Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-11-06
RICHMOND WHIG.
THE wAR-Irs EFFECTs ON. SLAVERY AND
SLAVES

sLANEo
To The Editor of he Whig:
We hsve indications, from all quarters Of the North,
Of the deep settled and eternal hostility Of that section to
the institution delivery. Bu. for Kenucky-Femonts
proclamation, giving freedom TO the slaves Of rebels,
would this day be the rayipg cry Of the Yankee enemy
Kentucky IL not yet In chains When she has been used
to subserye Yankee purposes then she will see her folly
All cllsas the North for some reason Of their own
seek the freedom Of the saves and the ruin OF the South
The rulmsd fanatic fances himself the instrument Of an
angry God avsnge the wrongs done to the save and
to strike the shackles from his feet The Yankee pod
clan is mesu mercenary creature and is locked upon
as sucs by the proud high minded Southerner hence he
desp the whole slave holding The capitalists Of
the North that slavery made use OF by polite 10
get into power aud that it to be always the source oil
fnarcsl difficulties. These mercepary wretches are,
therefore, for removing the cause Of their difficulties
The Yankee laborer lives 10 hard climate, and upon
barren so-he wants to dive GU. the negro and take h
place All OF these classes are blended together, and
now wage and will forever wage war OF eIerminAtoh
sans. the institutions the South unless there aguh
fixed between North and South deep that which sep
a,a,es Heaven and He'll Between the two sections there
is and can be, no oongeniay. There Is, and can De,
nothing but dstrust bitter rivalry, and intense hatred
The bypocritca pretence OF religious adherence OF
slavery, and of sympathy for .he slave, d.csives no
one not even the poor ssve himself Golfer has bad
some opportunities of knowing the metal OF Ytnkees by
vha, he knows Of Yankee masters and TO his cost he
has found them 70 be cruel and eKacng TO the last de-
gree.
Let Lncoln Fremont, Seward Co., tell the slaves Of
Virginia tla they "ccme to set the captive fres-and
that 10 do So they willing to spend ~ 400 900 per
day and sacrifice the braves and best Of their own men
Will they believe its The most stupid OF the whole Al
caa race could not be made 10 believe tia this stuper
dous scheme OF phIanthrophy did not have its origin in
the mt :: holow-heared sel6shnesP Well, the Yankees
first rallied their to redeem the honor oil their hg
Then the cry went forth, "the CAPITAL is in danger
When Ksnucky Is decided Sdy or the Other, then
we will tear their last rdllying cry-Down with sh-
very! Freedom TO the slave This Is wi a, the Yam
kee has long ayed for and the South will as certainly
bear this warcry as the night follows the Gay. Let
the CRY be raised-SewaId fs: whispered IL, Fremont
Ia proclaimed IT, Sumner Is reverberstng IT, Who
will be hurt by ts None bu, those stupid men on the
border who believe In the omnipoeree Of numbers--
The poor stupid Alroin will only cling to his master the
more closely. Why, Mr.. Editor when this war wa.
sp ken of twelve months ago, there we're many who
feared that our slaves would join the Yankees BIT,
via. las been the resu Our slaves have never been
more submissive, more obedieni, more falthial The
writer Of this bas no. been without an overseer until
NOW for more than twenty years. aud he can truly say
that he never had order bis premises he rever
had more work done and better work done, and be has
not had occasion single time for correciinga slave for
m'sismeanor. Oar slaves our true friends; they
know Il a. the Yankees wish to give them their freedom,
but they also know a after their asters ruin Is coz
summs ed, cuffse will be handled without msrcy.-
The doom OF the Yankee race IL writ.on, "Thou art
weighed in tho balances and found wanting" Lat them
arht and rave on "Psds goeth before destruction, and
tsaehty spirit before q AL" The South ta seen her
worst the North Is but at the beginning ot her troubles