The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-24
G. II A r L ES TON.
MONDAY MORNING, MAY "a, 1869.
Hadicn1tsm and the Prosperity OF the
State.

Lutte political and social equality of the Afri-
can, the Asiatio and the Caucasiau-is the
salvation Of the land and the guarantee Of
its future fortunes. They do not, it is true,
care to put their principles in practice at
home, nor do they desire to see the negro
enthroned in Albany or Boston. But where
the doctrine may be carried into effect
without injury to themselves, and with
positive advantage to the men who rep
resent their party, they halt at no half
measures, and do not rest satisfied until,
as IN South Carolina, they have given
the control OF the State to the negro
leaders and their less respectable white
companions. The South Carolina Radicals,
nearer to the ecene than the high priests of
! New England, do not nater themselves,
however, that their new regime, with all ite
many evils, has done the State s particle Of
good. They see that the negroes can give
| them but little help, and realize that the
mandates OF the Union League must gradu-
ally. lose their force. They find that in
every case where the negroes have been
! entrusted with power, they have shown
.heir deep rooted inoapaoity, aud have made
| themselves and their party ridiculous.
They begin to learn that they gain no white
strength, that they attract no recruits 10
their inky banner, and that the men who
have joined them know no higher ambition
than to enrich themselves quickly and fee
from the wrath they dread. These things
they do not deny; and as it is necessary to
| assign come reason why South Carolina is
| not doubling her crops Of cotton, why the
| waste places Of her cities are not built ur,
! and why every eauare foot Of land in
Charleston is not worth its dollar, they ca. t
the whole blame on the broad backs of the
anti Radicals, and declare that W. do net
prosper because strangers ere "brutally
'treated," and when they como down to
cur State, purse in haud, are nbasely
''driven away"
That Charleston ard South Carolina are
not as prosperous as they might be, We do
not deny; but we say, without fear of success
full contradiction, that no city in the South
has made more substantial progress sinee
1865 than this city and Strste hav vo@bone We
have 30 reformed cur system Of agriculture
ns to adapt it to free labor. We have given
and are giving attention to the improve
ment OF our manner Of cultivating the soil,
and to the encouragement OF the use Of
labor saving machines. We have treatt d,l
the negroes with kindness despite their
novel assertions Of power and privilege.
And in the face of every disadvantage, in
the face of the plague of insects and un-
propitious seasons, we produced in 1853
1868, crop of cotton which will sell in the
aggregate for little short Of twenty million
of dollars. Besides this, we made bread.
stnffs, rice and naval stores. We have ais O
opened o new aud important trade in phos-
phatic rock, in which hundreds Of thou
sands Of dollars have been invested. We
have pu. up mills and f4ctories for grind
ing and manufacturing fertilizers. We
have, III advance Of any other Southern
state, had line of 81 amships running di-
rect to Liverpool. The people of the State
generally are cut OF debt, and in Charles.
ton the merchants have done better bust
ness this year than in any previous year
since The oos4 OF the war. These arc hard
facss; although the Radicals, bent on ex-
cusing themselves, have the bcazen impu-s
oenoo 10 declare that we arc not prosper
Gus because we drive strangers and capitnl
away.
Vi the manner in which strangers are
treated in this State, we have NOTHING new
n
for every capable and trustworthy man; but
NJ man, because he is o new conner. has tho
right to demand that to him the doors Of
every home shall be opened wide. Social
position each man must make for himself.
and when tho new arrival, whether from
the North or aoress the seas. has become in
faot, 90 we'll as in name, part OF the State.
he will have friends and acquaintsncss
enough aod will have made for himself
society which will be all that he needs and
oil that ho desires
The truth Of the whole matter 10, that We
have made the progress that ws have ~
spise Of Rsdicaaism, and ID spite Of che po-
htical rule Of the native negro and foreign
adveneureP. Had we had o State govern.
nent controlled by intelligent and respon.
sible naen, We should have been 4ar more
prosperous than we are. What we have
accomplished Is tho fruit ofthe untiring en-
orgy and indomitable spirit Of cur people,
who have put their hands to the plough and
worked themselves ont Of the slough. while
men who know not their alphabet, ard others
to whom honesty ID but name, hasa made
our laws and grown rich upon the spe,ls Of
Office. The only. bar between our Htate end
wondrous increase in wealth, is tho
negro soslawsg carpet bsgsing oity and
State governments with which We are
blessed. And even these will DO driven
from she authority they usurp before they