New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-25
Southern Disturbances and capital.

No people were ever more willfully and
stupidity blind than those IN the South who
are forming White Leagues and fomenting
strife with the freedmen. Their course is
passing strange. All considerations OF sen
interest, so far as their Industrial progress
is concerned, require an entirely different
line of action. The South is poor, its
business is depressed, its vast natural
resources undeveloped. It needs muscle
and capital. But these Internal fights upon
the freedmen, these everlasting turmoils
and ceaseless outbreaks, where the negro
always comes out second best and where
the Trustworthy evidence shows that he 10
far from being the aggressor, are keeping
out capital and disorganiziag labor. Hun
dreds of Northern men have visited the
Southern States within the past few
years. and satisfied themselves that no more
promising field for the investment OF capital
can be found, if order and peace and
security to life and property existed there.
But under the present state OF things they
have returned to their Northern homes
speedily bringing back their money with
them.
Recently an English gentleman OF large
means, representing extensive n0aeveC
and railroad interests in Great Britain, via
tied the Red river country, and ne reports
investment of capital. He finds all the es.
sential elements Of extensive business and
production. There is clearly great need of
more railroads in that district, and il fact
throughout Texas and other Southern
States. This gentleman is Democrat IN
politics, and has furnished letters from the
South for New York paper. But how
does this English capitalist, Democrat IN
sentiment though he is, view the situation!
He refuses to invest q dollar on account Of
the political bitterness existing there. This
bitterness is doubtless the work of few
fiery madcaps that are fast dominating
Southern opinion. The best element Of the
late rebel population is kept too much IN
the background. That element comprises
large share Of the property owners ana the
substantial citizens. The time has come
for them to rise up as one man and snuff
out this fighting, riotous, murderous ele-
nert among themselves that is heaping
curses upon the South, already deeply I'M
poverished by its folly and crime.
This lawlessness is cursing Democratic
Missouri and Democratic Tennessee to-day.
And even in old Democratic Kentucky the
Louisville Courier-Jo,unal is forced to ad.
NIT that sin the darkest and bloodiest days
of the dark and bloody ground there was
not a 1.-THE Of the murder done which has
disgraced the soil of Kentucky during the
present year." And we are told that New
York dealers in arms are doing quite a
brisk trade, receiving orders in which
pains is taken TO say we are All aruuAS
and organizing in clubs in the White
Leagues" It should be remeu bered that
1t is the Democrats whe are engaged in
this diaboIical work, and that in Demo-
cratic Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, and even
in Kentucky and Missouri, outrage, rapine,
murder and all forms of lawlessness are
rampant, and 60 unchecked by the au-
thorjties whose duty it is to protect the
lives and property of all the citizens.
Poverty will futter its rags over the
South so long as this state of things con-
tinues. Many of its broad acres will go
uncultivated, its vast power run idly away,
and its immense mineral and agricultural
wealth lie dormant, compared with what
they are capable of becoming, and foreign
and Northern capital be kept out until this
crime and outlawry are put down. Is it
not worth while for the South to stop in its
career and suppress its murderers and dis
turbers of the peacel-Atbanq Journal