Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-09-29
The Hopeful Glasses at the
South.

8 We presume that not much is to b
y expected of the majority of those VIII
b were lately the large Shareholders OF tn
r South in working out the new destinie
: Of that section. All the habits of tbi
e class, their tastes, their prejudices an
o their range Of ideas, are fixed, and fxe'
5 in antagonism TO the system which i
henceforth TO be the order of the day.
/, 1t is too late for most of them TO change
if they would, and too many of them d.
not want to change. They will grumblt
away the remainder of their lives, con-
WINGED that "the times are out Of joint,
and that there is no mortal man to "set
them right" But these men, predomi
nant as they once were at the South,
have lost nearly all of their special i'm
portance, and they are few in numbers
Who will take their places in regener-
ating the industry and prosperity of the
South !? From most of the lessons oil
history we should naturally turn to the
young men. 1t is said that when Har-
vey published his true theory of the cir
culation of the blood, he found few or
none of his contemporaries over forty
years of age who could be induced to ac-
cept it-but it was otherwise with the
young. We might have hopes Of sim
liar result at the South, but that, unfor-
tunately, the young men there were Bit
ten by the mania Of secession to an ex
traordinary degree. In fact the original
rebels were almost entirely politicians
and young men-the other classes were
dragged in by these. Still the young
South cannot but have been most pow
erfully impressed by the results of fhe
war, and there is hope that, after lit
tie natural vaporing and letting off of
steam, it will, with the adsptability of
youth. accommodate itselfto the new era,
and give ii the benefit of all that energy
u hich has been so sadly misdirected for
be last four years.
Another class, from whom, at the first
thought, much might be expected, is the
nom slaveholding class, the "poor whites"
for the most part. But these men, liv-
ing under the shadow Of slavery, seem
often to have been cursed with all its
evils, without its compromising advanta-
gas. AS a body, they are exceedingly
ignorant and destitute of energy. But
they have suffered less from the war than
any other class at the South they have
no vindictive feelings against the gov
ernment, and they will feel INSTANTLY the
effects of the new era. We
are confident that five or ten years will
show an immense advance on the part of
his hitherto neglected element Of the
South, and that out of this Nazareth will
come great and good strength to the
Union.
A third class of Southern men who
give hopes OF seasonable usefulness COM
prises those who in their hearts have ha-
ted slavery and longed for its overthrow.
They may not be very numerous-tho'
perhaps more so than we have generally
been led to suppose-but they are to be
found among the largest Shareholders, in
the learned professions and amotg the
most active business men. They have,
in proportion to their numbers, more in
telligence, Judgment and moral energy
than any other class. And then there
is this marked difference in their case
instead of being angered or troubled by
the adven: of the new era, they hail it as
if sent from Heaven, and they enter up
on all its duties as blessed privilege of
which they cannot make too much
Such. in the main, are the hopeful class
es of the South. How FAR they are to
be impeded or overborne by the unfavor-
able elements inherited from the malgu
reign of slavery, remains to be seen; but
while there is any reasonable chance for
hope, let US indulge in it.-Boston Jour
nal.
THE "BooRIsH TABOR" IMPROVING.
Tho only merit we can discover in this
Baltimore ticket is the merit of consist