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Show INTEBNA.L IMPROVKMEPlTS IH THE SOUTH. It is Tery evident that tho bulk of southern sentimont is in favor of extending ex-tending the system of public improve ments, which has been bo liberally pursued 1Q the north towards the devastated and dilapidated south. It has been charged by malcontent journalists jour-nalists of both partios that the settlement settle-ment of tho presidential contest by the seating of Hayes included an understanding, if not a pledgo, en the part of the friends of the admiuis tration, ill favor of tho Texas Facific CAh subsidy. Another demand of the south is the improvement of the Mississippi river navigation by the construction of an extenstre system of levees. This cannot be considered entirely a southern work. It is one the benefits of which would he felt by the people of the entire Mississippi T-iUey. It is not improbable that the southern members ef congress will be nearly ft unit in favqf of those meas ure, while the northern members are liie!y to be divided, though not on strict party lines. There will be no lack of argument to sustain the demand de-mand for a liberal expenditure of the publie uiony in the southern states. The amouut expended in the north throughout the period of the war, the building of the Union and Central Pacific aud other railroads, the de truction of property during the war, and the inflictions subsequently impeded im-peded by the north in the shape of the ertravagaut carpet-bag governments, furnish the basis for the most convincing con-vincing appeals to the syaipathy If not the justice of congress con-gress acd the country. The southern states having again been invested with the full responsibility ot their governments, with the duty ef educating and elevating the large negro population, may and should be strengthened and aided by the general government in the restoration restora-tion of their industries, and tie rebuilding re-building of their fortunes, Such ar- - - 'guraenta, added to the active support! I by the adminiatration of these scbem; of southern interoul improvement wilt make a better showing in the next cni)g,, than in the last. In the pr Merit detracted sUte of parlies and I ihe total want of vital politic! iiaue, thin question ot internal improvement) improve-ment) may cut a considerable figure in coming campaigns, though with the south substantially united on the the affirmative of the question, the democratic party of the north could not a fiord lo oppose the demand ol its representatives. The Louiavilie Courier-Journal, the leading democratic demo-cratic newspapar ol the south, mentions men-tions these points of policy which are eauential to the south: r irst i do conion unen, wio itTtu'ii, the development of it Uburing population, popula-tion, to-wu: tho black ponptu; born t dflKrda i n; diibanod by the ualuro of tneir bom)?, demoralized by iwulve years of misdirected freedom, bu' docile, pliable, adaptablo, Uinchnblu, aiTucuon-al. aiTucuon-al. Second Tho settlement of the country by iho infusion of no lifo: by immufri-tion; immufri-tion; Ullinff out sparsely inbahited di-t-tricU; fupplyiiift tho loan in ill" old-r slates of tne niyriad who huvo so'inht new life uis' whMrn; pouring in fresb cur-rnU cur-rnU of enttirpriae; diliu--in) ou'or idou.-i.f idou.-i.f llinfl; wnldiug lhu puouie togulhor by common inioroiis. bused on tha au- preinai;y of law. Third By a wide, woll -guar dad pol- icy of intunml improvnuieri ; mudn1 necesHary by the ravnx0 ol war; surpassing surpass-ing lhu capacity of private .enterprise; jii-tilliwl in tho south by ttio countless Ijuuetieea enjoved by the north; required by every consiuortttitm ol puutic policy and fair dualing. Tno Courier-Journal says the extremist ex-tremist of bath soctions will unite in opposing this combination of prao" lical interests : The idealist in tho south joins the cormorant cor-morant in the north, under iho thin dis-Kiiiso dis-Kiiiso of public virtuo and reunoaiy in pruiocting exiitinjr monopolies. The monopolist of iho north nracs to help tho exlromist of tho south in his hatred of all profffois and ail cnl'frhtanment ii ho will find constitutional arguments a':d flection al divisions aKainst any tnoro grant9. Thus it is lo go as it nlways hns gone; tho south being tho victim; ever left to tuck the hir,d tout. It wns n union of th'j f .natic and the s?eohnist. It is a union of tho oligarch and bliither-hkite. bliither-hkite. Tun one dies, "Stop tbiut," whilst tlio o'hor procrcils with coolness itnd deliberation with tho prearranged schemo of plunder. Old and simple devices de-vices are bo3t b.-cnu-e thoy vill douht-lc-s nover coieo to work. Tho southern people, continues tho writer, responds warmly in favor of Llayes' policy. Hayes is applauded all over tho south for doing what the whole northern people ought to havu done long ago. The south has no conventional politics. O-icb nat onul z d, iho southern people will, like the northern people, or any otbfr ponplo, pursue thuir bunt, tho r in torost, their conviction, tboir wi-dj!U, their folly. Thev need to bo let aluno. But Iho monopoly organs d nut want to lot thorn aloue. Thoy want to playi into tbo hands of the blatbcr.-kites; so that oiHting corporations in tho north uiuy be protected by existing projudicos in tho south. If tho public treasury has any money to spare, perhaps it could uot be better expended than in aiding the south in this way, as tho north has been largely aided, and if the southern senators and representatives are united upon the question there would seem to bo no doubt of their ability to command any reasonable assistance they may demand. |