The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-12-08
VOLUME o---NO. "a.
The Conclusion of the Whole Matter of Po.
litical Power.

The Conclusion of the Whole Matter of Pos
litical Power.
| Our New England brethren have heretofore
Savailed themselves probably of their great love
for humanitarian rights. Possessing sterile;
bleak, iuhospitable land, they have, by daunt.
less energy and wonderful cunning, contrived
so to WELD political power as to make the South
furnish them the raw material which gave ths
busy huro to industry, and at the same time to
be her most profitable customer. The West, by
the same ingenuity, was made to furnish the
breadstnifs to feed her dense population with
similar resdlt as to profitable consumption for
her shoes and lawns and brown goods and no,
tions. And New England blossomed as the
rose, and became the type of American nation
atty Hitherto fortune has favored her. The
slaves that were captured and brought from
Africa by the enterprise of Salem and Marble
head and Newburyport, and Boston, and sold as
slaves to enable Southern plantations to supply
New England wants, brought gold for the Afri.
can enterprise, and returned cotton, sugar and
molasses for New England manipulation. The
crime against nature and against Jefferson's
declaration for colonial independence gave the
political power essential in national economy
according to New Englands ideas of progress
and development "Slave power" "slave own
ers," "the horrors of slavery" all coming in
trumpet tones from the stump, the pulpit, the
press and the bar, re-echoed from Plymouth
Rock to tae Granite Hills of New Hampshire,
and illustrated by heart-rending pictures OF
Topseys at the hearth-stones and Uncle Toms
iu the cabin, were all sufficient to arouse popus
lar sympathy and to minister to New England
profit despite the fact of the origin of slavery,
of the continued and the careful and conscien.
tious guards of Southern legislation and South
ern desire
This agitation brought out and maintained
political power, and with it New England thrift
and prosperity. The elimination of this agi'
been duly proclaimed But with these results
comes new era. The slave is made free. But
the same act that struck off the shackles of ne
gro slavery destroyed the bonds that fettered
the white tributaries. Hereafter. in all ques-
tions of national discussion, there will be
neither ta,lnt, nor lash, nor menace, nor threat
to be whirled aloft over Southern action.
The rich political mine of vituperation and
scorn can no longer be brooked by the politi'
clan for New England protection.
The majority must rule is the political max,
i'm which must govern natural policy. AS are
the views and the wants of that majority 80
will the policy be. Even the slave who first
owed his slavery to the enterprise of New
England and Old England, and his enfranchises
ment to the same cupidity, will not be slow to
act upon doctrine sancti6ed by SO high au-
thority. And his wants and his desires have
little in common with the close confinement
and rigid economy of factory discipline. His
wants are the wants of such as follow long
and hazardous field chlture--the highest price
for the products of his labors, and the lowest
price for the supplies for the farm.
But this is not ALL The West has passed the
age of puberty. It will no longer be possible
for New England capital to control the de-
mands of western interests by questions either
of sentiment or Of prospective advantage. The
West las actua interests, strong enough to assert
their rights, and power enough to demand their
enforcement--properly enough under the New
England doctrine 'that the majority must rule"
without regard to the rights and interests of
a minority. 1t is this power that is foreshad-
owed by the eincomplete census returns for 1870.
Mr.. Boutwell, was candid enough to tell his
New England constituency this much, dimly
and automatically it is true, but nevertheless
with candor sufficient to command attention.
And now comes the New York Herald with its
bold, blunt and assured emphasis, with the con-
clusion of the whole matter after careful re.
vision of the drift of population as prefigured
by the returns of United States census marshals:
The Herald says:
'In the decade before us all the Southern
States, more or lees, will gain prodigiouslly III
population and wealth, because of their cheal5
lands and mineral resources and fine soil anu
genial climate. Meantime, excepting our greaj
cities, the general drift of population has bee
to the Northwest and the new States and Terri
tories thence to the Pacific and under the next
Presidency, if not before, that section of the
Union will take from New England aud Penn,
sylvania the balance OF power and will holS
it in both Houses of Congress on the tsrif and
all the financial questions affecting the general
interests Of the Union"
We demul to but single point in the Her
AIDS summing up. There will be mo balance
of power" The interests Of the West, and the
interests of the South; and "niggers" and poor
white trash" and "rebels" and all are identical,
and neither school system, nor missionary en-
terprse, nor church government, nor heights,
nor depths, nor things passed, nor things to
come, will change the result-each and both
and all want cheaper goods and less taxes
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