The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-24

with these black, movi e memorials OF oul
wrongs, polluting our sight, crossing US In
all the walks Ct life, and wanting theil
ms quence rs the tools OF our tyrants.
Nor Is the South q small country like
Ireland, incapable OF expansion, or like
Poland. but little larger thln South Caro-
lima. Her territory covers all area larger than
Great Britain, France and Germany combin-
ed. and can hold one hundred millions OF
people as easily as the ten millloas who nov
occupy it. Within thru yoars. Judging by
past progression, we may be thirty millions.
And VIC are united together rs otner people
are not united. Prosperity ofton divile but
the pressure of a common suffering Yields
together. Never has any people experienced
such ruin Of property at the hands Of an
other people as We haye exparienceG at tue
hands OF the North: Not only Lave we lost
all capital vested in slavos, wi b q cores
bonding loss or depreciation in all other kinds
of property, but the little which was left to
ns has been ha1ried down by every species
of oppression. No free people has ever been
insulted and outraged by 80 mem and vulgar
a despotism-a despotism OF vagra 1t white
mon. and ignorant, filthy negroes. The blood
of the Southern people has commingled in
q hundred common battle-ields. Our fallen
dead lie buried together. We stand proudly
isolated among the peoples OF the world,
with no hope for liberty and independence
but in ourselves. Seccssionists and old
Unonists frontier States and Gulf States
spontaneously, without EFFORT on their part
will find their sympathies gather tosether Tor
the great destiny which awaits thom. South
| Carolina is hardly moro intensey Southern,
| sitting amidst the rulns of war, than Kentucky.
covered all .er with Northern contunely and
burning with the memory OF her trampled un
and spurned neutrality. The effort on the
part ofouc peop e TO quell the spirit OF liberty
| or independence in another people invariably
yitalizes and in!ensties 1t. 10 become en-
slaycd is generally condition sclf-imposod or
acuuesced in. as the Northern Radicals arc
now dong. Butt tho South the Radical po-
licy of despotlsm produces only alienation ana
| deteslation aud stcrner aspiration for llber
ty. Unconsciouslv and unlntenlonally thcy
ar, breeding IN the South the clements OF au-
| thorltv. and rearing IN the future controllers
! OF this continent under tho bcneiicent sway of
| Ioalv FREQ governlnents; whilst they, with
| their mo ;kcrics of freedom AMI real despotsms.
| will 90 down IN contentious, separations and
blood. They have no vital ele nents OF cohe-
slon amongst them, but the d,sjointed, iGc)n-
sruous and bulky de-poti-m, whose power
they arc striving 10 erect into prcrlaStin, ON
impotence.
Nor, is til. ra1icaz;l N nth rs powerful rs
| tho railica. va ity inspires them to suppose.
Ihe North is nov divdcdp ,ople. and divided
unon the great essential principles OF thor
government maj 'rity may be (as "; be-
leve them to be) Incapable of approaching
free government. Hence they VII support
tl.a new dcsp tism erected over them. But
there is great body OF the public who do uu-
lcr.tand the revolution which has been lnaugu-
rated III their government and arc restless
under it's despotisn,. They fought in tho late
war merely TO prevent separation; and with tho
purpose Of only forcing the people OF the
Soathcra States to participate III the free gov
crnment established by tho Constitution OF the
United States. They find themselves betrayed
and mastered by the consolid ltlonists, from
whose balcfnl scii6nles tie South sought es-
cape They hlte lost the constitution. They
have lost the Union it Establish ID. anl aro be-
come the slaves OF consolidated despotism.
