The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-16
NUMBER 81.
The Solid South Sholt lived.

ana possess the country lust once"
but the period of power would be
necessarily brief and unsatisfactory.
The corner of the country in which
slavery existed and the Southern
COnfederacy was formed and fought,
will always remain an important
part of the national domain: but it
is not, and never will be, equal to all
the other parts. Not only the sab
jugation of the Southern CUhfederacy
and the abolition of the slavery in
terest have prone unced against the
south as an equal part of the nation,
the growtls of : he cs,,aa,t has sleelar-s
ed against it. The South Is cornered.
Missouri, though loyal to the South
ern C0nfederacy in the United States
Senate, is not Thoroughly ~ South
ern State. Northern emigration is
changing the character Of the State
gradually but surely. St. 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 gong the way
of Kansas; and Missouri is the heart
of the nation. Texas, the France of
America, is receiving an immense
northern emigration, apd will pres
emily cease to belong to the solid
South. Indeed, in the vote on the
army bill she asserted her indepen-
dence of the domination of the Con-
federate bugaboo. This is only the
first symptom. She will rapidly
OutgrOW the Southern COnfederacy,
and care aS little for its traditions as
they care in New York for the his
tory of the Six Nations Ofaborigines.
Arkansas has been growing in in
telligence and liberality even more
rapidly than in wealth and popu-
lation. She has the good fortune to
possess some enlightened public men,
foremost among them Senator Gar
land. The solid South will soon have
to GO without any Sites west of the
Mississippi, for the tendency in Mis-
souri,, Arkansas and Texas is distinct
and irresistible. and if the South
carries its Pacific railroad project it
can but hasten the revolution in the
southwest by strengthening the
current of migration which sweeps
from the northwest of the Mississippi
toward the gulf as the gufstream
sweeps north from the sultry seas. 1t
was in Kansas that the southern
power was checked. Kansas is back
ed by the immensely-developed
northwest, which caught the imi-
grafton during the war that would
have been distributed over the con-
tinent if peace had prevailed. The
same influence is felt on the Pacific
coast, as shown by the vote of
Oregon and California, as well as
Colorado and Nevada, for Hayes. If
the Democratic party submits itself
to the Solid South, and takes up the
role of mourner over the Southern
Confederacy, and devotes itself to
the obsolete susceptibilities of the
south that were overcome by the
national arms, that party has moth
ing to hope for on the Pacific coast !;
or in the northwest, and must soon
succumb to the aroused national sem
timent. The southwest will follow
the northwest, and the South will be
comp essed between the Mississippi, =,
the Gulfan the Atlantic; and the
pocket of Indiana filled with south
ern emigrants, and 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 COM
mand the country. The next census
table will reduce the strength of the
States that were in the Southern Con-
federacy in Congress and in the eler-
toral college. The growth will be
westward, not southern; and each
decennNl period will mark the de-
cline of the South as a political force
Politicians who are championing
! "the South" as power should take
note OF the current of events and ac
cept the destiny of States determined
by the laws s0femigration, the growtl
of population and the influence OF
rivers and mountains, climate and
soil. that guide the development oi
nations AS clearly as the stars pursue
their course Cincinnati CONNER
cidi.
A gentleman Monday opposed the
introduction Ofthe Mofiett bell lpuncl
into this State on the ground that i
looked like restricting a mans liber
ty. Well, there are many whOlesom
: laws that restrict mans liberty, bu
it is his liberty to do evil. The frc