Speech #430090205

In reading this report I was struck with the prophetic utterances of the distinguished Senator. I will read one that struck me with a great deal of force. and that is in relation to these adventurers or carietbaggers that have brought upon the South. as the Senator would have ius believe. ]nch of the present difficulty. Hero are some of his views in relation to." adventurers" in the South in 1865: A temporary continuation of n%tional control in the Southern States would also hevoamostbenolicial etectas regards the immilgation of northern people and Europes into that country. and such immigration would. in its turn. contribute much to the solution of the labor problem. Nothing is more desirable for tho Sooth than the importation of lnw ino ani now ideas. oe of tho greatest drawbacks under which he southern people are laboring is that for fifty years they have been in no sympathetic commulion with the progressive ideas of the times. While profess. ing to he in favor of fret trade. they adopted and enforced a system of prohibitioc as far as those ideas were concerned. which was in conflict with their cherished institution of slavery. and. As almost all the progressive ideas of ourdays were iu conflict with slavery. the prohibition was sweeping. It had one peonfiar effect. which we also notice with some Asiatic nations which follow a similar course. The southern people honestly maintained and believed not only that as a people they were highly civilized. but that their civilization was the bighest that could be atteined. ol eught to serve as a model to other nations the world over. The more enlightened individuals tinong them felt sometimes a vague impression of the barreases of their mental lifl and the barbarous peculiarities of their sol organization. but very few ever dared to investigate and to expose the true cause of these evils.