Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-13

ou and punish the CRIMINALS, out nave
applied themselves TO the task with
c~Ommendable promptness and energy.
Let Tennessee assert her rights and
her sovereignty m5his matter.
SHRINKAGE IN SOUTHERN REAL
ESTATE
The disasters which have oyertaken
the Citizens Bank of New Orleans, as
set forth in yesterdays Bulletin, are
pregnant with considerations reaching
ar beyond the immediate circle of the
suspension itself. and coming home
with more or less directness to the
country at large.
One of these considerations is the
gradual drying up of some Of the most
vital sources of material wealth under
the bad government which has uc-
ceeded the restoration of peace. 1t IS
not our province to discuss the causes
of that badness, but, simply recogniz-
ing the fact of its existence, to point
ont its blighting effects not only upon
the well being of the South itself, but
upon the thrift and well being indi-
reetly Of the entire country.-N. Y.
Bulletin.
The paper from which the above is
copied is strictly a commercial. and in
no sense a party, journal. How a
the entire country be made to consider
the gradual drying up of some of the
most vital sources Of material wealth
under the bad government which sue
ce4ded the restoration of peace? The
consideration and remedy are by no
means so easy nor so plain rs our con-
temporary affects to believe. 1t sug-
gests that Congress should take action
in the matters but can Congress, by any
act of legislation, cure the constitu-
tional love of ease and ~laziness
in four or five millions of the
African race. in sparsely settled
States? This population operates as
a standing bounty for all enterprising
white families of moderate means to
emigrate to communities and States
where there are few or no negroes. The
presence of freedmen keeps away in
dustrious immigrants from Europe,
and the Northern, Middle aad West
ern States. This double loss of the
white mans industry, economy, enter
prise, steady purpose to acquire wealth
by productive labor, and commendabis
frugality, is in truth a terrible "blight
not only on the we'll being of the South,
kbut on the thrift and well-being indi-
rectly of the e4tire country" 1t Is a
blight that has cursed the South nine
years, since the surrender Of the Con-
federate armies and the false promise
of peace to our citizens.
Reconstruction fanaticism has never
ended, and its high priests and disci-
pies meyer intended that it should end
50 long as negro votes wefP 70 be
bought or sold in the South. This IS
Republican capital, and it will never be
abandoned, although the real estate of
this section shall continue to shrink in
market FaIge till it fails to yield taxes.
The Radical party saa hardly be ex-
pected to commit suicide, and if 1t had
a deed in fee simple Of all the colored
paaple, it would be a hard matter to
make tie hoaest and Industrious part
produce enough 10 feed and clQthe the
whole.
Where is the clear margin from
free cqlored laborers' work to make
arabic land profitable or desirable?
With such ambition and industrial
attainments as our yourg freedmen
possess, what is the value of farms in
Mexico, Central America, St. Domingo
and Africa? They are worth nothing,
and form q territory unsought by eau
casian capital, industry and enterprise.
The wisdom of the Caucasian race as
developed by the experience of thou
sands of years, both before and since
the time of Homer, was embodied in
the constitution framed BY Washing
ton, Hamilton, Madison and Franklini
and this has been set aside TO make
room for the superior wisdom, virtue
and patriotism of negro statesmen like
Gov. Moses, Of South Carolina Man
has the life and blood which he inher-
its; he can have no other. In Central
Europe We find a pure system of Chris
tianity; IN Central Africa a nude
people, and q pure system Of cannibal-
ism. Give to these facts their true
meaning.
Yet. incurable fanaticism believes
most religiously that the negro brain
can do better thinking than the white
mans brain, and therefore the former
is to-day placed in supreme power over
SIX hundred million acres If the best
cotton, sugar, rice and tobacco lands
the sun shines upon. Ii the Caucasian
race has any interest in these lands, it
demands the early removal of this
black. African "blight" which the Ne11
York Bulletin sees, but fails to under
stand. Will ~fanaticism consent to
this removal? Certainly not. 1t wants
mixed schools, the intermarriage and
perfect miscegenatlOn Of races. 1t is
the same Unsuitable fanaticism that is
now sending troops to make the negro
what he is not; and to vex the white
man and drive him an expatriated
vanderer, like the Huguenots of a
former age, from the land of
his birth. Crusadag TO the Holy
Land were never so popu-
lar as those now preparing the way for
the white race to support five million
colored paupers in the South.
To insane constitution bunglers no
labor seems SO easy and natural as to
make a silk purse out Of a sow's ear,
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