Daily national Republican., 1862-11-13
THE SOUTHERN ARIsTOcRAcY MUST
BE DEsTROYED.

A letter from New Orleans, ttat ed to be from
a new York officer, serving under General
Butler, is published, in which the possi-
billty of subdung the rebellion by availing our
selves of the dissensions of the rebel leaders,
is presented by the writer, and with degree of
hopefulness which shows that he has never
made politics profound study.
II is probably true enough that the people of
New Orleans complain of having been aban-
doned by the Confederate Government, and that
they denounce General Lowell as a coward,
General Brcckinridge as being mere politician
and no soldier, and Governor Moore as having
made the public distress an occasion for private
specuations. 1t is probably true enough, also,
that they are made a little sore by the discovery
that Mr.. slidell, Mr.. Benjamin, and Mr.. Yam
cey have provided for their own personal future
by timely transfer of more or less of their
private funds to Europe. 1t is probably true
between the soules and Beauregard on one
side, and JEFF. Davis and others at Richmond.
It would he strange If discords, which exist
everywhere ut the South, were unknown In Lou
isiana. They arise, necessarily, from the
clashing ambitions of the Southern leaders.
But, that they can be made of any value to us,
is not apparent. These men may hate each
other, but they unite in hating us worse. Not
a single man is their civil or military service
has proved treacherous to them, and no con-
spicuous man, ont of their public service, has
left the rebel side to join ours. Pike and Hind
man may quarrel in Arkansas, but neither of
them comes to us. Richmond is to-day torn by
the conflicts of factions, but none Of them look
this way for allies. The rebels are in one COM
mon ship, in which they must float, or sink to.
gether. In this war, as 1t was in the political
struggles which preceded the war, the South
(meaning, by that expression, the shareholders
who control the South) are an indivisible unit,
as against all the rest Of mankind, however
much they may may wrangle among themselves,
Their personal quarrels were always violent
but that never affected their perfect harmony
of movement, in everything affecting the inter
csts of the peculiar institution which made them
a distinct caste.
The writer of the letter upon which We are
commenting, confesses that ''the emancipation
puoihSno 10 "a hoAINA upon "t4f f'N"fNN'
making use of the quarrels of these Louisiana
rebels. 1t is not ''damper" merely, hut an
absolute extinguisher.
The only way in which we can get political
foothold in the South, is to extirpate this close
corporation of shareholders, by destroying sla-
very. We must visit these rebellious aristocrats
with utter ruin, strip them of their estates, and
thus deprive them of their consideration and
power We can then build up new social sys'
ten at the South, in which it will be possible for
Republican Government to have real friends
That is the only ''reconstructon' which vii
solve the problem of this great war; not the re
construction of the Federal compact, hut the re
construction of Southern society, from the foun
dations up.
Instead of seeking for allies in the disaffec
ms and feuds of the rebel leaders, we must q
raight to the masses, black and white, o
whose physical strength these leaders max
use. The slaveholding aristocracy must b
destroyed. Nothing else will end a war, whicI
is not one between sections, but between idea
and institutions.