The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-10-23
The Course of .l,e South.

The following is an admirable article
from the Now Orleans Bulletin:
1; We should take no active part in Fed
eral politics. Like the State prisoner who
represents her acts and her misfortunes.
the South should be dignited, silent and
resigned to whatever fate even the trea-'
emery OF oppression may inflict upon her
Nothlng should be done to exasperato the
North-nothing to degrade ourselves. The
south should await the terms of restora-
ton offered her, submit them to domestic
decision, and signify her acceptance. re-
lection or modification of them
=. Inc South should apply itself car
which may befall it. This should be done
b1y pacific and domestic agencies II has
the productive monopoly Of great staples.
Leu 1t secure the capitalization and control
OF the specie which these States authorize
US to import.
:, The South is an immense consumer of
the merchandize Of tho world. Let it or
game IN those quarters where such enter
prlses may be established, manufacturing
interest which shall supply this great home
market. The South holds the key to the
commercial intercourse between the great
ana growing Northwest and the Southern
oceans Let her open, organize and con-
duct this commerce with her own sons and
her own shipping. The South has cast
upon, her 100000 of persons unfit for
social or political equality; let her, bv en-
G3ouraSlnS appropriate immigration, and
devclopfnS new elements of, and substi-
tutes Tor, physical force, render tho white
population the protectors and directors OF
the blacks. The Southern States-tho
southern social standard of courage and
vlrtue-must be perpetual. Let the South
adopt the means which modern civilization
demonstrates to be essential to the pre-
servatlon OF moral as we'll as political in
sttutions.
Such, IN our opinion, is the course of
duty to be pursued by the Southern pco-
pie. 1t should be Impressed upon the
country by the united press of the South.
Inc Southern legislators have q high
duty to perform. They should at once ma
tionalize each State by adopting a system
OF State administration and State develop
,ncnt. They should not Law on the table
pllis Tor raising money to maintain the
poor, to take up and discuss resolutions
protesting an abject loyalty-resolution
cere and reasonable.
10 natlonalizc the separate States, or
preserve their separate identity, q systcm
OF State organization is indispensable.
rms can alone counteract the fact Of cen
trallzatlon, and prevent our local govern
ment Dy distant majoritics.
Each State should organize a system of
education, industrial and material develop
mcnt There should be, in each State,
bureaus Of: !. Education, literary, scienti-
nc and political. 2. Manufactures. 3.
Commerce. 4. Minerals. Inquiry should
be made into the propriety and practica-
blllty Of aiding, by State credit or capital,
each of these departments of State pros
perlty. BY such a policy the Southern
people l'sg3i would live at home, cultivate do
mestlc harmony, cease to disturb tho SEN
slbllltles OF the political god-fathers and
Sod-mothers now SO much exercised by the
moral responsibility undertaken on behalf
Of the South.
The result Of this pacific and unobicc-
t1onable policy. would be this: If the Union
snail endure in its present form, and in
spite of the lawless indications at the
North, the South will enjoy inestimablc
advantages from itsprotection; if from the
in!c&pacity of Northern parties to enjoy
civil. liberty themselves, or let others en-
10Y 1t, except according to dictation, tho
Union should be broken up, the Southern
States will not be unprcpared for the ca
lamity, and will not be held as all appa-
mage OF any. unscrupulous majority, O,
transferred from hand to hand with the
varying fortunes Of civil war.