The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-11-16
HOPE FOR THE SOUTH!
GREELkY's ADHI0E, no TIE SOUTH
ERN LIBERALS.
"AbidIng the Issue"-The Administers
ticn Likely to Pour OIL upon the
Wounds OF the South.

0AbidInR tho Issue"-The Admin1stra-
tion Likely to Pour OIL upon the
Wounds Of tho South.
From the New York Tribunal
The South, we are told, has decided for
Grant by small majority; wherefore. those
OF the South who were not for Grant should
conform to the judgment; and set to work to
build up their sections Industrial and COM
mercial prosperity. We heartily second the
motion. Let the South, like the North, accept
the situation. Let her resolve NOT to waste
years In sighting for the impossible, but what
sver her hand indeth 10 do, that do with all
her might.
This advice will sound harshly Id the ears OF
planters who cannot possibly grow enough to
pay the taxes imposed on them by men who
pay nothing under such mookaries Of govern.
mpnts as those Of South Carolina and Arkan-
sas-yes, or even Louisiana as she has been,
to say nothing of North Carolina under Hol-
den or Georgia under the rule of her later
fugitive. II Is hard that men should be bid
den to stop grumollng and go to WORK, when
their earnings must be snatched away and de-.
voured by such daughters of the horse-leech
az impose taxes on the long-sufsring people
of the States above named
But what else! The South must live; and
che cannot live on sterile agitation. She has
appealed for klndler usage, and 1t has been
fatty denied her. Now, we are we'll assured
that the chief vctors in our late struggle are
inclined to correct abuses and satisfy just COM
plants To the extent of their power. We urge
the Just overborne whites Of the South TO
meet every kindly overture with cordlallty
and trust. sLet us havO peace" Ia cuckoo
song; but let us try to have 1t nevertheless.
It were Idle to prolong contest when hope
has utterly fed. If the gentlemen OF The
South would give more heed to the ednea.
tlon. of their poor nelghhore, especially
the blacks-would treat them from this
hour as tellow-cilizeEs. having like In
terests and duties with themselves
would not be possible 10 keep the ignorant
voting for plunderers and pecnatorj ever
more. The gentlemen Of the South may yet
20 to the polls and find their feId-handsaDd
cottage tenants voting With, not against them.
This Is q work OF time; wherefore, 1t cannot
are not amenable to the influence of assoc;a-
ton with the better classes; they ohoose other
comrades, other conversation. But even In
South Carolina, we must hope that there are
blacks who do not choose to be taxed as even
they must now be, wheDI by eonferring and
acting with whites whom they know and re-
spect; they may sweep eway their robbers Into
an oblivion of alt but lhelr infamy.
The late canvass hos enlightened the North
and Its perils. No one longer pretends that
things are as they should be az the Sonth,
even In States like South Carolina, where Re-
publican rule meets no serious opposition. 1t
Is quite generally understood that universal
suffrage Is not oil that II required; there must
be a hearty accord between the educated and
the better class OF manual laborers. Where
these vote. with the roughs and plunderers,
from apprehension Of wrong from the gentle
men and land-holders. the present Is hopeless.
+. We have said that the renewed admlnlstra-
ton must be ippeIled By Its very strength,
II by no higher consideration, to pour oil-upon
the wounds OF the South. 1t has G.no
longer any need of Noses or Clayton or
Spencer; lt has only to hint what these must
do and It will be done. We shall be s0rely
disappointed if General Grant does not soon,
In his own way, let 1t b. known at the South
that thieves may no longer hope for immunity
from just retrlbution by shouting themselves
hoarse In his praise, and etlgmati7ing those
opposed to them as rebels. II Ia certainly
high time that this game were played out.