St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-06-20
The Sacred Soil of Virginia"

been inspired by the occupation O
Alexandria by the Federal troops
The English language is put to it.
severest tension, and the more trucu
lent adjectivcs are fearfully lover
worked to express the indignation
horror, disgust, anger, and all tha
) terrible sort of thing, felt by the edi
, tors and the people whom they repre-
sent, over the invasion of the SACRED
soil of Virginia." The fret wonde
wonld seem to be that the Fedora
Government should dare to send
troops into Virginia and the second
that the world is allowed to stand long
enough to permit Virginia troops to
wipe out the everlasting disgrace of
it; and the third that the ground un-
der Alexandria does not open and
save the chivalry the trouble of fight.
ing. The Richmond Enquirer talks
about " besotted fanatics" and "Lin-
coin dcspotism," and the Examiner
says that Virginia is invaded by
"horles of thieves, robbers and assas-
sins in the pay of Abraham Lincoln" :"
and the Dispatch talks of the march
OF the myrmidons of federal power"
Even the good people of Alexandria
turn up their noses at the Zouavcs,
and think there should have been a
regiment Of gentlemen sent in their
place. 1t otlcnds them to have a
body Of fircmcn come "bctwecn the
wind and their nobility"
1t is useless to say anything of the
intention Of the chivalry to invade the
sacred soil of Pennsylvania, or the
sacred soil of the City of Washington
the property of the United States
Of America. 1t has been the policy
of the rebels from the first to take
what they wanted, do what seemed
best to them, and make great outcry
against the miIdcst protest. These
amiablc people have been stealing,
lynching and lying ever since they
commenced operations, but have howl
cd at the very thought of being
brought to account for it. But of all
this we have had enough. 1t is of
the peculiar sacredncss of the soil of
Virginia that we wish to say a word
If to become the tail of a conspira-
cy Of which South Carolina is the
head, and the tool of rebellion which
originated in other intesests than her
own, make her soil sacred, then it is
sacred. If to grow weak, and poor,
and mean, by a social system which
she hugs to herself as her only grand
source of wealth, makes her soil sacred.
then it is very sacred. If to hold in
her bosom the tomb of Washington
and long line Of Presidents of this
Republic, AMI to trample upon their
memories and curse and discard the |
institutions which they bequeathed to |
her, make Virginia soil sacred, then it
is very sacred indeed. If to usurp the
authority of the people, and drive
a secession vote at the point
of the bayonet, and sell out to a paper
and voluntarily consent
to make her soil n grave yard, gives
Virginia the right to claim peculiar
sacredness of soil, then she has it. If
a soil SO exhausted by negroes to such
an extent that negro-breeding is more
profitable than negro-labor, and so
profitable that black flesh is the lead
ng article Of export and income. is
oecullarly sacred, then is Virginia
soil peculiarly sacred. If State
without common schools, without
white labor, and with niggers as the
basis of all gcntility.
with lazlucss as the rule Of life, and
whskey for steady drink, be pecu-
.iarly sacred, then Jerusalem and
Mecca and all the holy places we read
ot are in no way to be compared with
Virginia for sacredncss.
There are sensible men in Virginia,
rs their acts nobly y show, but we
speak of the precious gentlemen who
are responsible for the rebellion in
hat State. 4 State that is not too
sacred for hatching treason, and
perjury, and arming itself
against Government which has new
II had anything but blessings for her,
S not too sacred for the occupation Of
Federal troops. This "sacred soil of
'lrginia,' which her miserable system
If labor has exhausted, has plenty of
white spaces, where trait
rs can be buried. 1t is indeed time
hat those arrogant fools in Virginia
nd elsewhere in the South have their
nouths stopped, and learn that the
utilization which they tlout, and, we :;
oubt not, honestly despisc, is the .
ighest type of civilization upon this
ointment. These Northern hordes,"
hese thieves, robbers and assas-
ms stirred by lofty patriotism,
'ill teach them how weak they are. !
Would to God there were some means
y which these lcather-heads could be ,.
ladc to know how proud, uscd-up
aporing, lazy, ignorant nigger-breed-
ng State, stnks in the nostriIs of the
ivilized world The sacred soil of '
'irginia Bah il