New-York tribune., 1872-09-17
THE CONDITION OF THE SOUTHERN STATES


THE CONDITION OF THE SOUTHERN SIAILS
A SOUTHERN woMAN's VIEWS UPON THE con
DUCT OF THE CAMPAIGN-THE FACES AND
ARGUMENTS TO BE PRESENTED
A prominent Southern woman, with the re-
eneraon of the South and union Of the sections OF
the country at heart called at the Democratic me-
quarters recently, and expressed herself very orDy
concerning the conduct Of the campaign There Is she
Thought too much sentiment in the arguments ad-
vanced by the Liberals, and lack OF those when APP
neal TO business interests OF the country. The ady
views are given below
In the first place. exhibit the actual poverty OF 'he
Southern people, the dlapdation OF their homes 'he
want OF means TO repair them, and to supply themselves
with even the comforts necessaries OF lie lhs Is
the general and actual situation. The who are diff
fereny situated the exceptions. Ii local selfgoV-
ernment were given the South to-day 1t would re-
aure at least 20 years Of ncesan and earnest labor for
the Southern people bring their States out OF the ruin
ana des0latiOn which, turn in whatever direction they
will stares them in the face Hundreds OF thousands OF
the richest lands Of the South bordering on the Mis-
sissppi River are lying idle growing up into wilder
ness The owners Of these lands are oing TO pay the
heavy taxes upon them, but unable 10 cultivate
tbem owing to the destruction OF the leyees, which
allows the river every Spring 10 sweep its waters back
distance of 40 miles into the interior, sweeping away
crops and cattle the full distance OF Its course. The
leyees were cut and DESTROYED by the orders
and armies OF Gen. Grant, and tle people are
too poor to reconstruct them. III too poor TO
rebuild the levees upon which their very subsistence
depends how IS possible that this impoverished people
could have any thought for the present for the future
of ANYTHING but e reconstruction Of their homes and
the recaiming OF their landsl How, under these cir
cumstanccs, s it possible that the nch, prosperous
people of the North and Northwest can do themselves
so little credit and pay high compliment TO the pow
etysrcken people OF the SOuth as 10 suppose, even
they had the desire TO do that heywould have the
time or the power TO Overturn and overthrow the Gov
ernmentf In the first place they are greatly IA the
minority In numbers Financially ana numercaHy poor
as they are is this which be Grant Republic
ans cynce aud express OF the southern people becoming
the power of the land the highest tribute OF respect
which the wealth and numbers OF one section could pay
to the intellect of anothcr In this fear do not the
Grant Republicans belttle themselves AFRAID OF the
ashes of the Sphinx for 1t amOuntstO little else.
Convince the New England and Northern people Of the
fact that good and respectable people from New-Eng-
land and other Northern states areand will be cordially
welcomed by the Southern whites when they there
for the purpose Of visiting the country to settle and
identify themselves with the people there, that they
will be received with true Southern hospitality and
diality that the Southern people actually desire such
persons to them, bO1h a. visitors and set
tcrs that they feel need Of having the enterprsng
Nortnern spirit in their midst and that IL only those
who 20 South for the purpose or Grating dlssensOns
and Idiscord for the purpose OF banding and al
wing the blacks against the whites, the EN-
plOyts against the employers lanot against capital
and the purpose Of expressing distressing and pun
derng the people, who Ostraclset in society south
Convince the Northern Manufacturing States how ntl-
maey connected the real ntereus OF their States
with the agricultural South. Under The Administration
Of Gen Grant emigration TO the SOut has become AN
impossbuty II that the capitalist Ostractsed
there but because they the South PROSTATE under
carpet-bag rule and punderng, and Ire not willing 10
carry their capital into country whre they tneY
can do nothing but lose II; where hey are heavily
taxed without voice In the state
or General Government; where Misrepresentation is
only by carpetbaggers, who have naturalization with
the Ignorant negroes. Furthermore, these
Northern men accustomed cOurtsOf Justice where
they NAV be tried by their peers are n willing TO 10
cSuntry where upon false chars their lives may
he endangered by trial before juryOm posed OF men
beipIessy ignorant OF the slightest idea Justice Thus
enigratiou remspas moral impOssbilty until there s
cbafpe OF government Then prOcee to illustrate the
dfen state of affairs which would enst II the Govern
mept were changed and capital and alOr induced to
ercse their influence in the regeneration OF fhe South
show that at not more than Onohrd Of the lands
once uuder cultivation now cultivated, and that
every additional acres OF the MO-thrds OF the
lands now living idle would be worth TO the manufac-
turing States average, every year, ls pairs OF
shoes hats 40 yards OF cotton, and 40 yards OF
Woolen cloth for the labOring classes, besides the
millions worth of finer goods sent flOm Northern fac
tories for the consumption OF the letter classes In
addition by the enormous amount OF cotton and sugar
the South can made 10 produce by this introduction
of sueiency OF labor and capital tie prices Of these
stanes wound reduced 10 less than le prices paid
yios 10 the war thus benefttng the North well as
fhe south These questions must certtnly be OF inter
est 10 the laborng well all ohtr classes OF the