The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1861-09-19
Resources oe.slae south.

Yankees to deride the resources of the
South but for the Southern people them
selves to distrust them. That distrust on
the part Of our people was Far more general
than is commonly known. 1t had been
beaten into US by Yankee books; it had eat
into US by a long endurance of the in
science of Yankee patronage; and it had
become secret uneasiness with the people
of the South, despite their proud and vc-
hement assertions of confidence in return
for the boasts and threats of Northern men,
how far they might be able to cope with
the enemies Of their independence. That
old distrust, educated in us by so many
insidious influences, has not easily been re-
moved:
In the early sessions of Congress at
Montgomery, the Military Committee of
that body was very much puzzled to make
their estimates of material for an army.
Several of the members of the committee
calculated, with difficulty, that twenty-five
or thirty thousand mcn might be raised
At last more hopeful and adventurous
member announced his estimate of fifty
thousand men; and the telegraph, with
patriotic strain on the opinion of the Con
gresham, and a considerable flourish, in
formed the North that it was confidently
expected that the Southern Coniederacy
would be able to put an army of fifty thou
sand men in the field.
The estimates of few months ago are
now only ridiculous. We have already
from four to five times fifty thousand men
in the field. We are waging one of the
most extensive and imposing wars in the
world, not only with military success, but
with an order and cveness in civil and
industrial life that is especially surpris
iag.
1t is not only in the military point of
view that the South has exhibited in the
present war its greatest extent or its Crea-
test novelty of resources 1t has shown
material, social aud moral resources OF most
striking character and quantity. Our in
dustry Is not para!izcd 10y mih AIRY employ
ments; Its quiet and regular aspects III the
wal are less than astonishing The
stranger III Richmond, uninlornIed of the
history Cf the last iew months, aud shutting
his eyes only to the single circumstance ui
never Imagine while observing the thriving
and regular trade of the city aud its great
aud ordinary intercourse of life, that war
vaeter in its proportions than those which
have rocked the nations of Europe t. their
| oundaIons vas being actively wayed with
Ia hundred miles OF the capital Of the
South. Indeed, we can scarcely realize
the fact for ourselves The tumult, the
disorder, the wait, the clamor OF the POOR
the tossing and rcsJt.sI.cSs OF socicty-a'l
hcse common Gisucs>cS OF civil war
where are they in Richmond! They are
not visible here. They are not visible any
where IN tue S-u;h.
Our crops are garncrcd as Of yorc; our
industry has grown, instead OF sinking un.
der the pressure OF war; our great system
OF slave labor has shown powers of adnp-
tveness, for which 10 mind in the South
had given II credit before; the internal econ
omy OF VI own society is uninterrupted
manufactures are growing up, the resour-
S not only abroad, but daily increase to
meet the eXigemccs Of the war, under the
first demands OF the necessities by VIII .ch
1t was prophesied we should utterly end
| lrretricvably sink.
1t requires no searching analysis Of the
! present conditions ofSpcicty in the South
To Indicate those higher classes of resources
the mental and the mOral-tlat il has
exhibited and developed during the present
war. They are everywhere obvious and
unnistakuble. We see them in n states.
manship which furnished the only conver-
satve lr nciple of the old government
and has already conducted the new safely
through all the the complications OF the
birth OF nation; IN wise, prudent and
mastery Legislation and domestic council;
III the absence of all revolutionary ,enden-
clcs OF society at period Of agitation; in
the growth OF IA true aud kindly republican,
ism, differing from agrdrianism as equality
does from insoleDce; in the conservative
adhesion to existing forms aud institutions,
and IN the spirit OF an unbounded patriot
ism, trustiul aud active, that neither com
plains of duty nor questions rs com
mands.
War is the great revealer and test of ma
toni strength aud national virtue 1t was
perhaps the only occasion that could have
determined the relative superiority ofSouth
and North. That question, in all respects
IS put mt rest forever. The South has sur
passed the expectations of her own people;
has challenged new additions to their ad.
miraticn and love; has rcassured the
distrust which, though it never could have
been breathed or conceived by her sons
with respect to her means to defend and
perpetuate them.
Where stands now the North, whose
power, and wealth, and grandeur have been
so long preached and exploited? The war
has dispelled what appeared visions of real
lty. The SPLENDID spectaces that have
been so constantly paraded OF the power of !
the North-tbeir numbers, their great ci
ties, their railroads, their schools, their cic
mosynary bounties their centres of trade,
their opulent living, their striking repre-
sentations of wealth. i'm money are ali nnnc