The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-09-18

we copy tue following 3nst and felo-
quent plea for the .syatlral Alliancsn"
from the ;Cinsinnati 6o,muesa;,
|It is to bs regretted shat me- Wet did
bot $oonSs discover the natural harpos
[hieS Of this alliance, BE tvssis 8, sssec.
|tiolA. Had u done 40, eceans "a blood
might have been sased.s But The errors
and the calamities Of the pAkt tcannot be
recalled The preaentis c1fs, and the
future is to be provided for. The same
reasons exist to-day for a closer political
and commercial alliance for defensive,
purposes as have always existsdsinee the
East developed its true spirit of lust of
power and ambition: ~ go. |
1.-THE STRENGTH OF THE SOUTH oUR
STRENGTH. has been most
benefcent to the South. The South has
the staple products, which control the
precious metals in the markets of the
world. And this year these staples, par
ticulsrly cotton, haveay been most abun-
dant. The cotton crop of 1859 will pro-
duce surplus of from $s250,OO0, 900 to
$500, 100000. The surplus will be much
larger than usual, as we of>the cdrn-
growing and pork-raising States of the
West will speedily find out, because the
Southern planter has added farming to
his other business, and has produced
corn and beef and pork and mutton
enough to feed his laborers-a thing he
never did before. We are glad to chro-
nicle such result, for the sake of the
South, which will soon recover from its
prostration by the war, and its subse-
quent mismanagement Wealth is most
eloquent pleader for whatever cause it
advocates, and nowhere in the world is
wealth SO potential as it Is at Washing
ton. A poor, supplicating, suffering
South has been denied anything like
justice, or even the rights of humanity;
but rich and prosperous South will be
sure of very different reception. The
members will not be hostile nor indiffer-
ent, nor the lobby so inaccessible and re-
fractory rs they have so long proved
themselves in the history of the past.
The fortunes of the South have, there
fore, thanks to the golden crop of the
year 1869, passed the turning point. For
so much we are thankful, and ask leave
to rejoice.
"There is q further ground of rejoicing.
Whatever strengthens the South, is
strength and health to the West. AL
though Southern demand for our staples
will not be this year so large rs it always
was when the cotton aud rico crops were
good, because we have forced the South
ern agriculturists into cereals and the
growth of animals for food, that state of
things will only last year. It is so
much more profitable for the South to
produce rice and cotton, that she will re-
turn to it altogether, and buy her grain
and meat of the West as soon as possible,
and then We will resume our share in her
prosperity-will take our place in the
ancient partnership, and divide with
her the profits of the most splendid in
vestment ON which the sun ever shone.
Until the war, which was the work of
cotton-spinners and protective tariffites
working upon our weakness, the West
was proud of the einter-dependence of the
two great sections of the Union, located
in the Mississippi Valley. Now, that
the time of awakening has come, and the
wretched dream with its horrid realities
is over, we record the prospect of re-
union and fresh amity between the West
and South with the highest satisfaction.
But it is not alone, nor chiefly for the
material consequences Of her prosperity
as connected with ours, that we rejoice
over it. We have higher reasons, and
the main one OF these reasons Is, that
whatever strengthens the South,
strengthens the cause of free govern
ment, of cheap, simple and responsible
institutions. 1t is synonym for free
trade, low taxes, small expenditures,
hard money and strict Interpretation of
the Constitution. We hope mono will
be offended by these truthful declara-
tions. If any desire the verifcation, lot
them ask themselves what the fat SOW
opulencc of Government-got money in
New England has done for the Nlissis-
sippi Valley? It has destroyed free
trade; it has made even air and water
dear by its axes; it has banished gold
and silver; it has run up the expense of
the Federal Government to ten times the
reasonable amount; it laughs to scorn
the Constitution. Old Thad. Missed out
in his place as Chairman of Ways and
Means, that 'three-fourths of our laws
are outside of Constitution and he
made one of the few honest declarations
from his side of the House.
Nothing but the prosperity in material
wealth is wanting at the South to put to
shameful rout all such noodles rs Phil
lips, Greeley and Sumner in the manage
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