Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-07-24
From the Richmond Examiner. The War and it's Results.


 4 three-years war would be better for the South than that immediate peace, which should restore friendly relations and renew trade and intercourse with the North. We have been so long dependent on New England in almost every department of business, and the affairs of our citizens are so mixed up and inter-rami- fled with theirs, that an early peace, unless very cautiously and carefully guarded in it's provisions, would be sure to restore in great measure, our former dependence. Again we should be flooded with Yankee goods, Yankee manufactures, Yankee teachers, preachers, pedlars and drummers. Again their vile liter ature--their books, magazines, reviews and newspapers would infest us, thick and nox- ious as the plaques of Egypt, and inoculate our people with their shallow thought, tawdry fashions, Iaischievous theories and gross im- moralities. Again would our merchants flock to their cities, our youth to their schools, coll leges and universities, and our rich and fash ionable men and women to their watering places. A peace attended with these conse- quences, or even a part of them, would be worse than three years' war; for such a peace would rob the South of it's money and it's mind, destroy it's nascens manufactories and prevent the growth of it's foreign com merce. Such peace would impoverish the South and restore the wealth of the North. In all but name, we should again become their slaves and tributaries. Trade now conquers faster than arms; and the centres of trade are the seats of power; whilst the countries which they trade with are their subjects, their pro- vinces, or their colonies. If disunion does not build up centres of trade and centres of thought and centres of fashion in the South, disunion will have effected little good. Generalization is one of the great evils of the day, and the only way to become independent of centrali- zation from without is to create centres with in. Whilst speedy peace is almost sure to make us again the tributaries of Northern trade and Northern centralization, a three years' war would be certain to make us suffi- ciently independent of all nations, by teach ing us to live within ourselves, to do our own hand work and our own head-work, to write our own books and make our own shoes, to manufacture our own doctors; professors and pill-venders. to build our own houses and make our own clothes. In efectir~ g, we should necessarily estab' trade, of manufacture e4u--.--., 4ght and of fashion.
 The very hope of speedy peace is doing us
  ing various forms of manufacture which they knew would prove profitable during the war, but would be ruinous after a peace, patched up on Yankee or Submissionst terms.
 We desire peace as much as most men, and would not have the war continue one moment after its legitimate purposes have been attain ed. But this is war of independence--We are independent whilst it lasts; and if peace is to restore dependence, we say, then, better fight on--fght foreverl
 There is greater danger to be apprehended from hasty and incautious peace than any we have as yet suggested, and which we have, therefore, reserved for separate consideration. It is bad enough to deal with Northerners-- to have them visit us, and to be forced to visit them--but it would be ruinous to have them come down upon us in shoals as numerous as the mackerel and cod about their coasts to seize the ballot-box and control the helm of State. Unless the terms of peace exclude them, this they will certainly do. The Yan- kees are not farmers, and few wit remove to the Northwe We have been their best cus- tomers--haye bought most of their manufag- tures-and, if we refuse to go to them, they will certainly (unless preyented) come to us. Lowell and Salem, Boston and Hartford, and every other town and village in New England, will empty their scoundrel bosses, their filthy ia ctory hands add starving laborers upon us. They will change the whole tone and charac ter of our society, and soon, uniting with the Submissionsts, abolitionize one half of the South.
 No treaty of peace will be worth a fig that does not effectually exclude Yankee notions and Yankee people. Our tariff should dis criminate against their goods, and our natur- alization laws against themselves.