New-York tribune., 1868-03-23
THE SOUTHERN STATES.

TIE SOUTH AS SEEN BY A NEWSPAPER COR
RESPONDENT.
A writer for TIE Cincinnati Commercial who
has been for several weeks travelling the Southern
States sums up his observations thus
OF the industrial condition OF the Southern states
have said everything there is to say That section %l
10 feed itself The system OF labor Is IS seekS s
plantation is going out and the farm in Ten
years hence the souherner VIII be cuVaIlhe hunod
instead OF scratching over thousand on borrowed
money and unpaid for provisions ,...
If any Republican discovers his slverpating getting
thin, let him take two months Southern Journey "A
thoughtful and obseryant man will find himself newly
electroyped In the party fam hat swept away secs
and enuOble 10y satesmanship what 1t 80 steadiasty
helped to save by the sword.
Of Congress- but all the while the Southern people and
newspapers were treating my moderate Eepublcahlsm
with Ouics Six months down there, iear WOuId nave
The S"ufbernoTs conceive that they did nothing par
cuary wrong in the part they took IN the drama OF the
II be Tor fanre This may be human nature: well n is
human not to let them govern the country again
They have fond hope that. through Andrew johnson
ana the Democratic party Doth OF whom they secretly
dcspsc they will be foated into supreme power, Of
old 1t strange that they can so dclude themselves
Sumner before the The North las come with ven
geanCe. II grows by emigration one thousand a day
How much does the South grow In what manner are
tbc new coorcd citizens To he disnchlsed and degraded
when Davis. Lee. TOOInbs Breckinrdge and the IeSt
control Of the Government The soninctn son o WIZ @
used to have secession for snapery what WI w lily iN
thong be 1t formerly fashion 20 itt hSccS ] pli ~
hostile earthWOTks right under iHg LIZ s,d
national forts. Is the same eonSiuei"'e fo''' "'"'u
for the futurci ,udi.b Int nm, sneotlry ~
the childish Southern weakness to comprehend tha tcr
The rolling ana patient masses. They think their star Is
only i'm eclipse. We must be rcsOlue, and teach them
that it has set forever That lesson well learned lhey
viii begin 10 he desirable citizens
The freedmen have surprised Inc by their native
siye behavior and the keen, intelligent interest they take
in their new political privileges II they were Onetenth
the whites the whites toward them war OF races
would have onsued long ago From close observe 5i
mcnt than before emancipation As a class, they are
indnstrons than their late masters And though the
word has been abused they are as loyal to the Govern
They would respond TO national summons to arms win
conyeons they have shown that they feel no hatred
toward their old oppressors and ask nothing beyond Sc
Scratch a southerner and You find an ntolerant. He
is not willing TO have you vote your conscience die
tates DEFY his local despOisms, and you VIII be
blacklist; you will be sncered at and nsulted If you
are a Northern man, acquire citizenship by Tie legal pc
rod of residence, ana get nominated to Office you VIII DC
ridcued as Yankee advcnturer-a carpet Dagger.
Witness the Alabama election IN FcbruaryWllhtSs the
Southern newspaper treatment Of all the constitutional
How about Southern loyaltyi
disioyr Could II be otherwisei For four years they
raincd death on the National nag and me National UNI
form. They shot at aud cursed them Ia every chuie
the COnfederacy they prayed and suppcated WIN
Can II be hat their gorge zoe, not lse oM ~ eIti % &
ON the boat coming the Potomac from Aqua Creek
due the emotion he st felt hatred Of the Stars and
Stripes He had fought under Lee from first TO last and
during that time had the nag often in battle when
the Army Of the Potomac swept down upon him and his
companions arms that lie feared he would never again
The domnant class the South never was republican
in traits tastes or habits The revolution now gong on
long this generation lives the change cannot De
Themselves better
They viii die in that faith. The vanity is ingram
have been astOnished 10 find how generally the South
erners believe the North To be on the verge oi cY con
vulson Reading only their own newspapers and tDe
most violent Copper1ead Journals III inc NOI 't! ae
firmly convinced that nothing Is more likely TO happen
than the embodiment OF the western Wthbc Middle ana
NcwEngland States This delusloh Is shared 10y t%rou %
sands Of the most intelligent men IN lbe south mat
they would delight III Sutn a CtiS - a i h' In t
fact that the next gale hat sweeps lIo lhe NCil m N
not take them the clash Of Tcsoundng arms They
tolerance OF the North where elections and go,
crises rpen and decline. with no Thought Of boOdAhed
black ist nor social dlsdh contempt ana peIhecu
The southerner is generous in some things and honor
able III many; but he is not yet a good citizen for
a republic. That is the whole trouble He must be
made 30, or stand back Tor ms ehIIen ehi & mG neoGs M
win have u so-but firm, always hTm. lhe moment
we waver, lie When he fully ana finally un-
ders;ands that his old undue political importance II
rrevocaby thing Of the past he VIII take The nTs step
the road to valuable citizenship But between AndieN
johnson and the " Great Democratic Reaction lie has
to believe in the speedy overthrow OF the ktpnD
can party, and in the restoration OF the saNe uhsy 10
reign over dominant party composed OF southern eA
trenlsts and Northern doughtaces
Th south to-day is not divided into parties, unless
be white vs. black The whites do not call themselves
Democrats though they pray for the success OF that par
iy i'm the sonable hope that s triumph VIII again com
NIT IL and the country 10 their malignant control. .
such a political revolution would be horror beside
which oppressive taxation and Congressional eXcesscs az
either exist or have been committed count nothing
WEIGHED against that contingency, impeachment is but
feather I'M the scale The South has deceived and well
nigh ruined us once That their fault II they do 1t
again. it will be ours.
Before starting South thought should vote the Re,
uubcan ticket Now know it. Whatever the moral OF
his Southern Journey has been 10 such OF your read
ers as have followed IT, the moral TO me Is an exalted
faith the Republican party, ana profound, uncOn-
promising distrust Of Southern character ana southern
Sentiment \ prominent Albanian assured me That the
Rebels were crushed because they fought against God
Yes aud thCy are fighting against God to-day.