The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-10-11

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| ,a,,coHD1rIoH OF THE SOUTH, !.
Its Probable Fate-Demo ralizing Eff
fects of Subjugatien-The Ultimate
zConseqneaees!of Reconstruction. aT
From the New York Round Table, Sept, IA.
I Partisans, whose opinions throughout the
| mamentous struggle from which this count
| try has lately emerged, have retained an
| Unchanged bias, preserved the same mono
| tone of color, are not always safe guides in
| matters either of fact or probability which
| have direct relation to their cherished
I theories Starting with this proposition,
and coupling with it the statement that we
have ever been steadfast opponents of sav-
cry and staunch supporters of national
unity, ne submit some, reflections and cir
cumstances relating to the present condit-
| ion of our Southern section, asking for
them the consideration which this prcfara-
tory explanation may seem to justify
1 From whatever point of view-moral, fl
pancial, or political-we may regard the
Southern States, their situation is unspeak
ably deplorable. The effect Of suhjugation
is always dcmoralizing. Men lose heart
and hope and self-relianee. Energies are
paralyzed. Selfrespect is lowered From
| the inspiration of battling for a cause men
sink to mere vulgar selfseeking and greed;
and oflencst it happens that the nobler OBJ
jects of life being abandoned, they plunge
rccklessly into base pleasures and degrading
not, what the victors seldom are, magnani
| ject thralls, THE lost cause" soon becomes
| among the conquered. A lost people is an
infinitely worthier subject of Sorrow I'M
| Under their defeat, it cannot be denied
that the Southern people acted with great
nobleness Before the close of the war men
at the North as we'll as at the South beliey-
ed that the surrender of the Southern ar
mics would be followed by guerrilla war
| fare of years, yet from the day of John
ston's surrender not one outrage has occur
| red such as had with reason been anticipa-
ted The cause of this is twofold. The
| Southern people were always a martial peo-
ple; and however we may sheer at their
| chivalry-which doubtless WAS an element
both OF weakness and ofstrength-we must
! at least concede that.they possessed the vir,
| tues as well as the defects of the martial
nature. If they were proud, impetuous,
| impatient, they were also brave, enduring,
ilresolute.;. and since the war they have
proved that they possess beyond all prece-
| dent in history the soldierly characteristic
of fidelity to their pledged word Never
were such numbers of soldiers let loose in
! a conquered country on their bare parole of
honor. And surely never was parole more
truly kept. The men of the South were
| chained as by chain of adamant when
| they had given their word of honor to obey
| the Government that had subjected them !;
and this has been the great cause of the
| tranquility which has prevailed since their
surrender. Another hardly slighter cause
| lies in the judicious counsels and the more
| iudcious silence Of their public men
| Heretofore the leading statesmen of the
1 country have been generally from the South;
and though the race of giants have long
| passed away from both the alenated Sec
tons Of the country it is difficult to con.
ceive course of ealmcr or more digni6cd
discretion than has been pursued by South
ern public men in their late unhappy cir
| cumstances. Here and there Pollard
may have vapored somewhat, and his va
porings have always been extensively cir
| culated at the North. Here and there, too,
on our own side of the line some tenth-rate
| newspaper has set itsef up as par excellence
the advocate of Southern rights but it is
not from such sources that we learn the
course of Southern men of notey 1t is
| from Lee in his college, Stephens or a
| Bragg. on his plantation, or johnson on
his railroad. that we truly learn it. Even
| the crowd of Insignificant noodles that fill
ed the confederate Congress have behaved
with unexpected wisdom; and the press
| notwithstanding its temptation to cater to
the excitable tendencies of the people, has
uniformly discouraged all resistance to the
| powers that be-; Thousands of !, soldiers
could never by any conceivable system OF
| repression have mainta ined the quiet order
and submissive resignation which every.
where prevail in the subjugated States. =
These things are due to acknowledgement Of
| the people and the fidelity of their late sol.
| diers.. -, - i. So
| We, have heard much Of the equality Of
the negro with the white man 'eI In the
name Of justice and of mercy let our politi
cal negrophilists at the North begin to dc
something to show that they still believe
the white man to be equal to the negro, =
The whole course of our government has
for months past been calculated to degrade
our own blood in the Southern States in
order. to exalt the negro population. All
our charities have been devoted to the nc.
gro. Only few generousihearted persons
have turned their. liberality to- the poor
whites 1t is well known that the school
| fund in more than one of the Southern
! States has been, during the past year. di
verted fromits object to buy brcadst feed
thestarving. Yet while freedmen's schools
iare dotted all over the South and Yankee
schoomistresses are everywhere and some
Of them most laudably-engaged in teach
ing negroes, not one school has it yet en-
! tered into Northern minds7to establish fei
/! poor white children of the south. ,,,.,
OF the financial condition of the South
it is hardly necessary to speak. The close
of the war found the people stripped Of
everything. Without clothing. without
shoes, without tools, destitute of all the or
dinaxy. implements of Industry, no money
but confederate rags, with little credit here
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