Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1856-12-18
How to Defend the South-First.Rate
Advice

From the New Orleans Commercial Bulletin.
The best way to defend the rights OF the
South isto make rigorous ami extending
assaulfipon old fields and dilap,daied fences.
The enemy is sure TO enter at every gap,
and 10 lie concealed in every brier patch
and acre of weeds he may discover. To
rout him, "horse, foot and dragons" it is
snecessary TO set the pillow and the spade 60
ing and then 10 overwhelmn him with NOUN
tains of manure for the rights of the South
and the expulsion of its enemies. They
can't stand it all. The Virginia and Ken
lucky resoutonsp are nothing in COMPARE
son with it. They may be attacked in front
and rear and terribly shattered; but muck
from the swamps and deep blowing, with a
plenty OF it, win prove invulnerable. Cot
Ton bales are but gossamer in potency,
placed beside heaps OF muck.
Seriously, this is the proper co irse to
strengthen the South. Instead of harping
perpetually upon abstract points and hair
splitting differences about State Rights, and
spending our time and energies in discus
sons about Southern resistance" to North
ern Oppression" and "power," let us go 10
work Ike sensible men and deusiop our almost
toundless resources, thereby Increasing our
poUer and making ourselves equals IN euery
respect of our shrcpder and more practical
rivals.
oihing en- indeed illustrate the striking
effects Of, and show the difference between
the two systems more forcibly than the
present condition of Virginia and Massachn.
sets. While the attention Of the Virginans
have been engrossed with political abstrac-
tions and tie dogmas Of parties, their fields
have become worn out and barren, improve
ments langush, population stands still. and
mutitudes Of her children grown up without
the slightest rudiments of knowledge
With territory more than eight times as
large as Massachusetts, she has a popula-
lion OF less than half a million more than the
latter state, and while Massachusetts is en-
titled 10 thirteen votes in the Electoral COL
lege for the election of President, Virginia
has only fifteen. If the population of Vir-
ginia were equal 10 Massachusetts, TO the
square mile mile, she would be entitled to
more than one hundred electoral yotesl
Now why this vast difference? Virginia
was settled before Massachusetts. Her
climate is altogether superior, and her sol
was originally, also, to the climate and sol
of Massachusetts. The cause of the differ.
ence, then, is not natural, but artificial. Il
must be found in the difference in the sys.
tens of internal improvements in Massachu.
sets, and the want Of them in Virginia.
The Virginia politicians ignored the sub
i-ct of popular education, the very life blood
Of State, since from it comes the strength
necessary TO cause it to assume the vigorou.
proportions OF healthy and progressive ex.
islence. Some of them have, in by-gont
lines, even gone so far as to thank Goo
there were no public schools in the State
and ore of its members of Congress, upor
occasion, felicitated himsel that he repre-
scented District which contained no news.
paper to contaminate the people. The con.
tinuance of the same causes would in few
years, doubtless have enabled him TO con,
graduate himself that the District contained
no people to be contaminated.
The history and policy of Virginia afford
valuable lessons TO all the Southern States
That she is waking up at last. and beginning
10 realize the real causes of her poverty and
inertness, must be extremely gratifying tc
every friend of the equality OF the States
and their united and perpetual prosperity.
In the Southern States, new era is in