The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-06-10
Brevet Major U.s.


in every persuasion who regard themselves the ex
elusive repositories Of all the ervor end faith of thel
creed certain Jews who out Herod Herod in denun.
Citations Of Christ; certain Presbyterans who 60 be-
yond Calvin; certain Methodsts who throw the zeal
ofJohn Wesley in the shade. These the Plar
sees who thank God they not other men are
They the immaculate, the nallible; they try in
secret conclave all ty their standard of big
ory, and pronounce judgment according to their iron
bed of Procrustes. All those who fall short of their
ervor, and blinded prepdices, are lukewarm and
inorthodox. Thus it is with Southernism. There are
a certain class of people among u.s. which assumes to
itself the possession of all the patriotism all the devo-
ton, all the Souternism Ct the country. Their patri
otism and their ZEAL consists in wholesale denuncia-
tons of everything Northern, and in bitter attack up
on everything like lberality forgiveness towards
our enemies This may be patriotism, but it savors
very little of christianity People may very honestly
differ about the best means of promoting the future
growth and prosperity of country. There are
many wise men earnestly engaged in encouraging i'm
migration, and who believe that nothing would con-
duce more to its future regeneration than that the
overcrowded cities of the North should pour down
upon their industrious artisans and skilul mechan-
ics. The South is burthened with large per centape
of thriftess ignorant consumers and never had need
country more pteousy to put up the cry Of the Ma
cedonians, Come over and help US ~ Her fields are
fair her climate genal-al that the bounteous God of
Nature could besow are hers. Truly, the harvest is
plenteous but the laborers few Shall the South
ern people supiney brood over the memory of their
wrongs and let slip the golden opportunity for redemp
tion9 Shall heir faow fields lie waste or half titled
by the most worthless class of laborers the EARTH
while Europe is teeming, OVERLOOKING with her land
less millions, and the North, like great monster, is
gorgng to repletion of the precious windlal. Whose
fault is it that emigration sets in in every direction but
towards the illstarred South? So lorg as the South
initiates the excusiyeness of Japan so long will she
sit in her lonely dcsoation and pride Seduced by
the delusive hopes cotton, Yankee emigration would
have poured afluently upon us after the surren-
der but for the cold greetings of Southerners. Still
we stand forever thus in light. Shall our pa
triotism consist in the simple expression 81 hate
Yankee and in raising the hue aud cry of Yankee
after every expression of liberaity towards them?
Rather let us initiate the North in all that she has of
great and good. Let US encourage immigration and
welcome in midst even those who bore arms
aganst u.s. If they were animated with hatred towards
us they would not here to cast their lot amidst
us Never will we be able to arise and demand equal
justice from the North, and equal share in the general
government until our population bears some proper
I'oh 10 her own. Every Northerner who becomes
property holder here becomes alb initio one of our
serves 1t IS astonishing that will continue forever
10 war against our own interest. Let us prove our
eouthernisus By deeds, and not by words.