The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-04
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tween the West and the South. TO attach
any Importance To the various conventions
recently held, whose object was Il closer
union between the sections, would have
been Il prejudice to the interests under their
patronage. For The West is already we'll
nigh ovcrshadowins power the South is
already rebuilding fcr ruins an,l renewing
| her harfcsts; an alliance OF The two would
control the finance and the policy Of The re-
public. The sphere entered by the now CO.
partnership would afford them IL monopoly
against which all the resources of New Eng
land craft and bustcr would he expended in
vain.
Such a coalition may not be established
| speedily; but sooner Or later il n"'-' ."ho
| nloco N,.---. cd tho two sections
TOO intimately TO allow Of their artificial SOW
erancc. They gravitate toward each other;
| and pcrchancc the ahOrtivc attempt to ac-
celcratc the movement may arise simply
| from the circumstance that il is influenced
| by causes which operate with the stcadincss
of law. But let it bc remembered that
! force which cannot be intensified cannot be
arrested by human eXpcdicnts. An ava
lanchc cannot he hurried; but let not the
| simple cottcr below take courage from this
| fact. The pondcrous accumulation 10 which
days and nights and months and years have
contributed their stores, is already in mo-
ton; 1t is coming down silently, socmnly.
| like mountain cloud; soon il will he upon
him, and there is no bulwark he can erect
that will stay lis progress for Il moment, or
prevent the overthrow il brings
The Southern people, who are in minor
ity, are constrained to seek for protection
| and real restoration, in Il concert Of action
with others. Nor have we occasion for dc
spair iR- the failure Of similar attempts in
former years The reasons for our i'll sue
we vainly hoped, -durin" The war; that the
interests Of England would lead her to i'll
tcrfcre in the struggle. We did not know
| how deeply the working classes of that coun-
| try had been prcjudiced against cur cause,
| nor how thoroughly they had been pcrsua-
| dcd that the abolition OF African slavery
would cheapcn cotton and elevate the fac
tory llhorcr. The system which reared the
products OF the South was thought to inject
the free hands that wrought upon thcm-to
cnslavc the swnrt artisans of Lancashire,
and 10 dcprcss the social status Of Lowclis
-'.iactory girls
with co,lon sticking 10 their curla'
Tims the APPEAL OF the South to England
WAS ncutraliZcd, and the statesmen most fa-
vOrahc 10 oar cause We're impotent against
an unreasonin". gr0undcss jealousy Of sta
ton.
Again, the recent failure of the Western
Democracy 10 renew the political FELLOWSHIP,
OF the West and South, is susceptible of an
equally simple explanation. Mr.. Secretary
Boutwell, i'll his Philadelphia speech, struck
the key-no' and sounded the r,lllying cry
OF the Republican, campaign in Ohio. The
opinion was indusiriously circulated that
the Democrats were rcputlintors; that the
credit OF the government, and so the light
| ening Of the burdens Of taxation, depended
upon the success of the Radical party; that
the most crcdtahe reductions i'll the ma
tional expenditures and the public debt had
| already taken place under their manipuia-
| tions-and so, without exactly convincin.
the people that all was right he succeeded
| i'll pcrsuadinG them that public interests
might be injured if amy change OF policy
should now take place Yet the appeal to
the interests and fears OF an ovcrtnxcd pco-
after all, Democratic gain-a sensible ap-
proach Of the West to the South-a defeat
that augured victory hereafter.
| 1t is folly 10 pratc, as the Times ,loes that
the ''ties Of trade" and the 'common i'll
"terest'' will not eventually result in COM
pact between the South and Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, and the other great Western States,
| 1t is folly TO reproduce the traditions of the
wur as proof that such union cannot he
elected. If the two sections have ''common
'ends 10 serve and common enterprises i'm
'ycw for their promotion" (and slch are
indeed, the facts Of the casc,) what "patr-
'totic duty" now exists to prevent The coal-
tion OF their cOnnScls and energies for the
attainment Of Il common good?
Narrow observers fail to recognize the
fact that the South has become less ana less
concerned in matters of party polilics--the
only difficulty that now divides the two sec
tions. Whatever interest we may have i'm
the success Of the followers OF Mr.. Hoffman
or Mr.. PendlctOn. it arises less from parti-
san considerations than from the assurance
that the Radical policy of repression and
prescription is coming 10 IN end. But tho
interests that concern us most arc those
which we cherish in common with the West.
The people of that vast region, rs well rs we.
desire TO be relieved from oppressive taxa
ton, which rests with special weight upon
the agricultural classes; they desire that the
conditions of their former prosperity shall
be restored; they desire that the current OF
trade so long diverted by tariffs of proiec.
tion and by bonnties and monopolics, shall
be allowed TO flow in its natural channels;
they desire that tho government patronage
Qf We must have paternal government.