Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1863-05-22
LETTER FROM A LOYAL SOUTH
ERIN GENTLEMAN.
From the National Inteliigencer.

FROM tne Nhtlonal lnteiiigencerI
A recent visit to ard constant cores
pondence with the South, has convinced the
writer of this article Of the correctness of the
views advanced in his communication to
your valuable paper some months since
The fanatics on both sides who have asser.
ted that the people of the South have been
and are unit in their antagonism to the
/, United States Government are in the wrong
and the falsity of their assertions is every day
becoming apparent. Every Southerner knows
that majority of the white population Of
his particular section, arc not in favor Of es-
tablishing any stronger form of government
than tina. set up by our fathers, and that
they have no interest in, but, on the contra
~. have an interest against the maintain
ence of slavery, which only operates in CON-
petition with their labor. Every Southern.
or knows there are not over two hundred
thousand persons, all told, in that portion
of the United States now in the rebellion,
who are directly interested as slave owners
in upholding slavery, and that majority of
them are not disposed to abandon repub-
lican form Of government as failure. 1t IS
true that the politicians of the South who
fomented and still control the rebellion, do
regard monarchy as the best form Of gov
eminent, and have been and are laboring in
sidously to get their opinion adopted by the
people who put them in power. They have
already established a rigid military despotism
which, so long as the war continues, will an.
swer their purpose well enough, but in the
event their rebellion were to prove success
which is now more improbable than ever,
what would become of them in case their
armies were disbanded before some stronger
form of government were adopted and organ.
lied They have pondered we'll upon this
question. They know what in that event
would be their fate.
The writer of this article having been
born in the South, having always resided
there, and having been in five of the seeded
States within the last six months, is perhaps
better qualified to Judge Of public sentiment
in the South than those who have never been
there. Those residing elsewhere, who are
known as s sympathizers with the South"
are not entitled to be SO designated. They
do not sympathize with the majority Of the
white population Of the South, but with the
politicians that are riding them to their
ruin. .at A
The question is often asked, Why, if such
be the state OF the case, do not the masses
in the South rise up, and, after deposng
the rulers, return to their allegiance 1t is
easily answered. They lack arms, munitions
Of war, and organization, all of which are
in the despotic control of Mr.. Jefferson Da-
Wis and his confederates. After having been
abandoned to their fate in portions of Tenn
essee, Kentucky, Virginia and Texas, by our
government, it is not to be expected that the
people of any portion of the seeded States
will now declare themselves for the Union
until they see clearly that they will receive
permanent protection.
It is not at all strange that Mr.. Jefferson
Dayis's health seems to be giving way un-
der the pressure to which he has been,
and must continue to be subjugated..-
What has become of the fattering induce
ments held out by him and his associates
in the conspiracy to US, the people of the
South Have we had peaceful secession"
Has the export duty on cotton filled the
treasury Of the so called confederacy by pay
ing the interest on the bonds issued by Mr..
Memmingers Have the great Powers OF
Europe interviewed and opened our ports p
Have the Democrats of the North held their
party tie stronger than their allegiance to
their government, and consented to help out
the treason of those who regard republican
form of government as failure? Thus far,
what have the leaders Of the South gained by
the war Their inaugurated save stay OF exc
cuton !? They know that their doom is
fixed, and they are only fighting for delay
If such is not the case, why are so many of
the knowing ones among them occupied in
converting, at a ruinous sacrifice, their assets
into gold or sterling exchange? Where has
Gen. Sterling Price sent his personal effects,
and why? Where have Floyd, Slidell and
host Of contractors Of the socalled Confed-
eracy put their avsirble means? Why are
millions worth of exchange and gold, not to
speak Of government cotton, quietly escaping
out of the limits of "Secessia" by the only
safe route left open by President Lincoln's
enthusiastically way of Matamoras!
The Northern men with Southern prin-
ciples'' who, like Slidell, have ridden the
South for years past, and yet ride it, have a
prudent consideration for the future
Though like rats, they may instinctively
desert their sinking ship, they have their
boards for future use in places Of safety
abroad.