Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-09-11
THE REDOMINATION OF THE


SOtIhs
We copy the following interesting para
graphs from the Houston (Texas) Telegraph
newspaper of August 2Sd:
BY the introduction of large agricultural
and manufacturing population, We shall re-
cover our lost ascendency in the Government,
and be able to turn the tables upon our
Northern friends" who know no principle
of Republican Government but the dOmi-
nance of the will of the majority.
We ofthe South hare akicayS opposed that
yhiiOsOphy Of government, but since they
have succeeded in making it the policy Of
the country, and have thereby put the game
ultimately into our own hands we propose to
play the game to the greatest possible ad-
vantage. The time is coming we confidently
predict, If the Southern people exercise any
foresight and energy, when we shall be strong
enough to become the controlling section in
the, policy of the Government and when
men will be glad to swear that they did not
belong to the class who continue to abuse,
insult, and call us "traitors," after the war
was over, simply because they could do so
with impunity. "God moves in a mysterious
way his wonders to perform"
"Let us never cease thinking, planning,
striving, toiling, until the population is OBJ
tained, the wealth and political strength de-
veloped, "Southern chivalry" again in the
ascendant, and Southern ideas controlling
American civilization thus proving that
Southern blood has not been shed in vain"
at may yet turn out that the Union was
better for the South than the cOnfederacy."
"we would have been content to control
!. l,.k "a +. n. H..
will that we should control the destiny of the
North American Continent, let us meekly
bow to His will, "accept the situation in
good faith, and make the best we can of it. "
Instead of suffering the South to be Yankee.
ized, let US SOutherniZe the whole Union.
The conservative men of the North will help
US, They would not help us when we tried
TO get out Of the Union, but they will help US
to resist and control the fanatics in it."
That the introduction of large agricul-
tural and manufacturing population into the
South will prove Of incalculable benefit to
that section and to the country at large we
cannot doubt for moment, but that the
whole Union would be "southernized" there
by is n preposterous idea. As is frankly
stated by the Texan editor, the peculiar ideas
of the Southern politicians were opposed to
'the dominance of the will of the majority. ;"
The Southern philosophy of government was
to give the ruling power into the hands of
the few. The magnates of the land were a
few statesmen, bishops, and generals, who
swayed an arbitrary power over the negroes
and the poor whites, and who were con-
atantly aggressing politically. upon the other
sections of the Union. The Southern heart
was always fred with an ambition for politi-
cal ascendancy in the entire Union, and the
control of American civilization Their phil,
osophy of government culminatedi in the rebel.
lioo just ended and now that the volcano has
spent itss, five SOC already Southern politicians
on the plains OF Texas cOOlly cutting the lava
into ,toppins,stonss IL the S9E''''a' a''''@