The Tri-Weekly Journal, 1865-06-14

? ' 1 omaly in the history of llie conquered nations. Let the autipathy. and dislike engendered in the hearts of the Northern people bo what it may towards the South and her institution heretofore, we cannot one ou rage the thought of the govorniuent endorsing the vile calumny heaped upon us as a people, by the press. Before the war the white class of population of the South were, in a social acd political point of view, tree and equal with the whites at the North: while the black nice here, constituting a very large portion oft he population, were on a social level in most cases, scarcely above the native African; and enjoyed 110 political privileges whatever. v Through the fortunes of a great and terrible w, this black element, is supposscdio Uhy.clUoeu.sudden.** Jy transferred into the scale of social being, as the equal in all rights and immunities which his former master enjoyed ia common with the whiles of the free Stales, while by the press of the North this master is outlawed as a criminal of the highest ofter; is placed subservient lo his late slave; is ostracized and dist'l anchised, and his properly, property procured by years of toil, is supposed to be confiscated and appropriated. To add to all this tlie mind of the former bondsmen is poisoned uga.nsihis former master, and

I 3 , , . . replace his fences, buildings, implements, and animals, when it is certain that a single year's crop would not refund the outlay, and uncertain whether before tiro crop is gathered, he may not be ousted from possession. While things continue' in this state, South- . cm industry cannot revive. The West loses its. best market; the East loses a profitable field, for the investment of capital; 'the Govern-;!' merit loses the revenue which might he col j lected from a prosperous communiiv. When ; the SOuth is impoverish and the West unp'ms- f perousj'how is cuiploy merit to be found for the! hundreds of thousands of .men ^thrown loose'! by the cessation of the wnr<? JJcfore we can j employ the surplus laborers wc^hall presently j havejou our hands, we must see a prospect of' market. No sound business man will manu , factum for the Southern market until he sees a chance that the South will be able to pay for goods; nor manufacture" largely for the West till lie sees a possibility of the West finding a market for its pork and grain. The chief thing to be done now, at this present time, is for the Government to render it possi -

settled 'as speedily as possible. His idcais to *| have tlio different rebel States repeal the ordi- ' nances of secession^ nd accept the Constitution S of the United States and vote on the constitutional amendment, lie expresses the opijiflMi 1 that the seceding States will not pass acknowledged that his Milledgeville spi/sdli. wa* almost prophetic, and that he went TOffn the: popular current to prevent any c'::?lt DOtweca himself and Toombs, lie appears'to. : have uo-. concern for himself; says he is only anxious to secure as honorable terms as possible foV his. btite and people, the majority of whom, besays, never were secessionists, Ho is bent over very much, his hair is nearly white, his voice-, is lower and not so shrill as formerly, and his-.'^ hand trembles when lie uses it; but he talks as ' " smoothly as ever, and his eyes flash as in days gone by? . . France and Frenchmen.?In France the roads are poor, the fences arc light tind. fauciful, the bridges, though beautiful, Jaclc

taught to look upon him (liis only true friend) us his enemy. TheNcw York Herald and Tribune arc constantly heaping their inexhaustible store of epithets in coloring our 'treason,'' ami vocabularies of vengeance aid sacked for punishment, of 'rebels.'1 Horror alter horror is recounted among their tales of woe, ami no misery is great enough for those, who, pleading f> >r the .principles of tho common constituiion, sought to govern themselves. This desire, to tho more o.'VccUtally latin us, and hold us up as objects of.splcDn and contempt, fas descended not only from the political forum to the pulpit, but small bodies of families tiro holding assemblages with fi view of deriding us, mid'refusing the return home of nutuy of those who were enraged in the late struggle. We are amongst those who have and are now enjoying the liberty of the press, hut wh.ro that liberty is abused and renders itself suicidal to the best and dearest interests of

ngatiTig was commcmiy conuensea into u. single sentence,viz; that the West would never relinquish its .right to the Missisippi. The Mississippi is valuaablc only as affording a cheap and commodious route to a market.? What market ? Not mainly the the Western Indies; for the consumption of Western products is comparatively small in those islands. ' Not Europe, most certainly; for the route is too circuitous. The best market the West ever had is the South itself. The products of the West are too heavy and bulky in proportion to their value for distant exportation. The "likturai cfrcut oi American" craue7s :V convert* the grain and pork of the West into cotton, tobacco, and other Southern staples, by, feed- J ing the population which grows f.hwp staples, I and then exporting the fruits of Western agri-1 culture in this less bulky form, which not only ! eaves great expense of freight, but insures the ' certainty of a market. Whether grain will bo j

campjey; tcesijay, jure is. .. tVe aro in receipt of several topics of tho Charleston Court'w, of hue dales, through tho courtesy of iMessrd. W. G. C(j.i;rv.n"i:v aud II. B. Chapman. fiie Skxtihentoftije NonTHEiix Press.?If the sentiment contained in the few Northern papers which have reached us bo illustrative of the universal feeling amongour late enemies .vo must coucludc that the most wretched and intolerable fate lias b^alleu the South in its subjugation that ever law been motod out to a nation. In tho dark and ennly ages of the world, captives in the subjugated provinces were generally held and treated as slaves by conquerors. '.Niescyiu uiuiiy cases, were the peers or'equals of the captives, and iti their subjugation bad nothing to expect but a state ul' slurry. The subjugated people of the South aC-'Online to the Northern nrpss. rircsenr. nmv nn an -

lho government who permit its exigence, v?v think lliiit government should adopt measures to suppress it. * J f this state 01 things bo permitted to exist,and we of Lho South are forever to be subjects of derision and contempt. regrets will uo doubt spring up in the hearts of itmny tlint they did uot pursue the policy which ' lho Indian Legend tells us was adopted by tho last , tribe of the gulf, which sooner than submit to their , foes, passed, with tho last vestige of their raoe, into , lltesaa, and where now, on our own Southern coast at ] times may be hoard their mourning dirge. Niagara! Niagara! o'er much of Mother ; K.-u ill, And mu'-h of Father Ocean, I Lave stamp'J it 1 from my birth; 1 I*-?: ii' V'T l:av.- 1 witness'd, from old Gotham : ? I Vni, 1 .ituti- play the "dropgauni" as completely > us y ou do.