The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-08-18
The Southern States and the Union.

their Obligations, and selling their credit
in the market. North Carolina acdatS q
loan. Having been in the best credit, she
is now losing it. A party of specializing
sharks induced the late convention Which
framed Constitution for her to incorporate
in it appropriations to certain improvement
schemes in which they were interested.
The trick was a Radical swindle, by which
q large vote was roped in for the Constitu-
ton. This appropriation Of money was
entirely out Of the province and interest Of
n Constitution but it entails heavy obli-
cations upon the State, and at time when
abe il least able to meet them. Radicalism
there, as it has done everywhere, has pros
trated the industry and prosperity Of the
State. The public revenues are cut down
and the public expenditures increased, and
and the consequence-suspension, If not
reputation.
The first demand Of North Carolina is to
pay the per diem Of the Radical iucompe-
tents, white and black, Of the bogus Legis-
lature now assembled in Raleigh. Radical
rascals must bepaid, come what will. SO o
hundred thousand dollars are wanted for
that purpose and they will sell the credit
of the State at any price to get it. The late
unconstitutional Convention swept the trea-
sury, and it must be sufficiently replenished
to pay the Radical legislators per diem.
But what next? Is it expected that un-
der the paralysis of Radical rule that state
will pay her obligations rs they 1au due'
when she has to borrow money to pay the
wretches who assemble at the capital in the
name of Legislatures? Vain thought! Ii
she does, she will do better than most OF
the other southern States have done. NO
there can be no confidence in the solVency
of any southern State as long as 1t is under
negro domination. Even Radical capital
lists will not trust it. Indeed, there can be
no thrift, private or public, as long as the
States are in this unhappy condition.
There Gun be no encouragement for either
enterprise or industry. On tie contrary,
the tendency is to drive off the bone and
sinew, the young, hopeful, and stout enter
prise and energy Of the land, that cannot
bear the chains.and obstruction OF oppres-
sion, and prostration, and poverty.
This IS q s,2jcct to arhich the northern
p,tJlic mind should be more .forcibly directed.
THERE NEVER CAS BE REsUsCITATIoN IN
THE SOUTH UNDER NEGRO RADICAL RULE.
Never! And does the North expect to
escape the consequences o. the continued
prostration of the South? Then she will
awake some fine bright morning to her fatal
delusion.
There can be no peace, no trust, no hope
for the South under the wretched rule OF
the governments inaugurated by Radical
ism. No capitalist Gun put faith in their
honesty, their wisdom, or their stability.
That delicate plant, /" Confidence" without
whose presence there is never any prospe-
rity, cannot possibly grow in a land so
cursed by incompetency and dishonesty.
Even in the most prosperous conditions of
the nation have we not seen what distress
has followed the " loss of confidence :" a?
Look at the past money panics of ZIG, '37,
AS, and 50 on. With no change of do
mestic economy, no civil war, no exclusion
of States from the confederacy, no recon-
Straction, the country was each time re-
duced to great distress. Pauperism and
crime increased, ruin was spread over the
land, and all men were. troubled. Those
who were not ruined were troubled to save
their property, and those who were safe
were concerned about the general welfare.
Statesmen were painfully occupied in con-
sidering the means to allay the public
panic, restore confidence, and revive credit.
No recovery was possible until this Was
done.
If such were the circumstances of q loss
Of confidence at such time, should we be
surprised at the condition Of the people and
Government now? Confidence is not only
dead, but there is no hope for it until there
is an entire revolution in our political con-
dition. The body constituent has been so
adulterateG by the introduction of inferior
elements, and the Acknowledgement of the
superior, that the body representative is de-
graded to a condition Of absolute incompe-
tenoy to take charge Of the public welfare.
How could it be otherwisef The represen-
tatiye is sure to reflect the character of the
people who select him. Hence our south
ern governments have lost dignity, wisdom,
capacity, and honesty, and cannot command
the respect and confidence of the world any
more than they can fifty govern the coun-
try. Inevitably the prosperity of people
so governed must be destroyed. Every
branch of enterprise must be crippled
every invitation to immigration and invest
ment blotted out, and in its stead the dark
hands of the haggard form Of Despair will
waive them away. .........-
The extirpation Of this dreadful misrule
is the great question of this day-the great
national question. Ii it does not receive pro-
per attention-if it is showed aside for the
consideration of greenbackS and gold by the
northern people, they will find that they
have devoted precious time to wretched
idols which should have been given to their
country--that they have lost the accept
ed time" to save the real "life of the ma
tion," and whether an opportunity to per-
form this public duty be again offered them
will be altogether predetermined.