The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-03-19
What The South Secds.
VIEWS OF HON. 4. ". DILLARD.

! y vast deal of the property of the
South is fictitious. Sne rctoivcs vast
sums for her cotton anil her sugar
yet she is no richer for it she lays
up 10 stores, pr"jac's no new com.
mcrcial enterprises, and crctts no fac.
tories. Real estate, both in town
and country, is very low, and well
nigh unsuitable: AS the South is al.
most exclusively an agricultural coun
,rJ, the low price OF real estate con.
clasively demonstrates that her pros.
pcrity is more apparent than solid.
No doubt mitch Of this depression
in tie price Of real estate IS attribu-
table tu The unreliable character Of
the Labor which we are forced to uso,
| a'.d the necessity which VIC arc under
! Of employing two laborers in order to
get the labor of one, yet the funda.
mental cause Of the present state of
affairs must be looked for elsewhere
than in our sJ stem Of labor:
1t grows out of several causes.
| Chief among these is the want of con-
fidcncc, which leads moneyed men to
hoard their money instead Of putting
IL into active circulation, or invest
ing it in commercial and manufacture
ing enterprises.
Secondly. 1t grows out OF Tic absurd
sacrifice OF independence and conf 'rt
to the growth Of cutton and sugar.
Oar cotton aud sugar crops are thfowii
into the lap of the Northwest, and
we are no richer by the exchange,
since We are stripped Of our money
by buying that which we should mike.
The downfall of slavery was, in itself,
n prodisious revolution. History,
full as it is Of revolutions and vicissi-
tudes, furnishes nothing to parallel
1t. 1t suddenly put an end to the
./ar niente in Which the South had
slumbcrcd, and threw her white in.
habitants OH their own resources it
swept away her labor system and
fois'ered an entirely different one
upon Ecr if it pitc!tfcrked tho latc
slaves into freedom aid citizenship;
it also lcvolusionixed the condition
OF their Late n"s'c'S, aud ,imposvl
new burdens upon them. The cxi-
ecncy demahd, steady perseverance,,
rather than dash energy, instead of
inholcncc coGl-hcaiiedne.S rather
than fiery passion, and that stcrncst
and homelicst Of all virtues, economy,
Instead Of the open handed prufGsion
of the oIich timt.
The first Of tho grave duties dc.
volycl on The white Inhabitants Of
the South Is to force tue South into
the hcw channel marked out for her
by the downfall Of slav ~.
| This REV chaLncl is change in the
entire commercial, agricultural and
industrial system Of the South, so as
to attr.ct AN influx Of white po2u.
latiou both from the North and
Elropc-to open ncw avenues of
commcrce--develop our latent re-
sources utilize our waste and un.
productive lands, and keep our moucy
at home ihstead of enriching tho
| Northwest with it. 70 effect this
mighty CHANGE We must make UP our
minds to the fact that slavery, with
its c1StoiiiS, hdbits and traditions, is
stone dead, and is incapable Of esur.
rcction: Leaving the negroes to work
out their own destiny, we must arouse
the white men Of the South to the
necessity ofpn;ting forth new energy
aid ACTIVITY in order to escape from
the ''slongh Of dcspond" into which the
war prcclpitated us. The negro race
never will will be ieplenishcd and re-
crrIted from ehc .iun.ics OF Central
Aflca and 80, mast depend on its
natural increase to keep up its pres
cnt numbers, while the whites will
be ipn, casnd by immigration from
Europe and the North, PROVIDED, we
use the meals to attract population.
The prepondcrancc OF the negro race,
then, Is accident aud temporary. IL
will gradually correct itself in con-
forming to tnc laws Of natural in
crease. Our duty then is to address
ourselves to the task of cutting loose
from the customs, crccds and tradi-
tions of the past, and adopting the
policy Of the South to the wants of
the present, and demands Of the fu.
turc. In one word, we need 4 new
commercial. agricultural aud indus
trial "Jtparture" Car riur! than a
now political "departurc," since fo~
litical charges exert little influence
on the prosperity Of ntions, aud only
.monnt 70 putting OFT thnse who are
gor"ed wiM lublic pluhder, and H.
s'alIing in their places a halffamishcd
class made terribly vo 'acious by long
abSthcnce from, the rich morsels
stored in the public crib. What the
South nccdsis i change in her whole
commercial, agricultural and indus
Trial ~ stem which involves in it
change ~ the hahi's and aims uf her
pcopie.--N. u. Times.
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