The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-11-17

The old sectional feeling Is not positively
dead in the South. II received an irrecovera-
BILE wound in the war, and it is dying; but 1t
does not like TO meet its fate. Here and there
Of ftful moments 1t struggles, kicks and shows
expiring contortions. But die 1t must. Witness
the result In South Carolina. The nat Of des-
tiny, as proclaimed by the people Of this great
republican empire, cannot be reversed or re-
tarded long. Public sentiment decrecs II, and,
if necessary, the still uplifted arm Of the gov
eminent will execute what is decreed. The
seed Of sectionalism was slavery. Anti-slavery
theorists, enthusiasts and fanatics created and
developed this feeling in the North, and pro-
slavery dogmatists and political secessionists
in the South. This, as is well known. caused
the war. But the war has killed slavery; and
this being the case, agitation on the subject
must cease in the end. The lingering contor-
tions of the radicals on one hand and of the
secessionists on the other are the natural con-
sequence of long and bitter strife; but they
are only like the chickering's of an expiring
flame.
The intensity, magnitude and cost Of the
struggle sectionalism brought upon US, and
through which we have happily passed thus
far, have made the people determined to finish
the work well, so as to leave no cause for
trouble hereafter. Hence the demand Of the
North that the South shall ratify the constitu-
tional amendment abolishing slavery forever.
There is no probability, it is true, of the insti
tuition being revived but it is possible in the
mutation of political affairs that an effort might
be made to revive it, and the people require
that this shall be placed beyond possibility.
The North requires, too, that the political and
social status of the emancipated negroes be
established upon a liberal basis, similar to
what it is in the Northern States in order that
there may be no ground for agitation in the
future So, also, it is required of the South to
obliterats every remnant Of afiliation with
secession by repudiating the debts contracted
in its support. Secession was. thoroughly de-
fcated on the battle field, and the future peace
of the country and stability of the government
demand that the principle and everything con-
nected with II be ignored. These are the neces-
sary conditions to effectually destroy section
alism and to make us what we ought to be and
must be--a united people, both in heart and
interests.
The scheme Of the radicals to force universal
suffrage upon the benighted negroes, and thus
create war Of races and bring desc
lation upon the South, ~ we'll rs the scheme
Of the old slave owners TO keep their former
slaves in quasi state of bondage by denying
them that freedom of action and those rights Of
labor and protection to which they are entitled
in their new condition, will not be tolerated by
The conservative people Of the North. Presi-
dent Johnson's programme for the political re-
organization of the Southern States is the proper
,ne. The extremists of both sections must con-
Torm to it, and the sooner they do so the better
Tor the whole country. When the conditions
laid down by the President and called for by
The people, shall be conformed to, sectional
feeling will soon die out with the institution
that caused it.
While this necessary reorganization isin pro-
gress there are other and important causes at
work to reunite the Northern and Southern peo-
pie, and to firmly establish the republic. Among
which the old landed proprietors Of the South
seek Northern capital to restore and work their
plantations, and the readiness with which that
capital is flowing to the South. In former
times Northern people as general thing were
not welcomed in the South. They were looked
upon with suspicion or jealousy, and were
often sneered at as Flooding, scheming and
inferior people. Now the Southerners want
not only the capital OF the North, but they are
calling ont 10 our citizens to come also. The
very chivalry extend the hand of invitation 10
the people they formerly despised. mighty
on in this respect, and il Is the best augury Of
the future. The South is just commencing lis
industrial reconstruction, and that will have
An important bearing upon its political reha-
Generals Of the rebel army, MEM
bers Of The rebel Congress, the foremost seces-
sionists and poudest men Of the South, are not
only accepting the verdict Of the war
in q political sense, but, seeing its social
and industrial bearing, they have resolved
10 be practical and adapt themselves
10 the actual state Of things. Many Of these
very men are now at the North endeavoring to
stimulate enterprise in and emigration to the
South. Capitalists are investing money to aid
In cultivation, in restoring the railroads. and
for other purposes many are purchasing
farms, plantations, mines and mill sites right
out; and . number Of emigrant laboren Of
different classes are going both from the North
and Europe. II may be remarked hero that
this emigration from Europe to the South,
which appears to be just setting in, snd which
is but the beginning Of tide, probably is
new thing, and may be attributed 10 he abo-
lition of slavery. Let the people Of the
Southern States exercise their common sense,
o. they appear TO. be doing to some extent,
and, forgetting the pasa, conform promptly to