The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-05-02

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The New York cotton market CLOSED
quiet; uplands 232 cents; sales 274 bales.
In Liverpool cotton closed firm; up
lands lla1ltd, Orleans l14alltd; sales
IL, 0Oobales-
Tho Southern States Since the war.
The London Saturday Re0ieaD prints b
lengthy article upon somers's Southern
States Since the War,"a work which Is re-
earded, on this side Of the Atlantic, as
giving an impartial and intelligent account
Of the condition OF the South. In the opin-
ion, ssi the reviewer, it confirms ''nearly all
..that has been written by rational advocates
.oft the South in defence Of the conquered,
sand in condemnation o! the conquerors."
MI. somers mentions, as a notorious truth,
ssthe wholesale devastation effected BY the
.invaders; such devastation had been Tor
centuries almost unknown il the warfare
.sof Christian nations" The reviewer says :
In the South. the traces OF the war are
EVERYWHERE Visible to this day.. wherever
the Federal troops came they destroyed All
thst'they could not remoyeInot Only istwass
and stores. but cotton factories, IRON factories,
plantation buildings, cotton gins and presses,
sugar boilers and reanerlesEin short, the
whole Industrial apparatus of the staple pro
auctions of the South. When the war was
oYer, it was impossible to resume WORK unIl
the entire fixed capital Of the countryIlne
accumulated wealth OF nons .giaen oe Sor
Acknowledgement. The conquerors were IN
tent on vengeance rather Than restoration.
The surrender Of the South had been unconal-
tional; but 1t had been based on the solemn
and repeated declarations Of Congress anu OF
the President thai all that was required Was
submission to the law and return 10 tle UNION,
and that no attempt should be made 10 ue-
priye the States of their ancient liberties.
Perhaps, had Mr.. Lincoln lived, ne might
5 nave desired and been able 10 fulnl these
pledges; his successor tried IN vain. Mr..
johnson prevented the Radicals from slgnsi-
izingtheir triumph by the execution OF mol
;yidnal enemies; he could not hinder them
from inHicliDg cruel punishment on the whole
nation. Military despotism, rendered douoly
odious BY the selection of negro subordinates
for placessin which they would have Inc larg,,
eat concern With the personal applications add
individual fortunes OF their late masters, ~ss
merely the preparation for q worse tyranny.
The Acknowledgement Of the negrots gave tnem
at once the mastery Il many places; IN I'LL,
their practical ascendsncy was secured oy
3 eu~ppiieTfgntary measures.
The negroes pay no taxes; for the poll tax is
the only State tax not leviea on properly; ana
this Is not collected. There Is, therefore,, no
motive to restrain the extravaganza OF toe
Official adventurers; The ta1paying WINES arg
powerless, The untaxed negroes ere naIse,s sa
or ;brIbed into acquiescence; and while Inc
struggling people, still desperately striving TO
repslrr the havoc of the war, are oppressed oy
an intoleraple load of taxes, their rulers often
enrich themselves by peculations, not ap-
preaching those Of the Tammany Clique IN
magnitude, but not falling short OF them IN
impudence, and more serious In proportion TO
Another scarcely less CALLING form OF OPP
preston emanates from Washington. Every
necessary OF life is taxed for the benefit OF
the conquerors. Even the negro suffers SO.
yerely from this cause, but to the planter
the tariff, Imposed solely with q view to
Northern interests, and forming a constant
.n,drain on. the impoverished South, for the
.a.protito of the wealthy Northeast, is not only
st1 cruel insult, but a crushing burden"
a" ss,WQl6 Q6 lAUUE6 cucISCIuCoiy W hSSP hS
head above water-for, as Mr.. Somers testifes,
by none oil: the many SANDERS against them
nave the planters been more misrepresented
than by that which, described them as an lndo-
lent race-he finds that he Is paying some
thing like half his total expenditure IN the
tormo OF q tribute to those Northerner> whom
he hates not only as coDqnerors, but as op-
pressors; and he knsws that he could retrieve
his fortunes with half the toll If only he were
governed by his iellow-cilizens, who would re-
gard his Interest and refrain from stealing his
money, and II the Federal power were In the
hands Of statesmen who would regard all Sec
lions impartially, and refrain from taxing one
to enrich another. In q word, he knows that
political misf0rtunes alone are the cause Of his
suffering; that he Is poor, not because he Is
careless or clumsy, not because his slaves have
been emancipated, but because his country has
been conquered, and Is governed IN the inter
est of the %conquerors. And this is not al.
Capital Is bis great want; but foreign capital
liz frightened away by misgovernment and by
the tariff, and the Northerners use their mo
nopoly uuscrnpulously.
Inregard to the Ku-Kiux organization, the
Reusep says:
That such q body should exist at such q time
WAS almost q necessity. and certainly not an
unmlxed evil. That q continuance of the pre-
sent system can only tend 10 maintain the
sentiment Of inveterste popular hostility, out
of which such organizations sprlRg, must be
plain TO every statesman not wholly blinded
by passion; and the present prospect OF q new
triumph OF the party which Is bent on uphold.
Ing, negro supremacy in the South, and a pro.
tective tariff for the benefit Of Massachusetts,
and Pennsylvania, cannot but be considered
as a misfortune to North and South alike.
The permanent union OF two nations embit,
tered against each other by q continuance OIL
injuries Inflicted and endured is as impossible
as the permanent subsection OF a superior race
to an inferior; and only by the speedy aban.
donment Of the latter policy can reconciliation
and effective reunion be rendered practicable.
It is pleasant to find that one OF the many
foreigners who have travelled through the
South, during the last seven years, took the
pains to familiarize himself with the subjec,
upon which he writes; and it ia a little com
fort TO know that some OF our cousins across
the water decline to believe the sensational
yarns and downright falsehoods 30 busily
circulated for the purpose Of iDjuriDg thu
South.