New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-28
MISSOURI AND LOUISIANA.

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ample of rapid and permanent develop
ment in America as that furnished by the
great and rapidly growing State of Mis-
souri,. There has been no such evidence
of the superior wisdom of material deve-
lopment over political diplomacy as is
evident from the prostration of old ideas
and old partisans on the west bank of the
Mississippi. Well do we remember the
school of politicians who wished to keep
the old Atlantic States at the head Of the
government and themselves at the head Of
those States. Then they taught to all the
new States of the South and West
that all industries other than that of sta
pie culture by slave labor were danger
ous That all works Of public enterprise
were unconstitutional, and that the true
secret of liberty and virtue was to resist
all change, material or political. 1t is
very possible that but for the war Mis-
sour, Arkansas and the Southwestern
States of Alabama and Texas would, like
Toney Lumpkin, have continued in ig-
no1ance that they had come Of age and
were entitled in their own right to man.
age their own affairs. The dismissal of
this school from all positions of power
the compulsion that its members should
assume, like Senator Bogy, Of Missouri,
the more practical doctrines Of modern
progress, introduced in the States referred
to, works of development which they
would have never known under the rule
of Calhoun, Hunter and Atchison. Rail-
roads have pierced the perverted resolu-
tons of 1883, as with sword. Coal
mines and cotton mills have horrifed the
souls of Yancey and Fitzpatrick. But lie
,odr liberated something else besides the
Slaves. It set free the Southern and West
ern mind from q domination that had
paralyzed its action, and kept it in sub
ordination to other sections from simple
ignorance of its own ability. This iber-
alton and the subsequent progress of these
States had an example in Italy. Italy in
whom Republican doctrines had long been
transformed into aristocratical privileges
and superstitious obedience, was liberated
by the Austrian conquest. The Bastile
of civil and religious bigotry was then
open, the light Of developed intelligence
penetrated the dungeons of ignorance.
The cramped and stiffened energies Of an
enslaved people were set free, and the
people Of Italy are to-day the superior Of
those who had long manacled them in
mental bondage.
1t has been thus with the Western and
Southern States to which our article re-
fers. The spirit Of progress within these
States was the power within the locomo-
tive that stands simmering on the switch.
The war was the touch of the engineer
that sends it laundering along the track
Of expire. But the transfer and accumu-
lation of popular power has made these
new States masters Of their own destinies
and those of others. Their extraordinary
emancipation as provinces of Fogydom
has not only struck the Guelphs and
Bourbons of Democracy with constesna-
ton, but it has demonstrated fearless
indifference to collision with Eastern cap
ital and corporations. 1t displays de-
termined spirit OF industrial independence
if not an assured capacity for conquest.
There was an emancipation in the South.
Its men were soldiers. They saw the wants
of their country. They felt the criminal
neglect Of their rulers to provide them
with the weapons of war or the nipple.
ments of industry. The mechanical neces.
sites of war; the very observations o.
imprisonment at the North taught these
men to respect superior system of devel
opment, against which individual heroism
was impotent. The war created body
of free labor, and these soldiers were able
| to hire labor which they could never have
purchased. Hence the railroads and fac
tories, the immense crops Of cotton, the
zeal for cultivation and the love of peace
which has overspread the Southern sol
diery.
There is but one organized remnant O