The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-03-08

Reconstruction Committee TO close
up its labors, perfect It's whole pro
/ gramme, and endeavor to present some
plan of arrangement that shall be sat
isfactory TO the country.
A party whose policy QSstructs and
DELAYS the restoration of peace, and the
return of industry and prosperity, will
20 before the people under an nor
nous disadvantage. a political organ
ization whichsdepends for its suprema-
! cy. on a maintenance of the public in
felicity and distress, rests on the most
precarious of foundations. A single re-
| vulsioE Of popular feeling, q single burst
Of the public Impotence, suihces 10
| overthrow such a party, and to bury 1t
under a mountain ofshsme and odium.
/ Yet such is the attitude of the present
Radical party in this country.
That there is industrial anarchy
not only in Mississippi, hut throughout
the South, is a fact as pslpable as pain
full 1t is a stern and grim reality,
which it is not in the power of glowing
fancy or calculating misrepresentation,
to conceal or to render innOcuous.
Rose colored accounts Of the benign
! operation Of the freedmen's bureau IN
this neighbOrhood Or that, or OF the
promising experiment IN which Gen.
Pillow is engaged in Tennessee, and
MI. Jones in Florida, and MIR. Brown
in Mississippi OF Louisiana, are no Z
tradiction 10 the broad fact b a South
ern industry is PROSTATE and paralyzed,
dormant if not dead. The exceptional
cases but prove the rule.
The prostration we have described
was an inevitable consequence, as the
least reflection will suggest Suppose
some power superior 10 the English
| Government, were 10 declare the ope-
~ratiyes of England emancipated from
the thrall of that bondage which Is lar
more grinding, and far more marked
by discomfort and p~rivation, than ever
was seen in American sergltude-and
were to assume the Office OF feeding
and sheltering and champlonlng those
who should. in consequence, break
away from their employ ments Sup
nose as a result, the great factories
should have to close, and the fertile
farms 90 untitled, while vast crowds of
the former laborers were thrOnging the
cities and suburbs TO seek ]precarious
iobs. or draw rAtions from the govern
ment commissaries2 Would it be any
disproof of the manifest general ruin,
TO point TO some one who had been able
nevertheless, 10 secure the running OF
! his spinningjenny; or the cultivation OF
his po~tato-patch, or even ms farm Z
| This would but be a parallel TO the con
dition of the South, through the IN
/ dustral anarchy" which has been visit
cd uDon US. Those who are response
bic for il may console themselves, or, II
they can. felicitate themselves, on other
considerations; but it is not candid or
honest TO deny the industrial anarchy
which they haVeproduced, or shut their
eyes TO its effects.
What prospect is there Of q termina-
ton to this industrial anarchy None,
if the radicals rule. Their political tao
tics, their party capital, consist IN To-
menting those passions and exciting
those aeitations, which are fatal to
Southern production. Their policy
tends 10 create ~jealousies and hostility
between the two races; makes ~agitators
instead Of laborers, of the freedmen;
utterly forbids that confidence and
sense of security in Southern citizens,
which are essential as stimuiants to en-
terprise: discourages and Obstructs EN-
irrstion to the South, either from
Europe or from the North, by the IN
setiled condition in which it keeps the
Southern States, and 10y the tales OF
horror, invented for party advantage
How can the South revive, under the
pressure of these adverse proceedings
1t is manifestly impossible; and those
who countenance and support a policy
so disastrous, oughtat least 10 be honest
enough 20 confess the consequence,
and accept the responsibility. II they
can find outside arguments sufficient
for their justification, let them do SO;
hut let them admit that the indus
trial anarchy in Mississippi whSh
draws after il, mercantile bankruptcy
in New York is the work.
Not only IS the revival OF the pro-
duction OF the great Southern staples,
confessed to be necessary to the pros
uerity of private enterprise in all parts
of the Union; but the exchanges OF the
country and the finances of the United
states government are declared Deepen
dent. Tor a safe and healthy condition,
on the coming crop of cotton. 1t is
easy TO see, in this convic ton, a motive
for the current prophecies Of g large
crop. Men are prone to predict what
they desire, and what they feel they
must have. Such predictions are, how
ever. but the fond delusions that rosy
dreams are made Of If Government
were 10 extend every possible encour.
sgement aud assistance 10 Southern
production, IL could scarcely avail to
countersct in any short time, the "in-
dustrial anarchy that o prevails.
But when everything IS done which a
great and dominant party could do. If
such were the Rvowed object, TO pro
long the prostrstiJn, confusion and
helplessness, of the Southern industrial
interests, to reduce Encouragement to
despair, to keep out foreign capital, 10
prevent our reinforcement 10y immigra-
ton. and 10 impel our own people TO
emigrate-the prospect Is gloomy in
deed. New York may as well prepare
Tor bankruptcy at once, if industrial
anarchy in Mississippi will produce
IL. unless the Radicals Gre speedily
driven from power, and unless meas
ures and sentiments, more healing and
encouraging than any one in power
has as vet recommended, snail be m
braced by the Government and people
IL Is time to stop all such talk as
treason, and traitors, and rebels, grow
ing out of a political disagreement As
honest as wss the dispute over the
Bank Of the United States The de-
cision being accepted, sll parties TO the
contest have nothing better they can
do than TO conform 10 it. ~renouncing
ali ideas Of Furnishing their adverse.
ries for being honest and brave, as
uu-American, unm8nly and unwise. IF
Northern prosperity depends on South
eru industry, let the North remember
that 70 promote its own thrift, If II &C
knowledge no higher motive, i should
give the South encouragement ana con
hdeuce and security and enterprise, by
Justice and hberality and kindness. If
II elect another course IL may crafty
unchastened passions, pay homage TO
its own political iniGlihility, and dis
play a jealous intolerance of tie honest
opinions of others, equally qualified
and equally entitled to Judge but let it
bear in mind that it is the wooing
smile of spring, and the genial s%olicita-
,jons OF summer, and not the buster
ing violence and chilling lrosts Of
January, that restore the earth to yer
dure, and crown the year with beauty
and abundance-SCHh.sL
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