Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-06-24
CONDITION OF THE SOUTH.

Anu lHe ScncTOuS anu SIOWIDp IdTHS,
those plantations OF more than oriental m @
nifcence, from which ali this startling
wealth was obtained, and which have been
SO much derided by the disciples fNew
England, what was their value They
were worth over one Thousand four hun
dred millions OF dollars, while all the real
estate of a similar character was appraised
at four hundred and seventy millions.
Where now is this mighty wealth of the
South ? Where are her corn, her cotton,
and her cattle !? Why DO her inexhausti-
BILE acres lie barren and unbroken Why
do her gigantic resources invite none OF
the capital of the world ? Why does
business enterprise turn away from this
natural paradise of trade ? Why does the
emf grant, in search of home, 90 to colder
harder and poorer regions? There, yoI
can look and behold the reason fer your.
selves. The Radical Congress has killed
the life, the hope and the prosperity OF
the most fruitful portion of the Republic.
Once it poured into the lap of Foster
ing protecting government a stream OF
treasure rs deep and strong as the curren,
of its own Mississippi. Now it hangs like
a paralyzed limb, hel pless incumbrance,
a poor pensoner and burden upon the pa
tience and bounty of the Of the body. Its
fields are smitten with an unnatural steriltv
Every production has withered and died,
as if some vast upas tree had cast its shad-
ow over all. A fatal and desolating blight
is upon the land upon the mountains,
and upon the corn, and upon the
oil, and upon that which the ground
bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon
cattle, and upon the labor of the hands. >
In her ancient glory and strength she could
meet one half the taxation which now dar-
kens the face Of the land. She could take
from yonr shoulder one-halfthe load which
now bends You to the earth. The South,
in natural condition of prosperity-the
child of protection instead of oppression
an object of love, and of hate. spoliatiou
and vengeance on the part of the Govern
ment, could pay two hundrend and fifty
millions year, of the public revenue.
Under the present murderous policy,
however, toward her, it costs two hundred
and fifty millions year to govern, crush
aud destroy her-making a difference OF
five hundred millions, an amount almost
equal to the entire expense of the govern
ment. The Radical policy has not only
set fire to and consumed One.half of the
granaries, the stacks and harvest fields OF
the United States, but it likewise taxes
what is left to keep standing army over
the smouldering ruins it has made.
But / may be told destruction of slavery
is the cause of the destruction of so much
wealth; that the figures which produced
from the census oft 1860, were based on
slave labor. At time that the South contain.
ed white population of 8, ,6O4, 900, its black
population numbered 3,S96,OOO. There
that population, trained to labor. remains
to-day. The ravages Of war and the re.
suits Of emancipation have been made up
or nearly so, by the law of natural increase
The statesmanhip of the country finds q
laboring population in possession of the
most fertile and productive region of thu
earth, and by its policy turns that regior
into barren desert and bowling wilderness
The rirh lands are all there, The Draw
ny and stalwart labor Is there, and actua
want is there But the miserable aud in
. cendlary politician of the North 10 alsc
there; the Infamous Union League, will
which to seduce the negro to his ruin, il