Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-05-21

| There is'scarcely an interest or element in
| Southern society, which will not derive ad-
vantage from the established independence
OF the Confederate States. At the lowest cal
| cuiarion. the South has furnished two-thirds
OF the revenue of the Federal Government,
while scarcely one-third of that revenue has
been expended in the Southern States. 1t
was said. some months ago IN Richmond, by
| Senator Hunter-than whom, from bis long
and special familiarity with the subject, no
higher authority could be cited-that in
round numbers, the exports of the United
States, for 1859. amounted in value to $780,
100000. OF which S216 900 900 we're of South
ern products, chiefly of the great staples,
cotton, rice, sugar aud tobacco; that the du-
ties on the importations of foreign goods
bought with these exports, amounted to S70
100000; and that of this sum, $4,000, 900
were distributed in expenditures through the
/ Northern States, and only $4,000, 900 in the
/ Southern. In fact, the dispropOrtion is still
| more enormous; for, in addition to this, every
dollar of duty paid for the production of
| Northern against foreign products and manu-
| factures, was just so much gratuitously taken
o At of the pockets of the Southern people. for
the exclusive advantage OF the North. With
THIS lmmense golden current OF wealth and
| OF power flowing into the North, it is not sur
| prlsing that large and splendid cities have
| there sprung up like eXhalaIiOns, doomed
now, alasI like exhalations, to pass away; that
mag niicent manufactures, in every branch
| of mechanic art, have risen even to the sue
cessful rivalry of the long established insti-
buttons of the old world; that schools and
colleges and valuable libraries every where
greet the eye; that vast reading public has
been created; that extensive publishing houses
and newspaper establishments have Hourshed
as never before in human history; that sa-
vans in every department of science, and
authors in every walk OF literature, have won
wealth and fame, and would have won them,
even without the aid of the systematic self
landatiOns of their mutual admiration sOcie-
ties, and of the equally systematic deprecia-
ton of the efforts of Southern genius; and
that thus, from the rich deposites OF the an
nual inundatiOn of the great Southern Nile,
overlooking and tructifying the whole coun-
try, there should have grown that affiuence
and splendor in all the elements and arts of
mere material civilization, which have mark
ed the progress of Northern development,
and were The truition of its highest hopes
Now, all this is in great part to be changed,
aud, far the South is concerned,
changed to its iufinite advantage. That
iecund tide OF overlooking wealth which
rolled NOrthward, must and will hencefOrth
fertllize the fair fields aud bright savannahs
of its origin. We may expect to have our
own commerce and our own manufactures.
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buy where we can buy cheapest. We will
make at home what We can simultaneously
make at home for our own wants, and en-
plOy labor and capital in those channels from
which the most profit eau be derived in FUR
uishng necessities and luXuries for the wants
of the world. What we make will be- our
own, and be accumulated or expended in our
own midst. Great cities will rise upon solid
foundations. Institutions of learning, of the
arls and sciences, will flourish aud multiply.
All the elements and appliances OF intellec-
tual development and tine elevation and diff
fusion of knowledge and literature will be
enlarged aud improved a thousand fold
What our great warriors have proved them
selves to De on the field OF freedom and OF
fame; what our illustTious statesmen have |
achieved in the science and practical con- |
struction and administration of government |
in all its departments, at home and abroad; |
what our agriculturists and planters have |
done for the feeding and clothing of the aoOrLd |
and the qualification of It's tastes, which from |
lGxurIes have become necessities, our mer- |
chants and manufacturers, and miners, our |
men of science and literature and art, will |
DOW achieve in the free and magnificent ave |
nues of wealth and power, of excellence and |
distinction, expanding before the rejoicing |
vision in the light of the noble dawn of |
Southern Independence.
The complete and eternal separation be- |
tween the North and South, which has been
so PrOvidentially brought about and con-
summated by the GOd-inspiTed madness of
The despOt Lincoln and his demented sub
jects, while it must insure their speedy de-
struction and ruin, is thus for us the great
of nature from which new world
OF prosperity and power, of peace and great
ness and glory energies into existence. From
the chaos of the elements, the new born world
has burst and frightened into glorious being.
and our moving stars sing together for joy,
The great Spirit of the Universe brooded
over the birth of our freedom and indepen
dence and the nation which has been born
in day reposes its sublime trust upon the
God of Nations for the moral and political
guidance of its career .-Richmond Enquirer.