Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-11-17
THE FUTURE OF THE SOUTH.

The Sou h still bleeds. The chances are that
unless che consents to help herself her suffer-
ings and disabilities will increase indehuite
iy. Northern capital, that sought in Investments
in her enterprises and resources shortly after
the close OF the war, is being Withdrawn; first.
because OF her unsettled political future; and
next, because those who led her into rebellion
bid fair again to obtain control OF her Affairs
90 far as the mastership Of her expressed and
enforced popular opinion is concerned Free
and intelligent white labor, upon which her
substantial relief and progress in the man de-
PEND. is not compatible with the continued
ascendency of the ideas incuicated by her late
ana prospective governing classes. The pro-
posed amenoment TO the Constitution and the
iron clad cath seek to prevent the re tabish-
meat OF those classes in power. IN order to en-
able the South as soon possible to avail her,
self of the business methods and modes tina,
prevail throughout the middle States, incIud-
ing the improved system of popular educa.
ton which has been at the bottom of all the
remarkable mechanical, industrial and mon
etary progress which the latter section has
made in the last third of a century. The govern.
ing classes at the South, forgetting nothing and
learning nothing, resist the proposed amend
ment, because II would sooner have the South
continue ignorant. poor, and deprived of State
equality rather than give up their individual
and class aseendeney in their own local affairs.
II the mass OF the Southern people elect TO
continue IN power among them the men who
forced them int rebellion, they by that act
to continue Messrs. Thaddeus Stevens. Charles
Sumner Co. in power over the action of Con
gress. In so doing they elect TO intensity the
harshness Of the policy towards themselves of
the extreme radicals, certainly Tor the next
three years IA thanks to the heartless treachery
of the democratic party le aders in the recent
elections the President has little more power TO
defeLd them than Macmillan of Mexico. He
is bound to faithfully execute any act of Con-
gress bearing on their case passed over his
veto, even if il be an act OF general confisca-
ton and sweeping annuIment of every par
don ne has granted. He has no au thority to go
behind the edicts OF Congress until the SD.
preme Court may have nulliffed them: of
which there is no prospect-none for years to
come. The democratic party is even more
powerless than the Pres ident to aid them. and
Is not 10 be trusted 20 that end or no sensible
deductions can be drawn from its conduct in
the fall elections. With the South repre-.
scented in Congress by the reduced number
IF members In the House and her full share
OF Senators, contemplated by the pro-
posed Constitutional amendment, she will
again make the Presidency a power i'm
the State for her own defense She will so
take her sffairs sut of the cycle of political
uncertainties az TO double the selling value of
every acre OF her arabic lands. and Increase
a hundred fold thar of all her mineral Lands
and her every water power. She will get large
skilled and monied emigration from every
desirable quarter OF the globe, and will neces.
sarily speedily 80 elevate her own white labor
ing population as 10 make " in a single genera
ton or go equal IN intelligence, industry and
skill 20 that OF the North. In maryellousIy
short lime she will regain asceAdency in
national affairs, and under circumstances ,u
which all patriotic men will accept her ascen-
dency as being unobjectionable. 1t will be
simply the result Of the rapid development of
her superior resources Of every possible de.
serIption, her greatly increased population the
more thorough training of her public men, and
the fact that her influence IN national affairs
VIII be directed to check the growing power
OF Capitalization which threatens the entire
destruction Of every feature OF American gov.
ernmentai principles wherein the latter a,ffa,
from those prevailing in despotic governments.
Surely these ends are worth consent on the
part of the South 10 shake OF the influence Of
her rebellion leaders, military and civil, in the
conduct of her local affairs. Surely, in her
present strait, IL rs better that she be fully rem
resented in the United States Senate and rem
resented upon really equal terms with the
North in the House of Representatives, than
10 be in no way represented in either House of
Congress, and utterly At the mercy Of rdessrs
Stevens, Sumner & Co.