The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-09-27
Impor tamt Elements in the PPObi e m
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OF Restoration.
Many persons who disbelieVe in the
practicability of restoring the rebellious
States TO the Federal Union, in such a
manner 50 to make them valuable and
desirable members Of our political COM
munity, base their disbelief upon the fact,
which they assert is established by his
tory, that no conquered State ever has
become reconciled TO the cOnquerer but
must continue to be ruled by force; the
exercise Of which force, VIC are also as
sured, would be destructive of our form
Of Government. We might easily show
by reference to historic testimony, that
what tho anti-coeroionists call fact is
not a fact at all but for the present
we will admit the so-cslled fact for the
sake of showing that there is some very
important points of difference between
the ordinary conquests of history, and
that of the rebellious members of the
United States, which destroys the par
AlIel altogether. There is no analogy
between the conquest of Ireland by
England, and the subjugation of the re-
bellious slave States by the Federal
Government.
In the frat place, this is not a0ay Of one
race against another, as wars of conquest
usually are. Both parties in this civil
war are Of tho same lineage, general
laws, language, religious creed, customs,
mode Of life, and literature. The differ
ences between the people of Massaohu-
sets and of South Carolina are of degree
and not of liNd. The Yankee is super
Tor 10 the Palmetto man in his dcgree Of
civilization and education. Make the
zen exchsnge their localities, and they
often undergo . personal transformation;
the South Oaroliniai,, taking to clean
shirts, cold water, and voting for Chas.
Sumner, and the Yankee to whipping
negro women, raising rice and talking
In favor of notification, and John G.
Oalhoun's skeleton. The loyal and re-
belliOus people of this Republic are of one
blood; they are the same people.
In the second place, there is a constant
immigration into tho thinly populated
portions of the Union, and the now re-
bellious. States will in very short while
be deluged with immigrants from the
Northern States. Take Tennessee for
example. She has about 100000 of
people, and yet has 5000 square mllos
more territory than Ohio, which has g.
$4,000 people, or q population of about
21S TO our /. We can then double our
population and still be much less thickly
settled than Ohio, which 10 by no means
. thiokly settled State itself. Suppose
then that only ono, third of the people of
this State are loyal, its loyalty being
confined TO East Tennessee; IL we add to
this loyal element the vast army of 10y al
immigrants which will soon settle among
us, and which we must have to till the
soil, delve in the mineB and labor in
the shops, and then consider that
by the natural course of events, moving
easily and without violence. Immigra-
tiOn alone will triumphAntly achieve the
work Of reunion. Intermarriage, trade,
and self-interest will complete the work.
We must remember also that slavery, the
sole barrier which has separated the two
sections will be broken down, aud we
viii be one people. Those who talk Of
the Northern people ruling the Southern
people as conquerols, betray their ignor-
Anoe OF the whole question. The people
Of all the States with the whole influence
Of the Federal Government will sustain
the loyal party, and it will readily be
seen that disloyAlty in Tennessee must
die Of galloping consumption. soitwin
DO with Virginia, Georgia and large por-
tions of North Carolina, South Caroline,
Mississippi, Alabama, and other South
srn States, now having . very mosgre
white population. Immigration wiu
cease following the lines Of longitude
and follow the lines Of latitude the
siAr Of Empire will wend its way not
over the wilds Of the far West, but turn
ing to the left will shine over the fertile