New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-06-23
THE SOUTH IN ADVERSITf.

hut terrible Jena campaign, closing with
peace which confirmed to him most OF her Tort
resses and nearly half her population, her rum
was on all hands deemed complete and beyond
remedy. Very few, even of her own states
men. supposed she could, within the next gene
ration. resume the place won for her by her
great Frederick among the controlling Euro
pean Powers. Yet seven years had not passed
when. before she had fought fresh battle or
recovered square mile of territory, she threw
weighty sword into the scale of Legitimacy
and entered, as the ally and peer OF Russia, upon
the triumphant War of Liberation. For the
genius of her statesmen, the ardor oil her
patriots. the organizing skill of her great
soldiers. had meantime renovated and enlarged
her strength. and from the ruins OF the KING
dom had evoked the might Of the Nation.
And Prussia remains to this day substantial
gamer by her sudden, stupendous downfall IN
1S06.
The South stands to-day substantially where
Prussia did at the close of that disastrous
struggle. She has made wild, mad venture,
and incurred an overwhelming defeat. Her
SONS have been slain, her fields and cities dcvas-
tated. her resources exhausted. She staked her
all on great throw. and lost: hence, she now
sits amid ashes and ruins.
Yet the South has still the elements Of a great
prosperity--s speedy recovery OF all the material
wealth she has sacrificed and rapid advance
in knowledge, industry, wealth, refinement and
power. In climate, soil, timber, minerals, in
land navigation water-power, and nearly every
element of material well-Deing, she is scarcely
surpassed; while the commercial world is
hungry for immense quantities of her staples,
and ready to buy them at extraordinary prices.
Capital from either hemisphere is eager to How
into her lap-to buy her lands and hire her labor
at prices far above those of the past and to pur'
chase all the Cotton. Sugar, Rice, Tobacco,
Naval Stores, &C., &c, she can produce Tor
years to come at not less than double the cost
of their production. In all the known world,
there is not another field for the employment
alike of Capital and Labor 50 promising as is
afforded throughout the length and breadth OF
the late Slave States of our Union.
All that the South requires to insure speedy
realization of these brilliant prospects is har-
mony by her own hearths. Let her people but
resolve not to quarrel among themselves-not
to Cypress and tramplo down each Other-but
to help and be helped, live and let live. in a
spirit Of fraternity and justice, and they will
soon forget their late disasters in the enjoyment
of an unprecedented AOodtide Of well-being.
II they will not insist biting OIL their own
noses, they will have none 70 modest or make
them afraid.
| There is not a shadow of reason for further
jealousy or hate between the Whites and Blacks
of the South. The Disappearance of Slavery
has disspated all excuse for antipathy. The
labOrer wants wages; the landholder wants
work. each is helpful, is essential, to the other.
The dclirious fancy Of packing of 10 Africa or
elsewhere -Four Millions Of trained agricultural
labOrers, from region that presSingy needs
Forty Millions, can never be seriously urged.
The planters cannot, from all the wide earth,
replace their present laborers by Others who
will serve them 50 cheaply or serve them so
satisfactorily. Many Of the negroes have the
inevitable faults OF slaves-indolence, dlssimu'
lation, eye-servce, carelessness; but, on the
other hand, they are very generally docile.
pious, and accustomed to obey orders implicitly
The planters are no more likely to expel them
from the country than their horses or oxen.
What the planters have to do, and cannot dc
too soon, is to establish cordial understanding
and good feeling between themselves and Their
humble neighbors, so that no stranger shall
ever come between them. Give to faithful, indus
triOus, exemplary negroes the rights OF man
hood, and then exact Of them fulfllmcnt o.
its duties. Pay them fairly for their work, ard
then require them to support and educate then
families as Whites do. We hear men say thai
tho Blacks will vote with their masters, as IL
that were an objection. They will not vote
with the negro.traders, the blacklegs, the Le'
grees, of the South and, if they vote wit gen.
tlemen of education and refinement who have
treated them kindly and justly, they viii be
very likely - vote right-qute as right as
though they ook their politics from the oracleS
of our dance-houses and low groggerics. The
negroes of the South are i'll good part devoui
Christians, and will try to vote on the side OF
Justice and good morals. That must be very
degraded specimen of the negro race who would
vote for an average New-YOrk Alderman OF
demagogue Of any sort in preference to such
men as Gov. Aiken or Gov. Parsons
1t is indeed possible that the South may dc.
eide TO link her fortunes with the Northern