The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1860-12-04

From the Richmond Wlig
The Fire nd Blood Of Revolution.
That is the cue They propose to give Won
a taste of Mr.. Yascy's medicines. IL will 10
n nice little aperation. Sowing wheat is moth
ing to marketing time, and walking entity at
two o'clock in the night under a drzzling aln.
Shucking corn il fiat compared to charge Of
bayonets
You also will make your arrangements 20
have your barn-yards lit up at night with the
fires Of revolution. Set your boots at The
head of the bed for at any moment the sane
fires may be sputtering and cracking on the
roof If your dwelling house.
Glis,ening blyonets on the Sou'h bauk q"
tha Potomac in tront-buvning straw r,As
and burning houses misunderstanding wo.se
than that, perhaps, in the shape OF death
produced by invisible and uncomfortable
rencies-tha State deprived Of labor--those
laborers escaping 10y hundreds, or sold al ha''
their value in the South--your tio1s IN.
poughed-yoa public works ruined--!huI
depressed to the lowest fgure--Statc stock
Insurance stocks, Bank stocks, Railroad s,uc}s
hawked at a mere song-these would be tae
Immediate elects of the "Fire and Sword,
which Gov Wise proposes III LIS Norfolk
speech.
A peaceaJle dissolution Of the Uuion IS
sometimes suggested.
Let US allow that the result could be cl
fected peaccably.
The next thing we should want would be q
standing army. The John Brown affair cost
US 100000. Make the calculation.
You would maintain line Of posts al
along your frontier.
You woult also want navy, though Not-
folk only produces a few fishing smacks, eH
cept the vessels built there by order OF tn2
Government.
You would pay Southern Presideut--
with all the ordinary government Officials
You would pay a diplomatic corps.
You would have to pay for an independrut
Senate and House of Representative
for new Judiciary.
Perhaps you think all this would be reaIl
ly managed. They tell you, you are rich
We tell yoa, that no purely agricultural peo
pie ever was rich. The wealth of PhiIadeI
phia alone is equal to the entire wealth Of th"
State of Virginia.
Take the post-ofice alone. The totu. re
ceipts from the post.ofiices in Virginia l,r
Is57-5S was s242,95l. The expeudltuta,
wero S453,s46. In South Carolnl the t.
ceipts were SlOl,l45. The expcndi,urts
were s2S4,6OO. In Alabama the receipts
were Sl1l,092. The expenditures we,a
s24s,750. In Mississippi the receipt, wers
sss ,45s. The expenditures were s332.5Js.
Tn Arkansas the receipts were S35,721 49,
The expenditures wero S2i4,569. How
this defic ency made up nows Part Of IL !.
made up thus: The receipts III the StaDc q.
New York are 5l,45S,7lI; the expenditure
are Sl,l54,lll. In Massachusstt, the ro.
ceipts are S5G5, ,633, the expenditures a.e
s435,237. In most of the Northern : a,,-
there is deficit. But in all the Sou,u,m
States the deficit is enormous. The y. .'
Southern deficit is some $4,000.
Suppose, however, the Civil War dsros5
Of. Suppose the new government estabshod
Suppose US with our army, our navy, or Tor
tfcatons. Suppose us to have survived lha
shock with some slaves lef', and our drpjyca-
ted lands. What then We belong to
Southern Confederacy. The Cotton State.
begin an aggtation for the re-opening OF tl-
slave trade, or some cooIie system. Oar b.,
naming negroes are to compete, !. they So:
cacl in their schemes, with the NV .ar'..--
At ali events, we are still to be- Il ayc,.oH.-.
section as regards the CO.,ou States, sa....
has no trade with the other section. Nc ca.r
sill to have sectional quurcIs. IH.re a..
still 10 be charges and cOun, or-cuar-g, g,--,-
gressons an counter aggressioIs. We b.n.
not C, nluered peace.l
We have now two sections u plague "a.
On tn. frontier we have TO guard against tae
North. On the South We have to meet t..
extreme views OF the Gulf States. Aitcr
while, PERHAPS Virginia would have lost uar
slaves, aud She, with kentucky, Mary a3i,
Missouri, would be an anii-slavcry section
the Southern Republic.
If any one can find remedy Ia g.
Southern Cosfederacy. We see with dIielcur
eyes.
II does not follow from the icture We have
drawn, that we are insensible to the iupog
Of Lincoln's election. No one dclra,a e.
moro the success of a sectional party on a ,,,
lioual issue. No one attaches more oia.
tance to the idea of the South's being psy
in provincial relation to the goyerum a.
Our object is to point ont the b..4o t..
hat are to te encountered, il We seeh i.,H..,
ion
The whole question is, VIII thur II IS b..
% try such n medicine.
Revolution, in our opinion, i ".s,.,....
We are not ready for run We do 90, ...a
he case rs bad us that. Whru, "a, %
A Iamo, it is necessary for Virginia o. ,..
,ack to the wall, and to have as her oui,
ect ho destruction OF the greatest pu,.o.
lumber Of her enemies, before she HUs.E
laks under a multitude Of wounds, W. tut
hat every son Of Virginia viii die with hon...
Until this desperate alternative presents Itself,
We arc for maintaining the present. Govern.
ncnt.
No doubt many man feels lie Is grown.
II g.. gent of somaLolv IN toll linn daily thu