Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-09-12
What the South has Lost.

y more miserable spectacle than that now
presented TO the world by the rebel States, it
Is impossible to inagine. History does not,
we believe. record on any of its pages such
scenes Of misery aud distress as are to be
hourly witnessed in that distracted portion OF
the Republic
Once happy and prosperous; always in the
possession OF great political power while
gHided by such ma>ter-mnds as Jefferson.
Madison, Monroe and JL-kson. they saw no
limit to their progress and advancement
With an internal free trade nowhere else to be
found in the world with natural resources
which commanded universal commerce with
generous, coniding and faithful friends in the
North aud West, they were enjoying political
and personal advantages unrivaled in the ca
Ieer Of the most favored communwenlths
Afler years oF secret conspiracy and open
combinations 10 break up the Government
under which they had SO prospered, and found
another on its ruins, what have they gained
Or. rather, what have they not LOST TLey
have pared with their commerce, and can only
hy violations Of national Law, at The risk ul
lie, aud in The constant exposure to the great
est hazlrds of capture receive the least sup
plies IRON the nations with whom they once
were free to traffic.
Their internal is as utterly ruined their
foreign trade. No implements of husbandry
no clothes, no hats, no shoes, no paper, pens or
ink no furniture for their huuSes, no machinery
nothing of the necessities of life for which
they gave tho easy product Of their slave la
bor can now be obtained either for "love or
money" What an entire desolatinn has come
over their once rich plantations. their cotton
and sugar fields Their women without
wardrobeS, their children without Schools
their tables even destitute of salt the social
circles broken TO pieces, attest the greatness
of the luin they have brou5 5ht upon themselves.
Not single uavgable river OF any conse-
qlcncc, save one in Alabama has been left in
their occupancy. Mo- seaport remains into
WHICH Il cargo may boldly venture; and an
enormous and reckless mass of worthless paper
money, which can never lac redeemed, has sunk
to utter bankruptcy all the productive means
Of those states. Ali the happy pursuits OF
life for them are qlite annihiated, and the
present generation of the Southern people by
no resolution or skill of their own can ever
resume them with success.
The moral degradation which they have
brought upon themselves can never be effaced
W hat are their leaders but the most perjured
men? Who haveofteuer sworn to support the
constitution than they? Who, up TO tie last
moments of concealmcnt, have been louder
advocates of fidelity to the Union, and Yet
who have more blsely foresworn themselves ?
Who have so betrayed the government, de-
GraudPd the treasury or shed more innocent
blood? What can these traitors furnish as
valid or even pausabIe considerations for their
conduct. what unction can they lay 10 their
souls TO excuse their moral turpitqde, their
deeei, and their csuelty:
The responsibility which The authoEs of this
rebellion have assRTe4 in the sight of God
and man. is of the most awful character. and
the eternal Justice which Furnishes nations as
we'll as individuals, would belle its origin ifI
the great ami damping crimes of the South
should go unpunished.
IN short, it is utterly impossible that the
SoHtLeyn Gonfederacy, even if it should be
successful in its present causeless contest, can
aspire. for long years to come, to the dignity,
stability, or the position of even respectable
nation. Its cornerstone of Slavery has rolled
away from It's bed it has no free labor to sup
ply its place; cotton, that begun with few
seeds, will depart, now that no more seeds are
sown there are TO manufactures, there is no
free industry indigenous to the soil, there can
be bat little revenue for inevitably large ex.
peuditures. The whole system of the South
Is at gar with progress, with humanity, with
public opinion, with received good morals
1t cannot survive under no form can it exist
independently, or for any length of time
These, then, are some OF the results of the
rebellion, and this is the harvest of taFes it is
destined to reap. On the other hand the
North has this mission, not for 2 day, but all
time. to vindicate the 6onor, the power, the
good name of the republic; to show not only
how good Government can be formed, but
how it can lie maintained. We have all the
elements of true greatness, of glorious success
of national power; we have hitherto scarcely
lifted an avenging sword; but it is now, up
lifted in the most sacred cause for which bat
tie was ever waged. and when it falls, who
shall describe the etfec2-[N. Y. Post.