Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-09-26
Causes and E6eets.

1t has been not unDlansibly conjectured that
| one of the principle reasons why the North
| is so resolved upon the continued vigorous
prosecution of the war. is that her people
now know by experience the inestimable val
ne to them of the Southern trade. If they
knew this before, they affected to deny it,
aud sought persistently to disparage our
| wealth and resources Since the commence
ment of hOstiiities they have gradually lost
the entire commerce of the South and they
are well aware that if for all future time this
vast source of opulence is forfeited by Them
| the mercantile marts of New England and
the Middle States will be hopelessly ruined
Nothing can possibly save them except the
| recovery of that magnificent trade which has
enriched New York, Boston and Philadelphia,
and created millionaires and mercha Mt prin-
ces in those cities. 1t may be urged that the
South can never be again induced to maintain
important business relations with the North.
Probably this would be the case were the
South permitted quietly to accomplish the
work of separation. Hence the people of
the North think their only chance of getting
back Southern trade-or making our country
once more tributary to their growth and ag-
grandzement. is to conquer US, hold us as
subject provinces, and compel us to resume
the former channels of mercantile commu-
| nication. They freely acknowledge that the
war Injuries them terribly, but they argue
/ that the sacrifice, immense as it is, will be
more than compensated by the return of the
Southern States into the Union. Moreover,
they affirm that to give up the struggle would
entail upon them irretrievable peculiarly
disaster. and that they cannot lose more by
continuing it, especially as they hold that it
must prove in tn, end successful.
| This, it will be admitted, is but shallow
| reasoning; but when did sectional hatred, IA
natical zeal, baff1ed rapacity, and the fierce
| spirit of vengeance ever pause to listen to
| the dispassionate counsels of reflection?
Doubtless had the people of tie North, when
| they went crazy at the capture of Fort
| Sumter. even remotely conceived the magni-
| tude of the enterprise which lay before them.
| they would sooner have deposed and hanged
Abe Lincoln and his Cabinet than have en-
gagged in war so fruitful in calamity to
them, and so uncertain in its duration. But
| they were hurried on by the lust of revenge,
| and were buoyed up by the encouraging
| thought of their numerical superiority. They
| fancied the subjugation mere holiday task,
and fondly imagined that in few months
they would be enabled to glut at once their
| avarice and their animosity. Now, although
| they have discovered with bitterness of spirit
| how fearful is the error into which they have
| fallen, so much is at stake that they dare not
retreat. With the guilty usurper OF Scot
lands crown they may say:
l. t- eve are in blood
Steept in SO far, that should we wade more,
Returning as tedious go on. %
Meanwhile, it is entirely certain that what
ever course the Yankees may pursue, they
have pretty effectually involved themselves
in general bankruptcy. The newspapers of
the North sedulousiy conceal the d.plorable
evidences of this fact from the public eye,
but every now and then a refugee from the
North VINO has escaped the vigilance OF Lin.
coins nsouchards, furnishes information COR
roborative of our statement A gentleman
of high character and intelligence reached
here day or two ago, having baf1ied the
spies of the Yankee Government. We learn
through him something of the state of affairs
in New York. Take an illustration or Two:
Out of some two hundred and fifty irst-class
merchants--men who were regarded as inn
pregnabie, only thirteen have thus far met
their obligations. All the rest are bankrupt.
OF the small fry who have failed, it may be
said '.their name Is legion. A few months
ago = prominent business firm rented "a mag
Indecent store in = fashionable part Broad