The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-08-27

1t has got to be common phrase, even am Ong
call it the Lost Cause' This is much to be re-
GREETED. 'Words thngs'' and false ideas
clothed in fine words potent for evil. Our cause
Is not lost cause. 1t true we failed in our JSt
attempt, but the cause OF freedom can never, no
never be lost
Bcqueathed from bleeding sire son."
ever trumphs glorlOusly IN the end.
We have put aside the sword. nor ia 1t the inten-
non OF the writer to advise you to take 1t up again.
1t has been truly said that beneath the rule OF men
entirely great the pen Is mightier than the sword"
and ceased the rude shock OF war, still hope and
despair not until al the resources Of statesmanship
and diplomacy have failed
We have weapon drmer set
The BALLOT. tho il falls as still
A. snowflake on the frozen sod,
Yet executes Freeman's will
As igntning does the viii of God.
No cause Is lost or ever can be lost, which Is
shrlned IN the hearts OF great people, aud for
which they have shed their mos. precious blood and
Onered up to Heaven their hottest and purest pray.
ers:
A NATION.
The late war with Its horrors and sacrifices has
united ua into one-a common cause mas made us q
common name-and brought out rom the chaos OF
dlsJointed government a new nation.
WHAT nave we IN common with the people OF the
North except common lanSuaseY Nothing. II Is
as foolish and untrue to SPEAK Of the people Of the
North and South as being ono nation as 1T would be
for the same reason. me English speaking peoples
comprise several distinct nattOndllt1eSthe English
proper, tue SCOTCH, the IRISH. tDe CANADIAN, the
North Americans Of the United states and ourselves
OF The South all distinct naonalitles, yet all speak
Ing the same language.
Writer'S who treat OF such subjects In scientific
way have pointed out the manner IN which nation
elitles are proauced from parent stock. The in
nuences most prominent IN working these changes
are diversity OF climate. laws and institutions. From
the same stock came the Canadian and the people
OF the Northern States, yet they are unlike each
other ana unlike that parent stock, and as the diff
ference In Climate, laws and institutions between
deny that America has developed nationality as
distinct from the original English people as the
Frenchnan rom the ltalan.
SO, too, in these Southern States, living under a
totally different climate and under peculiar laws,
and peculiar institution, mas developed q nation
ATTY different either from that Of the Northern
States or that OF the parent English stock
The warm hearted whoe-souled, chtvalrlc son OF
the sunny South is no more like the cold hearted
calculating puritanical Yankee than Hollander Is
are Nation, and people distinct from The North.
We are moved by different impulses, were reared
under different Institutions have different theory
OF government, and are marching forward TO o dii.
ferent and lar more glorious destiny.
II there Is any one thing which more than another
marks the progress OF the age II Is the emancipation
and union OF similar nationalities. The Itaans
one, ruling from the seven hills Of ancient Rome,
The German provinces OF France have escaped from
under the Gallo yoke, and the Rhine belongs to
Fatherland. At no distant day the German pro-
vlnces OF Austria Will depart from ner keeping
already they gravitate with resistless force to
common centre Their union Will he the prelude to
their independence, when mel her Emperor nor
King shall rule over them, only God ana their own
will.
This knitting together of similar nationaes IL
Irresistible. 1t takes place In Obedience 10 a law OF
the human race as universal ana Umnipotent as the
law OF gravitation. Neither the sw0ru nor 'recOn-
structiOn acts" nor any form Of violence can re-
sist 1t.
we, the people of the south, are nation, differ
ent and distinct from the people Of the North, and
effort to bind us together by force succeed.
Sucn u union can be but temporary, and while It
can have no durability 1t must as q consequence,
being unnatural and unjust, be injurious and dan
gerOus to 10th sections.
Beware then, ye people of the North, lest In this
mad attempt your own hberJies are forever lost.
These preliminary philosophical considerations
are intended Introductory to what follows. IL is
the design OF the writer to point out the means by
which the Lost Cause can be regalned and
OUR INDEPENDENTS SECURED.