New-York tribune., 1882-08-17


House.
SOUTHERN NEED or NORTHERN ENTER
PRISE.
The old prejudice which existed in South
CaI olina before and Immediately after the wal
against the Northern people, and especially
against New -Enganders or yankees" has
disappeared in large degree during the past
four or five years Remnants OF it no doubt
exist in the interior and in certain of the rural
districts where the old families ruined by the
war have enjoyed little intercourse with the
outside world, and being shut up to themselves
have had nothing to do but grieve over their
changed fortunes and treasure up an implacable
animosity toward those whom they look upon
rs the cause of their distress. But in the cities,
and among those who have had larger OppOrtu-
mites for becoming acquainted with Northern
people, there is a much better and more kindly
feeling than has been known at any time since
the slavery question began to be the leading
issue in politics. This feeling, too, Is
manifestly on the increase. 1t is promoted by
the growth of commercial and business rela-
tons with the North, and has been
largely aided by the interchange of visits of
social character between military and other
organizations. The disappearance of the old
prejudice and the growth of mutual friendship
and esteem are encouraging indications for the
future of the Republic. They mark the begin
ming of the end of sectiOnalsm in politics and
the opening of new era.
And though political Bourbonism still fingers,
these things give us hope that it is not for
long but that we shall soon see the last of it.
He would have been mad prophet who pre-
dcted a few years ago that the generation
which witnessed the close of the war would
see South Carolina stretching ont her hands
for the importation OF yankee enterprise and
energy " rs the one thing necessary to give the
State a staIt. \ ct that is what we behold to-
day Says The Charleston AeCS and Courier,
organ of the South Carolina Democracy, IN II
recent issue: South Carolina is splendid
field for Yankee enterprise and energy and II
we could import a few thousand real live
Northerners, "A cross between the BOstOnian
and the Chicagoan, we might expect to see the
State leap ahead of every other State in the
Union in the next ten years. As for Charles
ton, the importation of about five hundred
Yankees of the right stripe would put new
face or affairs, and make the whole place
throb with life and vivid force" Here is a
cordial recognition of Yankee enterprise and
energy and warm tribute to it, which
twenty-five years ago could not have been
printed in Charleston without bringing mob
about the editors ears. Great progress has been
made when the leading organ of South Carolina
Democracy prints such sentiments and South
Carolina Democrats read them without SO much
as protest. And the Charleston paper is un-
dOuttedly correct in its statements. South
Carolina does need an infusion of business en-
terprise and energy, and the importation OF "a
few thousand real live NOrtherners" would
furnish it.
What hinders Has our Charleston contem-
porary considered this question Let us look
at it moment. These few thousand North
erners, if they were business men having in
terests at stake i'll the administration of the
Government, interests depending upon the
settlement of questions OF currency, finance,
tariff. taxation, banks, etc, etc, would be very
likely to be Republicans supporters of the
party which has established the credit of the
country. and by wise legislation and honest adj
mnistration set it on its present prosperous
career. / they would be men who would not be
likely to embark in new business enterprises
even in so inviting State rs South Carolina
unless they were pretty well assured against the
possibility Of the ascendanoy of party which
for more than twenty years Is on record IN Op-
position to every measure which has helped
make the country prosperous. They would be
lawabiding men, the marrow OF whose pOlitl-
cal doctrine is the right of the majority to rule
men who could not under any circumstances,
even upon the plea of desperate remedies for
desperate cases, consent to the hagrant viola
tion of law and tho deprivation of voters of
their rights Such men, we regret to be obliged
to believe, would not be welcomed in South
Carolina. Coming there rs casual visitors, they
would no doubt he entertained with lavish
hospitality. Coming rs citizens engaging lii
business and interested in all matters of public
welfare, they would receive the cold sh0 0ulder,
be called carpet -baggers,' and socially ostra-
csed.
This we believe to be the true and almost the
only reason why Northern enterprise does not
ssek SouLhern fields And that