The sun., 1900-09-25

and would resist any widespread emigra-
ton OF the negroes with scarcely less vio-
lenoe than they now assail their pontlcal
rights under the Constitution. And natu-
rally enough. The Southern States have
prospered under freedom as they never
did under slavery. Their cotton crop this
year Is more than double what 1t was In
the palmiest days Of slavery, and in every
respect Of production and wealth they are
now far ahead.
This proves that emancipation has been
OF great benefit to the South. Slave labor
was costly. wasteful. ineffective, and slav-
cry did moro harm morally and materially
IN the free than to the enslaved. Emanol-
patton put the Southern States In line with
the enlightenment and the progress OF the
civilized world; relieved them from an
incubus Meanwhile, as the advancing
development OF the old slave States under
freedom has demonstrated. the negroes
have adapted themselves to their new
situation with unexampled self-restraint,
Slave labor was suddenly transformed
into free labor yet the social and indus
trial machinery was not stopped or re-
tarded by friction Complaints were made
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in the period Of political transformation.
Of the days OF Reconstruction, and much
assault was directed against carpet bag
gers" But, In general, the practical fruits In
law Of that period were valuable rather than
deleterious; and this country In all Its parts
Ia now and always has been country OF
carpet baggers." New York Is fun or
carpet baggers.- from the Southern States.
or from elsewhere. and we are glad 20 have
them here and they can exercise here all
their rights az American citizens without
Interference or criticism Even at the cleo
ton Of 1854, when. as JEFFERSON DAVIS says
In his history OF the secession movement,
the issue was the continuance or cessation
Of the war for the Union, thousands Of
Southern people who had sought resi-
denoe in New York voted without restraint
on the Southern side. At that time, and
before and since that time there has never
been period. even Of the bitterest agita-
tion, when Southern carpet baggers
have not held office and important office
In New York This is free country and
under the Constitution citizens Of It have
full liberty 10 move from one State to an
other and continue to exercise their politi-
cal privileges
The people Of this Republic outside Of
the old secession Confederacy. without
regard to their political affiliations, are
tired Of the endless soreness and morbid
sensitiveness Of the Southern people =
more especially as they are expressed In
a stubborn and stupid political solidity
which has no regard for the welfare Of the
vast body Of the Union outside of their own
narrow bounds People OF the more North
ern States do not call themselves Northern
people and put on distinct political com
plexion because Of the accident or choice
Of their geographical residence. They are
Americans and as such their preferences
are for their whole country. whose general
advancement, as their intelligence com
prehends Is for the advantage of every
part. To that broad patriotism and en-
lightenment il opposed alone the provin-
cial. sectional notion that the Southern
people" are a peculiar variety Of Americans
with peculiar interests to be subserved
and OF a singular tone and disposition
which must be tenderly treated by the
rest.
The American people are tired of the
perpetual Chauvinism of the Southern
people" They have more important things
TO think about, In the national develop
ment and the protection Of the national
financial security. and they want to listen
to reason and not prejudice. We are tired
Of the ince7sant outcry Of a superior and
majority race that it cannot survive If Con-
stitutional political liberty shall remain 20 an
inferior minority; that political equality will
carry with II n social equality which exists
nowhere In the world a. n consequence The
Southern people" that i. the people who
happen 10 live in the Southern States,
have usuTped a share of the attention Of
the Union and imposed on II a terrible
sacrifice during the last fifty years alto
gether disproportionate to their relative
importance We want to go ahead and
work out our national destiny without
further disturbance from them for at pres
ent they constitute a brake on the national
progress. II they do not want free negroes
to do their lahor-and they can have only
free negroes. now that slavery is abolished
the world is open for them 10 seek
supply Of white labor. as II has been and
Is open to the rest Of the Union. But what
do they do? They join in attacking the
financial security OF the whole Republic and
of every man in It, themselves included,
because of this pestilent negro question.
which they hug to their breasts ny persist
ing in their preference for negro labor.
Finally, as TO the particular point Of
MIR. ROLAND HALL that We were "unkind"
in suggesting that the disfranchisement
OF the negroes in Southern States had some
thing 10 do with innaming vulgar race
hostility against them up here. The con-
currence in time OF the two. together with
the excitement Of a political canvass, in
which one party derives its main profit
from opposition TO the negroes. must sug-
gest to every intelligent mind that the
senseless and disgraceful exhibition was in
some degree due to that provocation. IL
the South should start political proscrp-
ton Of the Jews would not the inflammation
soon extend 90 the North? Nothing il
more easily infamed than race hostility,
and Mr. HALL can say nothing so con-
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