The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-16
SOME SOUTHERNERS.
vrFWED BIZ A PREJUDICED
REPUBLICAN WRITER.

-sb'e Young Mans Mysterious Sue
in New York-Depew's Logical
c,rclusions.
from the Philadelphia Press.
,-,r YORK, May when Chauncey M.
- said the other day that the south was
'.oniDg nationalized be was only repeat
nat he himself heard from men Of
s.,s-p birth and training who are now
~ in New York. Mr. Depew's remark,
ra7sr. was not simply an echo. but was
oxn conviction, based upon recent per-
,.lsxperience and up the reception which
hen given to President Harrison in all
a-.ssru centers of industry which the
,sdent has lately visited.
/. we take southern men who
making their mark in affairs
this CITY for illustration
s.hs accuracy of Mr.. DeDew's assertion,
.Sonld not need to go beyond the con-
= of New York city for any better
i,1ould say that on a rough estimate a
-,dred men of business or professional
.ninence can be found in New York of
them birth and southern training, many
wbom were either civil officers or en-
osd in military activity in behalf of the
sfederate states. And all of these men
.ve since the war brought to this city
rsrQv. activity and business acumen, which
g had no inconsiderable influence in the
.rsress affairs Of the time and in convert
/ . the south so that it is becoming, instead
| a country of planters exclusively. a re-
lon where manufacturing is growing enor-
fously where mining is being developed
|rreusively, and where railways are daily
Irtendipg those steel bonds which inevita-
In tend to nationality of sentiment.
LOSING THEIR NARROW VIEWS.
Some of these men are republicans, but a
majority Of them are democrats; the repub-
EcsDs are as ardent as any to be found in
m state. and the democrats while thor
|ongh party men, seem to have forgotten the
|re7row view which was the southern con-
|cDtion of democracy prior to, during, and
|iust after the war.
/ Thew axe national democrats, and the
|s,pbistries of states rights are no longer
|upheld by them, because they see that such
i view is antagonistic to the business pros
Marty of the southern community which
|asy are now engaged in developing.
Everyone of the men whose names have
mentioned has won great repute in New
York for business capacity. All of them
.re wealthy some of them are multi-million-
aires; many of them are at the head of
enormous enterprises; two or three Of them
are deemed worthy to be put in a match
against Jay Gould; two or three Of them
Gre so esteemed by Gould that he is glad to
have them serve as associates with him in
some of his greater enterprises, some of
systems as skilfully as Commodore Vander-
tilt did, and controlled systems almost as
sxtensiye as those of the Vanderbilts and of
Mr.. Gould. [ have heard the aggregate
wealth of these men estimated at between
$50, 900 and $40, 1000, 900, and some con-
sentative med put it even higher than that.
Now, every one of these southern men has
learned that railways, that the development
Of coal and iron mipes, and chat diversity Of
interests, are the greatest nationalizers;
while at the same time they do not endan-
ger in any way the true idea of the rights Of
stats and local communities. These men
control thousands, and their ideas are as
sure to be disseminated among these thou
sands as the dew ia to be distributed evenly
upon the plains.
Most of these men were poor when the
war ended. When John II. Inman came to
New York the greater part of his wealth
consisted OF his lntellectuals and his health
BE buried the war when the war ended, and
be is to-day worth probably $l5,000,00O or
&c, 00O, 900.
While his properties lie mainly in the
iouth, and extend throughout the South
Atlantic states, yet they are controlled from
New York, for this is now his home, and
lere he has brought a large number Of
TouDg, enthusiastic and brajny men, who
IRE far more bent upon getting their share
II the prosperity of the day than they are
# lszily passing away their time in worth
ess discussions of the issues which led to
he war. .....,-.
THE TWO CALHoUNS CoNTRAsTED.
Roscoe Conkisng used to say that the
story of Calhoun, the ancestor, and the
tory of Calhoun. the descendant, epito>
nlzes the story of the influences which led
% secession and those which followed the
allure of that movement. John G. Cal
noun accepted the results of the war in
good faith. He had some land, but he had
little else when the war was ended, except
That he was blessed, as Inman was, with
health, courage, and brains
With the end of the war Calhoun looked
ahead instead of over his shoulder. He no
onger nursed dogmas, but accepted facts,
'aW possibilities and determined to make
.he most of them. He plunged into rail-
way enterprises with an audacity and cour-
age which characterized his ancestor in
the enunciatfon of political dogmas He
was as courageous as the old statesman, but,
y lniike that hero of the south, the younger
: amour has been reserved, cautious, saying
little but doing much.
AS a result of his change of view and bis
attn In himself and his section, he is now
one OF the money princes, a man whose
'Soro causes other business capitalists to
.hlIK, and whose urterances are received
that respect which is most hattering
70 1 business men Of great abilities.
WINE Calhoun still remains a democrat
le no such democrat as he was when the
war broke out. He is business democrat,
'omethlng like Abram s. Hewitt or Ed
raIu cooper; something as Samuel J.
Huen was; democrat like Randall, with
"I i.o the war and its contentious of
1olucal philosophy are a past issue-the
n 4 OF his boyhood days-a recollection
- 70 cnatGed about as old men talk Of the
so " ana pranks of their childhood.
icy John Z. Calhoun of the present time
: uot so lar astray from the John G.. Cal
loun whose brilliancy in his early manhood
,inazed and delighted the south, and who
,a then a nationalist and commended for
iatlonaIity against the Jeffersonians. /
oppose Mr.. Conkling had in mind, when he
lha the remark quoted above, how after
ny. .bs lapse OF sixty years John c. Calhoun
,.g younger was taking up the south's de-
iiotopment in the spirit of nationality where
'oon Z. Calhoun the elder left it off.
THE OLDER CALHoUN's SCHEME.
j, u was the old Calhoun who Suggested a
p .1 Tor nter-communication between the
!, ,.0yes which was even more colossal and
uaJestlc than are some of the railroad sysN
ems In which tho ,rn,,narnr -. l. -. -.