The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1865-01-24

titles of Lincoln; for1t contains seventy Ioueano
irish. and what is more, one hundred and fifty
thousand people Of the Catholic faith, who censti-
tute in mass pretty large seed of revolutions. ana
who are considered to have made up their minds
about the daft In the summer of 1868.
Observations which the writer made in the North
with ceaseless industry and under the stimulus OF
constant curiosity, filed his mind with the broad
and strong conviction that never vas the lndepen-
ttenoe of the South more firmly assured than at
this fine. on the single condition that the spirit
of the people and the army does not break by some
, unworthy Impotence A Northern CONSUMPTION
ia the goal to which the South must press, anc
which already it closely approaches little en-
DURANGO and it is won. 1t is th0Eital question to
all intelligent persons in the North, how long our
people will endure They laugh at our expecfa-
lions of political revolutions or financial ruptures
in the North; and they contend that the time Is
!, mast when we may expect to win our independence
by any grand military coup, or force OF military
successes. All these calculations are lightly or
insolently regarded by Northern men. Their real
anxiety is the. of endurance on the part OF
! the South. Tn large intercourse with Northern
politicians the writer found that their great curl
osity was as to the real spirit of the South, and
| the questions of thinking among them inya-
| riaby went to the point of the probable term OF
Southern endurance He the value OF this
Quality ia Northern eyes He became thoroughly
! convinced that by force of it alone the South
would rise the morrow; that such was the silent
but general concession of the Northern mind; and
that the future of the Confederate States just
at this time and in the approaching ezigency of a
Northern eonscfiption, frightened with a surer
prospect Of independence than any former situation
Of affairs had ever afforded.
There two parties in the North, perhaps
equally intelligent, and each claiming to draw
their opinions from Southern sources of inforna-
ton, which differ to the real spirit of the South
1 one claiming that it is resolute and even in the
last necessity desperate, the other contending that
it is fast being broken by reverses and will end in
| submission. One finds this question in every
circle in the North. Reliable information upon it
is far more valuable to the Washington Govern
Confederate States. To convince the North of
the spirit of the Southern people is more in1por-
tant than half dozen victories, for it is to
vince them of the hopelessness of :he war and to
put before their eyes the immediate necessity of
CONSUMPTION
1t is the simple lesson of resolution which the
South must learn. 1t is the lesson Of all events.
When there is 70 occasion for hope, then make
it the of desperation. 1t will be easily in
spired even in the worst extremity the future can
possible have, by simple practical regard Of the
consequences Of sub ugation.
1t is possible that there are yet left some few de-
luded persons in the South who do not rightly es-
innate these consequences The writer has heard
these consequences too thoroughly discussed
among the Yankees, to leave any margin for skep
ticism on the sub lect. He has witnessed some of
them. He has seen Baltimore. In New York
there is, properly speaking, secession party,
nothing more than mere ''Copperheadism," co.,
sulting purely partisan ends and not at all DANCE
rous, ADD hence there is necessity for any spe-
cial programme Of despotlsm there; but in Balt-
more there is real secession party, and thuse who
hD)op 70 ti,i S,,b
ljugation. Baltimore thrives, say the Northerf
papers; it is overrun and Gathering with Yankee
trade; but even in this gross prosperity the South
ern symyathizer has no share. He is marked, he
is degraded even in his busisess, all employment
is closed to him, except such as he may choose to
take as the subordinate employee Of the Yankee
All Southern men in Baltimore have found dis
elimination in all trades and enlployments against
them, and many of them have been compelled to
retire from business. They tell you that life has
become purposeless and intolerable to them. They
have given up their business; they pursued by
spies; they are logged by men who pick up their
slightest word they live in constant atmosphere
of suspicion. You look at these men and you see
a blank detection in their faces, SORT of melan-
eholy deVil-may-care expression. You never hear
, any eager or animated words from their lips; they
have uGnppearance of interest in what they say;
they seem to have drifed past hope; they look
upon their future in blank disn1ay or with the SUI.
len indifference of mon who have no longer any
object to accomplish ambition to serve and who
have converted life to mere existence And vet
all this is but the fanest shadow of "subiugation "
as it is designed for those without the pale OF
the Union. *
> The writer found more instruction than enter
tainment in the talk Of the Yankee army about
Richmond, as he had access to many of its officers
who spoke of the war without reserve. And this
talk was an unfailing ding dong of what Yankee
enterprise would do in Virginia after its subiuea-
ton. Firginians didn't know how to cultivate the
SOIL the Yankees would give them a lesson; the
old estates would be cut up into l00-acre farms to
give every man chance. Some had new methods
of raising tobacco, they had seen it done ir the
Connecticut valley. Some thought the Valley of
4 Virginia the most inviting country in the world
and had picked out their places to settle there af-
ter the war. This talk was not Intended to be Of
fensive; for it seemed to be universally taken as
matter of course that under Yankee rule, Virginia
by very fair logical conclusion, could be for no.
body else but the Yankees, and that her -farnek
people were to be glad to sit at the feet of New
England civilization. $3.50,
| But it is useless to expatate, unless to those
who are wilfully blind, theStheme of subiugaton
If the split of desperate resolution has not ALREADY
been drawn from what is known of the enemy's
warfare, it will not be easily provoked by any ob
er arguments. That spirit once fully demonsta
ted to the North and the war is at an end il is
the only price Of peace. There is no. scindlla
of hope for the South in any political movement.
4 or any peace negotiations in the North Itnay