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

lavished upon our people! Stevens and Bat
Ter have been the gracious apostles and grand
almonerS OF their tender merCies and chari-
ties If the Evil One himself had been in bodi-
| ly shape on earth, directing the counscls Of
the North, his spirit could not moro fagrantly
have spread over the South It's baleful and ma
the South to all political association with the
North could not have devised course better
calculated to accomplish his purpose Of
eternal separation than that pursued by the
North through it's Radical majority. The poll
| cy CT emanc;pSting slaves was violent meas
ure which Napoleon declined in Russia, where
the slaves were of the Caucasian race; but the
endeavor by military despotism to turn society
upside down in the South, and to put the half
savage negro over the civilized Caucasian.
may not be forgotten or forgiven. It will stand
ing with hate at Its white heat Aud we are
to bolieve that the radicalized North love the
people OF the South, very. very dearly
The people of the South recognize fully the
been faithful to the constitution mado by our
fathers. They know that thousands are con-
genial in sympathy, and cordial In feeling.
They honor them tor their politics. They re-
ciprocate their friendly disposition But these
institute subordinate minority OF the peo-
| pie of the North, overrldden and impotent to
prevent the political slavery and material ruin
which have been imposed upon the South. The
radical ele '.ent largely predomnates, and now
| controls the policy and represents the tone aud
temper OF the North. And between this radi-
| Cal olcln6uI ana the SOntn people there
| seems to be an rreconcilable repugnance.
Tho truth is, there is an incong1uity be-
tween these two peoples from their very natures
| Their difference has been attributed to various
causes. Some have affirmed that it arises
| from the different stocks OF population from
which they sprung-Puritan and Cavalier
Some ascribe it to climate. Others to their
| differing pursuits of industry-tho ono being
an agricultural, the other q mercantile nauti-
cal and manufacturing people. Others, again,
TO the institution of slavery. Mr.. Burke as
signed to this last source the higher spirit Of
liberty which ,1 actMated @ the people Of the South
in the war OF '76. Whether f:om one, or from all
Of these causes combined, the fact that thev
ere OF dissimilar characteristics does not admit
OF doubt. Tho one people is cautious and
retoent; the other frank and open in communi-
cation. Tho one is penurlous; the other Is
free in the use of money. Tho one cannot
even comprehend the meaning of the word
Both have been great in their pursuits of in
oustry. The one has pushed the arts OF
commerce and navigation to extreme cffi-
cheney; the other has advanced in agricul-
pies cultivated, and rendering them the
most important to the world. The one loves
gregarlousness. and does everything by asso-
ciation; the other cultivates privacy and in
d,vlduahty, and acts with difficulty with
others. The one is sceptical, prying, officious,
harsh, dogmatic, aggressive, and fond of nov
elites, misnamed'Proeress;t the other is moro
genial and more tolerant, distrusts change.
| and reverences the past The one looks upln
government as an instrument of agerandizs-
ment to make money or to rule others; the
other regards it as simply an instrument of
protection, for securing justice and lea wing to
all under it's authority the privilege Of seeking
their own happiness in their own way. Is it
| possible that two, peoples OF such different
| chara cteristics and antagonistic views can live
voluntarily together under the same free gov
ernment?
There are persons, however, both in the
| South and in the North, who, in spite of the
n ri mi Qptn md l,oko
| existing between the two sections of the
United States, aud the overthrow CT the Com
stitution and the Union it established, still
| hope for change which will restore the con-
stiution to its former efficiency. IF this can
be accomplished, Of course the South will be
content. She has never sought or required
any thing more than the Constitution, and the
Union it establishes. But is this reversal pre-
babe2 Is it possible?
It cannot oe denied that the hope of such a
change is contrary to all the experience oe his
Of all governments to maintain, and once de-
stroyed has not been resurrected. But the
world advances; and there may be two ele-
ments of conservatism and restoration which
| Gndhe Press. Nor is the argument without
force, that the terrible evils which have follow
ed the overthrow OF the constitution. prove the
necessity Of It's re establishments But then it
| appears to us that those persons do not COM
| prehend the momentum of the change which
has pushed the new government into power.
1t was not the work OF yesterday. It had it's
origin in tho beginning OF the government.
From the first act Of usurpation (the assump-
tion Of the payment of the debts of the
States) to the last fare up CT CONSOLE
gon in the Senate. there has boen in
the North steady effort to centralize and des
potise the government. Many, doubtless. are
blinded! in this course by able sophistries; b I
the real causes which have produced the war
on the constitution from its comm enc ement
are the lust of sectional ambition. and the lust
OF sectional avarice: And to these strong pas
| sions, o constant stimulus has been annI,ed Inv
social vanity and prevalent envy Of Southern
| social life. The violent opposition and strife
which usurpation to promote these objects
caused, did not arrest the course Of consolda-
ton. Compromise afte~ compromise took
place, to prevent revolutionary collision. But
they were made by the consolidationists onjv
Judgments for further demands and encroach-
ments; and again and again the limitations Of
the constitution were overborne and trampled
down, until at last y sectional President was
| elected on sectional issu 8. The fact was con-
elusive OF the downfall Of the constitution, ex-
issues. The war was it's Legitimate inevitable
fruit; ;and the tinkng of President Linco]n's and
| Mr.. Seward's bells could not awaken the life
less spirit Of the constitution. Peace brought
hopes of it's resus citation; but the foul psolence
OF despotism still stalks over tho land. Al
though boldly challenged and faithful iy ex-
posed by the great party Of the constitution,
the Democratic party, It triumphed in the late
Presidential election. It stands now buttress-
! cd around by two enormous bulwarks of tles-
potism-a vast congeries OF national banks,
and huge natio al debt. Ithss the capitalists
OF the country bound to it's fortunes and the
protective tariffs, national railroads, profuse
and profigate expenditures, and large stand
ing nrnies, minister to it's power. Can such q
majority Of she Northern people, and so,,sht
by them for eighty years, now supported by
such appliances, be set aside byreform? We
| think not .S,..a
What course then is left for the Southern
| country 2-
We take it for granted that tile people Of the
South are free people, in feeling and IN
tlements--a free people through seven years'
war, wringipg their independence and liberties
| from Great Britain--a free people, during the