New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-15
THE BOURBONs LEARN NOTHING.
AND FORGET NOTHING.

There are many individuals at the South, who
were lately Shareholders and active Rebels, who
now talk and act sanely aud Loyalty. These
will bear witness for us that the great majority
of their caste evnce very different spirt-one
that is pretty fairly exhibited in the following
extract from a Richmond letter to The Daily
Nens:
"As 10 our system OF labor. upon which the future
prosperity of the South liz absolutely dependent. can
see no hope whatever Of it's speedy organization upon
any basis likely 10 result in even toerabe success.
Now that the negro is free. his labor cannot be relied
upon with sufficient certainty to secure ths successful
cultivation Of rice. cotton or tobacco These great
staples of the South must dwndle into ihsigntcanee
the wheat crop must fall short Of the RESULTS OF former
years the ability OF the South TO buy OF the North must
be reduced in corresponding degree. In the mean time
silver and gold. driven out OF the market BY an in
eror currency, must be sent abroad to pay for our i'm
ports and thus the country drained OF the only basis
for stable currency and all the while the fierce agita
ton of the country by the discussion OF the status To be
given TO the negro and the many other grave questions
! growing out OF the anomalous condition in which we
1 are placed; the endorsements political social and
commercial resulting from the enormous national debt
and the enormous taxes required To meet the interest
upon il; the incubus upon Southern industry aud
terprisc resulting from the Conlscatlon laws and the
general ACKNOWLEDGMENT these will continue un.
settle depresS and restrict the business Of the country
I'm such o condition aud with such prospects before
Ms G cd only knows what the South has TO hope for
am perfectly convinced that il will not be many years
before the most violent Aboitionsts will be the open
and avOwed advocates OF the most stringent measures
TO compel the slaves to continuous labor and you
will find that they viii he the advocates OF harsher
measures than the Southern people themselves.
But, In the terrible commissions through which
we have vet 10 pass the doom OF the negro In this
country will be sealed They must be eItermiuated-
not by the South in accordance with the wish Of the
Southern people, but by the fanatics OF the North first
driving them to folly and madness by their teachings
and when these teachings have borne their legitimate
fruits of ideness vice Instruction and crime OF every
name then turning their bayones on them and butch
erng them without mercy
We should like to have Reyerdy Johnson's
opinion as to the number of oaths of allegiance
that the writer of the above extract would have
to take to reconstruct him into good, loyal,
hearty Unionst We can't think the veteran
iurist and politician could conScentiolsly put
the number below a hundred.
And then we should like to have the opinion
of the Hon. Samuel +. B. Morse, or some other
pillar Of the Society for the Promotion OF Ma
tional Unity" as to the length of time that
would probably have been required for the Abo-
ltion of Slavery if the North had only just let
the matter entirely alone and allowed the
writer of the above and his cronies to do tho
work in their own fashion. For the last thirty
years, we have been hearing that the Northern
AbolitiOnists were the chief impeachment to
Southern Emancipation-that. if the South had
only been "let alone" she would have gradu-
ally and safely rid herself Of the monstrous in
lcubuS. beginning just year Or two after the