The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1863-07-14

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foFcfaihcr agsn., The oppressive rule
q England l.n .ls.nge IDEAS Lad
possessed tae southern mind Tie
South wss born Cor umpire To rule
wss Der greuagatlse. VIXEN a check
was placed upon her lordly VIII. her
fights and immoniiiss, a. well a. Der
dignity aud honor, lad been inierfered
with. II She could nol rule IN Wash
iag,on she would role in Richmond.
Freed from The clog Of Nofthera mud
ails ler glorious aspirations could
have foil play Politicians had Icing
been feeding tlle Southern imagination
with grand bit indislinct visions &c
future prosperity aud glory Only
get rid u the Aotih and Oh things
would follow honor, riches, empire.
They listened 10 the deceitlul song Of
persuasive politicians, and base tried
the grand experiment for three years.
Aud now behold tie results, Instead
Of being lead no land overilop ing
with prosperity, they have become
lost in a wilderness Of woes. Instead
Of increased honors they behold tie
scafold, exile, confscation. Instead
Of riches, they have poverty, distress,
and famine. Instead Of "a slave for
every white man." they are loosing
those they had. Instead Of unheard
Of prosperity, they have unheard Of
desohtial.
The iron hoof OF war has trodden
ruthlessly on her fair fields. Her
cities are filed with lamentations and
death her lands are devastated by
fire and the sword They SOW crops
for their conqnrers TO reap, while
famine stares them in the face. The
able-bodicd are ighting in hopeless
contest, while The helpless at home
tremble with fear Of servile massa-
ere. Her commerce has Departed
Her trade has died out. Her harbors
are seldom stirred BY passing vessel;
no foreign flags float at her wharyes.
Nations whom they supposed were
under the absolute dominion Of king
Cotton have east off the yoke and
now leave the South to her fate. The
streets Of her opulcnt cities are de.
serted, and the phces ST her CONNER
cial business and prosperity are closed.
The leyees Of her great river, once
alive with the commerce of nation,
are now as silent as the grave So
complete is her ruin that il will take
many years Of unexampled activity to
restore her to any portion Of her form
er prosperity. This activity must
come from the North. The tide of en-
igration will set in upon her Her
old institutions, already shattered by
the contest, will be swept away. The
present generation Of the South will
pass their lives il the greatest misery
to which man can be subject--mourn-
ing the utter failure of their efforts
seeing the ruin which their ambition
has brought upon their country; be-
holding old manners and principles
and systems, in which they had lived
and for which they had fought, decay
ing and dying out with them, and
knowing that the reconstruction Of
society on hated principles will 60 on
over their graves. They have aimed
too high. They have grasped for 100