, 1878-12-12
ORR WASHINGTON AGrl&&,

added to the failure OF the conciIia-
tion policy in the politics of South
Carolina, we now have further evi.
dence Of the per6dy of Southern
leadership there through the acts
of the Illicit whiskey distillsrs. 1t
will be recolected that some time
ago the United States revenue Of,
ticals agreed to Cancellation policy
towards the law breakers provided
they would agree to behave them.
selves in future. This policy was
opposed by many Republicans on the
ground that Cancellation with the
Southern leaders meant simply new
opportunities to betray the conf.
dence of those who were disposed to
tiust them. However, it was tried
in good faith. The result is failure
even worse than the most skeptical
had predicted. Commissioner Raum
has received dispatches from the Of
fcers in South Carolina reporting
that in Abbevile county the United
States officers have been attacked by
armed mobs of the whisky thieves
and barely escaped with their lives.
The news from other quarters is not
more encouraging, Tho buIl.dozers
and rifle clubs are protected by the
political rulers. aud the State Courts
are merely stumbling blocks to jus,
tice, if that bears any relation to the
United States officers or the Repub.
lican party. Commissioner Raum
has therefore ordered cessation Of
the conciliation policy and that the
laws be enforced if it takes the
whole force of the revenue depart
ment to do it in a single district.
The administration begins to learn
that Cancellation is not only dan
gerous but I'm expensive policy, since
finally, after the sacrifice of many
lives, 1T becomes necessary to expeId
large sums of money to undo what
the generosity of the Government
has done for the disloyalists and to
punish the fellows who have found
crime profitable.
The depression in our foreign as
we'll as our domestic trade brought
before the last session of Congress
many plans for improvement, among
them one for the establishment OF
regular mail lines between New York
aud New Orleans and the chief ports
of Brazil, in order to cultivate the
acquaintance of commercial people
and to develop new trade. The
project contemplated the payment
of fair sum for the postal service
in first class ships, to be awarded to
the lowest responsible bidder. The
British Government pays literally
for such service, so literally that the
British ship owners and merchants
have been able not only to monopo-
lize the South American trade, but
to drive American vessels from those
waters. They actually got con-
tract from Brazil to bring the mails
thence to New York, where they
sold their valuable cargo of coffee,
taking the gold to England there to
purchase manufactures for South
America. Thus we had no direct
trade TO Brazil, the British monopo.
lists only allowing us to PURCHASE
these while they SOLD our own pro-
ducts where they could not their
own, and deprived US of the full ben
eft. The result is that while we buy
$50,000,000 worth yearly in Brazil
we sell scarcely $5,0O0,O00. When
the Emperor of Brazil was here he
induced Mr.. John Roach, the emf
nent iron ship buildar, to compete
for the Brazilian contract. Mr..
Roach did so, and got it. He is now
running line from New York to
Rio, giving our merchants the ben
eft of mail, freight and passenger
service both WAYS, instead of one, as