The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-08-31
The South VIII Yet be an Inde-
pendent Nation.
From the warrenton (Ga.j Gazette

the war. ulsIo.yalty to the Government
Of the United States, blood, smoke,
battle and murder, but We can assure
our readers that it means nothing of
the kind. And yet we have a firm faith
in the idea that before the next centu.
ry dawns npon us the Southern States
will be a free, independent and power
iul nation. The causes which oIigina,
ted the late var for our independence
have never been fully understood, even
by the leaders, on either side, and the
same causes are still alive and at work.
Slavery seemed to be the prominent
and only cause of all our trouble, but
it was little more than a feather in the
balance. The war has been fought,
slavery abolished forever, tho most
ultra ideas of the anti-slavery party
carried out as fully as possible, and yet
the two sections are infinitely farther
apart from real union and harmony
to-day than they were on the day when
Fort Sumter lowered her stars and
stripes to the victorious arms Of the
gallant young Confederates.
What then are the great disturbing
causes which prevent Il perfect union
and which render a future separation
so inevitable? Some Of them are very
evident others there are, perhaps, con
ccaled from the view of the wisest in
the land. The North and South ale
already, to all intents and purposes, two
seperate and distinct nationalities
Two people as unlike, as distinctive
and as antagonistlc, cannot live long
together in harmony under Il and
the same Government. Their minds,
their education. their ideas, their hab.
its, their mode of life, even their Ian.
guage, their food, their cooking and
their physical conformation are unlike
and becoming daily more so. But
what is more antagonistic than all
these, their material interests ere dia,
metrically opposed to one another. 1t
is VIGOROUSLY untrue that what benefits
one section profits the other; the CON
verse is the truth. One is a rural, ag,
ricultural population; the other. a
manufacturing and commercial people.
One desires free trade and cheap goods
the other cannot live without q high
protective tariff to sustain the price OF
her manufactured. products. Further
more, the North contains within herself
the elements of disruption and disinteg-
ration. Her people, from the accumu-
lation of power and wealth, have be-
come corrupt. She is rapidly becom-
ing overcrowded with a mixed and rev
dictionary population. The widest
fanaticism is taking the place, in the
minds Of a large number of her people,
of sober and clear judgement. The
most crazy ideas ofliberty and govern
ment are driving out everything like
a proper conception of rightandjustice
Love of plumber and wealth, and a
sickening greed for gain has taken the
place of a healthy patriotism, love of
country and a noble ambition to be-
come famous by doing good to the
State. Already the whole government
is corrupt and rotten the whole sys
TEN has been changed, and the fabric
is nearly ready to fall to pieces. The
country is too large and unwicldy and
wealthy, and contains too great a di
versity OF interests to remain under
one government much longer. 1t will
fall to pieces of its own weight and
from its W corruption and rotten
ness. Our war Of secession was but
the beginning, and we think we will yet
be a free people without any more
%bloodshed on our part All we have
to do is to keep quiet, be prudent,
maintain our dignity and strive for our
rights while still clinging to this rotten,
wo2m-eaten old hulk, and when she
falls to pieces, take all the good that is
left in it and build US a fine new ship,
and sail on over the bright seas under
the command of a captain, and the as.
sistance Of a crew of our own choos-
ing.
A few days since a negro woman