The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-24

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to use hum to rule us. There is no ground oi
forgetfulness- mo possibility OF forgiveness,
with these black, moviug memorials Of our
vna wrongs pouting our sight, CROSSING us in
g msequence as the tools OF our tyrants.
Nor is the South small country like
Ireland. incapable of expansion, or like
Poland, but little larger than South Caro-
Great Britain Franco and Germany combn-
ed, and can hold one hundred millions of
people as easily as tho formations who nov
Occupy it, W1hn th,rs years udsi'ng by
And wo are united together as other people
are not united. Prosperity often divides; but
the pressure of q comman suffering Yields
togetaer. Meyer s has any people experienced s
other people as we have experienced at the
hands Of the North. Not only have we lost
all capital vested in slaves, with q cores
ponding loss or depreciation in all other kinds
of property, but the little which was left to
us has been haired down by every species
Of oppression. No free people has ever been
insulted and outraged by so moan and vulgar
a despotism-a despotsm of vagrant white
men, and ignorant, filthy negroes. The blood
Of the Southern people has commingled in
q hundred common batGle-Ields. Our fallen
dead lie buried together. We stand proudly
with no hope for liberty and independence
but in ourselves. Secessionists and old
Unonists-trontler States and Gulf States
spontaneously, without effort N their part,
will find their sympathics gaeaer together for
the great destiny which awaits them. South
Carolina is hardly more intensely Southern,
sitting amidst the runs OF war, than Kentucky
covered all Q Jer with Northern contumely aud
burning with the memory Of her trampled on
aud spurned neutrality. The effort the
part OF one poop to quell the spirit of liberty
or Independence in another people invariably
viitalizes and inrtensities, IT. To become en-
shaved ID generally condition sef-imposed or
acqulesced in. as the Northern Radicals are
now doing. But In the South, the Radical po-
licy of despotlsm produces only alienation and
ty. Unconsciously and unlntentionally they
are breeding III the South the elements or au-
thorty. and rearing up the future controllers
OF this continent under the benefcent sway of
really free governments; wi list they with
their mockeries of freedom and real despotisms
will go down in contentious, separations and
blood. They have no vital clements Of cohe-
sion AMONGST them, but the dlsjointed, lucon-
eruous and bulky despotism, whose power
they arc striving to erect into everlasting ON
impotence.
Nor is the radicalized orth as p5werful as
the radical vanity inspires them to suppose
unon tho great essential principles of their
government. majority may be (as w, be-
lieve them to be) incapable Of approaching
free government. Hence they Will support
Cl0 u0W UOSp 'ClSE1 STcCUcu ONCr tDCm. But
there is great body of the public who do un-
derstand the revolution which has been lnaugu-
rated in their government and are restless
under its despotism. They fought in tho late
war merely, to prevent separation, and with the
purpose Of only forcing the people OF the
Southern States to participate in the free gov
ernment established by the Constitution OF the
United States. They find themselves BETRAYED
and mastered by, the consolidationists, from
whose baleful schemes the South sought es-
cape. They have lost the constitution. They
have lost the Union it established and are be-
come the slaves Of a consolidated despotism.
The people OF the North are again divided
between the tax: PAYERS and the debt-owner ers and
bondholders of the United States. The new
government is in f ct an s3Strary aristocracy
of capitalists. The taxes and debts which
drove the people Of Rome oseek refuge in Mons
Saeer Against shs patrlSlans nohing to
of tho United StLtes. How exacting is this
aristocracy may plainly be seen: they assert
in Congress, it has beon determined by the
late Presidential election that one blll4n six
hundred millions of money, borrowed in de-
preciated paper currency of the United States
and payable in this currency on the face Of the
act authorizing the loan, shall be paid in
specie. At this moment the currency is some
twenty-five or six per cent. below the value of
specie. Will not this unjust pretenson lead
directly to repudiation of the debt by the tax
payers-the Peoplea Nothing can prevent
payments, which shall make the paper
currency equll to specie. But. in the eon-
dltion of the banks and finances of the United
States, Is this possible? and, if it is possible.
can anything prevent the financial and com ,
mercial convulsions such resumption must
produce? AS onerOus, however, as the debt Of
the United States now is, (belng the beayiest
in proportion to property now pressing on any
people IN the world, y it constitutes by no means
the whole load the revolutionlsts intond 10 put
upon them. With the Radicals heavy bal
of debt is policy, to steady and uphold thelI
despotlsm. AS soon as the present burden is
acqllesced in by the people, they intend that
the United States Governments shall as sumo the
payment OF all the debts contracted by the
States or local municipalities tn oughout the
North during the recent war. The late Thad.
deus Stevens estimated these debts to be verv
nearly equal to the debt proper of the United
States. With this programme in prospect. Il
is we'll to Judge whether these expedients OF
oppression and consolidation by the arlstocracy
OF money VIII be patiently endured bv the
people OF the North2 TO strengthen the,y des. Ime
potism they have adopted system or bonnd.
less expansion OF territory. They have ak.
tended the domains, Of the United States to
the North pole, and now seek to prasn the
Equator. This polcy, under the system adj
yocated by the South, was wise. Whilst the
Constitution OF the United States existed az
pansion WAS o source OF strength With the
General Government, limited in it's powers to
Union, causes of contest between the sections
were eliminated. But, under the informed
ding system Of tho new government, expan-
sion Is inevitable dissolution. Congress. With
arbitrary powers Of legislation (Which ia now
the Government. Of the United States), oan be
nothing else but confused conglomeration of
sections and interests, struggling each to use
the government for it's own profit and ambi-
ton. No section can promote it's own inter-
ests, except at the expense Of other sections;
for governments nave no resources of Their
own, and warfare Of States and sections is
the organization. Thus will arise discontents
and contentious, which. over so vast a country,
deuce n its several parts. Expansion NAV do
in Russia; but the people of the United States
are not Russians. Over such people as those
OF the United States, snd in despotic mob
ocracy, expansion is not strength, but W. ak
ness and dissolution.
Having thus briefly sketohed the political
condition OF the United States, and the re-
sources OF the North and OF the South, we come
to the question-what shal: be the future poll