Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-25
THE NEW SOTUH.

Reports from the several States of the
South indicate the beginning Of
new era of prosperity. The
crops give promise of an abnnd
ant harvest, manufactures are springing up,
commerce is being rapidly developed, and
tradeis fast assuming a solid basis. The
whole country is at peace. Fewer oatraSes
upon life and property are recorded in the
Southern States than in any similar area
throughout the North; the civil authorities
are fully competent to enforce the laws; the
people are paying their debts and their taxes
with unprecedented promptness, and the re-
lations between employers and employees are
of the most amicable description. All South
ern men, therefore, look forward to the APP
preaching day which shall witness the South
once more occupying the proud position in
the Union to which her natural advantages
and fertile soil entities her.
This happy order of things, though long
delayed, is none the less cheering, and shows
what can be accomplished by people who
are allowed to govern themselves. Under
carpet-bag rule the State treasures were
plundered, the people were oppressed by
grievous taxes, we're hindered in the exer
else of their lawful rights; the negroes were
melted to rebellion and discomfort; trade
and commerce were paralyzed, and invest
ments were driven from their doors. Now
all is changed, and with tho re-
establishment of self-sovernment a
new impetus is given to all
enterprise and industry. We no longer
| hear of quarreling between the negroes and
the whites. Their relations are even more
amicable than those which subsist between
master and man at the North. We do not
hear of immense defalcations of public Of
fcers. That distinction belongs alone to
the carpet-baggers. Complaints of crops
rotting on the ground no longer reach us,
for the laborers are plenty, and their pay
ment certain and liberal, and the planters
no longer fear that their crops will be con-
sumed to support a corrupt, detestable set Of
thieving rascals sent from the North, and
maintained in Office by federal bayonets
The ku klux clans are heard of no more
the white league has vanished, the color line
has been blotted out. schools are open at ev-
cry cross-road, and white and black chill
learning.
These results, so beneficial to a large
section of our country-and indeed to the
country at large-cannot but be matter OF
congratulation to all well-wishers of the
nation, wherever found. The people of the
South have suffered severely--have been ad
equately punished for their rebellion. Tc
be made the prey of horde of public plum
derers, and to be compelled to endure un
told indignities without being able to raise {
hand in protest or elf-protection, has beer
a bitter lot It is no wonder that such {
series of outrages as have been visited
upon them provoked retaliation
from the class least gifted with the virtue Of
patience-retaliatio that was deprecated BY
the best class of the population, and had {
tendency to prolong the reign of their op
| pressors. But we are pleased to see tina
! with the removal of the cause of these
violent measures, the effect has also disap
peared, and scarcely ever before has thu
South enjoyed such profound peace as a
| present reigns. We hail the advent of bet
ter days at the South as marking an era no
only of more substantial material prosperity
but of more perfect political union of tn,
entire country-a union that will be marked
| by brotherly forbearance and mutual goot
will, and result in cementing more frml,
than ever the whole country in bond O
fellowship and patriotic love.