The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-27
CHI A r L ES TON.
SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH az, 1869.
Waltz!

! Souen JuoC INV. we noeU not engage In
any rash enterprises. We need not seek
for our own with the strong hand. Nor
need we, on the other hand, to stoop and
truokle to any. Our worth to the country
! has already been demonstrated. We gave
it honor and power by our statesmanship
/ in the past; and our products are needed to
restore the balance Of trade in the present.
What we are worth to the country we may
| estimate from the thousands of millions it
has freely paid to keep us in the Union.
The South is its richest investment-w worth
i all the government has expended, and vastly
| moro. o,i.4 ri sa.i.i3
In their dealings with us, the Republi-
cans have endeavored to nystify their own
| record. They wish to abase our self-con-
seriousness. They would fain impress us
with the idea that they have no occasion for
US, and that we may sink or swim as we
please. They have endeavored to create
the impression that we are incapable Of
managing our own local affairs, and have,
therefore, assigned to us strangers as rulers,
and negroes as equals at the polls. The
Republicans are simply playing with the
South the game Of bluff. .,7..,.
f The simple African may not. understand
the trick, nor the Southern renegade, who,
for the sake Of Official position and emolu.
ment, has perjured himself; but the true
citizens of the South need not fall into the
snare 'tset in their light" nor sell their
birthright for mess of pottage.
The North needs our cotton. And we.
for our part, need African subordination to
the law of labor and the obligations of com
tract for its production, and also financial
facilities for its transportation. These ne
cessities will be supplied, whether we me-
morialize Congress or not. We are merely
anticipating the course of events when we
pour oil upon Summers broken head, or
stuff paper into brakes oapaoious pockets.
That money and civil order are ecessary
to restore our industries, is enough to ex-
tinguish these baleful meteors. And, as to
our local oelebrities-Sco and Corbin,
Pillsbury and Brisbane-the are doomed,
just because they are fighting against lati-
! tu1c ana climate, against the laws of Ma
'aro and 'he principles ofpolitical economy.
ghav ar. tiraeN n, e>.9o-, Sianraa contond;rr
with rhe stars in their courses" They
may aitoS Jaws and Boundaries, hey may
witty .Ae State and Us peaceful communi-
ties, they may intoxicate the ignorant and
league together the corrupt; but they can
not blast the air with mildew or the soil
with barrenness. They cannot prevent the
South from producing or the North from
making its productions thrive.
Major Delaney, in that curious life of his,
which has 80 much the air Of an autobiog-
raphy, admits that, under the new system,
the cotton culture cannot hold it's own. SO
much the worse for the new system. The
disciples Of the Tribune contend that the
people are happier when there is no expor-
tation, dnasmuch as they themselves con-
sumo all they produce, as in st. Domingo.
But country which wants exports Will
prove intolerant to all such humanitarian
ideas. It cannot and will not relegate the
laboring class to political or industrial sine
cures. Whatever else may occur in the fu-
ture, we may be quite sure that the West
India arrangement Of Cuffee and his pump
kin vines will not be permitted to stand
anywhere in the United States. i"'
Another circumstance deservesto to be mem
toned as o favorable augury for the future
Of the South. The government is absolute
ly committed to the policy Of establishing
direct communication between the Allan
tic and Pacific States. For this purpose
bonds to the amount Of over twenty mil
lions Of dollars have been given to the Union
Pacific Railroad It now appears that du-
ring certain periods Of the year, the road
cannot be Operated Notwithstanding
the mild winter and the immense snow
sheds that have been erected along the
route, the road had been, on the 9Th inst,
closed by the snow for twenty-five days,
and for distance of two hundred miles
west Of Cheyenne. The depth Of the snow
is from thirty to fifty feet, and in the deep
cuttings and In many Of the canyons it had
dsifted to tie top and IL packed hard. In
these places It does not melt until June.
Accordingly the Senate Committee on the.Pa-
ciAc Railroad have reported that athe route
sis one not to be relied upon by interna-
"tional commerce" They accordingly re-
commend railroad on the 35th parallel OF
latitude as q practicable route to San Fran
CISCO 365 days in the year. This would
strike Menphis and bring the trans-conti-
mental commerce Of the Paci6e, as well ss
its tide Of travel, through the heart Of Che
Southern States. Better still iss the ri
Passo route Of which we spoke yes
terday. The necessity for q Southern
route is manifest and urgent, IT, in.
deed, any route at all is to be maintained
Men may build railroads along tho snow
lines Of the vast Western wilderness, but
the road that pays must follow abalmier