Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-01-19
rHE FUTURE OF TIE SOUTH.

they actually were such blessing IS likely
70 nroye true in q much broader sense than
was then contemplated. The complete
of the rebel armies, involving the final
overthrow Of the Confederacy, is doubtless
the greatest advantage that could have
happened the South, notwithstanding the
good came in the darkest disguise. No
greater calamity was dreamed Of by the
Southerner than to have his fields
ovcrrun by the hated and grasping Yam
kee. The Yankee. however, came, saw
and conquered. He brought with him
the desolation of war, and so far his visit
was as unpropilious rs it was unwelcome,
bu, no brought with him many other
things which will far more than compen-
safe for the temporary evils. Yankee tact
and energy, and, above all, the peculiarly
Yankee notion of the nobility Of labor,
Were more than all other things needed
for Southern development, and tho infu-
sion OF these elements of strength into
Southern society is likely to make the
much lamented Yankee subjugation a
growing and acknowledged blessing to
the South.
It is a great mistake TO suppose that the
people Of the North ever made wal upon
the people OF the South. Notwithstanding
the intensity of the prejudice INDUCED by
the great mass Of Southerners against the
Yankees" only the kindest sentiments
were entertained and cultivated by the
latter. The people OF the North made
war, not upon the Southern people, but
upon their worst enemies, in the form OF
institutions which were the bane Of
Southern society, sapping its vitality and
threatening its ultimate destruction. The
war has not resulted in the conquest OF
the Southern people, but in the overthrow
Of treason and slavery, in whose downfall
the Southern people have greater cause to
rejoice than have any others. In this way
i, can be truly said that, so far from the
end Of the war involving the enslaving OF
the South, it has resulted in her deliver
ance and acknowledgements.
Nor will the result disappoint this ex-
p~ectarion. Already does it begin to APP
pear, from indications that are unmistak-
able, that a better day is dawning upon
the South, and that such a degree Of pros
perity is abou, to attend her in the walks
Of freedom. as she never could have even
hoped for under slavery. In the very
wake Of the Northern armies, which for
the time left desolation behind them, are
the proofs Of a fresh prosperity, arising in
the form of newly constructed cities and
villages, which are springing into life as If
there had been magic in the invaders
touch. In fact, the second invasion Of
the South has begun. The first carried
the arts of war for purposes of dessruc-
ton. The second carries the yts of peace
for purposes Of restoration, and in his
second appearance, the Yankee, coming as
an immigran, with his capital. his handi-
craft and his notions of equal rights and
free labor, will return o hundred-fold for
all he may have destroyed in his first visit
alton. Herein is the real secret Of the re-
construction of the South. What that
section needs is not so much the res,ora-
ton Of its political functions. as to be en-
dowed with the ideas aud the policies
which rightfully belong to its new con-
di,ion. The freedmen have been educated
to labor, and q very short time will serve
to adapt them to their new estate, making
them greatly more valuable rs members OF
the community, in the form OF SELF
masters, than when they held only the
grade Of slaves. There is much more
reason to fear for the future Of those
whites in the South who have not been
educated to labor, and who will be much
slower to accept the position in which
they are placed by the revolution, than
the colored people will be in conforming
to their situation. Both classes must,
however, in time yield to the necessities OF
the case, and # any thing were needed to
expedite the process, it will be abundantly
furnished in the new ingredient supplied
by Northern immigration, which will
rapidly permea,e and modify the whole
mass of population.
Thus it will be seen that much has al
ready been done by the war for the South.
Much, however, remains to be accom-
plished. Slavery has been happily gotten
rid Of. but many of the forms and indu-
ences which slavery has produced sur
yiye, and the work Of regeneration will
be complete until they are removed.
What, more than anything else. still
checks the progress Of the South, Is the
influence Of her old political leaders-the
men who involved her in rebellion. The
predominance Of these men can re-
sui, only in evil. They were educated to
the order of things which has passed
away. and, if they had the power. would
be unwilling to adapt themselves to the
The majority of them are invet-
crate conservatives. and will hang upon
the wheels of state as 80 many dead
weights, tending only to embarrassment
and delay. Let them be got rid Of as
500 as possible, and politically buried in
the same grave with their idol, Slavery.
The South. to be reformed and rejuven.
ated, must be Ra6icaiize6. New ideas
touching both men and labor, teaching
equality for one and dignity for the other,
must be promulgated. aud leaders must
be placed in the van who will secure for
them a fair and friendly operation. MOI
is this contamination at all improbable
for the entire South, and at no very dis
tant day. The work is successfully pro-
crossing. Missouri and Maryland are
already radicalized by the adoption Of