The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-04
Union OF the South ana weM.

been u prejudice to the interests under their
patronage. For the West is already well
nigh overshadowing power; the South is
already rebuilding her ruins and renewing
her harvests; an alliance Of the two would
control the finance and the policy Of the re-
public. The sphere entered by the new CO.
partnership would afford them monopoly
against which all the resources Of Now Eng
land craft and blustcr would be expended in
vain.
Such a>coalition may not be established
! speedily; but sooner or later it n'""t t'.i..
nlncn Nc...-- ',.,a.na the Two sections
TOO intimately TO allow OF their artificial sew
erance. They gravitate toward each other;
and pcrchance the abortive attempt to nc
celerate the movement may arise simply
from the circumstance that il is influenced
by causes which operate with the stcadiness
OF law. But let it be remembered that n
force which cannot be intensified, cannot be
arrested by human eXpedients. An ava
lancho cannot be hurried; but let not the
simple cottcr below take courage from this
fact The ponderous accumulation to which
days and nights and months and years have
contributed their stores, is already in mo-
ton; il is coming down silently, solcmnly,
like mountain cloud; soon it will lie upon
him, and there is no bnlwarE lie can erect
that will stay its progress for moment, or
prevent tho overthrow il brings
The Southern people, who are in q minor
ity, are constrained to seek for protection
and real restoration, in a concert of action
with others. Nor have we occasion for de-
spair in- the failure of similar attempts in
former years. The reasons for our i'll sue
| cess are apparent now. Thus, for example.
| we vainly hoped, during the war, that the
interests OF England would lead her to in
| tcrfcrc in the struggle. We did not know
how deeply the working classes of that coun-
try had, been prejudicch against our cause.
nor how thoroughly they had been persua-
| dcd that the abolition of African slavery
would cheapen cotton and elevate the fac
tory laborcr. The s..'stcm which reared the
products OF the South was thought to infect
the free hands that wrought upon tlhcm-to
enslavc the swart artisans of Lancashire,
and 10 deprcss the social status of Lowclrs
--.-factory girls
With cotton sticliing 10 their curlsr
Thus the appeal OF the South to England
was ncutralizcd, and the statesmen most ia
vorablc to oar cause We're impotent against
an unreasoning, groundlcss jealousy of sta
ton.
Again, the recent failure of the Western
Democracy 10 renew the political fellowship
OF the West and South, is susceptible Of an
equally simple explanation. Mr.. Secretary
Boutwell,, in his Philadelphia speech, struck
the keynote and sounded the rallying cry
Of the Republican campaign in Ohio The
opinion was industriously circulated that
the Democrats were repudiators; that the
credit of the government, and so the light
cning OF the burdens of taxation, depended
upon the success Of the Radical party; that
the most crcdtablc reductions in the M
tional expenditures and the public debt had
already taken place under their manipula-
tions-and So without exactly convincing
the people that all was right, he succeeded
in persuading them that public interests
might be injured if any change OF policy
should now take place. Yet the appeal to
tho interests and fears of M oyertaxcd peo-
pie but partially succeeded. There was,
after all, Democratic gain-a sensible ap-
pronch OF the West to the South-a defeat
that augured victory hereafter.
1t is folly to prate, as the Times does that
the 'tics OF trade" and the common in
"terest" will not eventually result In COM
pact between the South and Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, and the other great Western States.
1t Is folly to reproduce the traditions of tile
war as proof that such union cannot he
effected. If the two sections have common
''ends 10 serve and common enterprises i'm
view for their promotion" (and such are,
indeed, the facts Of the CASEY what "patri-
s'otic duty" now exists to prevent The coali-
tion OF their counsels and energies for the
attainment of q common geod2
Marrow observers fail to recognize the
fact that the South hns become lcss and less
concerned In matters of party politic--thc
only difficulty that now divides the two sec
tiOns Whatever Interest we may have in
the success OF tho followers of Mr.. Hoffman
or Mr.. Pendlcton, it arises less from parti-
san considerations than from tile assurance,
that the Radical policy of repression and
prescription Is coming TO an end. But the
interests that concern us most arc those
which VIC cherish in common with the West.
The people OF that vast region, rs well MS we,
desire to be relieved from oppressive taxa
ton, which rests with special weight upon
the agricultural classes; they desire that the
conditions Of their former prosperity shall
be restored; they desire that the current OF
trade SO long diverted by tariffs OF protcc-
tion and by boanties and monopolles, shall
be allowed to flow In its natural channels
they desire that the government patronage