Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-04-07
TEN nays In Foreign Parts.

Ten Days In Foreign Parts.
From the Nashville Christian Advocate,A April eth.
We have spent ten days within the Southern Con.
federacy. Our readers might like tozknow some>
thing OF whas we saw and heard in foreign parts.
Il feel better, saysIa passenger on the Nashville
dip into the northern portion of Alabama. II feel
decidedly better. What has come over me? Ahl-
we are out of the United StaIes"
Thought something was the matter" responded
q voice from the other end of the car. "Pve been
feeling cramped and loose by turns these fifteen
Now it's explained"
But the train moved on, as though nothing had
happened. Passports were not demanded at Steven.
| son, nor at Chattanooga, neither were there Any
Customhouse officials.
The month of March has been unusually cold in
Alabama and Georgia. Yet ploughing and planting
are going on. The farmers are well up to their
work. The main field force have not been with
drawn from their work, Notwithstanding the mus
terngs and mass meetings. Ali things 90 on with
them as before. They look contented and well
cared for. The polished ploughshare makes its fur
row, as of DID, in the mellow earth. The trees are
budding. Corn coming up. Cotton seed going
in. Wheat and rye are beautiful. The flowers
bloom. The singing of birds has come, and the
voice of the turtle is heard in the land
About twenty per cent. more than common of
corn and smaller grain is being sown this year
within the limits of the Southern Confederacy.
This agrees with our observation, and the most
reliable representations made to US. Those PEG
pie mean to be independent. A few months will
show that they can raise bread well cotton
The cotton crop is now found out to be about a
million of bales short of the previous year This
fact has raised the price to higher figure than has
been reached for many years. A few are holding
back for higher prices still. But all this does not
divert from the bread-producing purpose.
Some things impressed us, along our zigzag way
nd
| course the area of observation was not extensive
The reader will know how to make allowances for
that To our own, we added the observations OF
every judicious friend and traveller " met up
with" and with whom we could snatch ten min
utes talk, or take an hours set>to. These impress
sions we give as facts, maybe new, without COM
ments. Wherever the editor is he bears the
Advocate in mind, and CLEANS for its columns
l. The QlietneSS of men and things surprises one
Prom the seriousness and vastness of the yevolu-
ton that has taken place there within the last three
months and from the aecou nts of mobs, lynch-law,
reign of terror, etc., one hardly held looking
out for evidences of disturbance in the public mind
and commotion in affairs. We never saw people
calmer. In town, village, country and crossroads,
they are sober in conversation and quiet in demea1or
Evidently it is not the calmneSs of suppression, but
of conviction and determination. Less blusteS and
big talk than one and hears at a county cleo
ton. No whilst to keep the courage up. No nurs-
ing of wrath to keep it warm. They are in an IN
and insulting paragraphs of the Abolition press do
not ruf1e their tempers, as they used to do. They
regard them as outside things, pretty much as we
in the United States regard the pratings of Exeter
Hall and the swell sentences of the Spanish Cortes
about our affairs and institutions. The EXTREMIST
appointments of Mr.. Lincoln are coolly commented
en-"No concern of ours"
q They are not only quiet, but determined
Those people are gone, and gone for good. The
child is not born that will see them return. We
do not believe man in thousand entertalns
the idea of reconstruction. If ever re-construc-
ton takes place, it must proceed from the other
side They never will come back ON any terms.
ANY one who talks with Shareholders apd nom
Shareholders, large planters and small planters,
merchants, and mechanics will be obliged to
Weld to the cherished idea of reconstruction.
Their State governments never were in better
action and never before did the people 90 high
ly prize them. With their Federal Government
they are pleased: its officers, Congress, and
Constitution. Whatever may be said in Wall
street of their want of resources for sustaining
a government, they feel no uneasiness on that
score The difference between their CONNER
cial system and that of the Northern States under
he present and future possible tariffs opens to their
view "a all IN their favor. With trfng State debts,
and ample resources they feel safe on the financial
question. We actually heard such an expression as
this-smile at it as you may" The tact is, those
poor fellows at the North don't see how they are
to get along. Southern custom lost the difference
between the tariffs turning everything TO our ports
we making our own bread their East and West
arrayed against each other; in debt and no pros
pect of paying out their credit ten per cent under
par and ours above par-for our fifteen million loan
viii be taken at one hundred and four cents in the
dollar-Fhst loiH they dop Put that speech In
your pipe and sr4oke IT, heard it, and that, too,
from sensible citizen,
They have their stars too. and like them have
no objection to see the constellation enlarged, but
ApdA fo ,,vx1a h. # mt n
added Those who have held on TO the glorious old
Cnlon with the patriotic hope of mediating re-
construction and bringing back the lost pleiad may
give that hope up. We distinctly despair Of itno1,
never before. 1t Is not q question of stars any
more, bRt only of stripes. The Southern Confede-
no experiment
The border States may behold the question nsry
roWea soWn 70 this choice between the stars
anu 1neAs stars Inc Union is already divided, and
D. Is lett Tor them, now that their unsesh and self
saerlcing efforts to prevent that catastronhe haya
failed 70 settle this simple question On which sida
do their personal and social sympathes and ipdus-
trial interests lie
8. We look with deiiOaOy but closely for latent
spirit that has, in certain papers. been ranrar
scented as existing very extensively in the sao5od
States-a suppressed spirit of discomfort az
oyerawed minority. 1t may exist somav,hano
but we did not find it. Men who te onr rorn"i
knowledged in December went into secasSio no
n0E1nTN
ted themselves to the Southern Confederate os :.
has shaped itself. Some had even gone to Penso
cola, and were in camp there. Others who did
not like the way it was done exactly now that II Is
done, proclaim their firm adherence and satisfac
ton with the present order of things. Everybody
praised the wisdom and moderation of tide Conyen
tions and the Congress. What has become of
the minority in in your Convention elections?1
The gnswer was-"A few in Congress, Stephens
IN the Vice Presidency the rest absorbed and
asSimilated. Many of them may, at future day
form the rallying point of opposition party in
the government, which will do no harm, for every
good government ought TO have an opposition
party. But we are one now. Here and there
fellow may shoot off squib to Greeley i Co.; it
amounts to nothing"
4. The feeling toward the border slave States was
various: not bitter, except rather so in some in
stances, against Tennessee from which they seemed
to think they had right somehow to expect a diff
fRrsnt showing from what has been made thus far
Generally they reason thus at was better for US
that they did not come of when we did They
friends and by the position they took up at early
day and maintained, have done the part of friends
They said to the North, "Stand off,; and were enabled
20 organize compactly and without moestation. To
please them and hold them on the North has pur.
sued vacllating policy, dividing Black Republic
cans and afording the best conditions for our sue
cess The fruit will fall when it is pipe They viii
finally be with US in form, as they hays been with
us ali the time In fact"