New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-11-12
n1lsInEss nEAcTI0N !. ANp PoLITIes.

lther Southern States the applicants were nov p
onp in coming to the sensible conclusion that e
It was cheaper to wait at home than IN WASH "
ington City for the uncertain day OF the open
inr Of those doors. And this conclusion was l
improved by a highly opposite amendment
bappily expressed by the enerable Jacob t
Barker, Of this city, who, after remarkang
that he would go home to wait, added land
in the meantime / can attend to my own
affairs" The example here set is typical OF
a disposition and practice which have be-
come more and more prevalent IN the eH-
cluded States of the South as the prospect OF
admission has become more and more IN
definite and distant
The Southern people, not ambitious to
figure in history as a community OF MlcaW-
hers. by addressing their whole genius and
energy to the business Of waiting for some
thing to turn up in the political world, have
been, especially of late, strenuously endeavor-
ing to attend to their own affairs and to alb
st.n from political matters in which they
have no voice. SO far have they succeeded in
the cultivation Of this spirit that some North
ern Journals which once complained of South
ern alaerity to participate again in national
politics, are beginning to denounce the grow
ing political apathy manifest in the South as
something still more deserving of rebuke and
chastisement. Such crities-and their spirit
pervades the, dominant party in the North
can be satisfied by neither spontaneous action
nor spontaneous inaction on the part Of the
! South; the one they regard as equiva-
lent to a new form of open rebellion, the other
as nothing less than taeit treason.
Meantime the efforts Of the Southern people
to reorganize their chaotic industry, and to
develop their various resources, have been
made under fearful disadvantages, some Of the
eraYest Of which have resulted from poiti-
cal situation which, however deprecated in
tie South, cannot be controlled by any power
residing there. Much has been accomplished,
i nevertheless, against immense odds; but not
enough to satisfy those sanguine and capa-
cious spirits in the North who have pictured
the South as realizing for them an impossible
combination of felicities, including the
triumph of their political and social theories,
the qualification of their sectional jealousy and
hatred, and an unlimited opening to commercial
A enterprise and speculative adventure. Then
disappointment and their wrath are not dis
guised as they begin to discover that the
!, general ruin which they sincerely helped tc
make in the South refuses to be coined at
once into dollars and eagles, or to blossom in
d single season into countless greenbaeks.
J The New York Times, which seems to pa
rade profession of friendly feeling towards
; the South as a cover to enable it to approach
and give fatal force to its blows, is among the
foremost Northern journals to charge the ex-
elusive responsibility of business miscar-
Tiapes in the South to the Southern
, people, The results of oyerstoeking the
market, Of introducing merchandise not
| suited to the demand, Of the inability Of the
population, by reason Of shortness of crops,
to buy miscellaneous goods at inflated prices,
are not, as both generosity and logic would
require, referred to their proper causes, but
are debited against the South in the cata-
Iogue Of her political offenses For example,
after stating that Most Of the Northern traders
and operators who had gone to Southern
dishearten and to digust, the Times adds;
There is no longer reason to doubt that, as
rule, the Northerners who have gone South tt
Il trade; to grow cotton, or to farm, have encoun
tered reception the reverse Of friendly. Their
are localities, of course, where courtesy an
kindness have been displayed. Generally speak
ing, however, there has not been kindness o
courtesy, or fair play, or even adequate protec
: tion to life and property.
t The same journal says: ''The South is ter
: ribly in need Of capital and labor. With re
: sources excelling those Of any other region Of
5 the globe, it is poor even to beggary." Thi
f is most true. and the impoverished condition
here indicated would enlist the pity and Sc
cure the forbearance Of a generous enemy
But the Times represents the class who can
not pardon misfortunes and lniseries of other
1 which are Improbable to themselves. Tht
: helpless plight Of the Southern people ha
contributed to disappoint business expecta
4 tions in the North. This is enough to adj
j another ingredient to an unappeasable sec
/ tional raneor. For, if there be any truth ii
the misanthropic saying that there is some
: thing pleasant in the misfortune of ones bes
} friend, it is unquestionably true that there
, sometimes nothing pleasant in the misfo1
+ tune of ones most detested enemy. Th
. Northern chagrin at the unexpected results q
Southern impoyerishment looks much like
! ratification of the latter remark. The South
3 alas has been left rich in little, aside from
I the unassisted bounties of nature, except tn
9 bones and the memories Of her glorious dead
: Yet she is insulted, upbraided, aud threatened
y because moss will grow over ruins, becaus
= golden harvests will not spring where desola
= tion has been sown, because graves are nc
Y boards Of golden ingots, and sepulchral stone
e will not sweat liquid pearls.
! A New Orleans correspondent of the Ne
!; York Times who appears to fulfill the ofic
. Of giving convenient cues for the animadye
Y sions Of that journal on affairs in the soutl
2 saysin recent letter.
2 The banks have ceased loaning money, an
Il everybody seems to be inclined to curtail e;
!. penses and they all grumble about the hard time
The great impulse toward this reaction is found
the threatened and actual withdrawal Of NortheT
Il capital, aud the swamping of business interes
! resulting from it. 1t is useless to deny thes
startling facts, and it is still more useless to
q tempt to give any other reason for the withdraw
! Of Northern money than the disturbed polite
/" condition Of this section
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