Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-01-13

An INTERESTING LETTER FROM
: -a THE SOUTH. sai1 q


| those two great lobes of American devel
opment. The Southern system is owe,
thrown. The North, flushed with conques
arrogant with power, attracted by the in
ducements of soil and climate, goes to tn
South. Office holders swarm The need
and enterprising occupy every avenu
of employment. The cotton mani
spreads like an epideznic. sNorfherl
men buy and rent plantations. The
hire laborers. Officers engage the services G
disbanded colored soldiers, and exchange th
| field of glory for the field of grain. Other
finding the immense advantages which tn
South possesses for the conversion of its val
| liable staple into more valuable fabric, brin,
their capital and skill into the South an,
build up a system of domestic manufactures
To this may be added the commercial inter
est which finds so much encouragement il
the opening trade of the Gulf cities. There
must be an end of strife at some period, O.
under some circumstances which tend to ap
pease the aDimosities of rival peoples
Whensoeyer this calm shall come upon tn,
exasperated feelings Of the North and Soutl
there will be fusion for some common pur
pose. 1t may be for awar against. som,
common antagonist, or it may be q peacefa
progress towards the occupation of the ada
cent and coterminous countries. When tha
period shall arrive, men will again behold
England driving off her Roundheads an6
Cavaliers, and afterwards claiming a,
triumphs of her race and institutions all ths
results of American prowess or Of American
enterprise. This war has done much tc
reunite the sections in any common enter
terprise, by modifying the distinctive pecu
liarities of each. The Southern people have
recognized the standard peculiarities of the
race in the courage, perseverance
and resources of the North. The
North has been compelled to pay a
tribute to the heroism, endurance and dig.
'nrty with which the Southern people have
borne the trials of war and the sorrows Of
subjugation. These people have also .ex-
changed some Of the distinctive qualities for
which each has been distinguished. Per
haps the Southern standard of personal
honor and the mode of vindicating its vio-
lation may be adopted. Possibly the South
ern people may find that the practical en-
ployments of life do not necessarily degrade
the individual who adopts them. A higher
standard of social character, better average
of national enterprise, more favorable dis
result. The extreme intolerance, the selfish
cupidity which would reduce the South to
bondage, will be rebuked by the better feel
ings and better interests of the Northern
people. The sectional oscillations will sub
side into federal tranquility, and possibly the
war may carry the code of honor into Con-
necticut, and cotton mills and shoe factories
into New Orleans. Wf4 AFf4sf
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Then expansion must commence. The
Federal Government has stimulated the COM
merce and manufacturers of the North. 1t
has built up and imported manufacturers,
and surrounded them with the ring fence of
tariff. 1t has stimulated the Northern ap-
petite with the confscation and spoil of the
South. Where is the market for these man
ufactures? Where is the freight for this
shipping? Where is the prey for the ad-
yenturer? These questions find their an
swers in the commercial and territorial ex-
pansions of the United States. As Europe
precipitated itself upon ASIA" so will the
American people occupy the commerce and
productions of the Eldorado which spreads
away into the dreamy sunshine of the tropics
and citra-tropical regions 1t may meet the
moral disapprobation of the philanthropists,
but it is as much physical predestination
that the cold the sterile North should seek
the genial South, as that the iceberg should
float away from the Arctic Ocean to melt
itself in the warmer waters of the temperate
zone. Already have the indications Of this
inevitable law appeared. The war policy Of
the North has crowded population and labor
into Texas. Many men of eminent ability
and well proven energy have been self
axilad into
Price, Allen, Hardeman, and hundreds of
their hardy and resolute followers have ex-
patriated themselves and sought home in
this attractive country. The writer has con-
versed with some of these men, who have
returned TO purchase implements of agrieul-
ture. They express natural regret
at leaving their native country; but il
is easy to see that this regret is yield
ing to the extraordinary inducements held
ont to agricultural enterprise in Mexico. The
immigrant begins to defend ell the peeuliari-
ties Of the soil and climate which he has
chosen. He is beginning obviously to cam
vas for associates in his enterprise. He
speaks of the sugar-mill which never stops;
of the cottcn-plant which is perennial; Of
the coffee estates upon which ninety acres
will produce $4,000 annually of the ex-
traordinary profusion of fruits which are
planted to shade the coffee, which pay the
expenses of culture, and which were so
varied that one individual could have diff
ferent fruit on his table almost every week
in the year. Of course you hear nothing
of fevers, reptiles. nor insects. Guerilias
and Indians are noihing. The Mexicans no
longer object to heretics and Northmen.
Whenever you hear the American speak in
this manner IL means expansion. Some
new country is destined to be the sixteenth
Mrs. Shuffieton. Il is inevitable. Now,
when these people shall have begun to ex-.
tinguish the Camanches, lynch robbers,
build railroads, and open a trade with the
mother country, we shall behold the national
brow relax. 1t will be said, "These men
are Of the oldstock.n Z Behold how oar in
stftutro-sss ----l s.s..b~ae~ --r---aa-p-.'i
These men, like Sam Houston, will revisit
their country, in part of which they have
been once so unpopular, and will be received
with pride as men who have carried ciyili-
zation and progress inte new regions.
Their overtures for political connection
will be listened TO with attention, and It Is
not impossible the whole Gulf curve may
look to New Orleans as its New York, and
to Washington city as its seat of govern
ment Quien sabef .,,;ao..,nsol I
Hnmboldt says the climate Of Mexico Is
In layers. You ascend from eternal sum-
mer to perpetual snow. 1t is in the temper
ate and fertile valleys, which represent the
climate most acceptable to the northern races,
that these men propose to make their homes.
Il Is where the heat does not enervafe, nor
the cold chill. 1t is where the world-staples
grow with little labor, and enable the plan
ter to command with their price all the lax
uries Of modern civilization. Now, cli-
mate Of 70 deg. average, with little fnctua-
ton; valley fertile as the Delta; snow-fed
streams glowing through fertile fields
orange groves and piEeapples as plenty as
persimmons; sugar, coffee, cotton, with quiet
and content, are decidedly not 10 be con-
ternned BY the most iron-clsd cynic. Obvi-
ously the exodus of these disobedient chill
dren Of the Republic differs from that of the
first parents. These last were driven ost Of
Paradise; the American seem to have been
driven into L. But cest egai, 1t viii all come
right They may not come 70 US in the Ian
guage of the King of Israel but we shall 90
70 them. IL they stand fasf, the progress OF
their race will cover their position they
will again be reunited with those they love.
Open land, with buildings and enclosures,
may be rented cheap in, Mexico. A haci-
enda Of 10000 acres, in San Luis Pesosi,
with IS acres In perennial cotton, and with
herds of horses, cattle, and a large privilege
Of fruits and timber, rents for $4,000. La
Dor Of the natives Is said 20 be worth from
eighteen cents 10 fry cents per day. The
laborers are dociie and suficiently induE-