, 1865-07-25
HfKk1T OE TEzE SOU1MEKA
PRESS.
What IL Said and Done at the South.
NORTHERN CREDITORS AND souTuERs
nEBIAR9

The Charleston Courier makes An earnest
appeal to Northern mercantile creditors IN
behaI Of temporary 1enity toward the bus
tncss men Of the South. Merchants In
Charleston and elsewhere, who were former
II extensively engaged In business, express
their determination to proceed North and
settle old accounts rs soon as they can make
proper Arrangements, and they yery gene
rally declare that In time they will be abfe to
eatisfJ the holders Of cla'ma against them,
provided they are not hampe1ed with pfetnA'
tute law processes in their efforts to get on
their feet Bgafr. At present thy standauid
the wreck Of their fallen fortunes, but they
are neither discouIacsd ncr hopeless. Thy
recognize the new order Of things and their
new position aud responsibilities, and With
what they tare bean able to gather from the
general wreck, are seeking once more to re-
cstablish themselves In the various voca-
tfons and pursuits Of life. What they re-
quire Is confdence and support in their Of
forts, and time for the payment OF their lia-
bil,tiea. The Courier says:
Prior to the evacn4tton Of thls city, tha mar.
chants and olh.T citizens Of the community had
purchased cotton. on account Of the appreciated
a1ass se I'd Ta IT,
ofsupport Of their families sud Of reauming aeatn
their bustness operat!ons. Tneze was scarcely
h2n:S Hh9rs s9ns olt Nss 1ot stored a. na
With It u basls OF capital and credit. 1t Il
mistake to suppose that this belonged to
ss q a = e Hehoaa Mss e I'd, Th II .ras IL
sod. in fact the property Il indiy,du4's By
1s%tnl rS m purchase ana held for Lawful purposes.
Authorities required that all cot'on should be re-
purtad aad Delivered to its control, the princtpl
source Of Fecnperaton wss taken iron, the hands
either of disehsreine his tndebtedne.s or Of asan
renewing hts customary avoe4u1p. HIS Business
1equifed some capital, and that which had been
sssd Il atfP aus
ability to pay hts demands. The suuihern mtr-
dfePy II ssS
TIE CONFEDERATE DEBT.
Thc Columbia. q. c. Phaa,ir says: Ths
Confederate bends, for which cotton WAS
ually liqu;dated. The cotton seized BY the
limited States GJve.nment was pledged for
their redemption, aud t1e contract secures
the bopdlGiders such an equitable prouiac
that 1t will te we'll for those holding these
londs not to sacrifice them. Touching the
versS in the Northern papers, based upon a
threat Of Mr. Wendell Phillips to repadatc
the debt. The opposition papers ciy out,
why, Who psoposes to pay this debt!'
But Mr. Wendell Phillips Is ptobably not so
far wide Of the mark In bis shooting. It may
j.
the part Of the United States, to recognize
this Indebtedness Of wha: is now coasuit-
dated empire. They muat not suffer their
OWE people to sutfcr. The Southern people
have no other capital thau what lies In this
debt, and the best way to reconcile them to
the payment Of the Northern debt will be to
relognize and pay their own.
"LOTAL ylRGtNIANs."
The Petersburg LsdeE Is not in lovo with
tho '.loyal rirg,nians'' ,yho recently Issued
an address to the Northern p.ople. 1t has
the following clever but bitter paragraph
upon them:
The original, continuous, preeeut, perpetual,
Cnien mn Of the aie Of rir.ints, are exceed.
ipgl, hard to please. Though cons st,u1 csr.
MY q 10, ss pr sen o. ,hs pepola.en o.
Ctnst.tuiltn 10 plehss themseleet; they haYo
elected tioyerEot,. L'tntsnant Governor and
81 as sas5 s Gwp liz 0 eS hSg
a: large; they haye prescribed lest oaths 10 sc.
cure iheit pow. ID pesl,etuty; oo:h the United
n,s1led he "1ly District Judge IND n'stsiet A,tor
ut, in The stnte; they have eesel away cue third
| Of uur teiE1t.rJ they have imposed % Us Leg
tuss 'sa 81 hs'f on nu%bst; they
| five per cent. oft-e people, and required tl4t
nne fire per cent 10 redeem the ob igst;oas OF
/, et the,r fellow ctrzena, AID In cheap
-thty Own ue, IN short body snd soul, voices aud
rhtcf, ptope1ty and privileges, and still they are
lite legislature, Whereby the ulnety. five Pc. cent
Of the population were in psrt restored TO ctytl
! r,eht., 10 i mon: tsoua and dangerous infringe
| and that the only ssivatfoa Of The Commonwea ID
lies In securing the poHtr, patronage aad p!nndsr
Ct the State. y THIS ?eczazlJ minority Of her cu
II ought to b. remarked, however, that this
writer mlsrcp1esen:s the loyal FirginiAns,
who want to establish not partial but gene
ral suffrage, regardless Of ctlor and 1t ii the
friends Of the Indtz who want to keep the
power, patronage and plunder Of the staten
In the ha2ds Of part of the people.
The LynchbnrG Nfgintan, In an article on
Eligibility to ofIIce." says:
or ought ~ DC sell cted to represent this sta.e
IN The l. gtel.ture and III Congress. Tns qnes-
hnn te seked more especially with reference to
BODY IL ailgble-nobod; worth nenti onnx, macn
lets electILF. Within tho whole range OF ous
acquaintance We tcascs1s know man-no matter
can copsc.enuously take the mum 1ua test nsths
prrtc1ioed. They viii bar Ill lh,t are dt 10 rep
fe:e1t Vl1s'cia. Bne, nevertheless. onr best,
r. est as 1e + eoea = nves
ed with conventional po~ezs. euch Of thu mem-
bs5s . eag act sif .h,fs b. .ny} wl donotsss Or
ciude their assaciates. THIS is the o7ly pr ic',cs
bio way that Nc can perceive open 10 tho Les,s!.
tute. -.... ...
LABOR NOT DEGRADING.
The Mobile II i5uns says: The white man
must 70 to work. and work diligently. In
that is his salvation. Let him Comprehend
ibis in its fullest extent, and It will be this
better for him AID NIL those whom be respects
o. i0yts.
The Richmond Rtpub;e says: In regard TO
personal }ator. tho tins has gone by forever
when It can BIZ locked upon in southern
community as ltneatl the dignity Of gen.
til man. The returned soldiers Of the South
n1t stttiEg al example in this respect whick
ia az sttikirg ns their Valor In the field, and
which Is worthy the applause and emuiasiun
OF their countrymen. Whoever visits the
rural distr,cts OF VlrgIni1 will see youDg men
Of the St.te, never accustomed to labor, now
with the'T coats oil, and handling the axe and
the plt ugh, regardless alike Of the burning
sun aid Of the n0ti4uated p: ejudfces Rg aiust
nselut iLduetr5. In Ril this we Fec star of
promise for thc future Of the South, and 1t
not3s only to follow Its guidance to insure
tue true greatness and enduring welfare Of
society.
The Noble Ners says: The idea that labor
Ia degrading neyer did prevail. and does not
prevail any more at the South than at the
North. There is scarcely white man In the
South who does not know and has not felt
that In order to cnnbfe him to mlintain his
p sltion It has always been necessary for him
10 labor far harder than he ever saR negro
lahcr. Anegro neyer could and neyer would
perform the same amount Of labor that the
white u1ap did and be never will do 80. The
reason for this ought to be very plain. The
negro has no such aspirations as the white
man. This difference between the races al
TayR has nYfktN6 and THnsk carfn}n1r IT. rae