Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-12-31
what are They Fighting Fors

The New Ohsans Bee answers lis own question, wha:
are The Yankees fighting for by saying we take it that
the STALE and wre,ehed preeIt of preserving the Union
Is VET nigh abandoned. The only journals which yet
to cling 20 It apology for their baseness are
the Lincoln shsets in Kentucky and Missouri They, no
doubi in common with all others who their senses
aud inteee.s are aware tha, the UGion, as it was,
hls ceased be possibility and that any Uaion invOl
wing the idea Of equality orghts in the South CON-
ule;ey ont Of the question II il never existed The
North has given up the ides Of fighting for the Union
For what then IS Yanke,dnm fighting?
Thr are but two pc bla epliss to this uterrcglto-
~ First, f,r Vengeance; second for rapiue. Let Us
explain TIE North will never forgive the South for
eeding aud thus destroying that immense and lucrative
trade by which New York and Boston and Philadelphia
had been enriched. Let the terminate as it may
those ces have the of thsi prosperity end
mus, henceo-th dclue or remlin stationary This ca
Iny will result from tho Independence the Southern
OOuiederacy and rom determination to preserve az
few Commercial relations po7sbl' with our sremies
The latter furious and in their wrath that il
they must suffer- in the South shall be ruined with
them This is the mode in which the vengeance motive
Cp1rates.
wbsr i. VII the Federal Government becomes burdened
with debt of which the interest alone must be annually
met by heavy taxation. The people, weAriod and eI-
hsusted with sacrf ,es will be in CONDITION at tie
end Of prO,raeed contest submit to aud oaerous
contributions. Somebody mast pay the piper and who
90 e. as the power which, according to Federal auhOr.
", provoked the war; The South has four millions Of
slaves countless Of fertile territory and produces
annually cotton 70 the value of two hundred millions,
and sugar ard tobacco 10 than half that sum- TIE
North has ouy subiugate the South and eonscste all
THE together With houses AID lands, and bark slocF
and money and cattle and behold the expenses Of the
var are p,id This ia the mode in which the rapiQs
tive operates.
Thus We see that the Yankees care nothing about the
Union Il has eyel ceased TO be a Ca:ehword They
make war on Us because they insgaed by hatred
AMI rapaci,y-passons in perfect keeping With their
character and worthy Of their reputation These being
the impsing motives aud objects Of the va il there
we're no other reason why the Southern peops should
resist tvthe ls they Of Themselves enough. Could
they conquer they would at GUT their revenge
and crafty heir greed by wholesale puudsr. Uuder
the prete1t Of iudemuyfug themselves for the cost OF
the war they woud paupTzs the whole South aud lord
Il over her peopll with irsolSu, domination Who can
picture the shame and DEGRADATION, deeper and darker
than that which the dug Flero predicted for Venice
to whoh our people would be sui cted it possible
for the vulgar and yndicye race Of the North to obtain
the mastery over them, Happily, we feel occasion
to oouteppl,e the horiid idea possibility. Unless
we greatly mstlke the true Southern character there
would DO few left to figure in such scene.