The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-11-09
"The South Victorious.

So says Wendell Phillips. So say we,
/ but in q very different sense. We hold that
/ the South has most gioriously, benefcently
| triumphed in our last struggle-that her
/ gain BY u will immensely exceed that Of the
/ Norih-in that,
]. SlGUery Is abolished-rhe horrible bar
/ bsrism no longer sc0urgss and cripples the
1 finest portion Of our country. LABOR Will
| be no longer stigmatized there as the fit en-
| ployment Of "mudsiils" aud mindless, be-
| nighted, degraded seffs. Had slavery
/ never crested the Atlantic, the population
| OF the South would hsve been double, and
! her wealth at least TRIBE what they are to-
/ dav. Common schools would have educa
| ted her children; manufactures diversified
| and enriched her industry. Freedom Of
speech and Of the press would have en-
! hghtened and elevated her masses. We
| firmly believe that tho wealth Of the South
| will be doubled within the next ten years,
ana that her people viii find the improve
/ ments IN their condition 30 great that they
/ will be thankful even Tor the rebel ion !,
| since il is probable that, but for il, slavery
| would have elung 70 them another century.
/ Even five years hence, they VII openly and
| generally rejoice that slavery Is no more.
9 state Sovereignty and the COnstitu
| tionsl Right Of Secession are no more. They
\ we e always mischieyious, pestilent delu-
n
| each its superior, and whereof any part is
at liberty 20 withdraw u viii, is q fraud--a
| shaul-a futility. Il can have no set led
| policy, make no binding engagements, hold
/ no stable position. Il is q fog -bank--s
| en- Ike wreath--a dissolvsDg allusion. Mr..
| jefferson we ] said that il the South were
severed from the North, Sou d Carolina and
/ Georeis would only transfer their jealousy
/ Of New England 20 Maryland aud Virginia.
| IL was uud efstood throughout she late rebel
| lion that the triumph Of secession would
| lead 10 further secessions. The south wants
| order and Ier0se. Secession Is anarchy
made chronic-suicide exal ed from an abe
/ ration into a law. The last hslt century's
canvulsions Of Spanish America itly pre-
| figure what the South would have expert
| enced had her independence been wFested
/ from the Federal authorities. The trade
/ Of the Missouri, Upper Mississippi and Ohio,
I arrested by boom acfols he great river
/ below Cairo, and turned from New Orleans
| and the Gulf 70 New York ssd The Atlantic
there is no single aspect wherein the
overthrow Of secession Is not q great escape
/ for the South.
| 8. The reign Of sophisis and har-splitting
pol ticians Is ended. They have been Que
| OF the chief cures Of the South. The John
| Tsvlors. OF the CaroliRas, william B. GIleses
I snd their kin. who used 20 wr'e ten column
politicul essays in the Richmogd Enquirer.
/ while their negroes dhllied IDLY and their
skinned estates grew poorer each year, were
among the MASTER uuisances Of the South.
They never melted 10 the development Of
| her mines, the improvement OF her water
/ falls the bridging Of her streams, the rem
vat5un Of her sol, but always diverted IN
! torcst from the useful and practical 70 the
speculative and unimportsnt. These have
| had their day and vanished. Hcnceiorth
/ the South turns her attention 10 matters
| vital 90 her prosperity and well being. The
/ prcsers and theory spinntrs are a defunct
| insitntiun. They wall not even read each
others dwelling, while nobody else will
| think Of doing il. The South has thus been
/ delivered from the most nvCierate and pes
tilent Of her idlers and bores. three years
! hence she would fight several Antetsmt
/ and shilohs and Gcttysburgs rather than
/ have them back again.
| Yes the south 10 victorious. A brighter
and happier career opens before her. Her
/ loag night Of depression and obstruction is
| past; the glad morning OF popular educa-
tiOn aud social progress rs dawned. Free
IL ns she has BLEED in the late struggle, the
/ result is worth her al its fearful cost.
And now, II she can but vanquish that in
/ human prejudice, bern Of slavery and Op-
| preston, which impels her to look on ami rC-
/ gard q full third OF her own people as step
| children, u MT alieas--to propose that 'hcy
/ BE- thrust into the wilderness like Hagar
and Ishmae.--her vict ~ will be complete.
Such madness as impels her TO dispsrage
| aud desp.se these humble uilcrs OF her soil,
and 20 oeuy them the rights Of manhood,
| must in good part be stimulated. The South
| urgcA Jly needs thirty millions Of lsbOfers;
ycs she pralos aud d. cams Of eNpatriating
the three OF four millions she already has!
she cannot real mean 10; she should be
ashamed OF even threatening IT, Let her
/ promptly resolve 10 treat heQtreeimeu with
justice aud humanity, and her triumph viii
! be compiete.-Nau l0rk Tr55Hue.