The daily gazette., 1880-11-13


transferred to the many delightful and
romantic valleys of the mild and &c
nial South. There was really no need
for the lords of the loom" remaining
away from the "Sunny South" and
continuing their denunciations OF the
people, when they might with so much
property have gone thither AID helped
to make the reforms they have been
constantly pointing out for several
generations.
Now, however, it seems that the
South, after long years ofwaiting, has
taken start in the march ofimprove-
ment that is surprising to the whole
country. 1t has increased in popula-
ton within the last decade SO much
that it's representation in Congress ac-
cording to the returns OF the census,
will be much greater than it is. An
esteemed Republican contemporary
furnishes us with the following facts
in its editorial columns. In acknow-
Lodging its stupidity it says -
"Before the late census was taken,the
wisest among us gave out that when
completed ii would show such enormous
Losses of population in the South, such
enormous gains in the West, and such
moder ate gains in the Kast, as to deprive
the South of any significant power eth
er in Congress or the Electoral College.
| The Official figures Of the census are
not all yet tabulated, bat enough has
been done 10 show that the population
Of the South has largely increased in
| stead of decreased, aud that, while the
West has also largely gained, the East
has largely decreased. The result Of
this will be, according to a carefully pre-
pared estimate, that, under the next
Congressional apportionment, the New
England States will lose Representa-
tives aud the Middle States o, while the
South will gain and the West I. The
gain of three Representatives by the
South implies large increase of pop
ulauon, and OF course chiefly an alien
| population, and that chiefly from the
| North. During the last four years the
South has greatly developed its indus
tries, the capital being supplied by the
North. The cotton gin is not the only
thing there now, as il was but few
years ago. Beside it have been erected
the spinning jenny anu Lha loom. I'm
der Northern capital and Northern la.
Dor the South Is building mills, forges,
and railroads, and digging mines. III
doing that she is digging the ground
from under her political soidity, for shc
Is bringing her moneyed interests in di.
rect relationship and sympathy witt
those of the North. Capital is alway,
conservative, aud it will seek the bes
: conditions OF success, political as well "a
others.
: alt is,theretOre, not the appointment o
b Southern men by President Garfield l.
Federal Offices that is going TO disinte
crate the South, but the influx of Nor
! thern capital, Northern men, Northern
! | ideas, Norshern habits, and Northerl
{ | common sense. The material interests
e the common prosperity, have entered il
= to the question; and as they are oppose
1 to the solid-South side of the argument
S 1t =. is clear that the matter Of the South
h political dislntegrstion is one of tim
, merely.
e What pity it is that our contempC
!. rary was not better informed. Whel
g was the necessity for the "wises
II among us" to give out that the "cer
): sus would show such enormous losse
i in the South:" Certainly there wa
Y no necessity for the "wisest anon
,e US" to talk without knowledge. BIZ
ID then, perhaps, the "wisest among us
he did not hold such ideas OF the Soutl
le 1t is barely possible that there wei
I'd some people i'll the North that wei
IN not 80 stupid as our esteemed conten
st porary would make them appear.
" And SO the 'poor South" has not be,
nj burying ITS "talents in the earth" al
w going headlong to the ID quiet
to fast as politicians would make believ
al No, it is not the South that b
M been busy minding its own busines
so that has gone behind nor the W.
;. either but it is the rich East-N,
nv England, and the Middle States ais
m This is pity but it is the result p
nd haps of their msddlesome dispositi
,bo of attending to the affairs of othe
,b- and neglecting their own. Regr
ed will not mend matters now. But il
hoped the insulting language that
SO continually being applied to t
.w South will cease to some extent
cl. least since the "wisest among u
ich have discovered their great ignorar
, it in the premises.
,si- The future of the South no m
40, can nredict With the aid of emio