The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-12-19

bales. MORE SralB, LOO. mas Decu IaiScu
than last year so that, though great part
of the price of what has been produced
will be Immediately consumed in paying
debts contracted in producing it, consider
able less outlay will be necessary to pro-
duce the crop of 1863. The country at
large will be immensely benefited by the
present crop. which will throw not much.
if any, less than $50 600, 900 of dollars in
to the lap Of the nation. although Of this
sum a mere pittance will remain in south
ern hands. Another eIually good
year must follow before southern
men begin to keep the wealth which is
the product Of their industry.
But the financial future of the south is
bound up with the future of her politics;
and the former has been already sacrificed
before the Moloch of political party, the
single object Of whose being is to keep a
few men. as we lately said, in the enjoy
ment of fat salaries. with stealings. .
The corruption and decentralization Of the
cotton raising negro population has now
! asseI reyond all previous conception,
though it bids fair to become SO much
worse, that the culture of the cotton plant
in any systematic way must speedily be-
come impossible. Already we learn from
private sources, in which We have perfect
confidence, that the negroes everywhere
20 armed to the teeth; that their
nights are spent in secret political assem-
bies. where TIE yilqst of white men incite
them to the most exaggerated bitter
ness against the planters, an! indeed,
asains, the whole white population /; that
they confidently look for speedy conhsea-
ton of the landed property, to give to
every negro forty acres and mule,
that on the plantation they are insolent
aud menacing in their demeanor, that the
planters are compelled for their own safe
~. to overlook and wink at the most ha-
grant idlcness and dishonesty that when
they threaten their delinquent laborers
with election from their cabins or stop
page Of rations, they the nselves are
threatened in reply with personal violence;
and that neither negro nor planter looks
upon the present state of affairs as one that
can be permanent The truth is, it can
no. be permanent. No Industry in tn :
world caa be permanent under such dis
advantages While Pennsylvania and
New England require not only stable gov
eminent. but an enormous bonus from the
nation, to enable them TO sell their iron
OF thelr manufactures to the people at Il
vastly greater price than We could buy
them for elsewhere. it is an outrage on
common sense thus by inflammatory leg.
isl;. zion to destroy gu industry that brings
nothing but profit to the country, and tina,
needs ant asks for no protection other
than the SAM laws as protect The people
Of the states at ,,arge. \ continuance Of
such legislative national self-dostruction
as now prevails may not result in Gniv9--
sal bankruptcy and the reputation OF cur
public debt; but, at least. it cannot fail
to cause the total ruin of the agricultural
productiveness of the southern states. 1t
is necessary to the existence of industry
that the relations Of the laborer to his en-
ployer should be harmonized. Mr..
Wade's late summersault shows how IRE
should shrink from the Inauguration CT
aerarlanljm among ourselves. Yet our
legislation IN the southern states has pre-
clselY the effect as If it had been dellber-
ately planned for the disorganization Of
all reasonable harmony between the south
ern laborer and his employer; aud the
ign Drant enthusiasm Of the negroes has
been reused by propagating such wild no.
tons Of agrarianism as neither of the
Grach ever dreamed of. Once again,
=
ton of wisdom shall unexpectedly possess
the government, the south has this year
seen the best year it can hope for through
bong apace in the future But we have
said that the fl lancial future of the south
is bound up with the future of her pollt-
ical. What, then, is the future she has
to look forward to? Let US see.
/ The plain meaning Of the pseudo-rc con
struction acts of congress. now being
pus ed to their most mer ,iless consumma
/ ton, is simply this lst. To register III
the south the entire negro population and
such whites as may unite with them ii
supporting the radical party in congress
ID. 10 prohibit the registration ct The
whites vino have real interest in The
quiet and prosperity of the country. )
10 submit to the voters OF the states thus
registered the question whether they vii
or will not hold convention for the re
construction Of their State. under the con
cressonal plan. Under this mode of pro
cedure, it may be seen what hopeful fu
tune lies before the South and the who'll
country. Either the States will vote 10
convention or for no convention. Th
white vote will be lirgely cast against con
vention for the present military rule
with all its disadvantages, at least afford
protection while reconstruction, such a
has been perpetrated in the state OF Ten
nessee, gives little protection but to negr
brieands The radical whites and the he
+ gro voters who are interested in subvert
ine all decent rule and authority will, G
, course, unite in favor OF convention
Now suppose although the case
hardly possible-that the convention
/, By such mockery Of suffrage rejected
. Then the radicals will avail themselves {
E the cry of southern contumacy; Mr.. Ste
: ycns mid confscation is brought Int
: play; the south is wholly ruined by TN