Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-01-09
A Hopeful Resurrection. The New South.

For some time there have been indica
lions of real national resurrection in the
Southern States. The newly growing life
had not been able to assert it's real
strength because of the iron barred tomb
of sectional prejudice in which the Bour-
bons had confined it. Not until the re-
cent November elections has the real
American South began to show its in
there was in the South an influential body
of men broadly national in their views,
intelligent in their comprehension of pub
lie affairs, and prompt to act in unison
with the men Of the North and the West
for the promotion of the Nations indus
tries and commerce on land. and sea.
Clay, Crittenden, Prentice, Mangum and
Bell were strongly supported by the citi-
zcns of their respective States in the adj
vocacy of political doctrines as distinc
lively American as those predominating
in New England and New York, and
tanned by Republicans throughout the
Union. 1t is encouraging to know that
the recent elections have shown that
Henry Clay and those of his type still live
in the memory of the people of Kentucky,
Tennessee, North Carolina, Missouri and
other States of the South. This resurrec-
ton of true Americanism is hopefully in
dicative of the future. This New South
begins to see clearly that there is nothing
to be gained to their section by keeping up
an organized opposition to ideas and in
terests fostercd in the North with sue
cess. They are beginning to see that
American factories American ships and
American commerce are as necessary to
the development and prosperity of the
South as they are to the North and West
Why should they not sec this as plainly
as their greatest men of former days saw
it.
They have water power, coal, iron and
timber in great abundance. They have
the raw staple close at hand with which
to supply their mills, their foundries, and
their workshops How much better to
build their own factories with their own
iron, lumber and labor, and feed their
own cotton to their own spindles than to
let their iron ore remain dead in their
mountains, and their splendid water
power to run useless to the sea, while
they carry their raw cotton thousands of
miles to the factories of England, France
and Germany. There never was more
years blatantly asserted by the Bourbon
politicians, that Free Trade and Free
Ships and the raising and expectation Of
raw material are for tho interests of the
South. 1t is gratifying that at last the
friends of tho American system are com
ing to the front in the South in the
strength of their convictions, and that
manufacturing industries and commercial
wealth are in fair way to have the fos-
tcring care of the entire Union. This
must lead to a common policy on the land
and on the sea as to the necessary measures
to stimulate our foreign commerce ana to
increase our steamer lines to foreign
countries. Casting aside the useless idols
of Bourbon fanaticism and pig headed
ness and the exploded theories of the free
trade professors and agitators, on the
broad platform of American Republican
ism, the Nation may have growth and
prosperity corresponding to its vast re-
sources and to its remarkable opportuni-
ties.