Year: 1874

cation Of races on the sure basis ofmu-
| tunl Interest, aud, rs the certain results


Of these, an early recovery of southern


prosperity.


! With this conviction, then, there Is
no reason why all classes of our coun-


trymen IN that section should not now


take fresh courage and contribute, In


every way possible, 10 the happy con-
summation of the good work which


has been so auspiciously commenced.
The great agricultural interests, the
merchants, the manufacturers, and the


press, all have an important part to
perform. They have to demonstrate
that there Is no such thing as real
antagonism of races, and that, but for
the meddling of self-seeking mischief
makers, the reconciliation of interests,
as between the whites and blacks
would be perfect. And, happily the
| indications are that the demonstra-
ton will not be difficult. The latter, it


SO happens, have been quick learners
| in the hard school Of experience these
/ few years past, and know many things
now of which they had but feeble con-
oeptlon before. They have discovered
that their best friends, after all, are
! tiic pcbplt uIiOHS Nbuii tiNy
have have been born and brought
up; that one of the conditions annexed
to enfranchisement is not eXemp-
ton from labor, as implied in the
"forty acres and mule" fiction, but
the honest industry which leads to
self-respect and personal independence;
and that finally as regards political
rights, there need no difficulty, pro-
vided there be 10 outside interference.
If proof of this were needed we might
point to the fact thatat the recentelect-
ion in Louisiana, the names of white
and colored persons We're, in not
few instances, upon the same ticket,
and that, too, at the formal invitation
of the former What better assurance
| than this could he had that, aside from
sporadic cases of violence lying some
| times at the door of the white, and
sometimes at the door of the black
inst as often among ourselves here at
the north-there is no such thing as an
antagonism of races, or that if the
country ever was menaced by cal


amiJy of this character, the leril has
| passed.


1t is eminently desirable that dis
position of this kind should be assidu-
ously cultivateI now more than ever
| by both and all classes throughout the
south, in order that the feeling which
has found expression in the great
change in public opinion to which we
refer may have free play in performing
| its part of the work of restoration. We
venture this suggestion in no spirit of
impertinence, but in the hope that it
will put ali end to the occupation of
evil men who, since the close of the
war, have Systematically filled the
public mind here with distorted views
of the feeling between the two classes.
The road will then be open for such an
influx of home and foreign capital into
all the long sluggish arteries of south
ern industries and southern commerce


as cannot fail to work for them, as it
seem to us wonderful transfor-
nation. The time is peculiarly
proptous for the diversion of
capital in that direction mill
ions of money are lying idle on both
sides of the Atlantic, but waiting the
opportunity, and II we are correct in
our estimate of the new departure
which must be the early consequence
of the political revolution, the oppOru-
nifty will soon be presented. The pros
pect, therefore, is one upon which not
only the south, but the whole country
may be congratulated. 1t foreshadows
the infusion of new life into decaying
markets, the recovery of lost industries,
the revival of enterprise in places
where enterprise has long since been
we'll nigh driven to the wall, the resto-
ration of credits, and in due time
large extension of trade, the animating
| influence of which must be felt in
every pulsation of commerce through
out the union. Boston, New York,
Philadelphia and San Francisco, not
less than Savannah, Charleston, Mobile
and New Orleans, have in this matter
great interests in common, and ii the
| Judgment of the people in all the lead
! ing states on Tuesday last has any
Specification at all above and beyond
the party lines which for the moment
it seems to have well nigh erased, it Is
an admonition to persons in power,
and to persons to whom power is to be
intrusted, that the time is come
when the material interests of the
country must have precedence over all
other considerations. We are hope
ful enough to believe that an admo-
milton so empbatically and impress
sively given will not be needed, and
that when we come to look back upon
the causes which most powerfully as
sisted in the general recovery ot the
country from a protracted period of
commercial and industrial derange.
ment, the popular verdict at the cleo
tions in the autumn of 1874 will de-
serve conspicuous recognition.