The New York herald., 1862-01-27
The Future OF the South.


from one section of the country to another,
make nation IDENTICAL homogeneous, consist
ent united. Continual foreign immigrations and
domestic emigrations have given the loyal North
ern States nationality, with its concomitants of
national character, national ideas, national
pride and national progress. The want of these
external and internal migrations has kept the
disloyal South provincial, prejudiced, bigoted
and retrogressive. The North is like its great
ocean lakes, with tides, with constant agitations
with perpetual movement and variety. The
South is like its own swamp lakes, stagnant,
noisome and malarious.
For fifty years past foreign nations have been
pouring into the North swarms of immigrants
recuperating the brain, the bone and sinew and
the pocket of the country. These immigrants
have assisted in developing the resources, stimu-
latng the enterprise and building up the pros
perity of the country. Some of them came here
poor, and their struggles to rise in the world
bred that intense and spirited competition which
is the soul, not only of business, but of all real
progress Some of them came rich, and gave q
tone, a refinement and relish to society, pa
tronized and taught us to patronize the arts,
and led the nation to appreciate the higher
cultures of civilization. Some, who were all
hands, built our railroads digged our canals,
erected our buildings, delved our minerals and
laid the substrata of our greatness. Others,
who were hands and head combined, went into
business, joined one trade or another or pushed
out West and cultivated waste farms and
began cities. Still others, who were learn
ed and Intellectual developed our literature,
established or improved our schools and col
leges, and gave us free and an Independent
press. Native born Americans sometimes
led, sometimes followed, but always join
ed with and emulated these efforts. The
The North became the nation, and added
to the wealth, to the Importance, to the
power of tie nation. The North reclaimed
the wilderness, turned almost all the produc-
ton of land and water into treasures, and moved
the world with its energy and the time saving,
labor saving inventions its restless, treless
energy devised. All this while the South has
had little or no foreign immigration, and has
been content to passively produce her staples
and remain at stand-still in every other point
of view-having no popular education, no
original literature, no independent press, no
inventions, no discoveries, no arts, no national
character or force.
All this while, too, the North has been made
individual and concentrative by its vast domes-
tic emigration. Families from the Eastern
States have settled in the West. Families from
the extreme Northern States have moved to the
Middle States. Families have sent their sons
and daughters back from the West to the East,
and from the Middle States to the North again.
Thus continual interchange of population has
been maintained, and with it has come a ma
tional unanimity and identity. New hampshire
men join that State to Illinois. Chicago thinks
with New York. New England shares her sons
with the great West. Scarcely Northern
family but can number a representative in
almost every Northern State; and the result
is that the Northern States are one great
family. But how is it at the South There
has never been much domestic mgra-
ton there, just as there has been but
little foreign immigration. Comparatively
few families have left the South to settle at the
North, and fewer still have left the North to do
any constant work or steady business at the
South. What is the result! In the first place
the South has been kept at a dead lock. Here
people are moving about, changing from city to
city, or from good dwelling to a better one.
TLore the Same families live in the same towns,
and indeed, in the same houses, for generations.
Here a business man has to be sharp, active,
vigilant; for every day brings its new COM
pctitor and its new change. There the same
man keeps the same store, with the same rivals
as at first, for years upon years. In the few in
stances where the Northern electricity has
touched the South-at New Orleans, for in
stance, at Louisville or at Baltimore-we find
progress but otherwise there is only sta
tionary state Of affairs.
Again, from the want of this domestic migra-
ton between the North and South comes the
lack OF cordial identity between the two Sec
tions. With such different manners and Gus
toms, In society," literature and business the
greatest amount of domestic interchange would
have been necessary to identify and unite the
North and the South; but instead of the great
est amount we find really none at all.
The comparatively few Soutberners who
come North in the summer or the few
Northcrners who 60 South in the winter,
do not alter or mend the matter; for they make
no permanent impression upon either section,
and in effect, carry their own sections with
them, a. an Englshman carries Great Britain
all around the world, and can see no good in
anything not British. Hence arise the mutual
misunderstanding, misconceptions, jealousies,
hatreds fanaticisms oppositions. misrepresenta-
tions and abuse between the North and South.
which have continued for many years, and cul-
minated in causeless rebellion and bloody
civil war. Foreign immigration has aided to
make the North strong; the want of 1t has kept
the South weak. Domestic emigration has