Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-02-07

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United States from the first had dreary
snd ghastly one in the institution Of
slavery. We are at last happily rid Of
this incubus, and ut an appalling sacri'
6ce Of blood and treasure. All readers
Of the history of this country know very
we'll that, had it not been for the Hotspur
character Of the political leaders Of the
South, which made 1t incumbent upon
patriotic citizens, irrespective Of party,
10 subdue q rebellion in that section, II
would have been obligatory upon the
part Of the lovers Of republican-demo.
cratic constitutional government to put
down rebellion in New England, where
the William Lloyd Garrisons were
preaching that the constitution of the
United States was league with hell and
covenant with death. These New Eng
land abolitionists were not content with
giving voice to their disloyalty to the
government under which they lived, but
they insisted upon pushing their John
Browns to the front in outright, overt
war, against the existing order of things
Most patriotic citizens, in view Of the
peculiar history OF the United States, are
content to raise hymn Of praise to the
Giver Of oil good in return for the
miraculous survival Of the United States,
environed MS the country was by rash
md importunate enemies on all sides.
The war has now been over for twenty
years. For two decades the flowers
have bloomed upon the graves of the
combatants on the one side and the other.
Thirty-one millions Of people or less who
constituted the United States when the
war of the rebellion began have now
swollen to fifty-five millions or more.
While our people have had to submit to
great privations they have gained an
heroic episode in their history of price
less significance and value. All sections
of the Republic are advancing at resist
less pace to an unexampled wealth and
prosperity.
While this is the case in regard to the
United States as whole, those OF our
people who are not devoured by
sectional hates will be glad to learn
that, in q remarkable degree, the States
Of the South are experiencing phenom.
email prosperity, which extends from
South Carolina around the whole circle.
Even in the Palmetto State we are glad
to learn that the valuations during the
past year have exceeded by 500 200, 900
those of the year before. When we reach
Texas, however. we strike region Of
magical enhancement aud progress. No
section of the existing American Union
can claim to be advancing pari passu
with this wonderful region, unless Cali
fornia is the solitary exception. Texas,
which has within its ample bounds the
potentialities OF dozen New Englands.
in sweep Of territory and in capacity of
development, has also the most magnit.
Gently endowed school system on the
American Continent
The truth is that the people of the
United States sympathize with the pres
ent and prospective prosperity of the
South. They realize the fact that the
health of the whole body polite is
increased and intensified by vigor
in any of its parts, just as
its well.being is diminished by
atrophy or lack of vital circulation in
any. No conclave of atrabilious Repub-
lican Senators at Washington, though
they may be marshaled by such cold
blooded men as John Sherman and st.
Jerome Edmuuds, will avail to act as a
rennet on this genial popular impulse,
thus souring the milk of human kind
ness which to-day pervades the whole
country, largely irrespective of party.
As to John Sherman, who is the fugle.
man of the new "bloody shirt" depart
ure, there are few observant people in
the United States who have forgotten
that he is the author of the suborned
Eliza Pinkston, who swore to such as
tonishing things, which were afterwards
disproved, in the conspiracy to count
nj 1Ntldap in / that ha tnnt
the position of Secretary in the Hayes
regime, after having built up the monu.
ment of fraud and perjury on which it
rested. The Democratic party can hope
for no better fortune than the inaugura.
tion by the Republicans of a "bloody
shirt campaign headed by either of
these 'sour grapes" politicians.
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