The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-01-30
The solid South short.Livcd.

From the CipelnnAu S0mmuS1A'
Il q possible for the "sOlid South"
with the aid Of the ancient and rock.
ribbed Democratic party, to occupy and
possess the country "just once" but the
period Of power. would be necessarily
brief and unsatisfactory. The corner Of
the country in which slavery existed and
the Southern Coniederacy was formed
and fought, will always remain an i'm.
portsnt part Of the national domain; but
Il Ia not, and never will be, equal 10 all
The other parts. Not only the Subjuga-
lion Of the Southern Confederacy and the
abolition Of the slavery interest have
pronounced against the South as an equal
part OF the nation, the growth OF the
country has declared against II. The
South is cornered. Missouri, though
LOYAL to the Southern ConfederaCy in
The United States Senate, is not
thoroughly q Southern State. North.
eru emigration Is changing the char.
ac.er Of the State gradually but sure
". 81. Louis is no longer pretending
that she is tropical In her proclivities.
The Southern flank was turned when the
North overwhelmed the South in Kansas
The free State Of Kansas appeared in
front Of the slave column, and Missouri
is slowly going the way Of Kansas; and
Missouri ia the heart OF the nation,
Texas, the France of America, is receiv-
ing an immense Northern emigration,
and will presently cease TO belong 10 the
solid South. Indeed, in the vote on the
army bill she asserted her independence
OF the domination Of the Confederate
bugaboo. This 10 only the first symptom
She will rapidly outgrow the Southern
Coniederacy, and care as little Tor its
traditions as they care in New
York for the history Of the Six
Nations Of aborigines. Arkansas has
been growing in intelligence and
liberality even more rapidly than IN
wealth and population. She has the
good fortune 10 possess some enlightened
public men, foremost among them sena'
ator Garland. The solid South will soon
have 10 do without any States west OF
the Mississippi, for the tendency in Mis-
souri,, Arkansas and Texas is distinct
and irresistible, and il the South carries
its Pacific railroad project 1t can but
hasten the revolution in the Southwest
by strengthening the current OF emigra.
ton which sweeps from the northwest Of
the Mississippi toward the gulf as the
Gulf Stream sweeps north from the snltry
seas, 1t was in Kansas that the Southern
power was checked. Kansas Is backed
by the immensely. developed Northwest,
which caught the emigration during the
war that would have been distributed
over the continent II peace had pre-
vailed. The same influence Is felt on the
Pacific coast, IA shown by the vote Of
Oregon and California, as we'll as Colo
RADIO and Nevada, for Hayes. II the
democratic party submits itself to the
Solid South, aud takes up the role oil
mourner over the southern coniederacy,
and deyotes itself to the obsolete suscep-
tibilitics Of the South that were over
come by the national arms, that party
has nothing 10 hope for on the Pacific
coast; or in the Northwest, and must soon
suocumb to the aroused national senti'
ment. The Southwest will follow the
Northwest, and the South will be COM
pressed between the Mississippi, the Gull
and the Atlantic; and the pocket oil In
diana filed with southern emigrants
aud The concentration OF Europeans
in and about New York city
and voting in three states. New
York, Connecticut and New Jersey
will be insufficient to command the
country. The next census table will re-
duce the strength OF the States that were
in the Southern ConfederGcy in Congress
and in tho Electoral College, The
growth will be westward. not southern
and each decennial period will mark the
decline OF the South az political force
Politicians who are championing "the
South" as a power should take note Of
the current Of events and accept the des
tiny OF States determined by the laws o.
emigration, the growth Of population and
the influences Of rivers and mountains
climate and soil, that guide the develop
ment OF nations as clearly "a the stars
pursue their courses.