The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-04-24
he True Course of the southern People.

Considering the overwhelming forces, means
I'D facilities, on the land and on the water,
.rTayed against JEFF. Davis and his cOnfederates
ii this rebellion, the true course, nay, the only
course of safety for the people of the revoited
States, is the Immediate Reputation of their
spurious Southern confederacy and an uncon-
6itional submission to the Union.
There is no visible chance of escape left to
them now against n military subjugatiOn, from
Richmond to New Orleans, except the alterna-
tive of n prompt return To the ark Of the Union.
The demands Of this rebellion and the pressure
Of our Southern blockade, in the first place, have
reduced our rebellious States. in many essentials
Of life, 10 famine prices. With salt ut sixteen
dollars per sack, coffee ut from one dollar to a
dollar and n half per pound, with the cOmmOnest
articles Of clothing from head TO foot, ut four,
five and even ten times the prices which they
command in New York, and with the cotton
planters reduced almost to ~heggary, with their
last years crop still upon their hands, and no
opening to a market, surely the suffering people
OF the South have had enough Of the millennium
Of n Southern confederacy-
What is to become of this last years Southern
crop Of cotton, and what are the cotton planters
to do in reference to the planting of this years
crop, IT they are still to be exclusively occupied
in the suicidal work of this rebellion? The crop
on hand will be appropriated by our advancing
armies, and the crop for the present year will
not be planted. Three or four hundred millions
of money will thus be lost to the South in the
single article Of cotton in two years, to say moth
ing of the lasting effect against our Southern
planters of the establishment of the cotton culture
in other parts of the world to make up our
Southern deficiencies. On the other hand, in the
prompt submission of the revolted States to the
Union, our Northern markets and TIE markets OF
the world will ut once be opened to- them, and
their cotton, tobacco and surplus rice and sugar,
in exchange for other articles which have become
more precious than gold in the South, and
Southern industry will be ut once invited to the
planting Of full crops of all our great Southern
staples FOR this years harvests-
Such are the inducements offered to the people
Of the South for returning at once to the Union.
They will save hundreds of millions of dollars in
saving the bulk Of their last years crops of cot
ton, rice, tobacco and sugar, and hundred OF
millions more which they will otherwise lose in
still adhering to this rebellion, from the ravages
Of an invading army: Above all, the States IN
revolt, in now returning to their old allegiance,
will save their domestic Institution Of slavery
from the dangers which menace it on every side.
Senator Sumner has introduced u scheme into
Congress declaring slavery abolished in every
rebellious State. and reducing every such State
to the provincial condition Of a Territory. This
scheme, if carried out, would doubtless result in
placing Southern whites and Southern negroes
upon a footing of political equality.
The last glimmering hope OF jeff Davis OF
European Intervention has died out England and
France have wisely agreed to stand alOOf for an
indefinite time to come. The simple issue, then,
to the people of the rebellious South Is, between
a submission which will save them and a subju-
CATION which may destroy them liz Is folly and
madness to talk os Southern Independence, by
Southern arms, against the overwhelming militia
nv forces Of the Union. Putting the rebel armies
at three hundred and fifty thousand men, they
are confronted by twice that number of Union
These soldiers, too, are provided with
the most efficient weapons of modern warfare,
against whole regiments of shOtguns and old style
muskets. and batteries of inferior artillery. And
then in our naval forces, in our absolute COM
mand Of the sea, in our blockade-which at
Iua-.L ndrn;itod hr the rehal leaders To be