Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-02-26
Stand from Under.

a great zeal OF NOTtnern CaplCal mas
gone into the Southern States in the last
half dozen years; and there is not week
now that one does not read reports of new
enterprises in the South under Northern
control and management and set up with
the help of Northern capital.
We have word Of warning to give to
the owners of these many millions of North
ern capital invested in Southern enterprises,
and Ct other millions ready to be invested
in the same region.
The pIofitableness of such enterprises
depends upon the continuance of peace
and order in the Southern States. Under
the rule Of Mr.. Arthur, ard still more
under that of Mr.. Cleveland, peace and
order did obtain in these States. Conf
dence in the stability of things down there
drew many millions of Northern capital
into theee States. They are rich in a great
variety of uudeveloped natural resources;
they have an abundant and sufficiently
capable laboring force. Given good order
and the Northern ventures in those States
will continue to be, for years, uncommonly
profitable; and there will be for long
time to come great inducements for more
Northern capital and enterprise in that
half of the Union.
So far all has gone we'll down there. No
complaints are heard from the Northern
men who have gone into the South with
capital to engage in useful and developing
enterprises. They are welcomed; they find
their capital safely and very p1ofitably in
vested; they have no fault to find with the
local laws; the taxes are low; their prop
erty, be it in mines or mills or factories, is
secure.
But We warn the owners of these many
millions of Northern capital employed in
| the South that this happy and satisfactory
| condition may not last much longer. The
Republican managers in Washington have
determined, as desperate partisan expe-
dent, to fling Southern affairs and inter-
ests into confusion and disorder. They
have agreed on policies intended to set the
| two races in violent opposition to each
other all over the South. They are getting
ready laws which, as sure as they are en-
acted, will plunge the whole South into a
condition which every one will see is fatal
| to all legitimate business enterprises.
Already all over the South is felt the
ground swell which foretels the coming
storm. The proposed Republican legisla-
ton for Federal control of elections i'll the
Southern States means, as the negroes ae
we'll as the whites understand, an attempt
to make the most ignorant and corrupt
part of the negro population rulers over
the whites in States, counties and town
ships In all parts of the South negro
demagogues, excited by tho promises of
Republican legislation, are raising their
heads with new hopes Of mastery. They
have the votes, and the Republicans il,
Congress, they believe, will enact laws
under which the solid negro vote in all the
black country shall once more, as in the
reconstruction times, control the offices,
lay and spend the local and State taxes,
and begin ne " career of robbery, lawiess
ness and dem ora 'izstion.
! The beginnings of the great upheaval are
4, already seen in the increase of incendafy
fires in several Southern States since the
Republican programme became known, in
the frequent assassinations of peaceable
and orderly white men, and in sensible
increase of violence and disorder and crime
between the races.
Watching these things carefully, we are
bound to warn Northern capitalists to
sstand from under" Unless Northern
public opinion makes itself heard, as it did
in the later carpet-bag days, against this
Republican programme, the party now in
power in both houses will make laws and
the party managers will require policies
from the Executive which will so excite
the negro demagogues in the South as to
produce in all these States collisions be-
tween the races which are cure to result in
incendiarism, pillage murder and general
and total disorganization of the negro popu-
lation.
The Republican managers do not care
for the negro, but they see no hope of car
rying another Presidential election unless
they can once more, in the old Mississippi
steamboat way, ''pnt niger on the
safety valve" They care nothing for the
gere lal interests of the country; they care
nothing for its prosperity-they care only
for power, and as has been shown in the
House of Representatives already they will
do and dare everything to keep themselves
in power.
1t is for Northern public opinion by Wig
orous and timely protests to drive them
from their evil and INSCRIPTIONS designs
N. Y. Herald.