The Oxford intelligencer., 1861-03-27
The Southern Confederacy.

In the February number, 1861, of De
Bows Review, the editor sums up the i'm
portaut advantages which will be possessed
by the Southern Confederacy:
It will have a territory as great a. the
whole of Europe, with the exception of Rus
STA and Turkey.
It will have a population five times that of
the Continental colonies twice that of the
United States during our last war with Bri-
tain and equal to that of Britain when she
contested the world with Bonaparte.
1t will have commerce which, in exports,
already equals four.fiftbs of the entire ex-
ports of the Union. This commerce has
built up the present commercial marine of
the United States, and it almost entirely
employs it, and in building up this builds up
the navy with It.
It will embrace homogeneous population,
little admixed with those of foreign blood,
and its organized servile labor will be the
greatest source of strength and not Of weak
ness, as is the pauper population Of other
countries. This homogenity will keep us
unit for as long period as any government
can be kept such, and much longer than the
governments that surround us.
1t will be speedily recognized, aud form
treaty stipulatious with all civilized coun-
tries; for in this age commerce is king"
rather than sentiment, and controls the di-
plomacy of the world. The people that have
such to offer will not long 60 begging for
recognition.
Its mission win be peace, for it is impossi-
bic upon any rational theory, that it will be
warred on by either Europe or the North,
seeing that war, while to say the least, it left
conquest doubtful, must destroy conqueror
as we'll as conquered, while peace must allow
each to thrive and develop. The English
very soon discovered that the colonies after
independence, brought them vastly more
wealth than before. If war, however, result
victory is never to mere numbers, but to
skill, martial character, spirit and wealth =
and these are with the South to an extent
that must balance the difference of numbers.
Besides, the invaded are as ten to one
against the invader.
It can maintain the civil list, and an army
and navy, to such an extent as is desired,
and keep up relations with the rest of the
world with a great decrease of the expendi-
lures which We fudkc diu vi III tnO EOusSi al
Union. Exclusive of interest ON previous
debt, the expenditures of the United States
for the years which Immediately followed
the adoption of the Consultation. ranged on
ly from four TO five millions of dollars, and
when the population of the whole Union was
that of the present Southern States, its ex-
penditure was a little over $4,000, 000.-
In our greatly decreased seacoast, and sim
pier establishment, the Southern Government
could be brought down to half that sum -
but supposing $40, 900, and we should
then save to our people every year at least
SlO0,O00,oOo which they are contributing
to the benefit of other sections. Thus:
The South buys from the North, or from
Europe, every year, at least as much as she
sells to both, and pays duty on all that she
buys from Europe in the tariff, and from the
North in the additional price which it is en-
abed to enact, in consequence of the tariff
keeping out the competition Of foreign arti-
cles The total Southern purchases do not
fall short of 100000, 900, which, at the av-
erage tariff of thirty per cent, would give
$4,000, O00-a loss of 100000, 900. I'm
der a Southern Government our imports
would equal our exports, viz: 100000, 900,
which at FIVE per cent, would give the re-
quired revenue. What would be the effect
Of this saving of 500, 100000 every year
on the general wealth Of the Southi What
the Federal Government takes from the
South, let it be understood, it does not en-
pend-here, but at the North