Year: 1863

never be conquered that our indcpeud
ence is sure; and that, therefore, the
control of the resources of the country
will be in the control Of our own Gov
eminent and people-not of the Yankee
enemies.


They are all perfectly certain in Eu-
rope that their debt will be duly paid by
an independent people--not denied OF
dishonored by the conquerors Of crush
ed rebellion. just so, ii We get war
ships built in England, il is not that
Lord Russell, or the English Government
encourages the transaction, but that ship
builders in Liverpool or Glasgow caunot
be kept from doing an Illicit stroke OF
business for good employer If the
Confederacy is at a premium, she owes it
10 herself And so much the better. We
shall be all the more tree to run the grand
career which opens before us, and grasp
our own lofty destiny. Would that all
of us understood and laid TO heart the
true nature Of that career and that
destiny, and the responsibility il imposes.
TuC ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CoNFEDERA-
CT ls, VERIFY DISTINCT REACTION
AGMNsr THE WHOLE COURSE OF THE MIS-
TAKEN CIVILIZATION OF THE AGE. And
this is the true reason why we have been
left without the sympathy of the nations
until we conquered that sympathy with
the sharp edge of our sword. FoR "LAB-
ERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY" WE HAVE
DELlBERATELY SUBSTITUTED SLAVERY, SU-
BoRpINATIoN AND GovERNMEET, Those
social and political problems which rack
and torture modern society we have IN
dertaken TO solve for ourselves, in our
own way, and upon our own principles.
That among equals equality is rights
among those who are naturally unequal,
equality is chaos; THATTHER ARE SLAVE
RACES BORN TO SERVE, MASTER RACES BORN
TO GOVERN. Such are the fundamental
principles which we inherit from the an
cient world, which we lifted up in the
face of perverse generation that has
forgotten the wisdom of its fathers; by
those principles we live, and in their de-
fence we have shown ourselves ready TO
die. Reverently we feel that our Con-
fcderacy is God-sent missionary TO the
nations, with great truths TO preach. We
must speak them boldly; and whose hath
ea7s to hear let him hear. l.. D..


III he had been crushed in this mighty
struggle il would have been truly iudg
ment of Heaven against us and against
our cause. If we had gained that cause
easily, and il were without sanctfying IL
| with such baptism OF sacTiticlal blood,
and il the policy of foreign nations had
even induced them to interpose on our
behalf, and so saved US from this agony
and bloody sweat, our position at this
day had not been so high and clear; we
should neither so fully apprehend the
duty nor possess so completely the power
10 start in our proud career We should
then have had spectators" patrons and
Intermediates. We should never have
lifted our thoughts up TO the heights of
our great argument, and our national life
would have been but half life, an abor-
tionate compromise,


We start fair when our soldiers shall
have sheathed their bloody weap ms;
then will come the task Of our sages and
statesmen in building up society, and
utiering by word and act the truths
which are its base And thank God the
Oonfederates have some statesmen and
thinkers up TO the mark and level OF the
situation. There are men in these Con-
federate States who have 1 ng deeply felt
and earnestly striven 60 express, though
timidly and speoulatyely, on what foun-
dations Of facb with what corner agents
of principle, our social situation was one
day TO be built up fair ahd bright Now
is the time. Let them speak in no apolo-
go,ic tone, nor place US at their peril,
in any deprecatious attitude. This
people has won the right surely SO be
let alone They will accept no deduc-
ton in politics, in literature, in philoso


ply; they will not follow bat lead, not
borrow but lend, They are moro tlan
content with their own principle Of NOR
ais and way of life, and will stand upon
it TO the end SO help them God,