The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-19
4 STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
Direct Trade with Eurepe-One OF It's
Many Advantages.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEWS.

TO The OE LIE NENo.
Your leader, .'Oirec; Trade" lin Mondays
issue calls attention to an enterprise, which,
if properly taken in hand, must and will result
in 1ncslculatle good to the South. Though "a
ruin amidst ruins," love what is lefrof my
country (the Scuth) as dearly as did the
whole of 1t, six, seven and eight years ago.
Auy enterprise likely to contribute IN the
smallest degree to the rapid retuperation OF
the ex-Confederate States, has not only my
cordial concurrence, but kindles in once
joyous, but now saddened heart new hopes
hopes that lead me to contemplate the South
"As some TALL cliff that lifts its awful form,
swells from the vale and m dway leaves the storm,
though round its breast the rolling clouds are
spread,
Eternal sunshine settles on lis head"
In view of the fiendish crimes and outrages
recently (during the wary perpetrated on us by
our ouondam pretended friends north OF MA
son and Dixon's, it appears to me that direct
traders the right thing IN the right place"
Indeed, the commercial despotism OF the North
over the South prior to the war was mt only
| Gulf coast it should never have come into be-
llng. In the effort towards making the enter.
| prise complete success, would 1t not be we'll
| fer us to waive for the nonce our Unborn re.
pugpance to Yankee ideas and notions, ana
adopt one Of their dogmas (.'time ls money')
as our starting point In other words, to take
steps Immediately to make the enterprise an
| ACCOMPLISHED fact at the earliest practlcable
moment? Delay on our part might induce the
masters and slaves Of the ''best government
| the world ever saw" 10 add another link to the
reconstruction chain now manacling us, with
| view Of impeding our success IN the matter.
| It is impossible to enumerate, IN short
compass, the many advantages that would ac-
crue to the South from direct trade, nor is
such the purpose, at present, OF the writer OF
this. He will content himself with stating one
| that meets him on the threshold. 1t may en-
able us to ge. into the South come gold and
silver to supply the place OF that Of which we
| have been ruthessly and villanously robbed.
| This done, we may be able to dispense with an
unrellab greenback currency, which has no
real. substantial intrinsic value, 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 Tls dearness
that gives everything Its value The labor
and expense necessary to getting gold and sil-
yer with other metals from the bowels OF the
earth contribute to euhanoe their inherent
| intrinsic value Paper money - easily made,
(rsgs being always plentiful sad al easily des.
troyed. Il can therefore, nevey have any real
value. breath makes It, aud breath may
destroy 1t at ans moment thereafter.
At another time nay write more on this
subject. NV object in writing this is simply to
give the ball you have 30 timely set in motion
kick, in the hope that Others may do the
| same. CATO.