The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-09-19
sou!hern suprernac,Y.

the'days OF slavery, when the South was
able to take the world easy, and inclined
to do so, too; when her productiveness was
checked and her energies were duiled by
the lethargfc influence of that institution,
she easily took the lead in national affairs
Her statesmen and orators were the con-
trolling spirits at Washington, while her
sons led the armies of the Union. The
New Englanders beat us in matters of
thrift, and while the South made all the
money the North pocketed it. This ma
terlal strength they afterwards used to
chain down the prodigal that had given it
to them.
But our day is coming back, for money
is the only strength in which we were lack
ing, and the South is accommodating wealth
with rapidity probably never before wit
messed in the history of the world. The
South is the great producer of wealth in
this Union. Its soil is the most fertile, its
climate the most favorable, its seasonsSthe
most conducive to agricultural production.
While outdoor labor is driven in by
snow five months in the twelve at the
North, here the whole year long is open to
all such occupations. Where the North
makes one crop, we can make two or three.
Consequently labor can afford to be much
cheaper where it loses no time, and pro-
duction is much more valuable where it is
so much more abundant.
AS for energy, the Southern people have
shown themselves as much superior in that
quality, wherever there is occasion to call
it forth, as they are in intelligence and
capacity. The North has found its master,
and in violently robbing that master, has
merely freed him from the luxurious shack
les that impeded his strength. Our people
will not henceforth waste their means
They will hereafter be obliged to exert
themselves to obtain production which will
no longer be the mere result of their COM
mand something like creation called
forth by simple fiat. The exertion
henccforth incumbent on them will not
only be far more fertile in results than their
former system, but will teach them habits
of economy and thrift.
Even now evidences are multiplying of
the fact that Southern credit and respect
ability are rapidly rising. in the Northern
market. Our production and our economy
are both duly weighed and recognized there,
so that Southern custom, is as eagerly |
courted now as it was distrustfully re-
PEELED two or three years ago. A peaceful !
progress of this Kind, without political |
agitation, will restore us to all our rights
---,------=----~y rIIIe or cupidity |
md ignorance will be lifted from over us.
md the South will enter on equal terms in
he great race of influence and power.
1t is difficult to see what can then pre-
'ent the South from attaining to political
upremacy In this country. The CALLING
hains of protection to Northern industries.
qually oppressive to the great West, will
re swept off like cobwebs, and national
eglsiation will no longer be permitted to
discriminate against our railroads, rivers
nd commerce.
The South need not, through seIfshness. ,
ppose the system of Capitalization now so ;
agerly urged by her enemies, for she must I
BON have control of the Government, and {
remains to be seen whether she will then
Sc that system as mercilessly against
eaker sectionsSRs they are inclined to do !
sainst her. t
VIII the South, with her Western ally c
fer consent to reduce New England to a t
'tTapy ON some frivolous bubble Will =
le be willing to tamper with tie Consti- ,
itlon, and reduce those States to one, as n
'etical justice would certainly dictate h
hey have no hesitation in their day of p
'Wer to change State boundaries for party +,
lrposesj why not follow their precedent Al
the purpose of reducing from an uha6e~ a.
linence so troublesome an element as as
ey make i'll the national Senator IL any W
nrse of the kind were proposed -how--a a.
ickly New England would understand to
States rights doctrine. What good IT,
tfersonian Democrats the Puritans would 70
como Isl
The South, as its society is now eonsti- nj
ed would have no desire, however, to
lper with the Constitution from motives -.