The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-05-28
section and ana Empire.

While the solid south pursues It's
political vagaries, as it did before the
civil war. to the utter neglect OF its
social, educational aud material cult
ure, progress and advancement, the
mighty growth of the north and west
goes resistlessly on 10 sll that relates
10 enlightened civilization, cultivated
intelligence, commercial power. ac-
quired resources, associative force,
disciplined energy, and organized
capital, labor and enterprise The
south becomes steedily more intense
" absorbed in the cid ruts and hsbi-
tudes Of thought, effort, prejudice,
~partisanship and ambition, more ex-
elusive in its ways and policy, more
unsuited to northern emigration, more
perilous for the investment of capital,
more prone to reputation and wild
cat inaneiering. and less willing to
adopt the ways of advanced modern
development and business.
This contrast is truly painful for 80
American patriot to contemplate,
more especially as oil who may refer
TO i. in citing terms are denounced
as prejudiced partisans, embittered
~sectionalists, and northern bigots.
Yet this only intensi6es the move
ments Of life, and trade, and enter
prise at the north aud west, confines
domestic migratory action to the old
parallels of latitude, eompsets the d.
velopment of the west ia denser vol
umes, end gives to the whole pro-
digious north 80 much Of the aspect,
resources aud power OF q mighty en-
pire in itself, es TO render the section
al struggle between ndfth and south
somewhat ludicrous by reason of the
enormous disparity Of the combatants,
and the inconesivable folly and infst-
uation OF the south.
BY reaching OFT to control and in
ciude in its array the border States,
the south Injuries and retsrds their
progress without helping itself. At
the same time it adds wonderful pow
er to the dense population of the
north and west. The desperate at
tempt of the south to use Missouri as
q barrier TO the westward march o.
the northern masses, raisec Illinois to
the level of Ohio, and made lowe
and Kansas wondrons spectacles Of
advanced civilization and the pros
pect now is that Missouri herself will
be revolutionized by the same mighty
influences. Meantime the southern
statesmen fancy that all this progress
results from the northern industries
and financial system, and that by
abolisbing the creative measures they
will afford their own section q better
chance. But the north, which made
such immense use of the protective
tariff, and railroad subsidies, aud the
national banking system, and the
greenbacks, and the bonded debt, has
now become 9 colossal exporting re-
gion, and profits By the gold and sill
var regime quite as much 81 she did
By the era of irredeemable paper.
AS discoEraeements are multiplied
in the pathway Of the national banks,
northern capital enters largely into
other fiscal corporations under State
charters, aud boldly ventures to chal-
lenge and contest the financial, COM
mercial and maritime supremacy of
Great Britain. At the present time
the whole Of the energies of the north
and vest are alive with enterprise,
and instinct with aggressive power
and domination. They need not in
wade the south in quest OF gain, as
they have access to all the rest Of the
world, and are gladly welcomed eF-
erywhere. The south then gathers
no additional population, wealth,
trade, industry or civilized force BY
its selfish and exclusive policy, and
cannot in any degree retard the re-
sistlsss growth Of the north. Every
form Of consilision has been retorted
to by northern capital 70 build up
cotton interests at the soatb, but with
the same uniform results. And il the
case had been otherwise, the confis-
of northern capital by the