Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-07-25
For The Senilne
Hope for the South.

Mr.. Edaor,-An editorial article in the Sen
tinel of the i It'll inst, entitled "IIard Tines
throughout the South, has prompted, the fol-
lowing
From.two sources Of entirely opposite char
acter, the Southern States are constantly re-
ceving warm. attention. These may be set
down on the one hand as the intensely parti-
san mouth pieces Of the Democratic party, and
on the Other, the organs OF what may be term
ed thick and thin Republicanism or, perhaps,
more properly, the Republcanism that is sy-
nonymous with support Of the national Adj
ministraton, no matter upon what system
carried on, and sharing of the spoils of Of
fee, no matter by whom divided. The South
has for several years past been patient re-
covering from injuries sustained during pro-
tracted and exhaustng war. These are the
self-consttutcd physicians who stand either
side of the sick couch and prescribe their an
tagonstc remedies with much violence. Glaze
quers stand behind each trumpeting the yir-
tues Of their respective nostrums with much
violence, and making din that really goes
farther TO retard the convalescence of the suf-
ferer than any of the primary evils that aiflict
her.
One of the two sapient doctors finds all the
,ailment to come from ''negro supremacy, =
and rants about black devils--not blue--with
such fervor of imagination that it is no won
der the patient should wildly fancy this to be
the real root of the disease. The voluble en-
piric describes the symptoms, asks the suffer
ing South il she does not find sons of Ham sit
ting upon her breast, and avows that it is this
incubus that prevents digestion and is respon-
sble for the recurrence of horrible sensations.
On the other side, the opposition doctor pre-
scribes unlimited doses of Reconstruction,
wraps up blue-mass politicians and noxious
doses the victim into o state of unrest and ner-
vous discontent-meantime preaching fine
homilies and advertising the virtues of the
treatment with specious words. Between the
pair Of quacks il is one long-continued course
of racket. So it must continue until nature
does it work and restores the patient TO that
physical strength when she can quietly arise
and kick the noisy medical prctenders out Of
doors.
The chief trouble with the Southern States
at present is, that they are afflicted by bum
ming demagogues, who, under the guise of
Democracy, on the one hand, and Republican,
ism on the other, manage to create turmoil
on which they rise TO a bad cminence; or, if
they be impecunious, turn it TO account in the
buttering of their bread. The majority of the
Southern people are gifted with enough sense
TO perceive that the slavery question was SET
tied eight years ago. and that as then settled
civil and political rights have been conferred
on the negro, and will forever attach to him.
Under these circumstances, however ardently
they may have opposed the legislative acts in
question, they should by this time have learn
ed to accept them as fixed finally, and conse-
qucn.ly make the best out of the situation
There is every reason, too, TO believe, that
they are willing and DESTROYS TO do this. But
it is one of the misfortuucs of republican
form Of government. that large class CT its
constituents, subjected TO the pcrsuasions OF
seductive demagogues, may be made to feel a
deeper interest in politics than in their own
personal welfare; and in this case main error
has been that the Southern people have con-
existence flames that they know ought to be
forever extinguished.
This maintenance of disorder, or tho SEM
blance oft, through the Southern States, has
the effect of interfering with their recupera-
ton. Capital is now the chief want among
them, but capitalists are deferred from invest
ment by disorder. The fertile lands of the
South, which properly cultivated, would rich
~ repay labor, remain comparatively untitled;
manufactures are, in great measure, suspcn-
ded there is general stagnation of industry;
while the facilities for reproductive invest
ment abound on every side, the moned men
of the North fear to touch them.
This state of affairs cannot long continue
ir countenancing political disturbances they
are doing themselves the greatest possible in
jury without gaining any desirable end. A
few more lessons like that furnished in LOUISE
ana will, it is to be hoped, complete this use
full instruction and teach them to realize that,
on the one hand, the man who talks of resus-
citating the Lost Cause is misguided fool
and, on the other, that he who PIRATES about
bridging the "bloody chasm'' with political
devices is, in all likelihood, an adventurous
knave, seeking his own preferment. The Lost
Cause is lost for all time, and there is no chasm,
bloody, or otherwise, that the Southern peo-
pie cannot bridge most speedily ard satisfac-
torily By attending to their own personal, ma
terial and immediate interests, and advising
the politicians to do likewise.
GLAUCUS.
EULALIA, Montgomery Co., Nd.
The AGRICULTURAL FAIR-Our readers have
already been apprised that the time for hold
ing the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair
has been fixed for the 10th, llth and 10Th of
September. The committee is now busy in
arranging the premiums, and making such
preparations as are necessary 10 the successful
execution of their plans. What we wish to