Year: 1866

THE NORTH.


There are mauY persons in the South who
saw that the Confederate cause was hopeless
twelve months before the catastrophe came;
and they were anxious to drive a good bar
gain with the United States Government,
while our armies were still in the field. 1t
was perfectly obvious that General Lee would
have to leave Richmond in the fall of 1864;
and it plain that the abandonment OF
Virginia under the circumstances of the sit
uation at that time fatal. But there were
a great many very violent persons-that class
who never take counsel from anything but
their passions-who could and would see
nothing, and who still prate of the = last
man and the last dollar''-taking all the time
the same care which marked their course
throughout the war, to keep ont Of the army
themselves, and contine themselves to eXhOrta-
tions from bomb-proofs and comfortable
homes. These men We're generally great adj
mirers of Mr.. Davis, and applauded his Afri-
can Church speech, just after the failure OF
the negotiations at Fortress Monroe, in which
he said that 1--WE would soon teach the Yam
KEGS that we were their masters"-this at a
moment when every well-informed man of
sense knew that the thing was hopeless and
Mr. Stephens in despair (refusing to appear
with Messrs. Davis and Hunter at the Afri-
can church, had gone home. The crash was
so complete when it did come-though Just
In DrODOFGlOn tiS IL IdIl Dtch ScNl-luil
these people were utterly stunned, and have
said very little since, or only threatened to
migrate without the slightest intention of
doing so.


As these men were the most violent among
us during the war and the least bellgerent
on their own personal account, so now that
the fighting is over, we see that there are
great many people in Baltimore and New
York who are not satisfed-and regret that
the war closed so soon. We are told by such
persons that if the South had only held out,
she would have triumphed-and an enthusi-
astic relative of ours in Washington thinks
that General Lee and General Johnston de
served to be hung for surrendering. 1t we
could only have gotten these people here dur
ing hostilities, as there are great many OF
them we should have done a great deal bet
ter-and might by this time have been free
and independent nation. But it was diff
cult to get through the lines, and very un-
comfortable in the South and the opportunl-
tv was lost With disposition to remedy
the omission, they are very bitter now; they
seek to transfer the quarrel between the North
and the South from the tented field to the
mass meeting and the Copperhead newspa-
Ders: and they insist passionately on
Constitutional rights" and advise the South
to ''stand up,' as warmly, as II they intend
ed to do something for us-which they have
never done vet. ere is rs much bitterness
for the newspapers of this party against the
North in behalf of the South there used
to be in the Charleston Mercury or the Rich
mond Enquirer. They have by no means
done with the quarrel Their idea is that
the South can be set on its legs again and
make another fight Ifshe could he wallowed
and bitten still more terribly by the big dog
of the North-New York and Baltimore
Copperheads will only feel disappointed by
i. as sporting gentlemen are disappointed
when their terrier has been overnatched.-
They will smoke their cigars and sip their
wine-and try Fenianism. What becomes
of the terrier2 If they let him alone, per-
haps he aoiU get a0eW


The South has been whipped in this fight
fair and square-and after a splendid effort
Nobody laments the result more than we do
f Nobody has been more mortified at the
humiliation accompanying than we have
been. But there is the rugged tact. What


IS to be done? We are in the Union-we
are in the Union on compulsion- we
Ecannot get out of the Union. Fighting did
not get us out-and talking will not do it
now. Is the South to occupy a sullen atti-
tude, and spend her future railing at the
North-and grinding her teeth Is this
profitable-or dignifed2


All to whom the modification of our sit
uation is intolernble ought to 60 to Brazil: all
who can bear the idea of remaining here
ought to accept the situation broadly. That
is precisely Southern mans duty now; no
. whining, no cursing, no sentimentality, no
faint t-heartedness-but full realization of
the situation, and then-an acceptance or
rejection of it. If rejected, then the road is
to Brazil; if accepted, then, with trust in
God and submission to His will, the duty is
4 to become in good faith an American citi-
zen.


If the South is sectionaized again, our
troubles are not over. IF politicians engi-
neer the South into the position it occupied