Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-16
The Nouthern Question

of the North American Review, Mr.
Charles Gsyarre, Of Louisiana, has
an article on the above subject
that merits universal perusal and con-
sideralion. He dates the beginning
Of tho Southern question As CO.
temporaneous with the importation
Of the first Africans az slaves 10 Ameri-
ca. As slavery vas soon found 10 be
Improbable in the North, Il was Limit
ed to the South. Slavery tended 10
build up au ~aristocracy tina; soon exert
ed a controlling influence in National
affairs. This gavo rise TO the Abolition
+ party, and this party made .he great
civil war inevitable.
Mr., Gayarre holds Ina; the abolition
Of slavery really ended the Southern
question, and tina; the present question
is a different one, but under tho same
name, He says the question now is
the free negro question, and that the
less interference the South has in It's
solution the better it will be for both
races, and for the whole Union. The
! distinguished writer agrees so fully
with what we have often less !Orcibly
express ed in the HERALD, that il gives
. ne great pleasure to make liberal ex-
tracts from his essay. 10 regard 10 our
presen; condition he says;
2 What Of the South at the present
O moment? Is it more or less solid than
before? What Of the Southern qestion ?
Has il perished with slavery? No, 1t
has survived, say the North and West,
more full Of importance and vitality
=. than ever. Why =? the writer of this
article may be permitted TO answer (:
Because il is famed into life from it's
ashes by the North and West other
> wise Il would die q natural death, If
" let alone, as II has no natural cause Of
existence. The North and West should
o now be conlented with the destruction
of what they considered the cause
of Southern predominance in the
Union, and fold their huge democratic
arms. Anteus has conquered Hercules,
:. instead Of being smolhered by him
10 the Titans have pulled down the gods
Is from high Olympus, and brought them
H. down TO the level of the IONS OF mother
+, earth. The hatred and envied aristoc'
racy OF the South has been SO ploughed
up and consumed that the strongest
=, microscope could not discover a re-
a, naming vestige of il. From Maine tC
IL Florida the Tarquin rod has established
e q dead level Of equality, and the oak II
" no longer permitted to tower over thu
:. reeds Of humanity. Mediocrity is en-
: throned, with very few exceptions, il
nc the seats Of power all over the United
10 States. The Washingtons, the JetFer
sons, the Madisons, the Monroes, IN
Jacksons, have become antediluvial
We and the fossil productions Of distan
ct ages. The North aud the West shout
IN. DO satisfied, for il is hardly TO be eX
:. pected that the South will continue I
is excel them in craftsmanship, and con
i'll troll the deslinies Of the Union, as here
lst tofore by the superiority of It's hlnet
nd to govern. Unfortunately for tn
hopes of the North and West, sn
~" for the expectations Of those VIII
or thirsted for peace and its fruits, snothe
or question has sprung from the pre-
nd ceding and dead one, like the pt1ni
,ct from lis funeral pile, and It Is a NOR
difficult aud startling one than tn
1et slavery question. l. Is the irce-ucgT
III, question and ;ts solution. Il Is boun
nd to solidiiy The Southern States moi
-. than the slavery question, because 1t
no longer a mere question Of propert.
OF individual or sectional wealth, or
per political power, but q question Of sci
preservation, OF civilization, and OF Il
'H maintenance otthe purity Of a superb
MP race. Il is still the Southern questiC
d.. par excellence, but under a more teri
on. bic form. The creeping worm has be-
10. transformed into the winged Insect
destruction.
The question Of races Is now t
Tx only Southern question. l! came
en-. life on the death.be of the late Sout
of ern Confederacy. To give a clear
rho view Of Il by narrowing the area viii
~ the eye is TO embrace, let US condne
RE- to Louisiana, with the remark II
the what will be said OF louisiana appli
lol. with more or less force to tho 9th
no Southern States. From the surrend
- of General Lee 10 the hour when I
Federal troops were Withdrawn
President Hayes, the destinies Of
? by State were in the hands Of the emau
lane pated negroes, whose only claim
pre.eminencc was, that they constitl
q race which Il was intended TO fay
ure' and with which coalesced q band
s Il. while adventures who had come
In the s~u5jugated South like vultures
.nr. the battlefield. The Federal Cove
.pIS meut, in the hands OF the Republic
J all party, adopted the negroes, insomt
as they were a race, as lie wards, pas
laws for their special protection a
'ases race, and in reality subjected the VII
lent. race 10 the black. The former sIa'
and had become a privileged class &
here domineered over their former mast
nua- The State was delivered TO The
iailY ganized pillaee Of the blacks, and
cRU- uhitos wnra driven To deBDeratl