The daily gazette., 1875-12-10

THE SoUTH ON It's FEET. For
the first time since that great gal
axy Of States attempted to draw
out from the Republic, the South
has a representation in one brauch
of the Government founded upon
its intelligence and not upon its ig-
norancc, honestly chosen and not
elected in fraud and injustice. The
gavel that fell yesterday at noon in
| Washington called again into being
what was for three-quarters of Il
century, the dominating influence
in the Union. The South is itself
again.
But it is not the old self. Its
power has been sadly shorn by its
own suicidal act. Up to 1860 the
South proudly wore two-thirds at
least of the highest honors of the
Republic. OF Southern Presidents
there were 60 years; Of Northern,
"a; of Southern Judges of the Su-
premc Court there were Is; of
Northern, IL ; of Sou hern Speak
ers of the Senate there were "a; of
Northern IL; of ofSouthern Speakers
of the House, %; of Northern, -;
of Sourthern Attorney-Gen S
J there were IA; of Northern, 5. The
South furnished sc foreign minis
ters, the North "a. The same pro-
portion held in the higher positions
in the army and Navy; the North
furnished most Of the men who did
the fighting and the dy ing, while
the South was given q great major
| ity of the more important officers.
The South had two-thirds of the
clerks employed under the Gov
ernment, though having only one
third of the white population of the
| Union. Duriug the last year OF
the old Union, 1860, the expenses
of mail transpor ,ation in the Free
States were Sl3, ,OOO, 900; ;thereceipts
$40, 9,000,0O0; in the Slave States
the expenses were S14, 200, 900, the
receipts $S,000,C0O. So that the
deficit in the one devoured the sur
plus in the other. Two-thirds o1
the Supreme Court Judges came
from the South. though four
fifths of the business of the courts
arose in the North Three fourths
of the revenues Of the Government
were collected from the North
But these mere statistics Of govern
ment do not convey an adequate
idea of the overwhelming political
influence Of the South. 1t was
this influence that compelled 6
twenty years extension of the
slave trade; that exacted a three
iifths representation for slaves, bur
, refused to allow them to vote; tha
demanded the enactment of tn,
Fugitive Slave Law, &c.
Not one of the States which re
. belled has to-day a representativ,
. in the Cabinet or the Suprem,
Court or Foreign Minister of AM
. importance, and no one OF them i:
! ! likely to put forward claim to tn,
Presidency or Vice-Presidency fo
many years TO come, or until tn,
E whole country shall become salts
fed that the period of probation is
s past, But it would be giving tn
lie to the grandest lessons of ou
. history to deny that the South i
3 stronger and better to-day thai
ever before. 1t has rid itself of it
great weakness that seemed to b
/. its great strength. Whatever in
fiuence it exerts now is honestl,
its own, represents the votes Q
freeman, not the ownership of fes
and blood. The North no longe
looks upon the South as an enem
that must be watched and resisted
both strike hands in good will. Th
Of reign of the carpet. Dagger is ovel
. and the South is represented ono
y more-in the Lower House at leas
= by men elected by the people
= and not by conspiracy of adver
. turers from the North, with igno
g ant negroes for their dupes N ]
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