Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-11

The Northern and Southern COnfederacIes
There are now two Confederacies, Northern and
Southern. Ought these two Confederaces to be
keptseparate forever? We answer, undoubtedly they
should. The greatest blessing that can be confer
red on the Southern States is perpetual separa-
ton.
A succession of events has been leading to this
result from the settlement of the continent and the
war win only complete the separation, long before
previously begun. Judge DoUaIAs, in a speech de-
iTered in Congress, just before he went into the
support of LINcOLN's war, said that war was dis
uniOn-hnal, perpetual separation, and that he
would not underrate the intellect of any one who
was IN favor Of the far to suppose that he
WAS not in favor of q perpetual separation of the
States. The establishment of separate Confedera-
cies was necessary and almost inevitable result
of this unjust against brave people, educated
IN the principles OF free government.
This war has resulted in the breaking up of all
trade between the United States and the Confede.
rate States and the establishment of business con-
nectons and trade with other nations and the estab
ment of Southern ports Of entry instead eff North
cry ports of entry. 1t has converted all of the
and enemies. 1t has disrupted all church connec-
tons and al charitable associations not previously
broken up. It puts end to intermarriages and
travelling into the separate nations. 1t breaks up
all private correspondence and friendship It Gre
ates separate systems of municipal laws and all the
usages, legal political and pecuniary, become DIS
tinct and divergent. 1t individualizss the blood
and race Of each branch It sits the people of the
two nations, and has driven or will drive Northern
men, with Southern ideas and Southern proclivities
TO the South, where they properly belong. Ii has
driven or will drive all men in the South having
Northern ideas and proclivites, to the North,
where they properly belong. The war is thus
making the whole people in the South homoge-
neous and the people in ,hc North homogeneous.
But it would be a most shallow and unphiIo-
sophlcai view Of the subject to suppose that this
war Is anything more than a manifestation of
deep-seated and permanent difference in the people,
nhsbting the Northern and Southern portions of the
late United States. There was difference in the
races at the settlement Of the country. TLey
sprang from different stocks in England where they
fought each other for half century or more
There was an original difference in the usage Of the
people, in religious tenets IL municipal regulations
ton of domestic slavery, and other circumstances
arising in the progress Of national destiny. The
South Carolinian and the VirgInisn were, in the
days Of the Revolution, no NOR like the New In
glander than the New Highlander is now like the
MississIppian or Albanian. The bitter discussion
of the question Of slavery, for the last thirty or
forty years, has educated the Northern people 20
hate the institution, and to regard all who live IN
the midst Of it of necessity, semi-barbarians if
not criminals They have elected Chief Mags-
trate, who has declared the Southern people in a
body the greatest oppressOrs and tyrants in the
known world and such is probably the declared
epiIion of every Northern Governor Books have
been written and scattered over the whole world |
to defsme the institution, and disgrace the people
Of the Southern States. They have aOrOgated the /
Contribution in regard to it, and the leading in
the Northern Government at this time declare the |
conflict between free labor and slave labor rrepres
sible, and never to be ended, but by q divis- |
ion Of the slave and free States or the destru tion
of slavery and by the equality of the Such |
are the opinions and political dogmss Of LNCOIN !
SEwAKD, CHASE, BANKS, and the whole host of edit
Ors and politicians who bask in the sunshine of Black
Republican favor. The habitual tone Of nearly the |
whole of the Black Republ press during the last
ten or fifteen years, has been that Of hatred con-
tempt and denunCiation OF the Southern people |
Their children taught from infancy to hate and
dcspse them as destitute Of morals, of literature,
of bodily strength and mental capacity. They de-
clare that the Southern people are, to extent
perienced by no other people, the victims Of idle
ness, debauchery, and the bloody reign of the
bowie knife and pistol.
1t is not probable that any nation has more deep,
general hatred than the great body of the people Of
the North, now controlling the government, bear
towards the people of the South 1t is implacable,
and we see reason to suppose there will
be any change-no possibility Of a change
except upon q final separation 1t would be
unjust here to indulge in a denunciaton of the
whole of the Northern people but, it is nothing
more than truth TO say that the popular opinion Of
the South from remote and traditional periods was
most unfayorajle to Yankee character, not only in
the transactions of private life, but in elaborate
legislative frauds manifested in government Job
berry, fish bOunties protective tariffs. land grants
and all manner Of fraudulent contrivances. That
these feelings exist and that these opinions are en-
tertailed, those who regard them as the exaggera-
ted expressions of hostile public feeling will admit
We have no reason to suppose that this public feel
ING at the North and at the South is ever likely 10
change. while they continue under the same Gov
ernment ard that the Only possible means of es-
Gaping a succession Of civil wars is perpetual
separation.
The hostility of the sections has been specially
aggravated by legislative measures carried into eff
ect for the purpose of subjecting the products of
he South TO Northern eXactions. The predOmina~
ing interests IN the North the msnufactu~
ing and commercial interests. In the South
he agricultural interest has controlled the
ublie policy. The South has raised the z
roducts upon which the revenue of the cOun- 1
ry has been produced and the North has, ty q
eavy indirect taxation on such products, by a "
monopoly Of freghts and assurances, aud by army
nd navy contracts, seized the wealth Of the South
I'd expended it for the benefit of the North. 1t e'
As been systematic plan Of robbery, perpetrsted y
nder the guise of legislation. They know it, court 81
up, and chuckle over it as psrt of their annual OF