The national Republican., 1868-12-05
Texas and NRisisna VS.. North snd
south q lima and yirginio.

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negroes. It thus demonstrates that Texas
acceptance Of reconstruction under the laws Of
Congress to that end, has no foundation what.
ever In fact; that Texas Is as asgrantly 10 re.
bsllion, 90 far as the security Of life and prop.
srty Of Unionists 10 her limits IL concerned, as
when confederate law required Union whites
and negroe, to be chased with blood. hounds
and hung on being caught. The difference in
the actual situation now and then 10 very
simple. Then such deeds were perpetrated
openly, and justified by their so.eallsd civil
and military law;-now they are perpstratsd
In the dark by villains who hide from the mil.
itsry. but arc justified BY the society sur.
rounding them, who are their alder, and abst.
tors to the extent Of assisting them to escape
punishment.
This will be the view taken Of their case By
Congress, rely on II. Legislation will shortly
occur here fixing Texas in q proper political
stdtus-in . itatus such AZ her population Of
outlaws and out-throats should occupy, Until
they cease to bs public enemies and demons,
Congress will insist that they be dealt with
pretty much as Sheridan finds II necessary to
deal with the savasss Of tho plains. Any
community Of Texas that psrpstrates such out.
rsgos as General Reynolds details, must and
should bs held TO Just such accountability as
Sheridan exacts Of tho villages Of "Biaok Kst-
tie, O." "Tssr.Tsil," and other savage chiefs
who know no law but that Of their own bows,
rides. and spears
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munity Of Texas that permits murder and
outrage to bs psrpstrsted with impunity in Its
midst on Unionists, white or black, may surely
expect to be broken up as Sheridan and Custar
break up hostile Indian villages, Texas will
become ss psacsable as New Hampshire Is to.
day. That Is the remedy, and the only remedy
for the disease; experience already teaches
I turn with Qualification from the contem.
piation Of the state OF things in Texas to that
exhibited by the current condition Of Affairs
In North and South Carolns, where the blacks
in the Legislatures are moving to relieve the
white leaders Of the rebellion in those States Of
tho civil and political disabilities necessarily
inflicted on thom for the public safety at the
close Of the war. Though Texas, Georgia,
and Louisiana may still be in practical rebel.
lion, 1t 10 clear that North and South Carolina
are rapidly returning to their proper places
under the Government Of the United States,
and that tho time is swiftly approaching whom
they can be entrusted with the management Of
all their own affairs. The value Of the stocks
and bonds Of South Carolina and Of capital
invested 10 the different industries and enter.
prisss prosecuted within her limits Is incrsas-
ing with wonderful rspidity. This means
simply that life and property are becoming safe
In that State and that consequently her nat.
ural resource, are already playing their Issiti.
mate part in the work Of her rscupsratiOn.
North Carolins 10. however, destined to bs
the hrst Southern State fully restored to Its
place iu the Unioni because tho instincts Of
large majority Of that States whites are nat.
urally in sympathy with free labor. The de-
plorable Ignorance Of the mass Of her white
labor makes the task Of her regeneration In
sOms respects . difficult one; yet their sympa-
thiss being In the right direction, North Caro-
lima will, in very few years, take the lead Of
all the Southern States in tho adoption Of tho
metuOu1I AOutnt iuoAst tuab hbEo Ahhae
the people of the North so much more intslli-
gent and prosperous than those Of the South.
have no fear whatever for the future Of North
carolinai more especially as South Carolina Is
eyinoing 4 disposition to rival her In sound,
safe progress.
Virginia, being nearer Mason's and DiIOn's
line, Is receiving much tho largest share Of
Northern and foreign Industrial emigration,
which is silently but surely rsvolutionising
her ideas. the one thing needful. The pre-
judicss Of class, caste. &o., among the whites
Of Virginia, were strongest before the war
next to those prevailing in South Carolina
Yet a. In Virginia they were not so giaringly
destructive Of we'll nigh every commendabls
interest in the State, they have not, - yet,
bsen ss thoroughly swept away as In South
Carolina. Nevertheless. they are passing oH
quite as rapidly as could have been expected.
The id Yankee, the Iri.hman, the German,
and most Of all tho negro, are fast educating
the Virginia masses to comprehend that .
mans advice deserves authority or influence
only in so.far as bis mind, character, and acts
arc Of public or private utility-praetiosl
utility. Thus the id Yankee and the other
classes I name above arc thriving amazingly
10 Virginia, by hard work and the exercise
Of more skill In their respective oAllings than
Is manifosted BY others surrounding them.
They openly eontemn and dsspi!s those who
would hold Virginia longer bound in the chains
Of b ante.rebollion theories the large planta
tion notion the better philosophy and econ.
omy Of ignorant labor tho necessity for an
ariitOcracy Of great pretensiOns and equals
| unthrlft, a.. DO. Their remarkable current
sucosss in affairs Is the great Virginia mis-.
sionsry Of the times. Tho ideas and habits
upon which they arc so signally thriving are
silcntly but surely undermining the influence
Of all, whether c!-ievant stump-speakers, grog
shop hauntsrs, or mourners over the dissp.
Psaranos Of tho former statelinsss Of the
'fns old Virginia gsntlomAp," who would
obstruct tho sound and swift progress Of the
State.
FINANCIAL STArIsrIcs.-Ofthe$ 1901, AIS, 900
Of registered bonds issued during the last
n,oal year, nearly s27, 900. 900 were issued in
exchange for coupon bonds. The entire mum.
Der Of notes, fractional currency, old and new
inuss, postal currency, United States notss
and coupons examined. counted and destroyed
daring the year ending with June last 10 sll4,
o72, 900, representing $l47, 900, 900. An aver