Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-04-25

Cotton States of the South. The asj d
territory in the West, which is now th pre-
| life nursery of its gigantic commerce car
ried on upon its borders, did not coutin, in
| 1920, a population greater than 10000 in
habitants, and only 00,oo0-in excss Of
South Carolina at that period. To-ay il
numbers over 5000. 900, whilst South Caro-
lima scarcely exceeds 100000 and if = ex'
tend comparison in order to illustras the
progress of relative civilization, one is grand
and majestic, and the other languishing and
| decaying -oue is creative, inventive, fertile
in resource, and not bounded IN its purposs
| by the clog of traditions--whilst the other Il
sullen and insepsible, to merit in anything
not of itself living upon visions noursbet
by egotism, and contemplating the ruin
our noble institutions as the grand end gift
aspirations and the consummation Of It
hopes, when all mankind are to reeogniz
cotton as the superior monarch Of the world
and become the willing vassals of its power
! Change of residence has not altered con.
yictions long entertained, but enligh!ene
them i have in the past been aslaveholael
and would be SO again if it was my interes
to hold slaves. If the institution has fault
and vices, the present generation Is not n
spousible; on the contrary; no systemo i
slavery ia any age Of the world, was e Ff
more patriarchal, more benefcent tim
slavery in theStates Of the South and thte
who seek to interfere with il, and who e.
sign to weaken its guarantees, are at one
the most mischievous and criminal of ma,
and it is their insane meddling, more than
all other. causes combined, that has inspired
the Southern mind and heart with the sensi-
ment of disloyalty to the Union: But how
ever Intensified this sentiment has become
from the persistent ISLANDERS of an insigniE-
can't class, its insanity is surpassed by the
people of the South, in chasing with them
millions of men in the Free States who freely
gave to the South their sympathies, and who
were animated by every motige-of pride
every instinct Of honor, and every sentiment
Of interest, to preserve it as a part of the
Union, not on conditions of inferiority, but
those of equality. -
All sections OF our country have to lameut
the deprayity of its politicians, of their ig-
norance and their seifshness, aud no one
section has been more cursed by their au-
thority over the people than some portions
of the South, and even among those who are
The recognized leaders OF the Southern Con-
federaey, enc who is best acquainted with
their history would be at a loss to fad 10 it
any records Of devotiof to any thing ancon-
nected with the interests of party, or any
proof of their ever having been identified
with. or foremost in the advocacy of those
practical measures of policy, designed to
foster and encourage enterprise, promote the
increase of arts, diffuse the blessings OF in
telligence, aud fortify the South inHthe &C.
QUESTION and possession Of those advantages
in improvement and progress which pervads
almost every other division of our country.
Under any circumstances should despair
of any cause, deriving its counsels from such
a source. II can never prosper under such
auspices, and if in peace, when all the world
was moving onward, these men werelthe in
different spectators of its progress, employed
as the teachers of faction, the couspirators.
against a Government they had sworn to
maintain, and the insolent instigators of
hatred among the misIed people of the South,
what is to be its future, with its mighty for.
tunes committed to the direction of men
whose history is illustrated by no virtues,
whose ambition is regulated by no principle,
and inFpired alone BY visions of power, only
to be won upon the ruins of their country
and the, desolation Of its homes and fire..
sides2 forbear- to reveal names and per-
soDs. Ny heart turns from the. contempla..
ton Of their selfshness, and sickens at the
narrative of the murders, planders and
ournings, which it has brought upona people
who were once 50 prosr erods so happy, and
so free. s-el ono
The South is envirOned by perils and dam
gers that tend inevitably to the overthrow
OF the institution, which Mr.. Stephens has,
since his famous speech, proclaimed as the
corner stone of its power. 1t is without the
sympathy of European Governments, it OBJ
stinately ignores the counsels and warnings
OF its friends; and if it blindly persists in /,
following the deceptions imposed upon it by
the .egotism and imposture of its insane
leaders, it viii cease for generations to come
to be the land of prosperity, rank and inAu- (
ence, which was once my pride ard boast.
Yours faithfully,
JAMES ROBE
Important Dispatch.
/ = CoRINTH, April 9, 1862.
To General SAMUEL. COOPER, Richmond, Va:
All J..