The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-01-04
[From the Richmond Enquirer.1
A Calm and Sensible view of
the Situation.

unfortunately LOT tue OOublerh
States, the supremacy of a certain
party at the North depends or the
odium in which the Southern people
are there held. Whatever adds to tho
bitterness against us adds to the Re-
publican strength. Every injurious
allegation has its value in votes, I'm
der these circumstances, we may rs
well make up our minds to be traduced
and yillifed rs a business and by sys-
TEN. The demand for tales of horror
will create a market and supply. The
trade is especially dilligent whcnevera
WEAKNESS or disquiet in>lines the
Northern people to candid views, and
thus imperils the Radical supremacy.
If that party were to thrive only upon
our faults as doctors by disease and
lawyers by litigation, we could not
perhaps complain. But we must ex-
pect much more than this. SEQ how
the Northern papers are daily filed
with s~candalous inventions, prepared
to order. The difficulty in New Or
leans gave opportunity for misrepre-
scntations, which was so happily i'm
proved that perhaps States were thus
carried in the late election. The OK
tr%aordinary activity and audacity dis.
played at this moment in the New
York Radical press, shows how entire
ly they rely on SANDER of the South to
SECURE TIER present sway.
Since such is to be our lot, it is wise
TO adapt ourselves to it as well as we
may, TO consider its effects in our cal
c~ulations, and seek the best hat re-
mains to us. In the first place, we
must consider that the hostile state of
the Northern mind, and the incessant
vituperation by which it is fed, will
render tho influx offoreign capital and
population exceedingly slow. W. have
been hoping for a large emigra-
tion Of II valuable sort, but il has not
come, Our unfriendly friends" jeer
US with u failure, and we have failed.
The tide of emigration pours into the
United States in an unprecedented cur
rent; but it enters at Northern ports,
where it is warned against the South
as a nest Of villains, and pointed 10 tt o
West, and to the West it flows. In
short, we are not to expect any appre-
ciable assistance from the introduction
Of emigrants or outside capital, 80 long
us more than ten millions of people,
with multitudes of newspapers, and the
ear of the world, find it congOnial and
profitable, and in the lineo their bust
ness, to destroy our credit and assault
our character.
Nothing remains but for us TO rely
upon ourselves, and to do the best we
may under the circumstances. Lock
ed out from the North and Europe, and
locked into ourselves, let US at least be
true to ourselves. If we do this we
will grow and strengthen-if not Sc
fast, yet more securely. Since we have
Ito depend upon ourselves, we must the
more carefully and generously stand
by each other, and hefp each other, in
all the walks of business. Our own
manufactures; u own merchants,
our own farmers, our own schools, our
own newspapers, our own cities, must
have u patronage and our sympath'
los; and we must all DO dlligent TO sup,
ply each other with the best articles
on the cheapest terms. Let there be
none who would take advantage of the
general purpose Of mutual support ia
indulge negligence, or to discard in.
gSnuity and energy.