The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-04-07
New England.

There was an election for Governor IN
Rhode Island on Wednesday last. The
democrats made extraordinary efforts"
!, we are told, but the Republicans neyerthe-
less carried the State by something less than
a thousand majority. Now, reader, rccoi.
sect that Rhode Island has three electoral
votes in presidential election, and guess
how many votes were cast in this iniiuen"
tial State last Wednesday-this sta'e
w HIGH has the same influence In tue
United States Senate that Virginia or
New York has. The number was apoo1
.wcntr.four thousand-not twice rs many
40 are usually cast In Richmond CITY, WHICH
re ,of half a member OF the lower House
of Congress, and only very smal' !fae',o"
~ United States Senator. Ihat n'isei"o,s
LITTLE State il one OF the restilent set wh'ch
1he country knows best by the terrible e''is
,ba. have lowed from the intermeddhng OF
the,r s,,-called sstatesmcn il" with the affairs
~ thc southern States OF the Union. lt Is
hardly too much to say that but for the con-
stituf;onal provision allowing each State
two senators without regard to its popuia-
tion there would never have been any serious
trouble in the Union up to this time. All
the evils that have afflicted the South
since the war Rre traceablc to the same pro-
vision. 1t made the vile carpet-bag govern
ments in the southern States possible; for
in its absence New England could not have
forced pegro suffrage through the Senate,
Ror succeeded in passing any OF the in
: famous reconstruction measures. The buSl-
ness interests OF the whole country have
been paralyzed by the ruin wrought by
New England in the reconstructed South.
The same provision has enabled that
greedy section to live off the South.
It was this that gave her the strength
to plumber her sister States for the ."en-
couragement OF her fisheries and the
"protection OF her manufactures. It Is
this that gives her the power to throw of
all taxes from her own shoulders, and put
them upon the shoulders of the other Sec
fions. Virgins. With only two United
States senators, pays more taxes to the
Government than New England with her
twelve United States senator's; and this,
too, in contempt OF the fact that Boston
alone has as much wealth rs all Virginia.
New England will yet rue the day when
she committed the outrages upon the South
to which we have alluded. She has killed
the goose that laid golden eggs for her.
Factories are springing up all through
Georgia. Alabama, Mississippi, and other
southern States. These will put an end in
time to all her cotton factories, the profits
being much greater in the South than in
New England. Once embarked in manu-.
featuring. the South will not stop with cot
ton factories; and New England will feel
the whitening effects OF her own folly. Her
SUMMERS, HALES, GARRIsoNs, PHILLIPSEs,
Wilson's, &C., &C., will have cost her her
prosperity. r,I- D. s., X. ...,.' g.,
1t is time that the injustice and wrong OF
unequal. representation had come to an
end bat there is no ground upon
which to base reasonable hope that it will
ever terminate. We Of the South must
make the best OF a bad bargain. We must
seek alliances with States west and north
west Of us, aud establish factories enough
to render US independent Of the wares OF
the land OF fanatics and foolish informed.
oilers with other peoples business. 80