The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-01-27


down with folded arms and mourning over
ruined fortunes and desolated homes our
people seem to have been invigorated by
feeling Of independence, and the hand OF IN
dUgtrv will once more make the South bios
som as the rose and her cities great and
nrosperous One of the most powerful les
sons taught by the war is self dependence
Let us take it TO heart, and remember that
our future depends upon our own exertlons
and actions.
~ Ii is one of the satisfying and conSoLng
doctrines of christian belief that however
unwelcome and trying may be adversltles'
they are in some way, possibly not seen by
or made known to us, blessings in disguise.
So too nations, which have suffered the over
throw Of their separate nationality or have
fallen under the yoke of ambitious men
amoue themselves, have Lad reason TO de-
clare in after times, that their mistortunes
were the cause to them of national adyan-
taoes which they could otherwise never have
cnioyed. and which vastly exceeded IN i'm
portance all the losses they had sustained.
1t is hardly to be doubted that the war,
through which we have just passed, viii be
found even its only result of discontinue
Of the Southern people the overthrow OF
their domestic system and the denial of
cheir cherished independence, to work out
in the end, in the results which will flow
from these seemingly untoward and sad
dening events, an amount of good tozus, our
children and our chldren's children.
Possibly we may not be able to see the
fulflmcnt of this in our own day, and hope
and comfort may become faint as almost
to disappear Mt times in the most steadfast
and courageous bosoms but the promise
which was made of old will be fulfilled, and
those who come after us will bear witness
thereto. And though we may not be able to
see clearly the advantages of defeat, we may
now have gli7npses of them. Let us look
now at a few OF these.
We struck for Independent existence. We
desired not to destroy or to make war on
the United States not to cripple their man.
ufaatures or their commerce, diminish their
agriculture or lower their flag but to have
all these separately for ourselves. They re-
fused to allow US this, and declared that we
should remain minority and therefore i'll
adependent position. They proceeded to en-
force their demand and this brought on the
war. In that war we proved to be so in
ferior in resources and numbers that we
were overcome by them,
Now five had succeeded we would have
very wisely and benefcially governed our
selves, but our tendency would have been to
withdraw our influence from them, and
very likely from all other portions of the
world and to have lived within ourselves,
to the exclusion of all others as far as we
could; whereas before the war the South
ern mind exercised the most happy influence
on that of the North, i'll preventing its utili-
tartan tendencies from rendering it alto
gether sordid and selfish.
The effect of our failure will be that we
will be compelled to be more catholic in our
intercourse and though our numbers be
smaller we viii ultimately lcaven the whole
lump with something more of generosity
and charity for the possible failings and
weaknesses of others than it had been before
This, however, is not the chief condsidera-
tlOn. We failed because we were inferior
in the means of making resistance, and our
former institutions and mode of life were cal
culated to keep us always in this condition
Though to considerable extent gregarious
people, we are still disposed TO have some
unOccupied space between us and our neigh
bors; not because we did not wish to mingle
with those ofour own class, but because our
servants were likely to be injured by too
much intercommunion.
The kind of labor we possessed was not
well suited to manufacturing purposes, and
the laborers could not be made proficients in
its higher branches; therefore little en-
couragement was given to the industrial
arts among us. Mechanical labor was not
despised nor its proficients deprecated, but
there was no desire to transfer to its uses that
which was employed in agriculture
The strength of the North consisted there
fore in its numbers, in its mechanical skill
and in the accumulated results of its exer-
else. Had we achieved our independence
we would have remained inferior to them in
these respects; for the same internal policy
growing out of our peculiar institutions
which prevented growth in these respects
would have continued to govern our CON
duet and we would have always been
weaker, living side by side with stronger
power.
On the other hand, now that the war has
terminated by the overthrow of our system
of domestic labor, this leads us to invite the
intelligent skill acquiring white men to SUI
perSede the negro and causes us to welcome
the cotton factory and to,seek, more earnest
ly than ever. the improvement and settle
ment ofour country by the immigrant. no
matter whence he comes
We possess vast territory which is far
superior IN capacity for maintaining large
population to that north of us We can
grow all the fruits which their soil pro
duces asd Others which it cannot. Our soil.
a sa whole, is more fertile than theirs. and
when infertile can more readily be made so.
We have better timber, equally profitable
mineral deposits, more healthful climate.
where temperance guides our life, and at no
time in the year would our manufacturi1fc
be impeded by freezing weather.
1t Is hard for the present generation to
feel the blight of hope and the loss of it's
most cherished interests, but the next gene
ration viii behold the South, not merely the
master OF Its own actions and exercising con-
troll over it's own affairs, but it will have ac
quired, through the very crushing out of its
past peculiarities, such a preponderance in
population, wealth and industry, that the
North will become its vassal, and retributiva
justice viii begin to be administered in
Heavens appointed way.
druggist of Hartford has an elegan
soda fountain from which he draws hot soda
for the winter season! 1t is served with anv
n az 4 a - 4 L.