Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-05-30
The rssues of the Con test

We are told by northern presses that the republican hordes are marching 10 the "music of the Union" They claim to buckle on their almor to preserve the Union of their forelathers, and to guard the legacy received from revolutionary sires. The madness of Don QniXote never dreamed of any thing so chimerical as preserving T government of opinion by the arbitrament of the sword. The idea of rcsorting to q civil war to restore and preserve the Union is simply ridiculous. It is obviously only pretext for an attempt to subjugatc the South In the northern mind the madness of lanaticism is blended with the selfish purpose of robbing and pi!lasng the South This design is not less dattering than preposterous. By the thoughtlesS masses, led on by sensational papers and deceptive orators, the conquest of the Con- federate States is compared to the conquest of Peru by PizaTo, or of Mexico by Cortez. The rapidity and glory of the enterprise are only to be equalled by the abundance and richness ofthe spells. They have been taught to believe that while our sons are efe- minate and enervated, our women would re- ward their ruthless invaders and outshine Nourmahal of poetry. No pure, highs: truthful principle inspires the black reput lican rufians with manly resolves and the galIantry of genuine chivalry. Their in- stincts are as base and low bred as their ambition. Victims of miserable religious delusion, they will find out when it is too late that gentlemen are better soldiers than the unprincipled off.seourings of the uni verse.
 In direct contradiction to tisir foes, the soldiers of the South will fight for the purest and the greatest of all principles the principles of liberty, equality and self government. If other inducements are want. ing they will fight for our beautiful coun try, for their homes and iresides, for the sanctity of their altars and the purity of their wives and daughters. We have never blamed the father of Desdemona for his dislike to the dusky Moor, but the invasion of the South as the republicans propose to invade it, by turning our slaves against us, would produce scenes far more revolting,
 
 and would fire up the southern blood to the most desperate point of valor. The hordes of tbe invader would be scattered like au- +umn leaves before the Ithuriel spears of +ha South. The laurels of Chippewa would wither, and the traitorons lieutenant of Lincoln would be fortunate if some arm, nmore lucky than the rest" dil not draw mt the last drop of blood from his con eeaIing heart as q. libation to the cause of f.ooaon and of truth. Deeds of matchless valor and immortal glory will be achieved bv the brave defenders of southern soil.-Z Our soldiers may die, but they cannot be conouered. Never will they recognize which they have repudiated' and they defy the world in arms to subju- gate without destroying them.
 The issues of the contest are then made up-aggrandizement on the part of the North, liberty on the part of the South, are the leading motives. If the War must come. be it so, for "Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just" and if there be justice in Heaven, or valor on earth' 1he triumph of the South will be as complete as it will be glorious,