The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-04-05

oS IA noO - HSnttui' aG least legal 6etGi Q
ment; we have gained, not lost, battle TO
self. governing principle; we have given tn,
business interestOf the country the assuran,
of four years Of stability, and we have forced
upon the new administration the necessity o
pausing and asking itself whether it car
safely prOceedwith q relentless policy of pre-
ecription toward the south. Having saved
| thls much out of the wreck If we shall &C
| complish the rescue of South Carolina apG
| Louisiana from the hands of the despoiler
Florida being already secured. and add
| these three states to the number of free
| productive commOnw ealths which compose
our national union, who shall not cay we
| have not done q good years work even
though we have lost the man we elected to
| be our PRESIDENT
On this not unpleasiDg reflection let us
turn from the past into the present and the
future.
THE FUTURE POLICY OF THE SOUTH.
Our Interests are all southwark. During
my service as your representative did not
have an opportunity to vote for a southern
railway to the Pacific; but did have one
opportunity to cast one vote for bill of
msterial consequence and that WAS the bill
to levee the Mississippi. In my Judgment,
the future of the South rests on these t~o
measures. To them the city of Louisville
should attach it's fortunes; for without
them the South can never regain it's lost
RhoopSALtys f16 HdtL0ES HLhuU, JuS COuGD lS
left in dead eddy by the flow Of contin-
entail transportasion-the whole Asistic-
European trade-northward. Our broken
system of southern railways ekes but a
languid existence. Upon our own great
trunk line, the one line going into the South
the sourse of our commercial life, a single
daylight train goes at midday. say that,
in the absence of a western outlet we are
leftin dead eddy dead eddy composed
of the waste waters of the Mississippi,
which are allowed to wash the land at will.
If this river ran through New England it
would have been levied up to the
moon long ago. 1t would have bristled
with costly customhouses. But it runs
through the South ard, between the gor-
mand'zing spirit of one section and the
abstract and sentimental qualms of q cer-
tain class Of politicians among ourselves,
we are to 60 on from year to year growing
poorer and poorer, weaker and weaker,
until we are ready to be put up like bun
die of rage and sold out 60 the lowest bid
der. Fellow. citizene, Louisville should
make herself the file. leader of the new
policy of material advancement to which
the South must exclusively look. The day
of speculative philosophy and sentimental
rhapsody in American politics is over.
Those who cling toit will cling to a broken
reed. Those who invoke it will invoke the
ruin of themselves and their country. The
South is prostrate, poor. She staggers to
her feet. Passionate idealism will not
keep her there. That which will sustain
her is that which will make the millwheel
sing and the spindle dance that which
will send the plougbshare bounding over
the field; that which will cheer the counting
room and fill the busy mart with business
life that which will build the railroads to
carry off the produce; that which will re-
store old and make new arteries of trade; in
short, that which has made the North rich
and strong at our expense,
THE ADMINISTRATION.
You ask me what will Hayes doY NV |
answer is, blessed are those that expect |
nothing, for they shall not be disappoint
ed" OF course, the general politics of the |
country has pressed hardly upon the South
But we have weathered the period of poll
tical ostracism and persecution. We shall
be troubled no more with proscriptive laws
and military governments. To day, the
national house of representatives is demo
cratic two years hence the national senate
will be democratic. All we need ask of the
administration is to give us a fair
show, and that is it's interest To give US.
If it does not the people will compel it.
shall neither abuse nor praise the president
It is no fault of mine that he has power to
act. do not propose to dispute the legal
ty of his title. Nor shall offsr to buy,
IT seek as gift, what he owes as debt.
As be is wise and JUS, would support
Inn. AS he ID not, would oppose him.
TIE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
That much any of US, al of Us, can ar-
ord. That much We owe to our country
md ourselves. More than that we owetoDo
nan, to no party. 10 no cause, to no condi-
ion of things. We are told by persons of
suspicious and captions turn that mr.
Hayes will be able to buy the Democratic
,arty in the South, To divide aud breal; up
he democratic party in tie union, 10y the
,estowal here and there Of il few federal
,fiices, and by the adoption of policy of
nterual improvement for the southern
Responsible people who give cur-
ency to this idea are not friends of the de.
nocratic party butits wOrts enemies. was ,
BORN and raised Democrat-I am a Demo. /
rat to. day, a Democrat in the best and pu.
est sense, and have right to speak of the
,arty and for the party. If it was doomed
o die, it seems to me the war would have
titled it. If it did not possess an element ,
# inextinguishable life, the campaign of {
q would have made an end of it.. In spite
# blundeTs and Ieverses enough to destruV