Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-27
DAILY COMMERCIAL.
wEDNEsDAY MORNING. DEC. -. 1868
LABOR EsoE0EABLE ATT TEE sosprzE
FEE NEW EZRA PROMISED
BALTIM 0 R E, NJ d.

FEE NEW ERA PROMISED.
The South is rapidly becoming alive not only
to what constitutes the prosperity and welfare
Of individuals, but also to the growth of States
and no better exemplification of this factneed
be adduced, than what we get from those old
centres of political heresies-the CaroIinas
An article from late number of the So,,tb
CdroiiRiaR insists on the nobilihy Of y,Lo,.
that the ''chivalry'' of the present time can
best be illustrated by any Knight desirous Of
elcvating himself, by his taking hold of work.
where there is so much to be ACCOMPLISHED.
whilst the Wilmington Jommal complains that
labor is shrlied, that too many down there are
doing some sort of trading, rather than poinq
Into the business Of producing something TO
Grade on" and it futher-that "tbe
''earth and its products are the things after all
ito make country, and to feed and clothe
sits people, and those of the South, ,sof all
'the people in the world, need to pay atten.
''ton to these things"
Now, if any one has been in the habit of
doubling the beneficial results of the grea+
changes in progress at the South, in the NH.
mate bearings these changes must have unon
their future prosperity, the PRONUNCIATION of
views like the foregoing must convince them
of their mistake; for when the Southern noo.
pie accept these conclusions, their progress in
the future is assured. Taught in the mast 10
consderlab rasdegrading, and especiallyman-
ual labor,-those branches of human industry
which build up cities and navies. mills and
manufactories,-it was their prime error that
delegated labor in the single line of agricu,
ture, was sufficient to make them great and
formidable: they did not see that which late
events have taught thcm-that NOTHING can
well be despised which subseryes the progress
of communities in wealth and substantial
mower n was only when the war taugbi
them, by the need Of materials for defence.
that arms, clothing, and all else wanted, must
largely be made amongst themselves, if they
would stand the least chance Of succeeding.
that such enterprise became honorable: and.
at last, learned in the lessons of adversely. no
people have come to know better the value #
a navy, Of trade and commerce, of cloth man
uiactores. and the thousand things beside.
which up to that period in their history they
were wont to obtain from abroad.
And now, remembering the theories so IN
dustriously taught for years in all their re-
views, that Cotton is KING" that the spa
triarchal system was the only one worthy the
dignity Of great and ambitious people, how
wonderful is the change wrought; and who
could have expected from any cause rcvolu-
ton so remarkable? Considering all this, !.
there moi the best reason possible for accent.
ing the results of the war as final; is it nccdtul
such people longcr-a5 some would have II
do-when thus they frankly acknowledge the
revolution in opinion that has come upon tcm.
the vital change that has been made?
Had these views in regard to labor pre-.
vailed down there years ago, the conflict could
never have occurred. They would have known
that the iron-workcrs, rather than the cultiva.
tors OF cotton, were the true sovcreigns in
modern times; that the foundry must in The
very nature Of the case dominate the cotton
field, that people without ships, must Weld
in the long run to those who could build and
man them. All this, so plain to them now,
should have been known at least to their lead
ers and it is one OF the saddest chaptcrs in
human history, that only by waste of life
and treasure unparalleled in the events of the
past, could the needful lessons be taught. and
those false theories he overthrow which were
such bar to all progress.
But with these errors demonstrated and
what is more, acknowledged, we insist again
and again, that it is in the interest not only of
the South but of the nation and the world at
large, that it should be set upon its feet as soon
as possible. Noportion of the earth surface,
for the same space, is more essential to the
progress of trade and commerce, to the health
ful action Of finance, than the cotton regions
of the South: for whilst it has been plainly
enough demonstrated, that the production Of
cotton bad no such commanding importance
as was attributed to it five years ago, the long
deprivation the world has suffered makes it
more than ever necdful to the interests of COM
merce, as they at present exist.
Finally, let us hope that if, owing to causes
apparently beyond CONTROL short supplies Of
cotton may be the order of events for the
next year or two, after that period and aciH
white tabor made honorable, the world will
never know what it is to experience scanty
supply again. And if the South has been re-
stricted in its onward march hitherto, BY
views utterly inconsistent with such advance,
let us look forward with sanguine anticipa-
lions to period in its history, when its pros
perity will know absolutely no limit. The
war has not deprived it of the reputation of
being the best cotton region known; let it be
the purpose Of all down there to press into
service all the labor ayaiable-white and
black-by making such industry honorable,
and it will achieve destiny such as the
proudest and most hopeful of its statemen
never in the past contemplated.