The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-19
A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
Direct Trade with Europo-Ono OF Its
Many Advantages. ..,. i, ., ".
TO TIE Ep1roR,oF THE NEWS.


Your leader, .'Drec. Trade" Tin Mondays
issue calls attention to an enterprise, which,
IL properly taken in hand must and will result
in ,ncalculatle good to the South. Though "a
ruin amidst ruins" love what is left of my
country (the South) as dearly as did the
whole Of it, six, seven and eight years ago.
Any enterprise likely to contribute in the
smallest degree to the rapid recuperation Of
the ex-Confederate States, has not only my
cordial concurrence, but kindles in 9. once
Joyous, but now saddened heart new hopes
hopes that lead me to contemplate the South
Gas some tall cliff that lifts its awful FORM
bwells from the vale. and dway leaves the storm,
though round its breast the rolling clouds are
spread,
Eternal sunshine settles on its head"
In view OF the fiendish crimes and outrages
recently .(durlng the wary perpetrated on us by
our quopdam pretended friends north of "Ala-
son and Dixon's," it appears to me that direct
trade is the right thing IN the right place"
Indeed, the commercial despotism Of the North
over the South prior to the war was NIT only
Cult coast it should never have come into be-
ing. In the effort towards making the enter
prise a complete success, would it not be we'll
for us to waive for the nonce QUE anborn re-
pugnance to Yankee ideas and notions, and
adopt one Of their dogmas (t'time is money"}
as our starting point? IN other words, to take
steps Immediately to make the enterprise an
moment? Delay on our p Art might induce the
masters and slaves Of the ''best government
the world ever saw to add another link to the
reconstruction chain now manaciing US, with
view Of impeding our success in the matter.
1t is impossible to enumerate, in q short
compass, the many advantages that would ac-
crue to the South from direct trade, nor is
such the purpose, at present, 1of the writer of
this He will content himself with stating one
that meets him on the threshold. 1t may en-
able us to Res into the South come gold and
silver to supply the place Of that Of which we
have been ruthlessly and vilianously robbed.
This done, we may be able to dispense with an
unreliable greenback currency, which has no
real. substan Aal intrinsic vaiue. and can never
be made to have any, by any act of any gov
ernment. Rags in their normal or primary
state have no value. Can government, oy
changing their form. converting them into pa
per and stamping them. give them what they
Id not Origir ally possess Its dearness
that gives everything Its value The labor
and expense necessary to getting gold and sill
yer with other metals from the ''bowels OF the
earth. J" contribute to enhance their inherent
intrinsic value Paper money is easily made,
(rags being always plentiful, and az easily des-
troyed. It can therefore, heyer have any real
value. breath makes 1t. and a breath may
destroy it at any moment theyeafter, r
At another time nay write more on this
subject. NV object IN writing this is simply to
give the ball you have SO timely set in motion
q kick, IN the hope that others may do the
same. CATO.