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“ During the past twelve years, the en
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ed by the members of the family, four of
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assuming the position of a publisher ol a
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apprehension that it may be asserted by
some of my friends, that I am passing
beyond the legitimate sphere which con
ventionalism has assigned to my sex; but,
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and, from early childhood having devoted
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gaging practically in the work, making
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tails of the business; knowing no ether
employment by which to secure a liveli
hood for myself and a support for my
father, in his enfeebled and declining
years; and scorning to become an idler in
these days of my country’s dreadful need,
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( Note —The following article having been
accidently mixed up, or unmixed in the
editorial page, we give it a place corrected
on this side of the paper. — Pub.]
SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE.
At the risk of being styled weari
some, we deem it our duty to keep this
subject, threadbare though it be, before
our people. They can be independent of
the North. They can be independent of
the world—if they really wish to be.
They have their destiny in their own
hands. They have all the facilities and
resources for establishing one of the
grandest and most prosperous Nations on
the globe; and, if they do not succeed in
so doing, it will be their own fault. We
are gratified to see that the Press of the
South is awakening to the importance of
this subject, and is urging the necessity
of action on the part of our people. We
hope that wc shall not alarm our timorous
brethren of the South, or our affectionate
brethren of the North. We don’t pro
pose another war. We have tried that,
and failed. But there is a plan and a
policy by which the South can secure its
independence, commercially, agricultu
rally, and mechanically, and that plan is
so plainly and briefly set forth in the follow
ing article from the Macon (Ga.) Journal
& Messenger, that we cheerfully give it
a place in our columns, and ask for it an
attentive perusal,and careful consideration
of our readers :
Independence. —The true policy of
the South is to assert its agricultural,
mechanical, and manufacturing indepen
dence of the world. This can be done :
Ist. Bv making on our own soil every
thing we consume for the support of
life. Our fruitful fields and genial cli
mate invite us to do so. Georgia can
produce its bread, its meat, its
vegetables, its fruits, its beer, and its
wine. Its forests arc full of game, and
its coast abounds with fish and oysters.
Why should we go abroad for food ?
2. By giving encouragement to our
own home mechanics, and by stimulating
every form of productive industry. By
encouraging our boys, now growing up,
to devote themselves to the mechani
nal arts ; and by giving the honors of
social and civil life to those who prove
themselves most worthy by doing most
to develope these arts in the South. The
mines, and the forests, and the fields of
the South yield us the needed material
for mechanical productions of every kind,
and in sufficient abundance to supply the
world.
3d. By developing our vast resources
in water power for the purpose of estab
lishing manufactories of every grade, by
which our leading staple may be pre
pared tor consumption —not by making
coarse fabrics only, but by manufacturing
the finest cotton goods, in every style and
variety. It is hardly necessary to argue
the advantages the South enjoys tor such
work. These will be enhanced greatly
when we become the cheapest food-pro
ducing portion of the land, as we are ca
pable of becoming.
The South needs nothing but giod
Government, and the following of a wise
policy, with economy and industry on
the part of the people, to make her inde
pendent of the world.
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
Activity i?i the Religious World —“ The
Right of Private Judgment ” — Dr.
Ewer and Dr. Tyng—Convention of
“the Christian Church”—deformed
Jews—Their Temple—A New and
Superb Cathedral—A Holy Row in
Washington City—Political Row —
Wendell Phillips on Southern Power
and Influence —Extracts from his
Paper—A Ludicrous Election Inci
dent—Society's Winter Campaign—-
The Tendency of Amusement.
New York, Nov. 20th, 1868.
Banner of the South:
There is considerable activity here in
the Religious world. A Dr. Ewer—a 1
neat, natty, well-moustachioed young
Episcopal Clergyman—is delivering a
course of lectures, which assert that Pro
testantism is a failure, and, as his brethren
pour hot shot into him, it makes things
rather lively. According to the Doctor,
the “right of private judgment” is all
wrong; for Religion is what it is, and
not what this individual, or that, may
think that it is. This being Catholic
doctrine, it would seem that Dr. Ewer
would go over to Catholicity; but, so far
from this, he proclaims “Popery” almost
as far wrong as Protestant ism ; and it,
therefore, remains to be seen whether, the
two main Creeds of Christendom being
in his mind incorrect, he will be so good
as to furnish us a third that will be all
right.
Next to Dr. Ewer, conies the Rev.
Stephen 11. Tyng, Jr., another comely
young Episcopal Clergyman, who, by no
means, likes his Church, and yet will not
ease his conscience by getting out of it.
Mr. T.’s mania is to contravene the
Canons he is under every obligation, as an
Episcopal Clergyman, to obey; and then,
when the infraction of those Church laws
provokes punishment, to cry out, persecu
tion. Ilis plea is that he should preach
everywhere, since the Divine commission
was to go into all the world ; but, while
rampaging off into Nev/ Jersey and Con
necticut pulpits, it is hinted that the
Reverend gentleman largely neglects his
owil Far be it from me to judge him;
only, if the Episcopal Church is so very
hard upon his conscience, why don’t he
leave ?
A day cr two since, there was a Con- 1
vention of “the Christian Church” in
session here, Henry Ward Beecher as
prime mover ; but, if the assemb’age did
anything of a theological nature, beyond
pass a vote of thanks to Gen, Grant for
the successful manner in which he has
been cheated into the Presidency, T do
not know it.
Coming to the faith of Abraham,
I>aac, and Jacob, mention must be made
of a diversity of religious sentiment which
has led to a denomination of Reformed
Jews, bearing the same relation to the
ordinary Hebrew laith as is borne by
Unitarianism to orthodox Christianity.
