The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-11-20

slavery, for ihss hare ssen by free labor a
grester smount Of prodrct Of cotton, tobac.
co and sugar thsn ever under the system OF
slsyery. They see Io~ VIA; the North
learned early, tia. slave labor was not
prohtsble, snd was wholly inconsisten,
with Republican institutions Nor DO |
believe that there is any considerable body
Of men in the South that desire secession.
think all rejecting men agree that that
question ia settled in this country-cer-
tslnly iorcible secession"
us there, then, any advantages to be
gained keeping sllve the spirit OF sectional
ian which has existed in thi. country since
the war"
"a great advantag. T. The party which
can keep in power by 60 doing. wi,hou,
disadvantage to the country. No msn
deprecates and deplores more than d. the
spirit OF lawiessness, the disregard of hum an
life, whether of white or of black, the
resort 10 force in conducting the civil con-
troversies, which have shown themselves
IN some parts OF the South; and no one
would 90 further than | would to bring
such mob violence to an end.'
do you believe that the disturbance at
the South since the war has been grester
than what might have been expected from
the social revolution, the civil war, sud
the political chicanery which have been
practiced IN that country stree the war?
In other words, Isn't it true that what hap.
Psned IN the South would have happened
almost anywhere where human nature had
been subjected to the same circum.tances?"
Il should express my idea, perl ape, in
different words. No country ha. ever
| settled down Immediately after q ioi civil
war without the deieterIous .fi,c.s of the
deb andmen; OF armies upon IL, except the
Northern States OF the Union. That is
the wonder OF the contemporary Statesmen
OF the world, aud will be the theme of ad-
miration OF tie future historian. The
peculiar organization of society in tine
South; the irritation produced BIZ the loss
OF 50 large portion of their properly by
the result OF the war; the Gi-bsndment Of
an army largely composed of uueducsied,
unframed youBg meu, whose oIly train
| ing during their latter youth has been The
lswiessness Of the camp, and the only law
respected by them the military order: the
presence OF race deemed by the domi.
| nant race 10 have been their proper.
erty and their Inferior, Suddenly made
their equals, and in some c.s.s their supe
riors, II political right and power, BY the
force OF the action Of what was copsidered
BY the dominant race substantially for
eign Government, have hardly parallel
! ia history. Therefore il i, difficult To saw
what might have been expected. All tn at
has happened GU sht Io: TO be, and hss no,
been, surprise to the thinking statesman
or the politician. We can see now that
much OF the wrong and evil might have
been avoided, much curbed, and more allie.
waited, except that the evils became the
source Of political power TO both parties.
A Solid South sustained a Solid North, the
evils and political wrong of the South being
the life-blood of the other."
SLOW much longer Is this condition Of
sectionslism in political life going to
last ~
at will vanish after the election of 1880,
and, il the Democracy of the North are
wise, II will cease to be an element before
then. There are many causes working to
that end. One very strong one IL, that the
state Of lawlessness is iDjurlng the business
interests OF the South. Ii is preventing the
influx Of capital there, and entirely stop
ping the flow of immigration, except in
the single State Of Texas, where there has
been less Of it, in fact, than in any other,
and where immigration is equal to that Of
any agricultural section of the West or
North. / mean to give no ex cathedrs
opinion when / say tina, it will end in 1881.
MY reason for so believing is, that tie
census OF 1880 will show mat political
power has passed from the East and South
to the West. Many of the Western States
will double their ratio OF representation as
we'll in the Electoral College as in the
House. New York and the seaboard will
lose in like ratio. The South will lose. so
that instead Of having $50 out of the 1863
Electoral votes, it will hardly have the
proportion OF one-tbird, if more than one
quarter,-the only gain being In Texas,
which is not substantially different in
popular composition from Kansas; 80 that
the south will cesse to be 20 large fector
for one side, and the divisions in politics
hereafter between parties will be questions
upon which the South will divide alike
with the North