Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-09-09

that when a party contessedly becomes a
failure 80 far as the accom- plishment of results,
then its organization is = cheat and delusion;
and profiing by the lessons which history
teaches, We would abandon it. The Democratic
party is now nothing but the shell from which
the oyster has been taken.
The Ea,ion.l 81 uatio. and Prospects.
From the Cincinnati Gazette. H-.
If Il people lament over their misfor-
tunes they ought surely TO be thankful
for tlIeir prosperity. ifpubhc men and
partisan politicians have been mistaken
IN their estimate OF public policy, and
there has really come prosperity where
they have predicted adverslty, they
should, in ali fairness, acknowledge that
their opponents may sometimes be
right; at least, that they have not caus-
ed the great misfortune predicted of
them. Ii there be any one thing the
Dsmocrotic politicians have persisted III,
anything they have considered certain,
il is the uloustrous> evils to be produced
by the Republican policy toward he
groes. The walls over the downfall OF
slavery have scarcely ceased; The gIoans
over the war OF races are still sounding
in our ears; the inferiOrity OF the negro,
pronounced alike lay men of science aud
men of politics, and men of the pulpit,
is still claimed To be Il great truth; the
msoleuce, stupidity and general WORTH
lessness of negroes are reported by rebel
papers and Democratic orators TO De as
undeniable as the bones of the mann
moth or the ruins of Jerusalem. tHark.
from the tombs doleful s0und," was
The song of Democracy over the aboil-
ton of slavery, the restoration OF peace,
and the policy of the Republican party
The negro would never work the
South would be covered with the blood
of warning races, the political equality
of She races was physically and morally
impossible, ths Northern u1en who came
to assist in the restoration<of the South
were wretched carpet-baggers who sho'd
be driven from the land, the policy of
the Republican party was a crime
against nature. and the public debt go'd
oyerwhelm the nation in irretrievable
disasterIi Such was the -dolefnl lament
of Democratic politicians almost down
TO the present period, if it be not now.
Hundreds of papers and inndreds OF
stump orators have uttered these Ia
inents. SO that tue proof of their proph-
ecies il incontrovertible. We are glad
that it is so.i We are glad that in the
grand experiment made by the Repub-
Iican party of this country TO sustain,
slreng then and glorify nation by acts
of Justice ana humanity, and policy OF
union and nationality, there should be
no doubt upon the directness of the is
sue or the result of the experiment.
In the four years which have elapsed
since the war, surely all will admit there
has been little time to disprove these
prophesies, or to restore all parts OF the
national machinery TO harmony of mo-
GIon and fullness OF strength; yet what
dc we see? An amount OF growth, OF
progress, and of solid prosperity which
Jas never been surpassed i'll any Gov
ernmeDt under the sun. A very large
part of this is due TO the continued favor
0f Providence which prospered US IN
war and has prospered US IN peace. But
in 80 far rs Government Is concerned,
the Republican patty has persevered III
one consistent policy, for hich they are
and ougi1t TO be held responsible. For.
hat policy they have been denounced
in ali the forms of language and all The
Itterancesy of passion. Now what has
,een the effect of that policy IN the
urief four years which have passed since
the WAR First, let the South teii itsown
story. Are the negroes v orking or not?
Is the land bloody with the war of races?
Is the material prosperity of the south
Is it likely to be diminish
ed? Let the South give its own testlmo
ny. The New Orleans Picayuile says:
The cotton production is increasing
fast since the end of hostilities. Tbeex- /
cess this wear over last will be about
5OU, 600 bales. This crop is worth more |
to the South than in lS60-6l, for ii is
nearly all surplus. We raise as much |
lund as is necessary for consumption. I
which was not the case i'll previous
years. Cotton was then sold to pur-
chase supplies. Raising now what we
want, our cotton becomes d su Plus, and |
brings us its whole value in cash. Lou
isiana has made nearly 100000 hogs
heads of sugar.
We can see nothing to check the |
growth of New Orleans. II must soon |
become the greatest exporting city on /
of the epidemic, it will also be one of the I
largest importing houses.
ait is not true" the Charleston News |
declares, THAT there is any prospect
that the lower sections of the State will I
be abandoned to the negroes"
throughout the State the people are
and cheerful. We have more |
hard money than we had in 1860. and,
i'm every sense of the word, South Caro- /
lima has made ae much progress since /
1868 as has been made by any one OF her
sister States" aC --I
The New York Times says:
The philosophy of the gratifying
change is expdunded with 'unwonted !
candor by the Mobile Registera jour
..al which was rash enough the other /
day to threaten a new war unless DEM
ocrats be allowed to control the elec-
tions "The excitement of two trying /
elections, 70 IL now confesses, "has been
passed through; the farmers have be- /
come settled, and the freedmen are, as a
very general thing, working pretty rap
idly." Again, we are Informed by the
same authority that 1.-THE planter is now
better paid for his crops and is more in
of his factor than ever be-
FORE" f4a-aa, 81 iu ll,.s. 5
Here is a prosperity which in no other
was possible, after four years
war. and which is the exact opposite of !
all the pictures drawn 10y Democratic
statesmen, of what was to ensue from
policy. There is no war of
races, except in a few cases, where DEM
pcratic builies have shot poor negroes in
a row. There is no want of labor, for
the crops prove that negro labor never
produced so much as it does now. The
white is released from his bondage to
factors, because he now pays as he goes.
rhe black is gradually getting the edu-
cation of u freeman, and We hazard moth
ing in saying that within a single gen.
Grafton he will stand' side by side with
his former masters, i'll the capacity for,
as we'll AZ the enjoyment of, civil rights.
The prophesies OF evil to the South have
faded away. Where are those prophets
Df evil how? True to their instincts,
they are now trying, as far as possible
to repudiate the public debt. Tell it not
ir, .Gnth nor raf in the straefs of 4 AZ u