The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-16

refers to the fact that the abolition of slavery
has added a much larger per cent to the
representative population of the South than
Immigration has added to that of other parts
of the country. Instead of ali the white
persons and only three-fiftss of the negroes
being the basis of representation, in the new
apportionment after this census all the peo-
pie of the South will be fully counted, So that
If there are four millions of Southern
negroes, this change in the mode of count
ing will be equivalent to an addition of
1,600, 600 to the populntion of the South,
which is out of all proportion to the increase
of any other part of the country by immigra-
ton, and will more than enable the South to
recover it's former relative strength in Con-
gress. What effect this is to have on all
leading questions, in view of the probability
OF en- agreement between the West and the
South Oh the tariff, the curreacy, and ques-
tioDs of finance, remains to be seen. 1t is
minated that this is the reason why the
efforts to take up the apportionment bill in
Congre IS have failed recently.
The World anticipates that besides the in
crease in Southern representation, the re-
sumption of its former business intercourse
with the North will be again, as before the
war, a source of great political strength. cat
the outbreak of the war, says the World,
and during the first year of its continuance,
q large and influential portion of our North
EN- business men openly or secretly sympa-
thized with the South. They would have
been willing to make almost any concession
for the sake of keeping or recovering their
Southern trade. About the second year of
the war the tide turned, and thenceforward the
prevsilirg tone among the business men of
the North was one of Jealous loyalty This
was chiefly due to the new fields of enterprise
opened by the war. The Government had
be come a better customer than the South had
ever been. To supply its vast armies with
food, clothing, arms, ammunition, tents
wagons, medicines, etc., taxed the energy
and resources of the country. The great
profits of army contracts and the spirit of
speculation which dominated in all the walks
of business, consoled our merchants and
manufacturers for the loss of the valuable
Southern market, and caused pretty COM
piete transfer of their political sympathies
This great change will soon be reversed. The
Government is no longer an extensive pur-
chaser of commodities. With the reviving
| prosperity of the South its trade will have
more than its former value, and our active
business classes will rapidly exchange their
fierce loyalty for tolerant spirit towards
| that section"
| Soon after the close of the war desire to
resume business relations with the South was
| manifested in New York and some other
Northern cities of enterprise, and this Jour
nal, in endeavoring to resist an opposite
| spirit which had shown itself among narrow
minded sectiouaists in this city, called atten-
ton to The honorable contrast exhibited in
the sagacious and concliatory policy of New
York. We we're at length successful in lead
ing the way to more enlarged and liberal
! counsels, which have ever since been in the
ascendant, and the benefcent results of
which no one will deny. In New York, how
ever, the good beginning was of brief dura-
ton. 1t was impeded by several causes,
which the World thus explains
ain the first place the South had succession OF
bad harvests and the contscaton laws and the pre-
vailiBg political uncertainty parayzed enterprise and
prevented capital from flowing into the South. The
consequencew.s that the section slowlyand
heavily from the desolating effects Of Another
thing which has operated against the south is the in
vestments made by our business classes in the pub
lie securities. They have feared that Southern
influence would favor the Reputation OF the ma
| tonal debt, and that the Government bonds
would depreciate or become worthless. The fear of
reputation is alayed. The cotton crops OF the last
two years have put the South in condition of COM
paIatlye ease and prosperity and rendered its trade
old commercial relations between the two sections
viii tend to restore the former political cordality
| In a year or two more the prevailing tone among
our influential business classes will be similar TO
what 1t was before the war; when the South, by the
! aid OF its Northern connections exerted an indu-
eDce IN the Government quite out OF proportion to
| its population"
1t is not for us to dispute the statement of
the Wtrld (though we would hope the con-
traly), ill regard to the patriotism of Northern
business men consisting of loyalty to that
which dispenses patronage, and that if the
South continues to produce good crops there
will be an equal harvest of good feeling in
the North towards its Southern brethren.
We are glad, however, that we can say with
truth of Baltimore that her friendship for the
South has not been dependent upon its pros
perity; and that the injury of Southern grain
and cotton crops has never had any other
| effect here than to stimulate to practical
sympathy the fraternal sentiments always en-
teltaiDed.