The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-08-09
SECESSION LITERATURE AND SECESSION
HIST0RIANS-PLENTY0 OF NEW BOOKS

Great wars, like great commissions Of
nature, bury many old things under
mountains of rubbish, and bring many
new things to the surface. For example
before the late terrible war, which has
turned the South upside down and in.
side out, the elements of Southern lite
nature were Southern rights, Southern
chivalry, King Cotton, and the almighty
niger, under the divine institution of
slavery. During the war the literature
was absorbed in the issues and elements
nvolved-material, military and politi-
calm the struggle for independence
With the decline and downfall of jeff.
Davis, all this secession literature goes
to the grocery at six cents pound.
Slavery is dead-its divinity is gone;
State sovereignty is laid out, King Cot
ton is shelved, and Southern chivalry,
quite chapfallen, is fed upon govern
ment rations, including daily allow
ance of Yankee Goldfish. Think of that
Yankee Goldfish for the Southern chival-
ry!-a relish as detestable to Southern
stomachs, as Yankee fishing bounties or
negro suffrage. Could Southern subju-
cation further 60?
Secession literature, however, under
various notifications, may survive on
Yankee Goldfish. The living military
chieftains, politicians, poets and philoso-
pliers whose lives have been devoted to
the glories of q Southern Confederacy, on
the corner stone of slavery, may now,
like Napoleon at st. Helena, fight their
battles over again, and give employment
to a host of book-makers. Some ofthem
have already thus appeared in print,
others are well on the way with their
manuscripts, and more are coming.
Pollard, the Richmond Examiner, has
given us his Southern History of the
War" as an Offset, we suppose, to Gree
ley's history of the rebellion. That IA
nous female rebel spy, now rejoicing In
exile in the blessings of matrimony,
Belle Boyd, has published the book of
her warlike adventures, from which We
expect an equivalent from that loyal fe-
male surgeon, DR.. Mary Walker. Ma
dame LIE Vert, the celebrated literary
queen of Mobile, is going to settle
down in New York to write out her
memoirs on the Late Civil War;" and
to balance that account on the Northern
side we must call upon the most capa-
BILE of our blue-stocl1ings who have
smelt gunpowder. No other than one
of these can give an equivalent for Mrs.
lie Vert's siege, battles and capture OF
Mobile, and the inside social life of that
city during the war.
We learn that General Duff Green, re-
turned to Washington, is preparing an
autobiography embracing sketches OF
public. men and measures of the last
forty years. This will be formidable
book, including the rise of General
Green as the Washington organ of
General Jackson, and the decline and
fall politically of General Green as de-
serter to Calhoun. To meet the secession
arguments and the historical statements
concerning those "mahogany-stocked
pistols" from General Green, our cham
pion will be forthcoming in our fighting
chevalier, James Watson Webb. Let
General Duff Green, therefore, come on.
We are ready for him. The irrepressi-
BILE Webb is our man. His cry for the
last twenty years has been, "Oh! that
mine enemy would write book,u