New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-09-08
FELICITY SOUTH.

one of his admirable time-keepers with picture
of an angel emigrating from Heaven to ARKANSAS
The celestial traveller was represented carrying
bottle of whiskey under one arm, and bowie
knife under the other, while in one corner were
bazoned the letters "A.P.," which Mr. Sick
Interpreted to signify "Airthly Paradise" The
Confederate newspapers have been accustomed
to tell us, that the seeded South, with all the
drawbacks of blockadcs and abbreviated produc-
ton, is kind of modified Elysium. 1t was i'm
possible to say how extremely comfortable they
were in those sunny sections. The Coniederacy
was not merely unaffected to any distressiul cx-
tent by the demands of the war, bnt was enjoy
ing rather extraordinary degree of social pros
perity. 1t needed for nothing while the North
would soon be needing for everything. War
had disorganzcd our industry-we were nothing
unless we were money -making-notblng re-
manned for us but starvation; while the South,
producing everything, whether Of luxury or
necessity, was to find only sweet felicity IN
fighting, and could prolong hostilit'es TOR
period indefinitely long.
Some time has gone by since these audaclous
yatcinations; and if We, the poor, un'or-
tunate people Of the North, are DEAD
VIC arc dead without knowing it. We are
in the predcamcnt Of the Italian knight
whose head was taken of early IN the ac-
ton, and who, not pcrceiving bis loss, fought
gallantly on during the remainder Of the bloody
d Y. We have long been accustomed TO TINS
/ sest of talk-to being told that we were pau
rrized-to the charge that our society was dis
graced 10y the presence 81 large and dangerous
prolctary-that We had no security for law ana
order-,hat We were Jacobins in politics and
Atheists in religion-that We could not be So
cially safe, because we were politically just. 10
those who know anything Of the North, OF ITS
moral and physical resources, and OF It, popular
capacities this gable about what We have SUI
fered are suffering and are about to suffer,
must appear too utterly lndicrous for scorn
and worthy Of no serious reiutation. Let every
man decide upon this point, according to his
own personal knowledge ard experience The
demands of the war, We admit have been ex-
orbi,ant. The cost Of suppressing this Rebellion
il not slight one But is there single person
upon any one of our Exchanges, who does not
know that the credit of the Government IL o.
good now, A. il was before these hostllltl1s had
commenced THAT it has received from liz
own people, out OF their private resources
all the pecuniary assistance which 1t has re-
quested that in the work of defending the
"a IL. g. ,ns
but good iortunei The Rebellion is not an az
fair of to-day, or OF yesterday. 1t has lasted
long enough to accl.mate Us TO tho atmosphere
of the contest. The demands which have been
made upon Us, have been exceedingly great, yet
we might respond 10 those still greater. We
are thus far at the very beginning Of oar re-
sources.
Every report of n Trustworthy character
which We have received from the Conirdegacy,
has indicated a decided degree of want and Of
discomfort. Ii is ye-y easy to boast, rs TIE
Rebels do, that they viii buy 10 more shoes Of
the North. But the intense and chlyalrouS
passion with which this most independent deter
mination il avowcd, seems li'tlc drcll, when
it is accompanied by the spectacle OF whole
people either barc-footed, or paying for their
brogans at the rate of twenty dollars per pair.
No intelligent man can doubt, that the want
and need and inconvenience at the South have
been great, positive and indispu,able. We are
not speaking of the way in which they have
been endured. but of the fact that the Rebels
have been called upon to endure them. The
Prices Current tell the story. The little leaks
of intercepted correspondence betray the lean
ness of the land. The inevitable disclosures ot
returning prisoners, the hungry looks which
thcy bring with them, the stories which they
nauate to Us OF short ratioDs, of horsc-bceI and
Of moldy biscuit--al these tell u, what The
very fact Of the blockade made certain before.
We have no wish 20 boast We are willing
enough to leave that part Of the business o. this
battle to those who must brag or die. But
when we have plaintivo financial statement,
like that to which Ne the other day alluded, aud
which came from the Toombs-a statement, as
our readers will remember, full Of dole and ap-
prchcnsion-we may be pardoned for believing
a confession Of poverty which nothing but posi-
tive suffering could have extorted. And really,
with the pursuit Of agriculture almost entirely
suspended, with expectation, even # there were
anything to export, brought to asiand-stll, and
with no political status TO enable them to effect
a loan, We think the less tho Rebels say Of our
paupcrsm aud our insolvency the bcttcr.
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MEN OF IDEAS.
The Rev. A. ID. MAYO, in a fecent Address