The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-09-16

cotton TO the Massachusetts, n'.anufactufer
I q ncr cent. greater Than to the South Caro-
lima or Georgia manufacturer. This diher-
ence in prlme cost las quadrupled the
factories in the sonth, while New England
and the spindIes OF LoweiI ana
Fall river are even now IN movement 10
Columbia and Augusta. Some OF the states
and many OF our cities exempt manuiac.
turers from taxation for terms OF years, ana
the next census will show results which you
would now deem Incredible.
. The late Confederate States are larger oy
luo. 600 square miles than all the free states
east Of the Rocky Mountains, and there Is
more public iaud subject to entry IN many
OF them than In any OF your western STATES.
Florida Is as large as New York, New DER
sew. and Connecticut. Texas Is as large as
ali New England, New York, New Jersey,
PennsyIvsuia, and Ohio. We are trying 10
settle these great States; to develop tnelr
imperial resources; we have climate, area,
and productive soil. We want men ana
money, population and capital. TO get
them we require peace and order. We can
secure them only In the Union and OF the
Union. It's power, It's prestige, its ,oonno;
less resources, are ten times more necessary
for US than for the opulent and popuious
States. Therefore we are resolved 10 sup
port and maintain the Unlon,foreyer. I'M
der every contingency, against all attacks
whether from within or without. Our
policy IL peace aud union. They are Tue
necesslie. OF our being and progress. Our
aspirations are for railroads, telegraphs,
printing presses and school-houses. They
are toward commerce and trade, the arts,
the sciences and literature. Every energy
and all our thoughts will be directed Tor
several generations toward development,
material and intellectual; toward progress
aud q higher culture under one govern
ment with free and liberal institutions. We
will maintain the Constitution and all lis
amendments. because we intend that all
parts OF the country shall be open to all
American citizens with equality OF rights,
and that no future party shall arise to pro-
hibit negro emigration TO any State, as the
Republican party has Just. prohibited
Chinese emigration to all the States. We do
not intend to have the blacks cOOped up
and fenced in the States where they now
copgregate. Our policy extends far beyond
the mere temporary partisan issues. Ihere
is 10 South and North. there may hereafter
be an East and West. But when the
farmer OF the great West gets to under
stand that down the Mississippi Valley lie
lands which may be had for the asking,
whose fertility is such that a laborer In az
riculture can produce from SIX hundred TO
a thousand dollars per capita. net, per an
mum, you will see such a movement OF po-
pulation that in the next ten years will
work miracles. AS this movement OF free
institutions ard free labor goes on, the
world will witness the development OF
great people and great empire.
of a
our grasp. Mexico, South America, the
new found continent OF Africa, all require
our products of cotton and tobacco, OF our
mines and our great factories. The Ameri-
can flag now is as unknown in these seas as
that of the republic OF San Marine. Nor
wegian ships come up the James and carry
off Virginia freights. Italian vessels and
Dutch Shippers and English steamers en-
gross the trade OF Charleston and Savannah
and New Orleans. The policy and laws OF
the Government for the last twenty years
have destroyed the American mercantile
marine. We will repeal the laws which
have produced these results. We Will ur-
chase ships on the Clyde or the Delaware
or wherever we can buy them best, and we
will carry on our own commerce in our own
ships, under our own flag, and that flag
shall be the stars and stripes. / have taken
some space to answer your simple inquiry,
but [ have tried in doing so to put in
clear light the real questions which
interest you aud US. l have tired
to show that we have a deeper,
wider, larger interest than you in main-
tanning the Union with the Constitution as
amended; that our necessity for peace and
union is greater than yours, and that we
are intent on preserving the one and main
tanning the other. When we get this un-
derstood we can unite in the examination
of economical problems and Of systems OF
taxation and finance, OF policies Of COM
merce, and OF social laws, and remit the
consideration Of the rebels and the kuklux
TO those who 90 on "foolS errands" aud
then vex the public by their CHATTER in tell
ing about them. Yours respectfully,
BRADLEY Il. JOHNSON.