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1 their own accord; and have known one slight
I tap given to a tumbler made OF glass, not only
70 break il, but, as II by sympathy, others re-
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TEN DAYS IN FOREIGN PARTS.
From the Nashville Christian Advocate Aprii 4th.l
We have spent ten days within The Southern
I ConfedoTacy. Our readers might like 70 know
something Of what we saw and heard in for
4 eign parts.
81 feel beiter,o saws a passenger on the
/ Nashville and Chattanooga railroad, as about
midnight we dip into the sorthern portion OF
I Alabama. 81 feel decidedly better. What
I has come over me2 Ahi-We are out OF the
{ United Ststss.D
Thought something was the matter" re-
sponded a Yoire from the other end Of the sT.
'sI'ye keen feeling crsmped and loose by turns
these fifteen minutes, A nightmare has been
on me-herridl Now it's explained"
But the train moved on, as though nothing
had happened. Passports were not demanded
at Stevenson. nor az Chattanooga, neither
we're there any custom house officials,
The month Of March has been unusually
cold 10 Alabama and Georgia. Yet plowing
and planting are going on. The farmers are
well I'D to their work. The main field force
have not been withdraw from their work, no.
withstsnding the musterings and mass meet
ings. All things 60 on with them as before.
They look contented and well cared for. The
polished ploWshare makes its furTow, as Of
old, in the mellow earth. The trees are bud
bing. Corn is coming up. Cotton seed going
in. Wheat and rye are beautiful. The foW-
srs bloom. The singing Of birds has cone,
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 ibis
year within the limits Of The Southern Confed-
eTacy. This agrees with our observation, and
the most reliable representations made 10 US
Those people mean 70 be independent. Afew
months viii show -Aat they can raise bread
as well as cotton. The Gotten crop is now
found out to be about million Of bales short
Of the previous year. This fact has raised
the price 10 a 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-produeing purpose.
Some things impressed US sloug our zigzsg
wsy and during our short stay in foreign parts.
OF coarse the area OF observations was not
extensive. The reader will know how to make
allowances for thai To our own, we added
the observations Of every iudicious friend and
traveller We met up with, and with whom we
could snatch a ten-miautes' talk OF take an
hours set-to. These impressions We give as
facts, maybe new, without comments. Wher-
ever the editor is, be bears the .fdUocdfe in
mind, and CLEANS for its columns.
1. The quietness OF men and things surprises
one. From the seriousness and vastness Of
the revolution that has taken place there with
in the last three months, and from the accounts
Of mobs, lYnch-law, reign Of terror, ETC., one
can haldly help looking out for evidences Of
disturbance in the public mind, and commo-
tion in affairs. We never saw people calmer.
In town, village, country and crossroads they
are sober in conversation and quiet in demesn-
or Evidently it Is not the cslmness Of sup
preston, but Of conviction and Determination.
Less bluster and big talk than one tess and
hears al q county election. No whilst to keep
the courage up. No nursing Of wrath to keep
it warm. They are in uncommon bland hu-
NOR. Even the philippies, taunts, and in
sulti1g paragraphs of the abolition press do
not rufls their tempers as they used TO do
They regard them as outside things, pretty
much as we in the United States regard the
pTalings Of Exeter hall, and the swell SEN
tences Of the Spanish cortes about our affairs
and Institutions. The EXTREMIST appointments
OF Mr.. Lincoln are coolly commented on-"No
conce rn Of ours.o
2. They are not only quiet, but determined.
Those people are gone, and gone for good. The
child is not born that will see them returt.
We do not believe one man in a Thousand en-
tertains The idea Of reconstruction. If ever
reconstruction takes place, it must proceed
from the other side. They never viii come
back on any terms. Any one who talks with
Shareholders and non-slaveholders, large plan
ters and small planters, merchants and me-
chsnics, will be obliged to yield to the
cherished idea Of reconstruction. Their State
governments never were in better action, and
never before did the people 80 highly prize
them. With their Federal Government they
are pleased, its officers, Congress, aud Con-
Whatever may be said in Wall
street Of their want Of resources for sustaining
a government, they feel no unessiness on that
score. The difference between their CONNER
ciai system and that Of the northern States,
under the present and future possible tariffs,
opens TO their view as all In their favor. With
trihing State debts, and ample resources, they
fell safe on the financial question. We actu-
ally heard such an expression as this-smile at
it as you nav" the fact is, those poor fel-
lows at the North, l don't see how they are to
get along. Southern custom lost; the differ
ence between the tariffs turning everything to
our ports: we making our own bread; their
East and West srrayed against each other
in debt, and no prospect Of paying out; their
credit ten per cent. under par, and ours above
par-for our fifteen million loan will be taken
at one hundred and four cents on the dollar
what will they do?" Put that speech in your
pipe and smoke it. We heard it, and that,
too, from a sensible citizen.
