The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-08-17
The Ruling Race.
From The Richmond WhlR. July o.

lErCm Ine hicnmOn0 wing, July x3.1
We are too close aud too much Influenced BY
the great events which are passing to indulge
much in phlosophizing. But the rout and dis
persion, at the great pitched battle near Man
assas bring into bold relief the fact that the Yam.
KEGS are humbugs, and that the snhite people of
the slaveholding States are the true masters
the re al rulers of this continent. Under every
disadvantage on our side, the preparations for
the combat we're made. The Northern States
had seized upon all the common property Of the
partnership, they monopolized the whole navy
and army aud all the material with the entire
machinery Of Government in full operation: and
boosted that they had an inexhaustible supply
of men and money to wage an interminable war
For months, with all these advantages, they
have been diligently engaged in organizing their
forces. h jt
Under the direction of the most Wanted mill
tary character of the age-nOt Of their creation
though-for they have never produced genius
capable of anyt thing beyond arranging q hotel,
or working a steam engine, or directing some
base mechanical contriyance-they expended
millions Of money and drilled armies of 800, 900
and equipped them in style unheard of in the
annals of war. They met the rude and poorly
equipped volunteers Of the Southern States, drawn
from their peaceful vooatlons for the FIRST time,
to the theatre of war; and they are routed and
slain by the thousand, and driven like chat be.
fore high wind. Though guided BY the high
est military talent-of Virginia, short-gra
growth-they have nothing to rely upon but
their numbers, and that in the flight, proves an
element Of weakness.
The fact is the Yankees are very little better
than Chinese. They lay the same stress on the
jingle Of their dollars that the Celestials do on
the noise of their gongs. Originally endowed
with no single aniable trait, they have cultivat.
ed the arts of m0ney-getting and cheating, until
gain has BECOME their God, and they imagine
1t to be omnipotent. With money in their pock.
cts, won from generous and ohiyalrous race
and mnltitudinous as Norway rates, they are
swollen With conceit, and fancied that they we're
mt for empire. And yet they do not possess one
gentlemanly attribute, nora single talent that
qualified them for war. OF the very first elements
they are destitute. They don't even know how
70 ride horse-a talent only to be acquired in
youth any gentle avocations And as to arms
ninety nine out of hundred never shot gun
and We have it on very good authority that Old
scott lost all patience in attempting to teach
them how to load gun. The vile old wretch d
lie reaps just reward for his treason and his
talents misapplied.
The breakdown of the Yankees, their utser
unntness for empire, forces dominion upou M of
the south. We are compelled to take the seen.
ser' and it is our duty TO prepare ourselyrs to
WELD Il With dignity and effect We must ad.Dt
ourselves 70 our destiney. We must elevate OUT
race, every man Of it-breed them up to arms. to \
command-to empire. The art military ehould
constltnts leading part Of every white mans Cd
ueanon. The right of voting should be high !
privilege 70 DO enjoyed by those who are worthy
e exercise It In . word the whole white popu
!atiop Of the South shosld be brought into a
highitoned aristocracy, duly impressed Will,
sense ofits superiority TO Yankee trickery; and
Of own functions, and H. obligations 70 free.
dom and civilization.