The Reformed Hebrews have a magnifi
cent Synagogue, or rather “Temple,” as it
is styled, on the Fifth Avenue. The
music is superb, and the edifice a noble
triumph of the Moresque style of Archi
tecture. The walls and ceiling are the
richest Arabesque in many hues, gold,
silver, crimson, purple, and so on, and
the costliest variegated marbles are
largely used on the door lintels and on the
columns supporting the fretted roof.
Through the deep stained windows the
sunlight pours its mellow' floods, aud,
what with the gorgeous spectacular tout
ensemble and tie sonorous roll of the
ancient Hebrew used in the services, an
hour in the “Temple” is quite impressive.
Not far from this edifice, is a superb
Cathedral now going up. The material
is the purest white marble, and already
the huge structure gives evidence of sur
passing elegance when complete. It will,
probably, be the most exquisitely beauti
ful building in this great city, aud amply
reflect the power and magnitude of that
Catholic Church to whose services it is to
be dedicated.
With this, as to Religion here, it may
be as well to speak of a holy “row” now
progressing in Washington City, between
Dr. Boynton, a Congregational Minister,
and Chaplain to the U. S. House of
Representatives, and Gen. 0.0. Howard,
of the Freedmen’s Bureau. The General
is a great light among the “loil,” and the
occasion of his assault on the Parson is
understood to be, that the Reverend
gentleman is not willing to have his
Church amalgamated by an influx of
Negro members. This, the Commissioner
of the “National” Soup House stoutly re
sists. His pets are above all price, a > ,j
unless they can be brought into the
Church on a footing of perfect equality
with the whites, it it probable that the
Soup House man will turn out to be a
“Rebel,” after all, and secede from the
Doctor’s flock, whereof he is now a leader,
even as the lie-goat leads the sheep ( >n
the hills of Zion. Selak ! Latest ac
counts represent the war as very fierce,
but, with the edds upon the Parson’s
side. Quite a number of preachers from
other cities have gone to Vv ashington to
“let us have peace”; but, as two hundred
and fifty of the Congregation side with
the Clergyman, and only si venty with the
Soup House man, it is probable the latter
will be “subjugated.”
Passing from rows polemic, let nm
come to rows political. Wendell Phillips
is said, and perhaps justly, to be “the
’man who furnishes the Radical party
with brains,” and, in the last number
of his organ, The Anti-Slavery Stan],
ard, I find an article, over his signature,
which strongly confirms the view I had
the honor to express to the Banner of
the South in a late letter, to-wit: that
the South was not powerless, and that, if
she would but oust the wretched fossils
who, at present, encumber her State
Committees, and raise the cry, Let us
alone, or we will bankrupt you by per
petual agitation, she would succeed in
obtaining the precious liberty of local
self-government. Phillip’s article begins
thus :
“Some Republicans imagine that the
great battle has been fought. We think
that there has been only a skirmish for
position. The two armies have measured
their swords in a struggle for the best
position on the field. The Republicans
have succeeded, and hold the point of
vantage, that is, the Government. To
morrow comes the fight. Whether‘2c
vwrrovf ’ means the next two years, or
1872, no one can tell. In numbers, the
armies are about equal. It is most
alarming to see that, with a moboerat
rebel, like Seymour, for candidate, and
a platform dictated by Forrest and Wade
Hamplon.Jhe Democratic vote was not
800,000 less than the Republican, in a
mass of more than four million votes; the
Republican majority being about six per
cent, of the whole vote. With such an
enormous minority gravitating toward
rebeldom, the future of the country is
critical.”
You will see hero, from these declara
tions of astonishment and dismay, that it
is no time now fur the South to whine
about “accepting the situation,” but,
rather, to up and at 'em; to say that, so
far from beiug weak, Democracy is strong,
and, so far from acquiescing iu Negro
Suffrage, or other such .measures of per
petual shame and discord, it has but just
commenced to fight them, and means,
whatever its intermediate reverses, to
whip them in the end.
To still further confirm the vital pro
priety of this course, 1 have yet another
extract from this Anti-Slavery Standard.
It is as follows :
“We must consider that the Southern
men are not to be converted by the elec
tion of Gen. Grant. It only compels
them to fall back into a sullen attitude of
observation, to nurse wariness at the in
exhaustible breast of hatred, and watch it
growing up to its chances. The vigor of
their campaigns might teach and warn
us that they are not babes, to be made
over in a year, to be morally reconstruct
ed by the preponderance of a Northern
vote. Our soldiers who used to come
home furloughed from the front, said:
‘ The Rebels stand—stand —in solid
masses, giving and taking tremendous
blows, and never being shoved an inch.’
Nor are they shoved an inch by all the
votes that Grant could concentrate.”
Not an inch, you old rogue. You arc
perfectly right about that. The true
South does not .mean to acquiesce in
Negro equality, whatever some timid,
doting old leaders, or greedy politicians,
or weak-kneed papers, may do. These
“Rebels,” as you cull them, are shoulder
to shoulder for liberty, and mean to whip
you yet.
But, enough of politics, and, with oae
ludicrous election incident, I will close.
As the returns reach here, the following
exhibit appears :
STATE OF GEORGIA.
Counties. Seymour. Grant.
Camden 100 1
Columbia 1,120 1
Randolph 969 1
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
Parishes. Seymour. Grant.
Bienville 1,355 1
Bossier 1,635
Caddo 2,895
Morehouse 1,525 1
St. Bernard 482 1
Union ...» 1,416 f
The joke of this is, that the one vote