The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-21
THE SOU It'd,
1t Contains the Most Distinctively
American Population.

From the Nsi1 York Ledqer.
There are two cogent reasons why all
Americans should view with sympathy the
| striking outcome of the efforts of the south
at self-rege leratiol. One is the ethnologi-
cal character of the white inhabitants of
the southern sta es. The other is the un.
paralleled difficulty Of tie social p~O lem
imposed by tbs emancipation Of tho blacks
Nowhere elsa within the bounds Of the
uuiou are the white people 50 homogeneous
and Sd distinctively American AS they are
in tae states which were formerly slave
holding.
Tnls homegeneitv and intense American
ism was shared by New Engla I'd Il ty years
ago, but since tie sweeping emgrati "a of
New Euglanders t. the west and the occu-
alton Of the vacated places by French
Canadians, there is large and growing al
mixture of alien and uGasSi inflated ee
nients in the New England population.
South Of the Potomac. ON the other hand,
the e.hn0logical conditions remain substan-
italy what they we're at the beginning of
century. If we except few descend
ants OF French Protestnnts in South Caro-
lima a d Of French Catholics in Lonis-
lana, all of the white people OF the south
are of pure Engli>h lineage, or else are OIL
sGoots of that Sc tch-Irisb stock to which
we owe Patrick Heary, John c. Calhoun,
Andrew jackson aud, les us adj, Henry
W. Grady. 1t should be remamosre1
that he English aud Scotch-Irish emil
grants, from whom the so hern whites are
dece ended, re ,ched t is country almost
to "A man before he Revolutionary wa,
q very small fraction Of the food Of emf.
grafton having since that period been d.
rec, ed south OF Mason and Dixon's
line. The results is that if
we would see the ,o-called native
America. the typical American,
the mau VIII besi represe It's the con Joint
effect of English or Scotch I:ish hereditary
aptitudes and trans Atlantic environment,
Sc are now most certain b. find hi n in the
south. Whatever triumphs, therefore, in
the evolution OF natural resources or III the
solution # social problems a, g achieved by
the southern whites have a peculiar tAreSt
and Importance for ge uiue Americans all
over this broad country.
1t is too often overlooked tina in the
black man problem with which tie sou h
ern whites have To deal there are elements
of difficulty unparalleled IN history. When
the slaves were set frea in jan ca and the
smaller possessions If Great Britain in the
West Indies, the sam of 100000, 600
was voted by parliament to compen-
safe the planters for the loss of their
capital which, in reliance on existing laws,
had bee invested in negro labor II ths
holding of human beings 10 servitude was a
sin. it was argued, then it was sin II winch
the British vernment had been for csatu-
ries an accomplice, and il WAS deemed I'M
lust to make single generation OF slave
owners pay the who'll penalty for the ac-
cumulated wrongs of ages
Again, when MANY millions of Russian
serfs were liberated by Alexander H., they
were not cast alrift upon the " Grid t. prey
upon society, but were provided with lands
which were purcha e | from their foym-r
masters, with funds advance by ths state.
B. this equitable arrIn <em .nt the ex-
masters were shielded from impoverisli-
ment, and the ex-slaves from restitution.
A Irene I'd us social revolution was thus
&C 'Ompfsh q with scarcely any friction.
No such ATTEMPTS to tighten the hardships
of socl j cataclvsm were made the
Uni ed States. Neither wee the masters
par.i lily indemnilied, "a they we're In
ia EAica, nor were the slaves equipped with
the means OF earning livelihood. AT enc
stroke . masters rere deprived Of tie
lab r with which alone tn y could turn
their lands t. account, while the slaves re-
ceive1 only the liberty TO st4rve.
We d. nott hesitat, TO say that IL tho
enia ncipati IN pr IDlem had been presented
in thess terms IL Russia, itis luton wouli
have been imp ssh 10. No othsr RAGS but
the Angles ixOn. a IL has bee 10 npeFed
and tOu shsd led on thi side OF the Alta tic,
c iuld de Al with q roble'n of slch Sup n
dous al fcu'ty. That the sout srn whites
have lplst with II sobsrly yet feariessly,
With full appreciate Of rs mag iitude,
vet vita an u isserVing resolFe o solve
Il fact that ref scts a gJiar Q Ia o. this
American caa q. TER, and VI which all OK Us
NAY well b. prod.