Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-02-04

was PuIcnaseu ny your granulaInc
only about forty years ago iron
the Government. He wore abou
half of il in his time-that par
where the dense young pine fores
Is springing up so fast, with som,
OF the trees already twenty fee
high, And the part that / have oc
cupied is already so poor that it will
hardly support the niggers anC
their increase; and was it not foj
the occasional sale of a niger,
would be destitute of money" /
a daughter, sheroceived few house
servants, and theremainder in mon.
ey as her portion.
Thus matters progressed until
near the breaking out If the great
rebellion-the tillable land becom-
ing rapidly decreasing quantity,
and the Negro an increasing qNan-
I4ity. One half of the CaroIinaA
Georgia, and a portion of the more
Western States, in the expressive
phraseology of the Negro, was
"done gone,' and the remainder
rapidly disappearing. What was to
be done to conserve the "peculiar
institution ?" 1t was seen that if
confined to its present limits it was
only a matter of time for its sponta
neeus overthrow. The contest up
on the borders of Kansas had re-
suited disastrOusly for its further
extension Northwest Itmust nee
essarily limit itself to its present
area. "But there is a vast country
lying West of us; Mexico and Cen
tral America lie South west; and if
we can detach ourselves from the
old Union, and become indepel d.
ent, all this country shall be ours,
and we will be able to have an in
definite period of prosperity, We
will get up a pretense of jnstitica-
ton for rebellion, so that other ma
tions will not think we are the en-
tire aggressors. The Republican
party of the North is becoming
large and respectable, and in time
will lead the Union and elect its
President. 1t can't do it now of
itself, but we will force its candi-
date into the Presidential chair, by
dividing the Democratic party
Then we will have sufficient pre-
tense, for we will plead to England
and France that we are in fear that
our constitutional rights will not be
protected by Republican admins
tratiOn. And as, Cotton is "King,"
. p.
will be our friend and the
result is easy to be foreseen, We
will gain ourindependence, and es-
tabHsh ourselves as anew nation
on this broad Western hemisphere,
whose bounds will be the Atlantic
on the East, the Pacific on the
West, on the North as far as we can
possibly extend ourselves, on the
South to Brazil, including all the
West Indies and Candies. And
when we become pressed for more
territory, we will have Brazil"
Thus reasoned the enthusiastic
Southerner. And to stimulate him
self still farther, made himself be-
ieve that one Southerner was
match for five Yankees Enthusi-
astically he rushed into the rebel
ion, with what result to his great
expectations is well known to every
me.
But in regard to his condition
ince its termination is not SO well
In fact, the people Of the
North, as a general thing, have a
7ery inadequate conception of the
rue condition of affairs in that sun
~ land and the object of this pa
'er is to correct the misconception
s far as possible. AT the close of
he war, the people of the Gulf
'tates were in manner penniless.
they had been stripped of their
laves, their lands deprecated to a
acre nothing, and they were heav-
" in debt-mOre than the sale of
Il the lands would Satisfy-exelu-
i've of their war debt. In fact, t
here were few sales of land made {
0 any but Northern men and the i
isastrous crop years of 1867 l
iscouraged all further emigration c
rom the North, and the almost
unanimous wal of those already f
lere. 1867 witnessed in the South +
le greatest depreciation Of all G
inds of property that any people t
yer experienced in modern times. a
Iules that had cost 5000 in the h
pring, sold under the hammer for Il