Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-11-11
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!5oEs2:,sc:a Feeling,
Tic ioilaNi9g is CO extract from the account
Of recent i1terrioa between General Butler
aud correspondent Of the New York Herald
"po you believe that the people Of the South,
as people, arc 10 Gay disogal or in favor
either Of atccasi1n or the restoration Of alaT'
cry?'
II don't believe that the people of tho South
ere IN favor OF the restoration OF slavery, for
they have aeon by freq labor greater amount
OF product OF c,tton, tobacco aud sugar than
ever under tho system OF slavery. They eco
| now what tho North learned early that slave
| labor vas not profitable and was wholly inoon-
| blsert with republican institutions Nor do
believe that thcro is any considerable body OF
| men 10 tho South that desire secession.
thitk all rttlic:irg men agree that that qucl
lion Is settled IN this country, Certainly forciblo
secession"
! us there, then, any advantage 10 hn gained
by keeping alive the spirit Ct sectionslism
which has existed ia thia county since the
| WARP"
|. "A great advantage 10 the party which can
keep in power by 10 doing, without disalgant'
nge 10 tho country. No man deprccatcs and
ier!orts moro than | do tho split of lawles5.
nesa, tho ditraRtrd OF human life. whether of
white CT Of black, tho resort to toEco in con
| cual!ng civil controversies, which have thoWn
themselves iii SONIC paris Of tho South, md 40
enc would 20 farther than | would TO bring
such mob violence to az cod.
| do you believe that the disturbance At the
South slnCa tho war has been greater than
what might have bec1 expected from The so.
clal revolution, tho civil War and the political
cticaucrY which have been Irsc!lccd ia that
scaliOn Eiuou tho Val? IL other words, Isn'
it true that what happened st tho South would
nave happened Il lCat anywhere where human
laiuyo had been hu' .otct 10 the same oireum
ai2I cca?'
Il should express my iioa, perhaps, in dit
tornnt verbs. No country has ever Spilled
dCwl Immediately al or long civil war with
Gus the aGlcteGicus ctfCcs OF the Gisbaudmcn
OF armicH upon it except the Ncrthtrn State!
OF the UElor. That !s the wonder OF the con
temporary satcamen CT the world aud will bl
tho theme Of admiration CT The future histo
Tlan. The peculiar organization Of society il
tho South, the irritation produced by tho les
Of SO largo u portion OF their property by tbt
result CT tho war, the disbauameDt Of an army
largely composed of uneducatel, unframed
young men, whose only teaching during thci
| iNtili l'il 'H'h bUCu tiC iaNlCsSHCS1 vi III
camp and the only law respected by them tn
: military order, Tho presence OF @ race deemed
by The dominant race TO have been their rop
tr y and !icic inlcritrI suddenly made ihci
equals ard in some eases their supe,iAIs il
political night and power by the free of tb'
action oil what was considered by tho dominan
race substantially foreign government, he
, hardly parallel IN history. Therefore it is diff
cult TO sly what might havo been expected. Al
thst has happened ought not 10 DO and has no
. boon SURPRISE to Tho thinking statesman o
politician. NO can ECO now that much of III
wrong and OWL m"hL have boon avoided muc
. Cnrboi snd moro y lGvalod. except that the OWL
hnGama tho source CT political poHcr To both pa
= tr3. A solid South sust&inC = solid North tn
, owls and political wrong ct tho South being th
lifn blood OF tho other"
How much longer il thia condition Of sic
tionRlism in political lilo going To lsoL?"
, III will vanish :'Lor tho election of 1871. IN,
: il tho democracy OF the North ara visa it vii
!, cor7n 10 DO al olomont before then. There pr
many cnusos working 10 that end. Ono vor,
strong ono is mat tho stato Of swIr gsno.s is in
! ]urlDg tho business intor6,'7 ofthu South IL i
prevont' ny tho influx Of capital tho,o and on
, trciy Stopping tho flow Of emiS ration oxcopt il
the single slate Of Texas. whore thero hfI beDl
loss OF 1t, in fact than in any other and whar
| emigration is equal TO that of any agriculture
section of tho W est or North. l mean TO Civ,
no &C c6!hctrn opinion when l Say that it viii
end in 1881. Ny recon for so following is tina
, the census Of 1870 will chow that political powe
hs7 passed from tho Esot and South TO the West
| Many of tho Western States will double thoi
T. Ia!o Of representation g we'll in tho Eloctura
College as in tho House New York aud tn,
scAbord will lcso in like ratio. Tho South vii
lGse. so that instead of having l3S out of &c,
y olCctorsl vote, it will hardly have the propor
ton of one.third. If moro than ono quarter, th
} only gain being in Texas, which is not substan
! TALLY dilioront i'll popular composition from
kansaa, so that tho south will coase TO DO &c
largo factor for ono side, and tho divisions il
politics heresl.or between parties will be qucs
'ions upon which tho South will divide alike
with Tho North"