New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-27


You may touch the waves with noiseless oar
Till you float far out on the shining stream
Where winds from the corn land freshly blow,
AM where you may gently drift and dream
With stars above you and stars below
Drifting drifting, NAV dream rest
On the peaceful rivers cool sweet breast.
Tolerat ton the Great Need Of the South.
A French king, in giving his ideal of q
happy realm, said that he desired to see the
day when every peasant IN France should
have q chicken in his pot for dinner 1t
was homely, but forcible way of describ-
ing an era of social order and happiness and
well rewarded labor in land of green pas
lures and still waters, like Judea, in the
days Of Solomon, when, in the words of the
Hebrew chr0nicler. Israel dwelt safely,
every man under his vine and fig tree. For
it was not the branches bending with the
weight of ripened figs and purple clusters
only which cheered the contented owner,
but the thought that law reigned supreme,
and that there was none to make him afraid.
But neither Palestine nor France, in the
DAYS of their prosperity, ever offered go fair
or wide a field for happy population as
nature has given to the fifteen States re-
Gently rescued from the thraldOm Of slave
~; being. in respect of area, an empire,
and, in respect of climate and products, OF,
fering everything required by the physical
wants of man.
It is said that this great and fertile region
ia not prosperous in comparison with the
Northern portion of the Union, q region
having no greater natural advantages. If
this is the fact, it is of far greater import
ance for the Southern people to find out the
reason of this lack of prosperity than to fol-
low after party leader who tickles their
ears { lh glittering theories and sparkling
rhetoric. For whether Governor Hayes or
Governor Tilden be the next President, the
wants and wishes of the masses OF the peO-
pie will remain the same. The great multi
tude will still continue within the walks of
private life, and Of the 100000 of Ameri-
can citizens, not one in 500 can possibly I'LL
public office. Still the daily question of
every household will be, what shall We eat
and drink, and wherewithal shall We be
clothed! And these natural wants, whose
full qualification indicate prosperous peO-
pie, can oe satisfied in that land only where
peace and order are supreme, and violent
men dare not modest the citizen il public or
under his roottrse.
Why is the South not prosperous L. it
because that portion of the Union which
lately opposed the rebellion is hostile to her
reasonable. A whole people do not act
without q motive, and the North has no
motive for desiring the degradation OF the
South, but, on the contrary, has the strong
est reasons of natural humanity and
of self interest for desiring the thrift and
increase of the South-reas0ns of kindred
blood, reasons of natural pride. reasons OF
domestic trade and exchange, reasons Of
natural security and revenue. 1t is strictly
the hearty good will Of the North in respect
to their physical and mental progress.
Not an item of Southern news indicating
local improvements and advancement fails
to be cordially noted by the Northern
newspapers irrespective of party. The
grand donation Of the late George Pea
oody. Of New England, to the schools Of
the South, the princely gift of Vanderbilt
to q Southern university. the thousands
Of smaller donations to Southern churches
and schools from the extreme North, and
the mary millions of Northern capital in.
vested in the South, are a few Of the more
striking evidences that the North has none
but the most kindly feelings toward the
South and ardently desires her prosperity.
1t mag be added that there is not single
feature OF Northern enterprise and industry
which Northern capital has not honestly
tried to reproduce in the South since the
close Of the war. despite many discourage
ments.
Is the South, then, not prosperous be-
cause her labor system has been over
thrown. Facts speak for themselves, and
the present marvellous year OF plenty at
tests the truth of the assertion that South
ern labor never worked SO efficiently be-
fore. The only complaint which comes
frcm the agricultural districts is, that the
planters and farmers are Cutting the mar.
kets with superabundant crops. Instances
are not uncommon where single crop. this
year. has enabled the farmer to pay the
| full price of his farm and keep surplus.
In respect to agriculture, the South is
prosperous this year beyond any previous
season.
But it may be said that, although crops
are abundant in the South, her manufac-
tories languish. On this point we have the
| testimony of the Georgia and Tennessee
newspapers that the only cotton and iron
| mills in the country which have declared q
dividend this year are in those States.
Working up the raw material. which ia sup
Piled at their doors, the Southern mills and
fOrges have prospered, while those of New
England and Pennsylvania have languished
and failed. Says the Chattanooga Times, q
Democratic paper, published in the great
Southern iron district: 1.-The South has to-
day more furnaces in blaet in proportion to
her number than the North has, and very
few of ours are losing any money, while
constant loss at the North is the rule. We
believe the only mill in the United States,
running exclusively on railroad iron, which
declared 8 legitimate dividend for 1S7 5,
was the Roane Iron Company's mill in this
city"
The administration has taxed Southern
manufactures with no unequal and unjust
determinations. The national laws have
protected all alike, and if disaster has over
taken any enterprise, it has not proceeded
from any sectional prejudice or interven-
ton. Why, then, is the South not as pros.
porous as the North, and why are not her
rich lands sought by crowds of immigrants!
The answer is easily given. Governor Hayes
says in his letter of acceptance:
''Laborers will not 60 and capital will
not be ventured, where the constitution
and the laws are set at defiance, and dis.
traction, apprehension and alarm take the
place of peace loving and law-abiding social
life.'
There ia the whole solution of the ques-
ton; volumes could not state it better. The
vine and fig tree bear abundantly, but the
shadow of violence troubles the heart of the
owner as he sits under their friendly shell
ter. The local press of the South breathes
spirit of intolerance which is directly at
war with the thrift and peace of society.
What man wanting to exercise freeman
privilege of talking and voting as he
pleases, and of bringing up his family in
security, wants to buy farm and settle in
q community whose local newspapers use
such rutfian sentiments as these:
"The Democrats are thoroughly prepared
for any emergency, and if these Radical
hounds want blood they shall have it to
their hearts content"
This might tempt "Wild BilW or "Texas
Jack" but not peaceable German. Another