Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-30
THE REVOLUTION IN THE SOUTH.
The collapse of the Southern Confedera

The collapse OF Glo SOuCneEn COnIeQeTacy,
on the day Of the surrender at Appomattox
was not only the final end Of the final effort
for separation of the South from the North
as an independent country but it was also
the closing stroke of the irresistible forces per
forming the work of an 'irreversible revolution
throughout the length and breadth of each and
all of the States that had been engaged in the
movement for division Of the Union. The
destruction of the institution of slavery car.
ried with it the destruction Of the ten thou
sand other things that had been born with
that institution, that had been directly brought
into being by it, that had Indirectly arisen out
of the interests, the influences and the asso-
Citations logically gathering around it. So,
when slavery disappeared in the South, the
South became at once new land, with the
wrecks of old systems to be thrown out of the
way, and the remnants Of old theories, old
usages, and old traditions to be cast aside,
preparatory for the refuent tide bearing back
to helpless people the first good fruits and
the first encouraging hopes coming out Of the
revolution. ......
Seventeen years have now gone by since the
collapse Of the Confederacy, since the annihila-
tion Of slavery, since the Inauguration OF that
new order of things under which the South, at
first, wandered like blind man stunned by a
w,
er fresh strength and hope, and now, with
other methods, other views and other aspira-
tions, is striking straight to the front of a
great future, in which, she thinks she sees for
her people a prosperity and power transcend
ing the brightest dreams of the most sanguine
as well as the most sagaciOus OF her best men
of the olden times
In one way or another, the institution Of
slavery was interviewer with every interest,
with every industry, with every branch Of
business, with every department Of trade, with
every bone and sineW, and nerve and fibre OF
the economical, political and social systems Of
the South And Wl.tn it went down it carried
down, with crash, everything around it. It
was natural it was reasonable {; it was newt
able that under 80 sudden and sweeping a
stroke the Southern people should be tempora-
rily paralyged both in their energies and in
their hopes. The revolution was seen and felt
on every hand and in every thing. Desolation,
too, was everywhere. II was truly appalling
to look around in the South and see the almost
incredible transformations, which were palpa-
BILE even in the physical features of large dis
tricts of country where the war had ragged
longest and fercest. But with that indomita-
BILE spirit shown by the brave Anglo-Saxon on
both sides in our war, the men of the South
soon rallied from their depression, and no
where in history can there be shown grander
heroism on the part of any people, Of any time
or cline, than that exhibited by these South
ern people working their way to fortune again
out of the ruins Of the war 1t is truly won
derful spectacle, this resurgence of the South,
after such devastation as was visible every
where within her territorial limits less than
twenty years ago. 1t marks an epoch in the
annals of civilization, and illustrates the high
est capacities of man in mastering all clrcun-
stances with which misfortune may environ
him.
The South has done bravely, nobly, grandly,
in struggling upward and onward to take her
place as a great section again, rich in resources
Of every description, and aspiring to plane
of progress and power, unsurpassed in the
world. She recognizes the revolution and
the spirit of her people is responsive to the
new necessities with which it has confronted
them.-Ind,lstrial South, Richmond. ......i