Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-11-22
TO ADVERTISERS,
THE FUTURE OF THE SOUTH.

THE FUTURE OF THE SOUTH.
No. a.
In answer to the STARS arguments showing
the importance of the South's prompt accent
ance OF the Constitutional amendment-thati is
TO herself-some of the Southern papers are
urging that she can afford to bide her time in
her present anomalous political condition.
This means that she has more TO hope for from
something that may possibly "turn up"-what
no one pretends as yet to know, or even to i'm.
agine. We believe nothing of the sort. Delay
IN It's acceptance Is to postpone her political
rehabilitation indefinitely, with probability
that the terms under which she will eventual
~ be restored TO equality IN the Union will be
harder on the present generation of her citi
gems. This is the opinion accepted by the
world outside of her limits, except the North
ern polItIciaHs who sympathised with her at.
tempted rebellion, TO whom anything but the
rec establishment fher secession influences in
the ascendant in the General Govern
ment is death to their own future
Now. so long as she remains shut out from co.
equality in the Union with this prospect tina,
barber terms than those proposed in the
amendment will eventually be exacred from
her, every existing disability resulting from
the war will press daily more and NOR, heayl
Nv upon her. Her people who had ample
means before the war, now poor indeed. will
grow poorer. Their existing debts and such
they may continue to make will take from
them their property. piece by piece, and at less
than tenth of it's real value under ordinary
circumstances. Receiving no immigration to
speak of. of pecunIary, skilled, or muscular
value, and incapable herselfun the circum
stances in which she is placed OF de veIoping
her resources. increased want and increased
Ply seal suffering can hardly fail to overtake
her already too unhappy people. Their pres
ent estates Will be cut up and aliened by their
own courts, without thereby securing TO their
present owners any practical relief. On the
other hand. If speedily restored to her position
in the Union, unbounded wealth of capital
and skilled and muscular labor will pour
in upon her with wonderful rapidity, and
every sale OF aught she mas to dispose Of of
present or prospective value, Will realize more
or less applicable towards re-establishinR the
owners thereof in independent circumstances.
Thousands, tens of thousands, If not hundreds
of thousands of her people who no " hold what
Will be but nominal wealth with Der exclusion
from coequaIity in the Union protracted. will
speedily lind it amply available for their en-
richment beyond their conceivable dreams.
through her prompt rehabilitation in the gov.
eminent The real value of W hat they have IN
sell Is al this moment better known TO North
ern capitalists and spectators. than TO its in
diyidual owners. The former would gladly
Invest In the South were they sure her career
OF substan tial progress would soon begin Not
10 invite them to invest without delay is uex,
TO madness on the part Of the South Itis To
refuse to have the wealth of the world poured
into her lap when she most needs it, 1t is To
refuse to permit her laboring populationsto be
educated AT good schools and in work
shops Of every description which will
increase her industrial power beyond descrip-
non 1t is to refuse to have her agricui.
ture improved by the settlement in her
limits Of thousands on thousands who practice
the improved agriculture of the North, where
soil, climate ana other natural resources con-
sidered, oIe cultivated acre in farms paws the
owner and the laborer quite two dollars for
every one now accruing 10 the sou thern farm
ing land-hoider and his laborer To refuse TO
accept such changes in her condition because
10 do so viii temporarily weaken her hoped
for representation In Congress, is aadnsss be-.
yond expression The chances that she will
eventually carry her point In this matter of
fxtent of representation are not Il We in the hmm
dfed. Will she continne to grasp at a shadow,
and thus lose the positive and certainly attain
able advantages set forth abovei To refuse to
accept representation Id Cvcgress on terms Of
practieal co-equality with the Nolth-for, after
all, that lie what the constitutional amend
ment aims to bring about-Is TO insure
tnat In but single quarter Of CEN
tury her properly will have changed
owners almost as completely as though
done by an act Of general eonfscaiion:
becoming the property of men who will
have obtained IL little by little, by labor in her
midst, without the use of capital impor ted from
abroad. That Is, without the change Of own
ership resulting in any benefit whatever to
her present property holders. While these
changes are in progress the parties for whose
fancied benefit she refuses to be improved and
secession leaders-will be rapidly
the ladder OF importance as well as
of life. Without means TO live without labor
they VIII become of less account at home
than the men surrounding them who, com.
mencing life without resources, except Of
mind, character, and labor, are demonstrating
their greater utility and value to society, and
gradually acquiring It's property. Thus, in
twenty-five years, the policy # refusing the
Constitutional amendment, will to-
tally obIiterate the late rulng class of the South
as class exercising any power whatever
over her course or destiny. The nope Of
this class, as Of all other classes Of the
people OF the South, rests wholly upon
the speedy settlement OF all the questions
AT issue between herself and Congress.
With these questions settled, hey will have
equal chances in the race of life with all the
South's other citizens, except, for the time be-
ing, in the matter OF the right to enter the ser.
vice of the General Government, and TO parti-
cipate IN ITS administration. Then, II mani.
Testing In business anything like the force.
acumen and eapability they manifested in poll
tics before the war, their chance Of retaining
the leadership OF southern affairs will be all
that their dependent press can desire. Reyolu-
lions have never yet gone backward. All must
now re alize that the abortiye Southern rebel
lion has resulted IN . sweeping revolution in
the ideas preya iling in the North, as well as
in the material affairs OF the South. This must
speedily change the prevailing and past ideas OF
the latter. We strive but to save all classes al
he South from being virtually overwhelmed
the progress of this ineyi liable revolution OF
ideas, and 70 secure tor them all the substan-
tial advantages within their power TO work
out Of their lessons and sacrifices of the war
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