They have their stars, too, and ike them;
have no objection to see the constellation en-
lsrged, but viii live and die under the seven IL
not another is added. Those who have held
on to the glorious old Union, With the patriotic
hepe OF mediating d reconstruction, and bring
ing back the lost pleiad, may give that hope
up. We distinctly despair Of il now, If never
before Il is not question Of stars any more,
but only Of stripes. The Southern COnfed-
% nr,lfu nod hfff
fixed fact--no experiment.
The border States may behold the question
narrowed down to this-a choice between the
stars and these stars. The Union is already
divided, and it is left for them, now that their
unsslfsh and self-sscrihcing efforts to prevent
that catastrophe have failed, TO settle this sim
Die auestion--Oa which side do their personal
and social sJmpathies and industrial interests
He2
3. We look with delieacy but closely FOR
latent spirit that has, In certain papers, been
represented as existing very extensively in the
seeded States-s suppressed spirit of discon-
tent--lhe oyerawed minority. Il may exist
somewhere, but we did not find it. Men who
10 our personal knowledge in December went
into secession as a timid bsther steps into
water, have fully committed themselves to the
Southern Confederacy as it has shaped itself.
Some had even gone to Pensacola, snd were
in camp there. Others who did not like the
waV it was done exactly, now that it is done,
proclaim their firm adherence and satisfaction
with the present order Of things. Everybody
praised the wisdom and moderation Of the
conventions and the Congress What has
become Of the minority in yeur convention
elections 2" The answer was: "a few in
Congress, Stephens in the e-Presidency-
the rest absorbed and assimilated. Many Of
them may, at a future day, form the Taliying
point Of an opposition party in the Govern
ment, which will do no hsrm, for every good
Government ought to have an opposition par
tT But We are one now. Here and there
fellow may shoot of q squib 10 Greeley & Co.;
il amounts to nothing"
4. The feeling toward the border slave States
was various; lot bitter, except rather 70 in
some instances against Tennessee, from
which they seemed % think they had-a right
somehow 70 expee. a different showing from
what mas been made thus far. Generally they
reason thus; 1t was better for Us that they
did not cone of when we did. They are our
friends, and BY the position they took up at
an early day and maintained, have done the
part Of friends. They said to the North
Stand off, and were enabled to orglnize com
pactly and wi bout molestation. To please
them and hold them on, the North has pur-
sued a vseillating policy, dividing Blsck-Re-
publicans, and sfording the best conditions
for our success. The fruit will fall when it is
ripe. They will finally be with us in form, as
thew have been with as al the time in fact"
s. The army-they are mastering strong
down there, and nc mistake. Besides the reg
iments which each State has, the Federal
Government is enlsting soldiers for one year,
and also for three year,, If not sooner dis
charged The amount OF first rate arms, Of
ordnance and ammunition they have OF hand
a astonishing, Tor short notice. Il is said the
Federal Government has nearly 10000 soldiers
at this time under orders. Companies were
dropping down to Pensacola and Savannah.
They die Dot make much fuss-only music
enough 10 form by-not steslthy, but rather
silent IN their movements. There is an empty
/ ear bshfnd-the conductor keeps It locked. By
and By the reason appears you reach sta
/ ton, and seventy or eighty uniformed men get
on board. And such soldiers we never ssw
sober as sentinels: young men and middle
| aged, the flower Of the land. Friends and wo-
men see them of, waving handkerchiefs noi
wet with tears. No Hessisn bands and drunk
en roWdies. Ne saw but one drunken man II
/ the Southern Confederaey, and be was not toc
drunk to get from the hotel, at Opeiks, to The
caTs. Depend on il, IL those soldiers have tc
I fght, they will give a good account OF shem'
/ selves IN the day Of battle. And il Mr.. Lin
/ coin heads the force that is to meet them, hi
bad better do as be did on bis wayt Washing
/ ton-disguise himself, steal march, and star