Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-10-12

Jealous for Sabbath Schools, he went to a
publishing house to which he was recommen-
ded, and enquired if he could get up Sab
bath School library unexceptionable to the
South. They replied: awe have no such
books, nor would We publish such If they
were offered to us" He then went TO the
American Baptist Publication Society, made
similar enquiries and received, in substance,
the same rrply.-Tuskegee Ala News.
More humiliation, truly! The re-
ply of the publishers is humiliating
to Christianity and the character of
man, and the application of Gen. Bat.
tie is damaging reflection upon the
wisdom, self-respect and enterprise of
the South. But this last count will
cause no surprise to those who have
n.a Ked, for years past, the subscrvi-
ency of the South to a people who
have SO deeply wrongcd and insulted
it. Sunday School books have been
the nursery Of northern hatred for
everything southern, except its sta
pies and its money and it was the
simple suggestion of weak, or u
thoughtless mind that books suitable
for southern Sunday Schools could
be procured at any northern religious
publishing house. And even if such
books could be found there, justice
to southern interests and respect for
southern honor should have forbidden
the humiliating application.
But, since love Of the almighty"
dollar defeated the cause of southern
independence, it is idle to hope that
same love of the dollar will not keep
alive the same subservieucy to yankee
capital and the same disregard Of our
own most vital interests. Before the
war, nothing was fit for use that was
not Of northern production. North
ern schools and watering places were
essential to polite education and a
display Of southern wealth and cx-
travagance. Nothing was fashiona.
bic that the North had not adopted,
and everything was fashionable that
tended to weaken the South and to
strengthen the North. Even the
products of southern looms were sent
north to be sold because southern
merchants and their customers pre-
fercd the yankee trade mark.
Since the war,::the fierce brutality of
Sherman, as attcstcd by the charred
waste in tho rear of his march, seems
to have inspired a profound gratitude
for the little he spared, and a dcvout
faith in the yankee religion that gui-
ded his course, as well as in the Sun
day school books in which that reli-
gion is taught. The successful thci-
wing of Butler seems to have impress
sed upon the southern mind belief
that all We have must, in one way or
other, fall into yankee hands, and
charity suggests that it is better to let
them take il, under the guise of traffic
than by robbery. Hence the activity
of our people in the work of transfer
ing the Legitimate trade Of N. Orleans
and other southern seaports to New
York. 1t is in vain to tell them that
the only hope Of compensation for the
millions of which we have already
been robbed, lies in u rigid fostering
of our own domestic industry and
direct trade with foreign ports. The
answer, practically, is, that the yam
KEGS have the capital, machinery and
ships, and that they may lose a few
dimes while southern interests are
being built up. Tell them that the
Mississippi is not only the natural,
but the cheapest outlet to the ocean,
and they answer that New Orleans is
farther from Liverpool than is New
York, and frei9hts, of course, cheap
er from the latter point. No allow
ance is made for the higher price of
freight by railroad than by river
Tell them that their policy is impoy-
efshing the South and cnriching u
people who have ever been our worst
enemies, and they answer that the
wares Of an enemy are as good as
those of a friend, and that neither for
southern honor nor southern pros
perity will they sacrafce a present
dime for future dollar.
The truth is that the dollar is al
most as much the god OF the South
rs Of the North, aud patriotism is a
characteristic Of neither, The proud
spirit, once recognized as the attri.
butte of enlightened manhood, has
given place to craving for pclf, aud
degradation ceases to be dishonor
it poulticed with greenbackS. 1t is
true there are many honorable eXccp-