Tho people OF the North are again divided
between the tax. PAYERS and the dobl-own er5 and
bondholders OF the United States. Tho new
government is in CT on arbitrary aristUcracr
of capitalists. The taxes and debts which
drove the people OF Rome 10 seek refuge in lions
Slcer against tho PLtIicllns, we're noihinG to
the burCl ms Which Il " weigh upon the people
OF the United States. low e1acting IS this
aristocrucv may plainly be seen: they assert
late Presidential election that one billion six
hundred millions OF money, borrowed in de-
prcclatca plp,r currency OF the Uaited S.atos,
an;l payable in this currency on the face OF tho
act authorizing tue loan, shall bo paid IN
spccio At this moment the currency is some
spccis. Will not this unjust pretenson lead
directly to reputation OF the debt by tue tax
payers-tho peopl-? Nothing eau prevent
such rcsul; but resumption of specie
payments, which shall make the paper
currencv cqu il TO specie. Bat, in the con-
dltion Of tine banks nnd finances OF the United
States, Is this possible? and, if it is possible,
can al,ythn" prevent the financial and COM
! mprcial commissions SUCH q resumption must
nrDIuce? AS ouerous, however, rs the debt of
| ihe Uuitcl States now s, (belng the heaviest
in proportion to property now pressing on any
pcoolc III the world it constitutes by 10 means
| the whole load the rcyOltltonlsts intend to put
mon them. With the Radicals u heavy ballast
of debt is policy, to stea y and uphold their
d.sootlsT. AS soon as the present burden is
| acqulcsccd in by the people, they intend that
! the United States Government shall as Juno the
nlymcnt Ut all tho debs CONTRACTED by tho
S a;cs or local municipalities til oughout the
| North during the recent war. The late Thad-
| dcns Stevens estimated these debts TO b very
nearly equal to the debt proper OF the Unitcl
Sat :. With this programme IN prospect, it
is well to Judge whether treso eXpadicnts OF
oppression and consolidation Uy the arlslucracy
| of money W | lie patiently endured BY tine
ucople oil the North? TG;s;rengihrn iilclr tlcs-
po,isM. they have adopt-i II sSstcm OF bound
| iss; expansion OF territory. They have tx
| icndcl tie dom Iins OF tilu UutoI States to
! ih: North pole, and EoY seek to grasp Tho
Euua;or. This r0llcy, nndrf the system :
vu.ltcl by the South. Was wlsa. Whist tao
| Coustitulo vi tho United Sales existed. en-
| m lsiuu WIS u source ut S,rcigtiI. With the
| General Government, !i!ncL! IN lts powers to
| ihe genera! nctrSS OF all the States of the
lJniou. cluscs vi contest between the sections
waro cllmlnat d. Gut. uator TIC intcrlucl-
| dine system OF tho now government, exDaa-
son - iucyltabc DIS ;olntion. Congress, with
| arbitrary bowers ot legislation (wn.c!l is now
| ihc t;oycrumcut Vi the United StaLus), eau be
nothing else but cGAfnsed coaglomcra.:on Of
sec ioEs and Interests. struggling each to use
thc guyerpmant for its own prutic and ambi
! tion NJ 5 c;lon c:in promote its own inter
esIs. except at the cxpense Of other sections;
! 1r Governments navo no resources Of their
own and y warfare OF States and SECTIONS is
thp organization. Thus will arise discontents
and contentious Which, over 80 vast IL country,
will naturally produce SEPARATION and lpdapeu-
| deuce in it's several PARTS. Expansion may to
| in Russia; but the people OF the United States
arc no, Russians. O7cr such people as those
of thc Un,;ld States, %nl in 4 dcsputic mob
| ocracy, expansion is not strength, but " ak-
| ness and dis solution:
Having thus briefly skctchcd tho political
coudl,i0n OF the Uu..cl Sia:cs, and the re-
sources Of the North AMI OF the Iuth W.. como
10 Inc orc.;tio..-what sal br the future poll
cy OF Tie ,ieop.c OF Tie SoathP
If tno Lops;iiu uton ot The United States with
;h,. Uulou IL rsta!j isiied can he restored, VIC
s,y 20 the Poop OF III South. ict US support
tl.c Uuoa and v:ic C,nsi:U:i,n WHiie III :S-
sucLt,.uI wlih the ic''ilc ot tho Nur.h wc