Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-10-17
TRUE COURSE OF THE SOUTH


From the New Orleans Bulletin.l
i. We should take no active part in Fed.
eral politics. Like the State prisoner who
represents her acts and her misfortunes, the
South should be digniied, silent and re.
signed to whatever fate even the treaehery
Of oppression may iniict upon her. Moth
ing should be done 70 exasperaterthe North
nothing 10 degrade ourselves. The South
should await the terms Of restoration offered
her, submit them 10 domestic decision, and
signify her, acceptance, rejection, or modi-
| fic1tion Of them.
?. The South should apply itself earnestly
to preparing for any possible future which
may belall il. This should be done by pa
cilic and domestic agencies. 1t has the pro-
ductive monopoly Of great staples Let it Sc
cure the capitalization and control Of the
specie which these States authorize US to
import
The South is an immense consumer Of the
merchandise Of the world. Let il organize
in those quarters where such enterprises may
beestablisheda manufacturing interest which
shall supply this great home market The
South holds the key TO the commercial in
tercourse between the great and growing
Northwest and the Southern oceans. Let
her open, organize and conduct this COM
meree with her own sons and her own ship
ping. The South has cast upon her three
millions Of persons unfit for social or poll
teal equality; let her, by encouraging ap-
propriate immigration, and developing new
elements Of, and substitutes for, physical
force render the white population the pro.
tectors and directors Of the blacks. The
Southern States-the Southern social stand
ard Of courage and virtue must be perpetual
Let the South adopt the means which mod
ern civilization demonstrates to be essential
10 the preservation Of moral as well as poll
teal institutions.
Such, in our opinion, is the course Of duty
Do be pnrsued by the Southern people. 1t
should be impressed upon the country by
the united press of the South.
The Southern legislators have high duty
to perform. They should at once national
ize each State by adopting asystem of State
administration and State development They
should not lay on the table bills for raising
money to maintain the poor, to take up and
discuss resolutions protesting an abject 10y
alty-resolutiODs 20 be thrown back in their
faces as insincere and reasonable.
To nationalize the separate States, or pre-
serve their separate identity, a system Of
State organization is Indispensable. This
can alone counteract the fact Of centraliza-
ton, and prevent .our local government by
distant maiorities.
Each State should organize a system Of
education, industrial and material devel-
opment. There should be in each State,
Bueaus Of, 1. Education, literary, scientific
and political. 3 Manufactures. 3. Com
merce f. Minerals. Inquiry should be
made into the propriety and practicability
Of aiding, by State credit or capital, each Of
these departments Of State prosperity. BY
such policy the Southern people would
live at home, cultivate domestic harmony,
cease to disturb the sensibilities Of the poli-
tical god-iathers and god-mothers now so
uuch exercised by the moral responsibility
undertaken on behalf Of the South. The
result of this pacific and unobiectionable
policy would be this: IL the Union shall
endure in its present form, and in spite of
the lawless indications at the North, the
South win enjoy inesiimable advantages
from its protection if from the incapacity
Of Northern parties to enjoy civil liberty
themselves, OF let others enjoy il, except ac-
cording to dictation, the Union should be
broken up, the Southern States will not be
unprepared for the calamity, and will not
be held as an appanage Of any unscrupulous
majority, or transferred from hand TO hand
with the varying fortunes Of civil war.