The New York herald., 1869-03-09
NORTH CAROLINA.

| General Grant and the Soufh-Whvt the
Southern People Expect-Honest OHlcials--
Abatement of the Tax ON Products--- n eiief
from CurDet-i3ng RuIe-In,proyed Condition
Of the People.
CHARLorrE, March 8, 1869.
With the administration OF General Grant and
the permanent establishment OF peace and tranquil
ty throughout the South, which is at once expected
at his hands, there Is bright and glorious
prospect in store for the entire country. People
here care little who are his Cabinet OIL
GERS, or to what particular party ne dis
penscs the powerful patronage now In the hands OF
the federal executive; but confident in the belief
that he Will relieve and assist the South they are
anxious to see him untrammelled by any such lnfa-
nous check as the Tenure OF Olce law. This is the
universal expression everyw here have travelled IN
the South. and even leading radicals concur In it.
Whist is needed here they say IL faithful officials to
collect the revenues an Abatement OF taxation on
such staples as the South produces, particu-
lary tobacco, and some relief from the high.
handed carpet bag rule to which, through the an
tipathy existing between Congress and Mr.. John
son, they are now subjected No objection is made
to the Reconstruction laws to their faithful ad-
mnistration; but good deal or feeling Is evinced
OF the manner IN which carpet-baggers, unac-
Quainted with the people or their interests, were
gerry wandered into State legislators and representa-
llNeS III tile icerai congress-, LlfOugn the Ignorance
Of the negroes and the wholesale inpositions prac-
ttsed upon them by these uDprncipled adyelturers.
General Grant Is expected to inaugurate q liberal
policy toward the South by advocating removal OF
the tax on tobacco and leaving also other products
tax Tree, inducing industry among the negroes in
stead or idieness. and lastly, by allowing the people
to have some management OF their own affairs and
removing rom among them persons who alone use
the negro for their own political aggrandzemcnt.
Confidence will thus be restored, anu with friendly
relations existing between the races agriculture,
the trades and commerce would flourish. and ere
nQ nfct1f
desired means Of resumng specie payments. This Is
no le speculation Last year the cotton crop alone
was valued at S4o0,ooo10o, besides the immense
amount realized from tobacco, rice and sugar, and
this at q time, TOO when the South was perfect
bedlam Of poli.ical strife. WHAT then, VIII 1t be
under an administration that Will put an end to dis
sensionS and mass the people In Its common sup
pOrtf
which 1t was reduced by the late war and the
cpation OF the negroes. But this latter was one Of
the greatest blessings that ever happened TO 1t.
capital formerly invested ia negroes ana there are
no risks from death or sickness In this section
cotton readily brings twenty and twenty-elght
OF thirteen cents on the cost Of raising 1t,
and planters are seemingly fndl1erent about
selling. They are no longer under obligations for
chants SO that they can hold their products until
they choose TO put them In the market. And q re-
markabe feature Is that the currency realized Is In
variaDly converted into gold-but this IS perhaps
peculiar to this section where there always existed
be said tnat the south Is poor, and each will
make 1t still richer and ricner uatil the bullion Of
the country VIII be in Southern Golfers.
Looking, therefore, to o conservative admfnistra-
ton from General Grant, the best results be
anticipated With the guidance OF their own
domestic affairs In the hands OF the Southern people,
capital Will be unlOOsed, the immense resources OF
the country viii be developed, labor wlll be re-
warded, and IN few years with economy and
WIN be In far way to be paid OF. '.Let US have
peace"