The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-10-23
Industrial Reconstruction,

We copy the following from the n. o. Times:
The day of small endeavor with great results OF sue
cess without enterprise and wealth without economy,
has gone by in the South. Let people feel this
and let them accept along with the POLITICAL the social
and industrial revolutions which have swept over the
South. There is scourge can blister society when
organised upon principles of equal justice and unlVer-
sal industry economy and effort. This is the 'recon-
structon" the South demands. Leave vain dreams OF
life of luxury, idleness, Incidence, shadows of a
night that is spent and salute the morning, although
the dawn inauspicious with cheerful looks and
confident aspirations. Organise on new plas rise to
planes step out Of the circle Of encroachment in
to the broad fields of real visible tangible life and
draw from the realms of unused arcana the ele-
mcnts of success; the guerlon of wealth and happl-
| ness individual prosperity and national power
We of the South distinctive people. The lines
which were drawn around US by the courage and the
of war have been obliteraed by its msfortunes.
But magnanimous people have accepted conditions
Of Union which sacred to the sense of honor Let
the North not hesitate to accept the submission OF the
! South which is founded upon a sentiment enduring
life and triumphant success There is perfect
safety in such reliance. The radical North should dis
trust its own success 1t should remember that there
is another North, not radical, which will yet demand
an explanation for all partisan extremes
Let political be secondary to industrial reconstruc
ton Be not disturbed by the prevalence OF military
despo1iSm, nor by arprehensions OF negro domination
Both lack energy substance brain Both are shadows
absorbed and pale away like the shadows of night i'm
the morning dawn.
We of the South must put all the sinew5 OF our
minds into the work of producng-so too the slnews
of our hands But the method is the first lesson to be
wrought out so that whatever is done shall be done
with effect shall produce good fruits, shall make the
lands that are bghted blossom into grain, and the
arts into wealth.
For these ends let the people of the South unite.
Let every town and every waysde have its meetings,
and discuss the question of Let there be inter
change of all ideas calculated for the general advance
mcnt. That which will do let it be done by universal
effort for universal ends Let capital be coordinate
and labor be cooperative. Let there be a fusion OF
ideas. Build factories work FARMS construct railroads,
houses, steamships all on broad principles Of universal
utility Let there be fusion Of abor-toil in COM
mon separate to individual interests, but in COM
mon to the common good.
When the great South shall have achieved its indie
pendence of two dominant dcspots-cotton planting
and sugar planting when its powers of thought and
effort shall be pervaded by all elements and crcum-
scribed 10y restraints, then it need not fear the
dusky dcspotism of negro domination, the meaner
despotism of Radical usurpation
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