet the contrast between the ma
terial prosperity of Boston and Massa-
| chusetts and her own was one of the
| keenest stimulants of the sectional ha-
| tired which led South Carolina into re-
Dellion. More than fiye-and- twenty
years ago William G. Preston, one of her
senators, and one of the first minds OF
the Palmetto State, after a visit TO Mas
sachusetts, told his fellow citizens that
they were distanoed in the race for
wealth by a state which had literally
nothing TO export but rocks and ice !
And he attributed it to the lack of ener-
| gy which neglected public improvements
and especially railways! They have
introduced railways, such as they are
since then, but il has not given a railway
velocity to population or to wealth
That quarter of q century has increased
the population of Massachusetts by neal
half a million, and her wealth in a yet
greater degree, while her southern riva
has scarcely maintained the nAtura
growth Of population in agriculture
countries, aud her property would prob
ably have brought actually less under
the hammer, even counting in her labO'
rers as part of it, when the rebellion
broke out, than when MIR. Preston mad,
his famous speech.
"And as il WAS in the days Of peace
and such prosperity a. peace would pro-
mote, 80 II has been since the opening o
the war. Massachusetts, has sent her full
contingent of men to the field, Boston
: has contributed of her best blood to th,
cause of the country, she has been ready
and willing to vote and pay her full pro
portion Of the public burdens, and TO ado
20 them as much more in voluntary con,
tributiOn, and yet she was never in
state OF higher apparent prosperity thar
now There never was more building o
houseB and Of ships, never was manutac
turing industry and capital more remu
nerRuyely employed than now; trade il
hOurishing, in spite Of the piracy whicl
British cupidity stimulates and fosters
poverty WAS never 80 small in amount
and crime so restricted in quantity, w