The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-10-25
Running the Machine.


ern whites held in bondage, and with Brown
low and Butler and Phillips running the
machine" tie condition and the fate of the
Republic might be confidently foretold.-
What would fivetwenties be worth then.
IN. Y. Times
1t will not require such political engineers
to run the machine in order to reduce the
fve-twentie5 still lower below par than they
are now. They are daily falling in London,
being, according to the last quotations at
500. The exclusion of the South from re-
prosecution and the prolongation of the I'M
settled condition of the country, have already
affected the Government securities, and will
continue to do so, SO long as the radical poll
cy Of exclusion is persisted in. And if South
ern Congressional representation is to be made
contingent or dependent upon the adoption
of the proposed Constitutional Amendment,
it is likely that the exclusion of the Southern
States may be prolonged to an indefinite pc
Rod The South is not alone interested, by
any means, in restoration 30 her former
power and privileges in the Union. 1t is
true, that, as she failed to accomplish either
by peaceful or beligerent measures, the pur-
pose of disunion, which the radical or repub-
licau party has so successfully effected by the
present exclusive policy pursued towards her,
she prefers to be represented inasmuch as
she is to be taxed for the payment of the
" National" debt and the support of the Cen
eral Government. This is one of those old
dogmas OF democratic republicanism in which
she has been educated, end for which she
fought in the revolutionary period of our
common country. But. nevertheless if her
resumption of former relationship to the gem
eral Government is to be by her own voluntary
act Of Acknowledgement OF her ab!est and most
devoted citizens, then she may be well con-
tent to remain unrepfesented, and if it must
needs be, pay into the common treasury of
the country her unjust proportion Of expenses
of the Government in which she is allowed
10 representation, rather than consent to the
commission of an act which would be unjust,
ungenerous and nngratetul. If the Govern
ment Of the States, represented in Congress
by the majority can get along under the
present anomalous condition of political af-
fairs, and with the mani est want OF conf
dence in its stability and perpetnity, which
is now exhibited by the almost daily depreci-
alton of her securities at home aud in the Ed
ropean money market, then the South can
perhaps, likewise manage to endure in silence
the imposed exclusion from the councils of
the nation" for the time being, and wait
with patience for a change i'll the modes Of
Thought Of her Northern brethren" which
reflection may, perchanee, effect. In the
meantime, she might hasten tie coming of
this period by mpo5ingNpon herself an act
Of self-denial, of stern resolve, to cease the
culture Of cotton except for her own uses. and
devote her agricultural energies exclusively
to the cultivation Of the products necessary to
subsstcuce-hog aud hominy. This action
might perhaps, tend to elevate her material
worth, in the estimation of her enemies, and
cause more fraternal policy on the part OF
radicalism if, indeed, it be not really bent
upon carrying out its inherited puritanical
scheme of /" rule or ruin"