The weekly Butte record., 1861-08-17
The Great Cause .

The Great Cause.
We would call the special attention to the
extracts given below, taken, the first from Mr.
RusseTs letter to the London times, while al
Charleston the second from De Bows Re
view. De Bow is the statistician of the South
and his Review is the accepted exponent ol
Southern views and sentiments. political and
social, and in this crisis, is no doubt, the &C.
credited organ of the Southern oigarchy:
South Carolina was settled by gentlemen, y
whispered the Palmettoes in the ear of Mr.
Russel. 8 We are Patricians and gentlemen, "
writes pe Bow, while they are a nation OF
little shopkeepers, filthy, greasy mechanics,
small farmers, and men who have to work for
a living. We are Of the noble line of royal
booded Cavaliers. Jacobites and Huguenots.
who settled the South, and naturally hate.
contemn aud despise with loathng and abhor-
renee the Purltans, filthy, whisky drinking
Irish, dirty, sour kraut Dutch, beastIy, bull.
dog English, the scum of European society
generally, that had to leave their country for
their coun'rys good, who settled the North
We are the descendants of master races, who
were born to rule; they of the Saxon serfs,
who wore rings of brass in their noses as a
token oil their servlliiy to our fathers, the
Norman patricians. We are the most aristo.
cratic people in the world. Pride Of caste aud
color and privilege makes every white man
South an aristocrat in feeling. And aristoc-
racy is the only safeguard of liberty. Better
thousand times better--to come under the
dominion of free niggers or gipsies, than of
beasty Yankees, sour-kraut Dutch, lousy Irish.
or filthy Canadians. Gipsies and free niggers
have many amiabe, noble and generous traits.
but this reeking scum of creation have none l''
And so chime in the Southern press The
seyerest calamity which the war. they say, has
brought upon them, is that Southern gentlemen
are forced to engage in conflict with common
firemen, Dutch and Irish. We should have
sent nobody down there but such men as
John Jacob Asor, Wm. II. Aspinwall, James
BoOrman. Anson q. Phelps, Edward Everett
Samuel Appleton, Alex. Duncan, and the like
1t was grass outrage to muster farmers me
chancs aud trades people into the Federal ar
mics. None but the elite of Broadway Cestnut
street or State street, are worthy to become
food for powder with such dainty and fastid
Gus foes The idea that the Southern people
are descended from different race from The
Northern people is a gross absurdity, and
scarcely worthy of serious consideration. The
Americans are a compost race. They are
sprung from the amagamation of all the races
of Europe and to that fact is to be attributed
the great progress which they have made. The
Romans were composite race and the Romans
once ruled the world. The English are a com
posite race and the English have for centuries
been in the front rank of nations. The Amer
leans are composite race, and have, or had
before this conspiracy was concocled, a desti-
ny before them which the most exuberant
imagination would fail to portray
In the Azecs and the Chineses we have ex-
ampes of what pure blood will do. BY con-
slant intermarrlage they, or any race of the
human family, WILL in time, become dwarfed
both in mind and body. But this Norman pre-
tension becomes still more absurd when the
names of those who are the leaders of the re-
bellion are taken into consideration. Is Davis
a Norman? Can Toombs be a descendant of
that naughty race, and Ben McCulloch, and
Pickens, and, oh shade of William the Con
qucror Wigfall, too?
REMEMBER that one of the Dixie candidates
for the Assembly promised his party as gori-
Gus victory in September as that they
achieved at Bulls Run, July Dist, if all hands
would work as well as he would Rally
Democrats to the support Of the Bulls Run
ticket. Beauregard is a National Democrat,
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