Year: 1869




visit of the Illinois Press Association
to our sister State of Alabama. If
any good is done, the South will owe
it to the liberality and hospitality of
the Mobilians and the people ofMont-
gomery. Wo know, if anybody could,
tho Mobilianss sif they bad a mind to
the work. would exercise the fiends
of intolerance and sectional bigotry
from the representatives of tho Illinois
Press, and reinspire them with senti.
ments of respect and preference for
the white race.


Accordingly, we see TINT no sooner
had they been taken in hand BY the
Board of Trade than the scales fell
from their eyes, and they began to see
that they had been living in an atmo.
sphere Of delusion about the South
that they had been crammed, and
were oramming their readers with
falsehoods. They were astonished at
everything they saw, because it was
so different from what they expected
to SEQ. The Reconstruction Commit
tee and the carpet-baggers had pre-
pared them for outrages, violenoes,
rudeness and abuses of all sorts but
when they found everything more
peaceful and orderly than it was at
home-everybody more polite, kind
and cordial than anybody in Illinois,
they seemed to have been dumbfound-
ed.


We say with the press dispatch that
we hope this is the beginning of new
era. The fortunes of the West are
identified with those of the South
Hero is the market for their grain and
meat-their horses and mules-their
agricultural implements, bagging,
rope, stoves, iron, steel and q vast
variety of manufactured goods, with
which the great West, by reason of
her congruity, is filling our markets to
the gradual exclusion of the products
of the Eastern and Middle States.


Why, then, in the name of all that
is sensible, should the great West per-
sist in that unjust and oppressive COM
bination with the East to strike down
the South and tramplc her under the
feet of scnseless radicalism, which
seeks to reverse al! known conditions
of social order and industrial pro-
gress2 Why should the West, by
this unnatural combination, burden
her own trade with enormous excise
and tariff duties, IN order to beat tho
life out of her best customers, the
men of the South I


The West and the South are natu-
raj allies. The interests of both lie
primarily in the advancement of agri,
culture, and by a most felicitous di-
vcrsity Of climate their farm products
do not compete, but make markets for
each other; so that never does the
Southern planter realize fine crops
and good prices but he divides his
earnings most literally with the
Western farmer.


Thus out of the past crop year the
West, it is estimated has received
moro than twenty millions of dollars
for live stock, and for corn and meat
she will probably receive from the
South upwards of a hundred millions
moro. The natural policy which be-
fits the condition and pursuits of the
two sections is identical. and they
ought to be friends and coadjutors.


Let the western men think over the
plain suggestions Of situation, and
ask themselves whether anything they
will be likely to gain by playing bob
to the New England kite can compen-
safe them for what they will lose in
assisting that section to- stab the
South With the aid Of the South a
glorious career is open to the West.
She can control the destinies of the
continent. She can direct the ener-
gies of the Government. Restored
to her normal condition and released
from the incubds Of carpet -bagism, the
South will have the intelligence, the
power and the disposition to be most
reliable and efficient ally to the West.
crn States.


Where are the young Western poll.
ticians with aoumen and genius to
see the splendid future which will
open before them under the inspira-
tion of their grand idea? 8s


Look at matters now. A continent
ruled by Boston! All the leading
Offices in the hands of Massach usetts.
All the leading ideas controlling this
vast government the offspring, in great
part, of seml.crazed fanatics like
Wendell Phillips and Sumner, and o
set Of Anticipated social and political
sciolists Of both sexes. Arc these fit
successors to Douglass, Benton, Clay
and Jackson? Are these the people
to shape the destinies of this great re-
public? Are men who can't get out
Of tho atmosphere Of Boston, to CON
troll government covering fifth Of
tho habitable globe7 Young men of
the West, awake, and cast off the
New England bib and swaddling
cloth. - Macon Gel Tlegrsahr
/ CONFEDERATE STATES MONEY WANT.
ED.-Confederate money is not alto
gether valpeless after, all. We notice
an Advertisement III nTsome Of Our North
Oarolina exoh angeS, over the name of
w. G. Troy, Of fayetteville, offering
ten cents on the dollar for $4,000