The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-30


secuted 1t must require several months-it
may require several years-to bring the South
back to that measure Of prosperity which 1t
enjoyed before the Rebellion; and Its people,
for a while, at least, VIII have to look abroad
for very much of the labor, the capital, ant
the material that will be wanted to start them
In the hard struggle TO retrieve their ruined
fortunes and set tliem squarely on their feet
again.
The clear policy of the people of the North
is to help the Southern people to rebuild and
equip their dilapidated roads, bring their
farms and plantations again under cultivation'
revive their productive energies in the use
full arts oil peace, and re establ sh their trade.
True patriotism and sound national economy
urge this course upon us. Every part Of
country benefits in the prosperity of the
whole, and the aggregate result of the harmo-
nious CO operation of its people in producing
and consuming, buying and selling, aud re-
ciprocally supplying each others wants by
the exchanges of commerce, is the largest
possible general wealth, prosperity, and hap.
piness.
fruitful in various natural products, not OBJ
tainable In equal abundance and with equal
facility and cheapness from any other scource,
to be suffered to lie idle and unimproved.
The North needs their cotton, sugar, rice,
tobacco, tar, rosin, turpentne, lumber, and
numerous other like staples and commodi-
ties, and it is deeply interested in the resur-
&c ;,,I, nd frod runioh mill
secure us those important articles in exchange
for our manufactures, and so forth.
1t is undoubtedly true that people, as a
general rule, will send their goods where they
get the best price for them, and purchase their
supplies where they can get them cheapest.
But trade, nevertheless, must take the chan
nels that are open to it, and seek the markets
that are, by such means, most accessible to it.
Hence, those Northern cities which most
promptly and most literally facilitate COM
munlcation with the Southern country, espe-
cially by sea, will reap, of necessity, the
largest share OF the Southern trade. There
can be no question about that fact. The pro-
position is self-evident, and it is already find
ing its verifcation in the heavy business
which New York and Baltimore are now car
1yipg on through their steamship connections
with Southern ports. There is, indeed, here
and there, an individual so blind and stupid
as to contend that the facilities of
commerce should not be supplied
until they are needed or, in other words, that
a railway or a line of steamers connecting one
place with other places ought not to be pro-
vided until there is trade enough waiting tor
them in advance to demand their use and to
fully sustain them at once. 1t would be just
as wise for farmer to say that the ground
for the growth of his next years crop of grain
should not be prepared until the crop is ma
tured. Such folly as this is hardly worthy OF
notice. The fact is, that the. g is now mach
more trade needing shipment than there is
American shipping to accommodate it; and
those cities at this end of the Union which
first and most freely meet this necessity OF
the Southern people for getting the merchan-
disc they want, and sending to a market the
products they have to export, will find their
reward in the result.
In connection with this subject it is said
and with considerable truth, that those who
would cultivate commercial intercourse with
their neighbors, should not unnecessarily
offend their pride or provoke their enmity
Whatever severity of censure the Southern
Rebels merited during the war, and will
always deserve from their honest friends, its
expression, now that the Rebellion is con
quered. and the Government is trying to re.
construct the Union, may properly be pre-.
termitted altogether, or at least relieved from
all that coarseness Of language and acri
mony OF invective which can do no possible
good henceforth, and must certainly seriously
ipjure those who indulge in it. The Southern
people made fearful mistake in their insur
rection. They are sensible of 1t now, anG
have been and are yet being terribly pun
nished for their folly. There is no true mag
nanimity in forever twitting them with theil
crime and its consequences. 1t is far more
manly and polite to help the fallen to rise by
every just and generous aid we can render
them; while every good citizen must desire
by kindness and Cancellation towards thu
Southern people, to speedily and entirely re
store the unity OF the nation.
THE RETURN OF SECRETARY SEWARD
The people will be glad to learn that ou