Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-16
AMERICAN ENERGY,
Remarkable Development OF the United
States, Especially the South and
West.
Its Wonderful Wealth.PrOdueing Power
and the Political Capacity OF the
People.
London Times.


The wonderful wealth-producing power of
the United States deies and seats at naught
the grave drawbacks of a mischievous pro-
teetive tariff, and has already obliterated, al
most wholly, the traces of the greatest of
modern civil wars. What is especially re-
markable in the present development of
American energy and SUCCESS is its wide and
equal distribution. North and South East
and West, on the shores of the Atlantic and
Pacific, along the chain of the great lakes,
in the valley of the Mississippi, and on the
coasts of the Gulf of Mexico, the creation of
wealth and the increase of population are
signally exhibited. 1t is quite true, as hes
been shown by The recent apportionment Of
population in the House of Representatives,
that some sections of the Union have adj
vanced, relatively to the rest, in an extraordi-
nary and unexpected degree. But this does
not imply that the States which have gained
no additional representatives or have actually
lost some have been stationary or have re-
coded. The fact is that the present tide
of prosperity has risen go high that il
has overlooked all barriers, has filled up
the baek-waters and established some
thing like an approach to uniform
Tho older oOttleE,aents, which
in their own time, and not 30 long ago, were
the wonder OF the world, have been outshone
by the newer communities, but they have
suffered no loss except that-a large one, it
may be admitted-which is measured by SEN
timent. 1t is worthy of remark that the
IL rec main sections of the Misunderstanding
the Pacific States, which are still in their in
fancy-are at present almost equal in politi-
cal power, as calcul lated in the distribution
OF representation in the next Congress in ac-
cordance with the results of the census of
1880. The New England and Middle States
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa-
chusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
and Maryland-have in the aggregate 102
members in the House of Representatives
The Southern States, substantially the Sec
ton which seeded in order to resist the
breaking up of the slave system In 1861, in
Guiding Virginia, North and South Carolina,
Georgia. Florida, Alabama, Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi,
Louisiana and Texas, have in the aggregate
ITO members. The Western States proper
West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Hi
nois, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ne |
braska, Minnesota and Kansas have |
in the aggregate 104 members. The first |
section, the Northern States, have neither |
gained nor lost; the Southern States have |
gained fourteen and the Western States six
teen members. 1t is not impossible that |
early in the next century the remaining Sec
ton of the Union-the Pacific States-may
have attained to an equality with the rest.
At present, however, this section has only |
nine members in Congress, and includes only
Jour States-California, Oregon, Nevada and
The development of the Western States
Or, speaking more generally, OF the States OF
he Mississippi valley--is the dominant fact
n the higher politics of the American Union.
But its effects have to a certain extent been
orecssted. A more significant point In the
statistics of the congressional representation
! the evidence of the revival of the South.
)f the thirteen Southern States not one
oses representative in the new apportion-
nent, and only four are stationary. At the
lose of the civil war few would have pre-
licted that in the present political rear
angement, while Maine, New Hampshire
md Vermont have 10 submit each to a re-
uction of their representation in Congress, |
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina
nd Georgia receive an increase. 1t is not by
ny means so surprising that the Southwest
IN States should make substantial gains, for
hese, and especially Texas, were, to
reat extent, unsettled at the date of the
Iar, and their vast natural resources were
srtain TO be stimulated and opened up to {
ETERNAL enterprise on the restoration OF /
eace. The older States of the South how
YER were supposed to be altogether depend
nj on the system OF slavery for their pros
Gritty and political Importance. The dis
sters of the Confederacy were believed alike
y Northerners and Southerners, by Ameri-
ans and foreign observers TO have given
Ital blow 10 the social center of the seces-
on. Within the past ten years this has been
disproved, and the fact is
laced in evidence by the readjustment of h
lie Federal representation. The Southern n
ates have prospered under system of free =
Dor, without resigning political power into Q
e hands of the negro freedmen. That the v
-oblem has been successfully solved, in 4
lite of.difficulties within and without, bears 4
stimony TO the political capacity of the a
,ople and affords ground for hope that in .
e Urited States the future of the negro !,
ay be rescued from the mischievous inter- q
renee of professional philanthropists and q
lf-seek king demaeopuea