The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-11

ton to the South, it is as well to disabuse the
public mind of the error. The gross NUMBER
Of white males in the Southern STATES 70
213S. 369; that of the freedmen is ,zJJS4l
1t will be seen, therefore, that the "nl.e , Iaoe
is in excess of the colored in the southern
States more than a quarter of million OF
men. The total distribution of these num-
hers shows that there is majority OF z0lO
freedmen in Mississippi, and OF 6439 In S0uth
Carolina. As the advocate OF harmony be-
tween the races on the basis OF equal legal
rights, we desire the freedmen to remember
that the limitation of the franchise does not
affect the comparative numerical ability OF
the two races but that this majority of
quarter of million of whites remain to work
that nature will emanaipate them in a few
years. That while there can be no more
black immigration into the South, there will
be large white immigration, with relatively
large white increase. The supremacy of the
colOred race will be but temporary and local.
They should therefore take their rights and
be satisfied. They should not lay the founda-
tion of any discomfort which may be revenged
by retaliation at future period. Such is our
advice. The white race are in little danger
of losing any right which they are not willing
to concede. The colored race should observe
moderation at the present to prevent retalia-
tion in the future.
The South should, moreover, learn the truth
that it is no longer an equal section. 1t is, in
deed, no longer a section at all, and should
hasten to desectOnalze itself. 1t should be
content to pass into the masses Of the nation,
only claiming such power as its representative
numbers and substance entitle it to. The
great staples of Southern production are as
much objects of national con- ern as the gold Of
California. II has been shown by the autho-
rity of Hunts Merchants Magazine, that the
proportion of values exported by the South
during the war is greater in respect to the
gross national values imported, than it was
before the war. This involves a necessity on
the part of the natives to repair the levees
and deepen the channel of the Mississippi, as
also to afford the cotton planter and opera
tive all the aid which the Government can
bestow. The competition between the Eng
lish cotton-grower and the American cotton
grower-the competition between the Ameri-
| can cotton-spinner and the English cot
| ton-spiuner, is becoming of eminent i'm
| portance. The British Government has lent
its aid to its own planters and spinners. Shall
the United States keep up a war of disturbance
! against an interest so important and so much
! discouraged 1t cannot be. Nor will the
abolition sentiment of the world tolerate the
] continuance of slavery in Cuba merely be-
| cause they thereby obtain cheaper sugar.
! Cuba will be acquired by the United States,
and the disgrace of paying bounty to slave
| grown foreign sugars, at the expense OF free
! grown domestic sugar, will be removed
! 1t is in the commercial expansion OF the
South, not only by the Gulf 'front.' but by the
radial lines penetrating interior Mexico, that
the great West and the South can derive an
immense accession to their prosperity. The
advisers of the South have been always op-
posed to commerce. They had the narrow
idea that nation might be free and prosper
GUS upon its riding horses and firearms alone.
In this they only adopted the idea of the
Honveds and Camanches the first of which
was conquered by Austrian and Russian am
munition and food, and the other will be soon
worn out by the attrition of whisky and the
| revolver. So the Southern statesmen neither
| wanted ships nor manufactures, preferring to
| create dependence beyond the ocean, which
should take those mechanical departments OF
defense off their hands. England adroitly
used and abandoned them. The commerce
| of the South Seas would be far better and
more profitable to the South than emigration
to Brazil or Tuspan. Men may stay at home
| in the charming climate of Virginia or Loui-
siana or Kentucky, and make a maintenance
! upon the products OF the tOrrid tone. This is
shown by the example of populous England
and thrifty Holland. The immense and ever
expanding horizon of Western civilization will
require more and more the products of the
equatorial regions. These cannot be grown
! by artificial means elsewhere. They must b
drawn from the hot-house of nature, where thu
regulation by the thermometer. Railroads anC
steam lines will connect these Western con
sumers with these productions. Why shoult
not the Gulf ports of the nation conduct thi
agency? The direct trade between the Yves
and Europe will be always the property @
New York and her sister Atlantic cities, be
cause they lie on the trade line which connect
these interests, but Il South Sea trade, neve
yet fully really realized from the days of Ra
leigh and Hawkins to the present, is a sui
stantial commerce., and will separate itsel
from that of Europe as has been indicated.
Southern manufactures must improve. TIL
same statesmen have taught that the tw
feld-workers out of every five ON a give
population should maintain three non-prC
ducers. The experience of modern civiliza
tion teaches that the other three can aid i
their own maintenance without in any maune
impairing the efficiency of the feld-wor&ei
The South is not ali capable of staple pre-
duct. Much OF its territory is .mountainou
and subject to early ffosts, as Kentucky, Ter
nessee, Upper Virginia, Georgia, and Mort
Carolina. 1t has always occurred to us tha
because one man in the Delta lived by the Gu
ture of sugar, there is no especial reason VIII
another living near mountain cataract
Georgia, or that Switzerland of America
Tennessee-should not forge iron or spin col
ton. Mr.. Calhoun thought otherwise, and S
turned over the cottOn-spinning TO England @
New England.
The Southern people have the raw materii
and provisions for cotton manufacture. The
have thousands of women and children VIII
were subssted last year ON Federal rationl
They must have there pauper system or
u