Year: 1863

southern Idea of Governmont-IFa
tired OF Democratic Institution
and Love OF ArisOcracy.


The following articles, extracted from
three leading rebel journals, would seen
to give color of truth TO the report from
Paris, that the rebels congregated there
have agreed TO create an order Of noJiAiy
after the war is over consisting of Dukes
Earls, Counts, Marquises, &c:


From the -outhcrn (Rchmond) Literary messenger,


DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS MUST M
ERADIoATED -PEoPERTY QUALIFICATION.
The South is now engaged in a death
struggle with radical Democracy, the
willing instrument of consolidation in
the hands of an abolition olgarchv.
Ihat benign institution of SldUery, t0ltch II is
nol0 the pride and glory Of the South to as
c17be 10 tie Divinity and which war has
proven to be, next to the devoted patri.
otism and undaunted resolution of her
sons, Tho great element Of po,oer in The Con-
Jederdcy, will prove in preventing a too
heavy influx from foreign shores of that
class Of population devoted to menial
pursuits, another Jul,Oqyk AGAINST The en-
c'oacEasa Of those tendencies 10 denlocracu,
which have been the Pandora's box O
disintegration aud ruin to all republics
Confederate in form may our government
be Confederate in fact Republican in
name, let 10 not he Democratic IN ,eq1iiy.
First of all we should ever keep before
US, as the essential feature in the image
of perfect government, the State Rights
theory. That, rigidly adhered TO, will
avert the danger Of Capitalization of
power. Secondly, let as seek at once to
eradicate every Uestige Of radical democracy,
every feature tending to make ours a
popular government, making it subject
only to the intelligent and virtuous, and
those who are interested in its successful
administration.


One among the most important sub
jects claiming our attention will be the
STANDARD Of citizenship. Nahen the
struggle for independence is finished.
the door of our Janus closes in token of
the termination of the bloody strife
and the laurels of victory entwine the
brow of the youthful Confoderacy, we
cannot forget the duty of gratitude, and
deny the fullest privilege of citizenship
to any of the noble heroes who have res
cued us from the chains of servitude.
The gallant foreigners who have sustain
ed us in this pious struggle are all enti-
tied TO the common boon of liberty. But
no foreigner iOlo comes among as after the
struggle is oUsr should eUer enjoy the electiUe
franchise. II we cannot check the spread
over our territory Of that spawn of ig-
nOrance and crime which flows in endless
issue from the prisons and dens of cor
ruption in the marts OF Europe, we can
at least shut out its cankering effects
from the vitals of our body polite. We
sadly need too, a property qualification for
native as VeR as foreign. 1t is hardly ne
cessary to repeat the trite argument of
the greater interestedness of the proper
ty-holder in the successful administra-
ton of government, than of him who has
nothing at stake. We should
have two additional qualifications of
character for office. Offices are too easi-
ly obtained. There is too much room
for demagoguism, fraud and corruption.
Extremists in politics should be Stunned
as the Originators of partisan rancor and
sectional strife. Finally, zoe should cuytaH
uie number Of Q6iC rs electivs By the people
These, and we might suggest others, are
some of the features in social organism
which have occurred to us as sadly need
ing alteration.