Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1861-05-14
Tho North and the South.
10 tie E2itors Of Enquirer:

10 The En3tRFS o. enquirer:
LEXINGTON, Va, May II, 1861.
Many and g~ricvouS as Gre the injuries re
have suffered from the North, by palpable vio.
lations OF our constitutional rights, (s admit
ted by some of these States thcmsclveS.) These
constitute, by far, the least of the injuries OF
which VIC complain. The press, the pulpit
and the orators have, for years, exhausted the
vocabulary of B!llingsgatt, in heaping upon US
every cpithct by which they hoped to engen'
der, in the Northern mind, the most intense
hatred, malice and contempt against uS-naY
adherence. And for what Because we
maintain an Institution forced upon us at first
against our earnest circumstances, and contln-
ua!ly increased from Northern capital and by
Northern vessels-an institution existing when
the Constitution was adopted, with perhaps a
single State excepted in every other State OF
the then Confedcracy. Why did they not then
refuse Union, which they nos term, % league
with hell and Il compact with Death Sim
| Div because they were well ware that they
were too feeble to stand by themselves. Nor
is this the only instance which history records to
prove that the hypocritical prctcndcrs to supe-
rior sanctity and morality, never permit their
high and Pharisaical prctcnSiuls to interfere
With their interest. They coull, with 4 free
conscience, hold slaves as long rs they found
! them profitable, and carry on the slave trade,
loo, until prohibited by the very constitution
now pronounced by these riols hypo-
! critics to be- "a league with hell and
Il compact with death" These ART facts
which no Northern mind, not blinded by pre-
judicc, malice and hatred, can deny. If proof
were required, Us 10 the success OF the North,
in their continued and Jealous efforts tu en-
gender ~,ualicc, hatred aud i'll will, in their peo-
pie, towards the South, il may Inc found in the
brutal tone Of tlnir press, their pulpit and
| their oratOrs-.in their threats Of vengeance, to
which Indian barbarity would be mercy
| They breathe nothing but Servile inSurrec.
ton, plumber, determination, and rape
Can it be possible, that any civilized peo-
pie can be SO suddenly transformed into
demons, fit only for association with devils in
hell =? Yet, such seems to be the melancholy
fact. have lately seen an extract from 4
Wcstchcstcr paper, published in the Quaker
State OF Pennsylvania, which recommends
that when L;ucoln'S troops Of Beauty and
Booty morality, enter Baltimore, remarkable Tor
| handsome women, their motto should be,
| '.Beauty and Booty" That such 4 miscreant
| should be permitted to liy. a single hour, after
| the publication of such n brutal and atrocious
article, is proof positive, that Il community,
which cail tolerate such i wretch, is no better
than he is-brutual and corrupt, to the core.
I know not how Baltimore may fare, unpro-
tected as she is but thank Heaven, that US
far As Virginia is concerned, their ability to OK
ecu:e the brutal threats, uttered by this editor
in the State Of brotherly love. and the only less
brutal threats Of the New York press Of the
Greeley STRIPE, fall very lar s!!lorto their hell
| ish and ahhorrrI,t intentions. The troops whlch
pass into Virginia for such Il purpose, | aln
well persuaded. will leave Their bones to whlten
the fields of battle, il they have but the cour'
Age to mcvl the indignant and furious assault
which ti,cy may prepare themselves I" ell
| cUuuly,. ! S"i.uiEi: ur 1872.