The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-05-11

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declare that the South, even now, has been in
moro danger from the articles and deceit Of her
enemies. combined with her own rredulity, than
from their whole eighteen millions in arms
What was tho course of things which this
war has interrupted, and, we hope, defeated
forever! Ii was the gradual and enduring
subjugation Of the South through tho arts of
peace, and under the semblance Of friendship;
but none the less certain and dangerous be-
cause pacific and unobserved. The open war
Of subjugation is a ohild's play, compared to
tho insidious policy which had already begun
to exert its benumbing influence upon the po-
litcal, social and even physical capacities OF
the Southern States which had insinuated its
virus into sections Of slaveholding Virginia,
Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri, and was
breathing upon every gale that moral miasma
whose seeds Of death might ultimately have
taken root in our genial soil, and which had
fixed it's serpent gaze upon the fierce eye Of
the Southern eagle, till tho proud bird seemed
ready to fall into the sleep of death. What
department Of human enterprise had it not
monopolzcd and driven Of oil competition?
What vein Of the South had it not fastened
on with the appetite of bloodsucker!
We need not speak of the FIVE hundred mil
lions Of tribute which the cotton folds of the
South yield the North, and of the magnif-
cent commerce and splendid opulence which
Northern cities derive from that great South
ern staple, whilst the South itself ha. scarcely
Al. a., Ill
harbor. are as solitary a. the water. Of old
Tyre.l But look about you; think Of every
article of furniture in your houses, and of
clothing and ornament upon your person;
cvery agricultural implement, every article of
use in every department Of business and trade,
and every ono has been bought Of Northern
manufacturers. Yet this has been the very
least and smallest Of tho evils. Our whole
literature has been manufactured for us at the
North-lot only books, but, what is more in
fuential journals, weekly journals, pictorial
newspapers. sold in our own streets, and find
ing their way into every Southern family, not
one Of which had any other tendency than to
darken the conscience and corrupt the morals
Of the community. We soc what Northern So
cisty is from tho revelations which they have
made Of themselves in the present excitement
from the psrady Of our protested friends
from tho unblushing dabolism Of our enemies
from the recommendations Of the public press
fer suoh devilish deeds Of crime and cruelty as
were never heard Of in the annals of war,
uhIst scarcely eoics Is raised from any so
onIf~4 an al
these recommendations; from tho watchwords
'boauty and booty" proclaimed in the news
papers and posted in placards upon the walls
and yet, it is from this seething cauldron OF
moral denominations, this modern Sodom OF
the world, that a weekly and daily literature
has been soun broadcast over the South, which
inculcated no reverence for God nor man,
which insidiou.ly assaulted tho foundations o!
virtue, which clothed vice in enticing coors
and was well calculated to allure tho unrefect-
ing young men Of our cities to undervalue The
high moral tone of their Southern homes, and
become materialistic, sensual, unprincipled
infdel.
The open abolition journals ofthe North, com,
pared with these literary weeklies and othe,
productions of the Northern press, are bu
the rufian who attacks you openly with
bludgeon at mid day to the poisoner who put.
In your very bread the means of your destruc
ton. When, therefore, tho North threaten:
Us with war Of subjugation, we reply that il
is war which has boon waged upon Us fol
years with weapons far more dangerous than
any now in its hands, and that in changing
the policy of that war from the traitors kis:
TO bis drawn sword, it has committed blum.
der which it will one day deplore more than
all its crimes.
In any aspect Of the case, the OPEN war o
subjugation is II BLUSDHR, such as no shrewc
practical people ever committed before
since the world was made. They had III
bound 80 fast in tho meshes of their trade tina
we could not stir hand or foot; We sat with
open mouths and folded hands, whilst ou
golden soil (Which they new say is worth ex
pending 100000, 600 a year to keep wa;
made their tributary in every way and shape
leaving us nothing for our own share but bread
and meat, plain houses, small towns, aud silen
harbors; they stuck like lamprey cells to every
vein Of the South that had a drop of blood il
IL they even induced US to spend in Northern
summer visits what few dollars were left aftel
paying our enormous annual toll to the Yankee
tax gatherer; and now, suddenly, in a fit Of
crazy rage, they determine to throw away al
the Immense couquests they had made in thei
pacific means of subjugation, to cut open tn,
goose that laid the golden egg, and to max
as bitter and implaeable enemies as long
We live; or, if we die, to deprive themselves o
Their best customers, give up the fertile SoutI
to sterility and solitude, and leave nobody
rom the Potomac to the Gulf, whom they ca,
possibly eaJole, cheat and plumber any more
o>u!d they triumph, as they propose. coul,
they sxterminate us, As they threaten coul,
they abolish our domestic institutions. a, the,
desire, what would Yankee Doodle do for ems
toners and cotton, for commissions. brokey
ages, assurances, freights, and the intermiu,
Die list OF its levies upon the Southern pocket
And the people who have made this gran
mistake, who have placed their all upon d
hazard Of this die, who have thrown then
selves between Scyua and Chary bids, are th
cool. calculating, money making Yankee M
toni What strange compound of th
practiaal and the fanatical, Of shrewdnsss an
sentimentslism, Of cold heart aud h
bead, Of common sense and uncommon foil,
u that greatest curiosity Of the human family
the New England Puritan! Oh, JosArHAs
JosArHAsl At some future period, when you
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