Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-09-10
North and S.uth.

North ana SIuth.
The Richmond Whig says that mo people VINO
respect themselves can desire ASSOCIATION WIN
the Yankee race-no State that cherishes luue-
pendence can truat its fOrtunes to I 1anKee eo'ein
ment. One by one the buwarks OF STATE soVer'
eiuntvy and the muniment of individual liberty,
have been destroyed, till nothing remains worth
preserving. reign of terror prevails IN 'he
Yankee States and those subject to them' as
complete, if not get quite g" violent, as swept
over France in the days of Robespierre. AS one
of their own j,uf nails remarks, it requires out
one step more to inaugurate the scenes OF the
French revolution, when the guillotire was
perrennial fountain Of blood.
Men and women are daily arrested in Wash
ipgton. New York and Philadelphia Gays CO.
temporary, summing up the atrocities of the uspr-
pation.) and thrown into loathsome dungeons,
without warrant of law, and without being con-
fronted with their accusers advised OF the char
ses against them Journsls ere suppressed Tor
denouncing the action of the Government. Edl-
tors are lyuche6 and their printing offices de-
stroyed by the OBJ. Forced loans are demand
ed of the banks a system OF detectives is or
ganized at Washington, to dog the steps OF peac-
cable citizens, report to tie tyrants and arrest
persons suspected of opposing the usurper's will
No Neapolitan despotsm OF Spanish inquisitiop
ever exceeded, in the measure of its cruelty, the
present Dictatorship at Washington. The Doge's
dungeon in Venice, which yet stands monu-
ment of tyranny, is reproduced in Forts LaFay-
ette and Hamilton, names t! at are worthy OF a
more honorable fate. Tie Government OF the
United States is prosituted to the vilest purposes
of the most infamous men that ever walked the
earth. There is no such thing as public or indi.
vidual liberty in the United States. Men, to be
free must sing seEs to baboon and worship the
Government of usurpers. They must sanction
the most unholy war ever waged against a free
people. Tney must approve of the destruction
of their own liberties. They must become slaves,
in order to enj ~ exemption from lnolestatiop.
There is more in these arrests than meets the
eye 1t indicates deep and determined opposi'
tion to the acts of the Government, among the
wiser and more virtuous men of the North. III
evinces that the tyrants trembling cn their
thrones and fear the day of reckoning, which
will sweep them violently from their seats OF
power They feac not only the armies OF the
Confederate ates, which, in the language of q
member of the Cabinet are already "thundering
at the gates OF the Capitol They stand in awe
not merely of those gallant legions, which have
driven them like dogs bowling back to their
kennels from Bethel, Manassas and Oak Hill.-
But they fear the, as yet, unorganizsd masses 0
o;r xuho for
the doom of Beshazzar, and who will hold then
to just and stern accountability tor their crimes
They fear the rising indignation of an outraged
and down trodden people, who have been betray
ed by fear and excitement into an acquiescenc
in the usurper's acts, but who have not been ed
ucated in the short space OF five months to sup
port the yoke of an absolute despotism, aite
freedom from their fathers, and enjoyed il
blessings from their birth.
Meanwhile the Confederate States are cali
and impregnable But for the mastering {
troops which we see about Us every Day, W
should scarcely know that anything unusual wa
in progress. No man in the South complain
that his individual rights are tresspassed upon.-
No State feels that she is in danger of losing he
liberties. Our independence is a fact. Or
prosperity is beyoLd a contingency. The Mort
may hurl charge after charge upon us, but the
aGrand Armies will be routed and driven bacl
as fast as they come. Ere long foreign powel
will be seen marching on the field to salute th
victor, and demand, in the name of commerc,
humanity and civilization, for the sake Of th
world, the peaceful recognition of Southern inde
pendeIce.