The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-09-14

VIC puUllSn tOudyi WIN the "StflctlY
confidential" circular introducing the
document, a very remarkable pamphlet,
entitled, CONCESSION, or how the Lost
Cause May be Regained, and the indie
pendence of the South Secured-Being
an Address to my Fellow-C ountrymen,
by a Concessionist etc. Published by
the Southern Association, New York,
August, 1871" though it appears to be
issued for the Southern Association,
Washington" And this is all that we
know about it, though looking at the
INDIGNANT REPUTATION
OF the "new departure" by JEFF Davis,
Alexander Fl. Stephens and numerous
other leading Southern ~ire-eaters, we
may say to this extraordinary political
paper, as Hamlet said to his Governors
ghost
Thou cOm'st in such a Fashionable shape,
I'll speak to thee.
The document before us is divided
into three parts. Part First is a COM
pact double-distilled Southern argu-
ment, intended to show that 1--WE, the
people of the South, are a nation, differ
ent and distinct from the people Of the
North" and that mo effort to bind us
together by force can succeed" and that
at best "such a union can only be tenn
porary," Part Second enters upon the
main question, chow the Lost Cause
may be r~egained," and says to this end
"the first step is to turn back forever
upon the venal, hypocriticol, falseaheart-
ed, Yankee,
NEW DEPARTURE DEMOCRACY OF THE NORTH"
because intent only upon the spoils Of
office "they have ever deluded and de-
ceived US" Next concentrate all your
attention and energies upon your own
domestic political affair" and then,
men OF the South, having cleared the
track; you have only to do three things
to secure your independence, viz:
First-Secure the complete control,
through the ballOt-Eox, of the local gov
eminent Of every Southern State.
Second-When this Is done call a con-
vention OF the States aud elect Il Presi-
dent for your Southern C~onfederacy.
Third-Appoint q Commission to
Washington to demand your indepen-
dence, and treat for a peaceable separa-
ton.
1t is commended that this plan Of oper-
atoms, being according to law" cannot
be interfered with, and that the demand
suggested, if firmly made this time, will
succeed. We are next told that "North
Carolina has commenced the good work"
in the impeachment of the Radical Gov
ernor etc. Part Third of this "conces-
sionist' document is addressed to the
People of the North" in favor Of the
SEPARATION OF TIE " SECTIONS,
whereby "the independence OF the South
and the peace, prosperity and liberty of
the North, are inseparately linked to-
gether." In other words, the two sec
tions cannot be united till they are di-
vided, and they must be separated in
order to live harmoniously together.
Whence cometh this extraordinary
revolutionary document? You may call
it madness; "but there is method in it.
1t is concessionist, and yet it is seces-
sionist. 1t prenches concession in order
to gain secession, and, sticking a pin
here, we think there is something in it.
We are informed, in the circular letter
aforesaid, that this
SOUTHERN PROGRAMME
Of independence was prepared by one
Of the most distinguished of Georgia's
statesmen" This means, We suspect,
that Mr.. A. H. Stephens is the man, and
upon this assumption we can account
for the establishment of the new South
ern rights paper at Atlanta, Of which he
is the political editor, and in which his
whole heart is devoted to q Southern re-
pudiation Of the Northern Democracy
OF their "new departure" And to
strengthen this opinion that Mr.. Ste
phens is the author of this pamphlet, we
are told in it Part Second) that "tbat
glorious banner, which was so sadly
furled at Appomattox, will once more fly
freely from the capitol at Richmond, and
he who Of right ought to sit there (5eff
Davis, Of c%ourse) to preside over our
destiny, will be recalled from his retire
ment amid the rejoicings Of a redeemed
people,"
Now, all this may be very absurd; but
it cannot be denied that the Southern
programme here presented furnishes a
new and striking Interpretation of the
late speeches of JEFF Davis in Alabama
and Georgia on the acceptance of the
situation" He accepts nothing, he adj
mits nothing, and he will do nothing
toward the acceptance of the situation"
Mr.. Stephens, in his new paper, holds
the same position. Fore God" as
Dogberry puts it, "they are both in a
tale" There is evidently an understand
ing between them. Davis proclaimed
his position, and Stephens takes it up,
as the "new departure of the "lost cause"
Upon this theory there is mischief in
this thing. It
DEMoLIsHEs H DEMOCRATIC PARTY
in the South. 1t ~revives the issues of
the war i'll q new shape. 1t explains the
Ku-Klux Klans and the Ku-Klux bill.
1t gives color to what General Grant
lately said to u correspondent at Long
Branch On the Treaty at Washington.
He feared another war with the South,
and hence his great desire for peace
with England. But may not this pam
phlet be a Republican counterfeit We
hope so; but we fear that it is not. 1t
has all the ear-marks of a Southern man.
ifesto, and doubtless it speaks the senti-
ments and the purposes of
LARGE o D OF SOUTHERN
men. II there is any man within this