New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-06-05
THE NORTH AND TIE SOUTH.

erty and social safety involved IN the
slavery question has been eliminated from
political affairs. g. The tariff is no longer
n question confined to the North and
South. The West has an immense manu-
featuring interest and has such an INDUS
trial interest and representative power that
it can, by combining with either OF the
other sub-sections, control both 1he ques-
ton of State rights has been, as We have
shown, deprived of all effect, for no party,
North or South, maintains the power
of the States to regulate the authority OF
the federal government within the limits
of the States. What, then, remains to
separate the English thinking people OF
the North and South? Did they
not make and fight together the
two wars Of 1776 and 1914? Have
they not purchased and paid for all terri
tory acquired? Is not the merit of the
republican system partly due to these
men of both these sections who framed
and founded it? Thus there have been
two principal causes of former dissensions
removed, and it is the duty of all patriots
in both sections to bring them into har-
mony and union. There are those we
fear who expect that the former antagon-
ism can be revived by simply printing the
words North and SOUTH in small caps,
and denouncing a Republican administra-
ton as tyrannical. Suppose they look at
few figures:
In 1860 the Southern or slave-holding
States had S4 representatives out OF
233. The same States have now 80
out of 2S3 Representatives. Are these
States under the same counsels? They
have all adopted the federal amendments
and the laws passed Hereunder. Does
any one expect to reunite those States in
the repeal of those measures? We do not
think there are five hundred voters in the
South who intend to try it. The attempt
to revive the old issues Of North and
South is especially insane in Louisiana.
| The interest of New Orleans is with the
North and West. Almost all the capital
of her banks, insurance companies and
much invested in merchandise comes from
the North. The shipping in our port is
wholly foreign to our city. New Orleans
| needs commercial and postal expansion
as the outlet city of the West. The
interest Of the sugar planters OF
Louisiana is with the consumer OF the
West and the capitalist Of the North.
| The interest of the cotton farmer and
factor is with the capitalist and manufac-
| turer of the North. Louisiana is deeply
concerned in tie increased numbers Of
the West, and in the enlarged capital and
machinery of the North. Louisiana is a
producer, not a disconnected politician
hunting co-conspirators. Louisiana has
little connection with the Southern Allan
tie States, and can not be expected to
unite with the few disaffected persons 70
disturb the progressive adjustment which
seems to have satisfied all the Southern
Atlantic States She is disconnected for
domestic debt, but proclaims that she has
no quarrel with the United States. The
reconstruction of sectional harmony is
nearly complete Even South Carolina,
ever in the van Of discomfort, has &C.
quiesced in the inevitable. She is
now lamb in the federal fold. She
now sucks at the teat Of fede-
raj patronage. We can not affirm
there are not many in and out OF
Carolina who prefer the new deal OF dis
solution of the Union to the restoration
of sectional harmony, but the war has
liberated an opposite sentiment, and this
disafected minority are under the guard
of their own former slaves. The representa-
tive power Of the Southern slave States is
relatively diminished, because it is d.
vided between the whites and con-
stituency which regards their title to
personal liberty dependent on the main
tenance of the Union. Here, then, we
have Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland,
Virginia, Missouri, unwilling to fight fol-
disunion or restored slavery. The men
who fought the late war on the Southern
side have no purpose to fight the United
States again, and the non-combatants who
did not fight in the late war will scarcely
fight in any other. Outside journals in
New York, Kentucky, Missouri and Ohio
exhort the Southern people to war,
and say they would not stand it.
Stand what? Is there any conditions the
Federal government would exact which
the proprietors of these journals would
not subscribe to? Alas the example of the
Picayuae which allowed writer Of
editorials to be discovered and sent to
Ship Island; of the Bee, which recanted
its opinions to save its circulation. The
history of the Louisville Journal, a super
loyal supporter Of the federal government,
and the Missouri Republican, which kept
shady and saved its type-all prove that the
instant the federal government takes a
stand any scribbler on such journals who
takes sides against the Union will return
to the dust of obscurity from which he
sprung, and in his place may be installed
the most fulsome adulators Of the strong
and the most pungent prosecutors of the
weak. The South is then divided. The
North has capital, numbers and war
material. The West has numerical
power to control either or both.
The volunteer allies of the discontinued
South consist of the itinerant writer's on