The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1862-04-03
The Future Of the South
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The real enchnntcr is success. Vic
tory convinces more men than the logic
of the schools, and the stubbornesE
preJudices give wav to the symbols of
mower. When Napoleon landed in
France. on his return from Elba he
was ridiculed in Paris, as a weak and
visionary adventnrer; but. as he an
proached the French Capital his enc
mics exchanged contempt for eommen.
datiou, and rivalled each other in dem.
oustrations Of fenlty to his person and
cause. Comparatively a few DAYS ago
many who professed to be against tho
rebellion habitually asserted that the
Southern people could never be subiu-
gated, that population of twelve mil.
lions could never be conquered. Now
that 90 awful majesty and irresistible
strength of the government have been
developed. this nssump ption fades out Of
sight. and those who rested upon it
frankly admit its fallacy, aud declare
that the United States is destined TO be
the most formidable nation in the world.
| glndly concede that no free people
can permanently be suhjugated; but the
southern people are not now, and have
not been free for years. They have
been ruled bv minority of slavehold-
crS and ambitions demagogues; and
while it is true that this minority con.
triVed to create and combine dsterm-
med opposition to the authority of the
Constitution aud the laws, vet histori-
cal justice demands the expression that
the weakest spot in the whole rebelliou
was the distrust of tho rebel chiefs
among the Southern masses. The sub.
)ngatlon, therefore, is rather Of treason
and of rebellion, and of those who be.
gan and carried on these vicious and
revolutionary elements, than of the Cd.
pressed, betrayed, and plundored peo.
pie Of the South. The delirium which
swept so many into the whirlpool of se.
cession is so rapidly subsding, that
there is no refuge for the principals in
THIS great tragedy but suicide or fight.
The whole scheme originated in a do.
Iioerate attempt to overturn lust Gov.
ernment, and rested upon a foundation
OF lies, and as these lies are exposed,
large majority If every Southern State,
except South Carolina, will hail the sub:
Jugation and conquest Of the rebellion
as their own certain deliverance. Tho
progress of our armies and navies will
be steadily to the extreme SouA. Not
a foot of the revolted soil will ultimate.
lv remain in possession of the traitors.
Pressed in the rear and on each flank
by the united influences of the Union
element and the Federal army, they will
be swept away like chaff before the
tempest, aud when the time comes to
dISband the army, the soldiers of tho
Republic will remain in large numbers
upon the soil they have captured, occu-
pying the con6scated estates of the bad
men who have forfeited all rights, either
OF life or property, by attempting to
take the life of the Republic itself
Thus will the inertia and arrogance Of
the wealthy slave owners DO succeeded
by the vigor, and enterprise, and skill
OF free white men. One aristocrat will
no longer be permitted to lash his bru.
talized slaves over plantations Of FROM
five to ten thousand acres, nor will q
soil for years exhausted continue To- Sp
peal to God for the presence Of those
great agents Of agriculture which haya
made tho sterile hill sides and valleys
of New England to blossom like d Ire
rose. Where the cotton grows it will
hereafter be manufactured, aud these
manufactures will return new auxiliaries
to bless, iOvigorate. aud strengthsa a
rescued people. Well may those who
contemplate this wonderful future ex.
claim, that, under the providence Of
God and our vintorious troops, this
country must become the strongest on
tho face Of the earth. As tho flag of
the stars aud stripes is carried to Che Sx
tremest Southern coast, our warriors
will look abroad for new fields to con
qusr, and that triple alliunoo, now about
TO lay violent hands upon discordant
Mexico, may pause in It's career TO con
template the failure of all les predictions
that the subjection Of Mexico was easy,
alone because the disruption. Of the
United States Of America had become
inevitable. But the subject Is too vast
for present elaboration