Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-24
Stand from Under

a great deal OF northern caPltEl g ohe
in.c ;ha southern States In tbc las half
ciczea yeas end the.e is not week now
that one does not read reports OF new enter
p.ises IN the South under northern control
and management aud set up with tho help
of northern capital.
We have word of warning to give to the
owners OF thess many millions OF northern
capital invested in southern enterprises, and
OF other millions ready TO be invested in the
same region.
The profi!0bleneas OF such enterprises de
pends upon the continuance OF peace snd
order in southern States. Under the rule
of Mr.. Arthur, and still more under that of
Mr.. Cleveland, pesce and order did obtain
ia those States. Confdencesin the stability
of things dowu there drew many millions
of northern capital into tho3e States. They
are rich in great variety of uudeyeloped
natural resources; they have al abundant
and sufficiently capable ieboriog force.
G!yeo coed order aud The northern ventures
10 tnose States will continue 10 be, for four
veas, unoon mouly prcf;spl and there
VA be fox long time 10 come great In
ducemenja for more northern capital AND
enterprise IN thsL half o! the union.
So far all 5as goue weli down there. No
complaints ere Heard from the ncrthern
meu who have gone toto the South with
capiisi 10 engage in useful and developing
enterprises. They are We coined; they Ind
ypeIr capital safely a1d very protiitanly in
gePred; hey have no fault 10 fad With the
ioca laws; tuetaxee ere low their property,
be u Ia mines or mile or factories, is secure
Bpi we warn The owners Of these many
,fn.r mi. 4 lnp poH in q
Soueh that this happy snd satisfactory con.
i;uon may not last much longer. The re-
publican managers in Washington have de-
vruined as a desperate partisan expedient,
10 fling southern etfairs and interests 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 enacted will plunge the
whole South iGto condition which every
une will see is fatal TO eli legitimate business
enterprises.
Already 81! over the South is felt tie
ground swell which foretelis the coming
storm. The proposed republican legislation
foy federal control of elections in the South
ern States meaus, as the negroes as well as
he whites understand, all attempt to make
the most Ignorant and corrupt part Of the
uesgo population rulers over the whites in
States counties and townships. 10 all parts
of the South negro demagogues. excited by
the promises Of republican legislation, are
raising their heads with new hopes Of mes-
tery. They have tbs Votes, and the repuc-
;icaus in Congress, they believe, will enact
laws under which the solid pegrc vote in all
the black couotry shall once more, as in The
reconstruction times. control the otlices, lay
and spend the local and State taxes, and
begin new career OF robbery, law!essnass
and Generalization.
The beginnings OF the great npheavel are
already seen in the increase Of incendiary
Gres in several southern States since the
republican programme became known, In
the frequent assassinations of peaceable and
orderly white men, and In sensible ir-
crease of violence and disorder and crime
between the races.
Watching these things carefully we are
bound TO warn northern capitalists to
stand from under" Unless northern pub
lie opipion makes itself heard, as 1t did in
the later carpet bag days, against this re
publican programme, the party now in pow.
er iu both HOUSES will make laws and the
party managers will require policies from
The Executive which will 90 excite the ne
gro demagogues in the South as to produce
in ell these States collisions between the
races which sre cure to resut in
ncendiarism, pillage, murder sud general
and total dlsorganizaiion OF the negro pop
ulaton.
The republican managers do not care for
the negro. but they see no hope of carrying
another Presidential election unless they
can once more, in the old Mississippi steam
boat way, "pnt niger on the safety
valve" They care nothing for the general
interests of the country they care nothing
for its prosperity-the care only for power,
aud as has been shown in the House OF Rep
resentatives already they will do and dare
every thing to keep themselves In power.
L. is for northern public opinion by Vigor-
Gus and timely protests to drive them from
their evil and urscrupulous deaigns.-N. Y.
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