The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-10-16
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rHE ONLY ROAD TO PROSPERITY.

see, that this country cannot be restOr-
ed to the prosperity which the num-
bers Of its population, the enterprise,
ingenuity skill ofits people, the vast
ness of its territory the the fertility ofits
soil the diversities ofits climate, and the
vafity of its productions, ought to pro-
duce, until that large section which, ,pri-
or to the war, furnished in its great sta
piles. the chiefbasis ofour fore:gnand do
mestic exchanges giving employment
to our shipping, business to our mer-
chants, occupation to our mechanics, and
taking in return for its own exports, or
purchasing with the proceeds of their
sale Ourmanufactures, the produce of the
dairies Ofthe middle and Eastern States,
and the horses, mules, meat and grain
of the West shall be restored to con-
tentment and order, placed upon ba-
sis of permanent peace, and given an
opportunity TO establish a system
ofindustry which shall be efficient, re-
reliable and successful. Unless these
conditions can be fulfilled, there can be
no return to the prosperity of former
days.
What hinder5 the restoration of the
several sections of the country 70 their
former business relations. and the re-
establishment of the system Of recipro-
cal exchange and mutual advantage and
profit, which in better and HAPPIER times
gave our country a golden era, and car
ried Ills forward upon a tiood-tide Of bu-
siness enterprise and success, such as
made all men marvel and admire, and
as the world never before saw? No
man can doubt the cause. 1t is as evil
dent and indisputable as the existence
| of the great globe itself. The Jacobin
party has destroyed the system of in
dustry formerly existing at the South,
which was the source of the marvellous
production of that section, and contrib
uted SO largely to the building up and
successful prosecution of the business
enterprises Of the whole country, and
will not allow the mischief it has done
to be repaired by the adoption of any
wiseand practicable measures. Wheth-
er or not the relations between the
whites and the negroes of the South,
which the Jacobins have broken up,
were better or worse than the best sys-
tenn of free labor which can be estab-
lished between the same two parties,
we have our own decided opinion
But it isa question which need not now
be discussed. 1t is enough to say, that
the Jacobin party is preventing the re-
sumption OF steady, COntented, and re-
liable labor, on the part of the negroes,
without this, the crops of the South
cannot be successfully cultivated and
harvested. Until this end can be Sc
cured, there can be no improvement in
the material interests of the country.
The JacobinS are not satisfied with
having emancipated the negroes That
could, perhaps, have been got over
without any serious interruption to la
Dor. or shock to business. We have
our doubts about it. But we will as
sumo that this could have been done,
for the sake of going on with what we
have to say. Had the two Races been
left 70 themselves, and allowed to ad-
just theirneW relations az they could
mutually agree, il is very likely that Il
reasonable amount of labor, and a fair
yield of agricultural staples, might
have been got out Of the new order Of
things. But the Jacobins have not re-
garded the negro as q laborer. Their
policy has no reference to him as a la
borer. They ignore his existence rs Il
labOrer. They have other uses
for him. They are operating upon
him and fixing his status, solely as a
political agent, for their use and bene-
fit. And in doing this, they spoil him
as a laborer. In making him a politi-
clan, and in several States placing him
in position to rule the whites, and in
all of them converting him into poll
ticaI equal and co-ruler with them,
they have pulled him up, given him an
undue sense of his importance-an i'm
preston which the negroes, of all races
are the most ready to take on-led
him to spurn the idea of taking en-
PlOyment as a servant under men over
whom he is taught that he has become
the political master, and utterly de-
moralized him for all useful purposes
in the general enconomy of society.
This it is which keeps the South un-
settled, and prevents the resumption of
her industry and production. 1t will
continue to have this effect so long as
the Jacobin experiment of recOnstruc-
ton shall be continued. 1t will keep
the blacks too self important, irregular
and unreliable for laborers, and the
whites discontented, hopeless of mate
rial improvement, and determined to
resist and throw off the system of usur-
patton and oppression which has been
imposed upon her, at the earliest posi-
bic moment. and by whatever means
she can make available to that end.
The election of Grant will not re-
move, but will only continue and in
tensify the evils and disorders growing
out of this condition of things. There
is but one remedy open to us in this e.
mergency. Set aside the reconstrue-
tiOn policy, and let society at the South
settle down into its natural order.
Then weshall have peace and prosperi-
ty. We can secure them no other way.
Let no man be deceived by representa-
tions to the contrary. From the very
nature of thingsa Jacobin triumph can
only perpetuate the denominations
which Jacobinism has produced. 1t is
as true in public affairs, as it is in ma
ture, that like produces like. Let
thoughtful men take heed.