The New York herald., 1862-02-03
rAs se-th.r. Pr.ss o. tA. war.


We publish to-day . number Of extracts
from the rebel papers of the South, some
Of them being editorials and some news,
but all Interesting and curious. For ex-
ample, the Richmond Dispatch breaches
sermon full of pathetic and unctuous
piety, comparing the rebels to the Israelites
who had left Egypt and journeyed through the
wilderness, in the expectation of " the sweet
fields of Canaan, beyond the swelling food Of
Jordan" comparing also the "great patriotic
souls of this war" to the weary Christian host
struggling through this world and looking for
ward with hope and confidence to the rest that
remains for them in the other world. The wri-
ter concludes that the Southern insurgents are
as much the special care of the Deity as the
Israelites of old or Christians Of modern times
and that His power will help them to conquer
at last, and gain the promised land.
Now what is the nature of the inheritance
hey expect? Ia it something new-some-
thing they never enjoyed before. Let US
soc. "We shall be sole masters of our own
rich soil and its unexampled products,
and no longer be despoiled of their value
by the rapacious commercial vultures of the
North" We had always supposed that the
Inhabitants of the Southern States were com
plete masters of their own soil and its pro-
ducts-more SO, perhaps, than they ever will
be again If they sold those products to us we
gave them good value in return, and our trade
with them was q mutual convenience and profit
to both. If we performed the part of broker to
their products, we were merely paid the
brokerage, and no thanks to the producer. If
he could do better elsewhere he would not send
his produce to New York. In what way did
Northern commercial vultures rob the South
Did the North compel the South to trade with
it, Not at all. Why did not the Southerners,
if they preferred it, open direct trade with
Europe, as we of the North have been always
doing. Was there any necessity to break up
the Union for that? But if profit on South
ern products was of some advantage to New
York. was profit on Northwestern products of
no advantage to New Orleans, which has lost
the trade of the Mississippi by the war!
The truth is that the two sections were
adapted to be of mutual service to each other
in trade and commerce, while in war, by their
union, they would be match for the world in
arms, and their very strength would prevent
attack and preserve peace in the land; whereas,
by separation from the North, the Southern
States are rendered as weak as Mexico or the
South American republics; and, by the centri-
fugal force of the principle Of secession, they
are all liable to fly off the handle and be
reduced to 80 many units, with as little CO.
hesion as rope of sand. Then, supposing
their independence to be achieved and that
they should ever form compact government,
would not the expenses Of maintaining sepa-
rate army and navy, which must be far greater
than ever were supported by the United States,
and a heavy war debt saddled on them, amount
to far more than the North has ever gained by
their cotton? What does the argument of the
blinded journalist amount to but this: that the
Confederates punish themselves to punish the
North, and to benefit their old enemy England?
For, after all, it is not that Southern men will
grow rich by the change, if it ever takes place,
but that Northern men will be rendered poor,
that gives satisfaction to our amiable rebel con-
temporary, who glories in the fact that "the
Yankee nation will be at once the most impove-
rished and despised of nations-will be shut up
to the cultivation of Goldfish and potatoes, and
the contemplation Of its own miraculous imbe-
cility. Its people will spend their days in
cheating one another, and their nights in re-
morse that, in making war upon the South, they
cast away pearl richer than all their tribe.'"
Such is the Christian, pious wish Of the rebel
organ, which forgets that the vast resources of
the fertile West, far more valuable than the
South, still belong to US, and that neither our
prosperity nor our manufactures
would be materially affected If every slave
State were sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic.
It is the South that will be the sufferer by this
revolution, if it should be successful, and the
most cruel policy that could be pursued to-
wards it would be to let it severely alone.
TIE FRIITrs OF THE WAR-Durin0 the Revo-